The Hollins Market Art Stroll will kick off Open Studio Tours this weekend!

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Art Stroll, an outdoor evening art event with activities and vendors, taking place throughout the 1100 block of Hollins Street. Located on the market square, ten community partners play Art Stroll hosts including Black Cherry Puppet Theater, CUPs Coffeehouse, Hollins Market Bear Lot, Mi Ranchito Tex-Mex Restaurant, New Beginnings Barber Shop, Umri Siki Gallery, Zella’s Pizzeria, The 60s and 70s Club, Primo Chicken, and City of Gods. Featuring the talented painters, sculptors, mixed media artists, musicians, food artists, and skateboard performance artists, that call Hollins Market home.

1. Black Cherry Puppet Theater, 1115 Hollins Street
2. CUPs Coffeehouse, 31 S. Arlington Avenue
3. Hollins Market Bear Lot, 1101 Hollins Street
4. Mi Ranchito Tex-Mex Restaurant, 1116 Hollins Street
5. New Beginnings Barber Shop, 1047 Hollins Street
6. Umri Siki Gallery, 1100 Hollins Street
7. Zella’s Pizzeria, 1145 Hollins Street
8. The 60s and 70s Club, 1000 W. Lombard Street
9. Primo Chicken, 1242 W. Lombard Street
10. City of Gods, 1118 Hollins Street

Art Stroll begins at 7:00pm, click here to RSVP on Facebook!

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K-Town Studios @ Open Studio Tours

100 West 22nd Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218

We’ll have our doors open 1-6PM both Saturday and Sunday

School 33 Link: http://school33.org/index.cfm?page=events&section=4&subsection=open-studio-tour

At the heart of Korea Town (K-Town) in Baltimore, Maryland, a three-story commercial building rents out artist studios in varying sizes. The goal of the building is to provide a healthy and productive studio culture for young and professional artists in the area with affordable rent. The owners are artist Mina Cheon (Professor of Maryland Institute College of Art, MICA) and architect Gabriel Kroiz (Professor at Morgan State University) who both have studio and office spaces in the building.

Mina Cheon

Artists in Baltimore seek safe and clean studio spaces in order to continue working on their art and to live in Baltimore. While Baltimore is full of boarded houses and large empty spaces, these spaces need attention and are not conducive for a healthy studio environment. Artists deserve more than a non-heated and depressed place that they can afford.

Korean-American new media artist, scholar, and educator Mina Cheon wanted a safe studio environment, “so that there are no distractions from being able to work.” Of course, being Korean herself, she loved the idea of a building in K-Town.

The K-Town Studios that she and her husband acquired in March 2014, is at 100 W. 22nd Street, 21218, Baltimore, Maryland, between Howard and Maryland, directly across the street from the Korean Nakwon Restaurant, walking distance from MICA’s Fred Lazarus IV Center, and between Station North Arts District and Remington. The K-Town neighborhood functions for many social service institutions, making it an ideal location for artists’ studios, with rich possibilities of becoming a location and cultural hub in Baltimore. The owners hope that the building can help foster this in the neighborhood.

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Current tenant include MICA UG Alumni Pete Razon, Travis Levasseur, Colin Foster, and Dave Eassa. Recent graduate students of MICA who graduated have taken on the ground floor to further contribute to the Station North Arts District programs. Led by Ali Seradge and Katie Duffy, they are sharing the space with other artists Brendan Kerwin, Ryan Kitchen, and Janet Olney. Distinguished artist Lee Boot, faculty at UMBC has also joined the building.

BmoreArt Article: http://bmoreart.com/2014/07/living-with-art-k-town-studios.html

 

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We are pleased to invite you to apply for our 2014 Open Call for Artists!

The application fee for this call is $40.00.  To become a School 33 member and receive a $10 discount, please visit school33.org.   The entry deadline is Friday, October 3, 2014.

Click here to apply now!

Eligibility Guidelines: • Individual artists and collaborative teams working in any medium may apply. • Employees of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts are ineligible to apply. • Artists are fully responsible for making all necessary arrangements for the delivery and pick-up of their artwork. • Late and incomplete entries will not be considered.

Complete proposals should include: • 5-10 jpeg images of work (images should represent the artist’s body of work, these will not necessarily be the pieces chosen for the exhibit) • Artists submitting time-based may submit up to 10 minutes of work • Completed Application • Resume • Statement

Juried Exhibit 1, curated by Randall Scott: January 16 – March 21, 2014
Juried Exhibit 2, curated by Karyn Miller: April 3 – May 30, 2014

Jurors: Randall Scott and Karyn Miller

Randall Scott, owner of the contemporary fine art gallery RandallScottProjects which recently relocated from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, has been involved in contemporary art for more than 20 years. Scott’s first gallery TBA opened in 1990 in Los Angeles. What began as a temporary space ran for several years before Scott moved to Eastern Europe to work as an art director in Kiev, Ukraine.  While there, he began to moonlight as a freelance photojournalist, something he does till this day.  In 2006, Scott reopened the gallery in Washington, D.C. and has since moved it to New York and back again. During these travels, Scott has produced some 70 exhibitions, exhibited in too many art fairs and helped start the careers of many artists. RandallScottProjects continues its focus on emerging and mid-career international artists.

Karyn Miller is the Director of Exhibitions at Arlington Art Center, where she curates and coordinates exhibitions and develops creative, collaborative initiatives.  Before AAC, Miller served as gallery director for five years at Conner Contemporary before moving to CulturalDC’s Flashpoint Gallery, where she devoted over six years to collaborating with artists and leading their visual arts program.  She led several off-site public art projects at CulturalDC including Construct, a series of art installations in vacant retail spaces; Sweet, a public art project with artist Nekisha Durrett, and CONNECT 4, a series of installations at Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library. Karyn Miller has served on panels and lectured at a variety of institutions in the region and has curated and juried exhibitions at Civilian Art Projects, Orlando Museum of Art, Gettysburg College, Catholic University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

If you have any questions, contact Quinn Palmer, School 33 Art Center Administrative Assistant, atqpalmer@promotionandarts.org or 443-263-4350.

The Call for Submissions for School 33′s Annual LOTTA ART benefit is now open!

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Click here for the application!
DEADLINE for registration: September 20, 2014
To learn more about the LOTTA ART event, click here!

School 33 Art Center is dedicated to providing opportunities for artists through exhibitions, art classes, workshops, a Studio Artist Program, and special events. School 33 Art Center is a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, Inc., and is supported in part by grants from the Mayor and the City Council of Baltimore, the Maryland State Arts Council, and through private contributions to School 33 Art Center.

The Call for Submissions for School 33′s Annual LOTTA ART benefit is now open!

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Click here for the application!
DEADLINE for registration: September 20, 2014
To learn more about the LOTTA ART event, click here!

School 33 Art Center is dedicated to providing opportunities for artists through exhibitions, art classes, workshops, a Studio Artist Program, and special events. School 33 Art Center is a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, Inc., and is supported in part by grants from the Mayor and the City Council of Baltimore, the Maryland State Arts Council, and through private contributions to School 33 Art Center.