Category Archives: Around Town

THE MARNITA SHOW: AN EVENING OF THE ARTS

The Marnita Show is a LIVE variety show featuring the Performing Arts: singers, dancers, comedians, actors, and spoken word artist are showcased to bring wholesome entertainment to the entire family.

Friday, May 8th, 2015

Starts at 7:00 PM

Refaced Defaced

A Collaboration with Mericle, Worthy and TOVEN

Opening May 22^nd 8pm

Gallery 788

3602 Hickory St.

Baltimore, MD 21211

There is a very specific, interesting, and important product that results from the process of street artists “defacing” surfaces in public spaces, along with others who then reface those spaces, only to then have them defaced again. Refacing again occurs, and a cycle of changing façades (or faces) results, giving the spaces character and depth (both physical and implied).

Countless walls, alleys, and buildings throughout the world are testaments to these cycles. On them, textures are created through a give and take between two opposing process’. Addition and removal.

Painting and buffing. Pasting and tearing down. The cycle is continuous, and the reason why so much street art is often temporary.

Street artists TOVEN and Worthy, along with sculptor/painter Paul Mericle, have teamed up to explore this theme. Collaborating to create large and small scale pieces, they explore the various ways in which “faces” can be created through defacing, refacing, building, removing, adding and subtracting from surfaces.

TOVEN is known for his surreal wheatpastes that feature heads of animals, objects, and humans juxtaposed on recognizable bodies. Worthy creates elaborate linocuts of insects, prints them, then dissects and rearranges the pieces, stretching out the images, and giving the feeling of the image moving within space. Mericle’s work features materials that are broken down, and rearranged to create relief sculptures that are then painted to play with the viewer’s concept of space within the work. Combined these three unique, yet similar, styles have led to interesting works that question the notions of defaced refaced surfaces.

Facebook Event – https://www.facebook.com/events/1390298134624189/

Taking place in the Baltimore Region in fall 2015, the New Day Campaign is an arts-based initiative to challenge stigma associated with behavioral health conditions. Multiple exhibitions and events illuminate stories promoting compassion, empathy, and understanding—all with the vision of making the world a more healing place.

On Thursday, March 19, 6:15-7:30pm, Brunn Studios will be holding an Information Session on the New Day Campaign. At this gathering – primarily aimed at the arts and cultural communities – we will share three important ways to become involved: 1) we will announce an “open call” submission process for artists, writers, and performers to submit pieces and proposals to become part of the New Day Campaign, with a deadline in early June, 2015; 2) we will describe how those who lead or teach art workshops or classes might take on New Day Campaign related themes, with the results submitted for consideration to be included; and 3) we will describe how through your own programming you can become an “affiliate” of the New Day Campaign, receiving promotion from our campaign efforts. The meeting takes place at BOPA’s offices at 10 East Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD 21224. RSVP to peter@bruunstudios.com is not required, but preferred.

www.newdaycampaign.org

Congratulations to all the Baltimore area artists who received 2015 Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Art Council!

The complete list:

Non-Classical Music Composition