The City of Baltimore and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) in collaboration with the Baltimore City Department of Transportation (DOT) are seeking a qualified artist or team to create a new design and style guide for the City’s gateway signage. The deadline is August 21st, 2015. Click through for full information and the link to the application form.
On June 8th, 2015h, BOPA hosted a Light City Baltimore Ideas Session at the Top of the World Gallery. Click through for full notes from the topics addressed at this Ideas Session and Q&A.
SANDTOWN EMPLOYS 80 CITY YOUTH THROUGH COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTS
Summer program offers workforce development and training from professional artists
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, in partnership with Jubilee Arts, launch Art @ Work: Sandtown, a five-week summer employment program for Baltimore City youth. Beginning Monday, June 29 through Friday, July 31, Art @ Work: Sandtown will employ 80 young people as artist apprentices under master teaching artists to create eight highly visible murals throughout their community. The program is an expansion of Jubilee Arts’ year-round art programs for teens. Art @ Work employs youth enrolled in the city’s “YouthWorks” initiative, a workforce development program that matches young people between the ages of 14 and 21 to five-week work experiences with private sector, nonprofit, and city and state government employers.
As developments unfold with events in Baltimore, we will attempt to catalog efforts of visual artists, musicians and all creative artists of our city (along with various arts organizations) to respond to what is happening and provide opportunities for people to think on what is happening and find a voice. Please share any other upcoming events in the comments, and we’ll make sure to re-post, thank you.
via MICA Office of Community Engagement https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F-CQV629Eph81JgP_iNQENvr3VhO3JjvcG8m1gcQyC8/pub
Community Organizations
No Boundaries Coalition: The No Boundaries Coalition is a resident-led initiative dedicated to deconstructing boundaries and reconstructing community. The No Boundaries Coalition brings Bolton Hill, Druid Heights, Madison Park, Reservoir Hill, Upton, and Sandtown together across race, class, and neighborhood lines to build a more unified and empowered Central West Baltimore. Contact: Rebecca Nagle – 443.722.0929 noboundariescoalition@gmail.com
Leaders of A Beautiful Struggle (LBS): Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) is a grassroots think-tank which advances the public policy interest of Black people, in Baltimore, through: youth leadership development, political advocacy, and autonomous intellectual innovation. Contact: info@lbsbaltimore.com
Baltimore United for Change (BUC): BUC is a coalition of concerned citizens and organizations working for justice in Baltimore City. We are working toward sustainable solutions to end police brutality in Baltimore. http://bmoreunited.org/
Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute (UHI) Student Outreach Resource Center (SOURCE): Johns Hopkins is working with community partners to identify community-led initiatives for community engagement. In particular, UHI and SOURCE, are working together to share opportunities for volunteers, events for healings, and continuing needs in the community.
https://www.facebook.com/UrbanHealthInstitute
The Holistic Life Foundation teaches yoga, meditation and helps kid with homework after school. Sign up to give kids hugs after school, do yoga with them, help with crafts and homework. The Holistic Life Foundation is a Baltimore-based 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization committed to nurturing the wellness of children and adults in underserved communities. Through a comprehensive approach which helps children develop their inner lives through yoga, mindfulness, and self-care HLF demonstrates deep commitment to learning, community, and stewardship of the environment. HLF is also committed to developing high-quality evidence based programs and curriculum to improve community well-being.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Holistic-Life-Foundation-Inc/119112564775646?fref=ts
Baltimore United Viewfinders is a youth driven organization using the arts to explore their own definition of self and place. The Baltimore United Viewfinders meet at MICA Place. Their mission is to foster the leadership potential of young people as social entrepreneurs producing multimedia arts for community action and income.
MICA Place: 814 North Collington Ave, Baltimore
http://baltimoreviewfinders.org/
The WINGS Collective is a group of amazing young women who will be completing a documentary about the importance of mentorship in our city. For more information please email Kirsten D’Andrea Hollander at kirsten@findingourwings.org or visit their website at http://findingourwings.org/
CASA de Maryland: Their mission is to create a more just society by building power and improving the quality of life in low-income immigrant communities. Their vision is a future with diverse and thriving communities living free from discrimination and fear, working together with mutual respect to achieve full human rights for all.
Baltimore’s Latino Community Marches for Justice and Prays for Peace http://wearecasa.org/?p=2037
Baltimore Racial Justice Action:
https://www.facebook.com/BaltimoreRacialJusticeAction
Baltimore Racial Justice Action (BRJA) is a network of Maryland individuals committed to social and economic transformation with an emphasis on racial equity.
BRJA is an action-based organization grounded in collective analysis of structural racism and white privilege. Organizing across the Baltimore metropolitan area, BRJA seeks to make Baltimore recognized as the leading city in the nation intentionally working for racial equity.
Achieving racial equity requires working to create a society in which the distribution of resources, opportunity, societal benefits and protection is equitable and all members are physically and psychologically safe and secure.
We attempt to influence and guide respectful and just thinking and actions. We strive to support people and organizations to see themselves as world residents or leaders or change agents by acknowledging our linked fate and encouraging responsibility for our choices, decisions and actions to collectively build an equitable world for all.
In these troubling times, Center Stage has decided to take action and get involved in the healing of our Baltimore. Tomorrow (Saturday, May 2nd) at 3:30pm the International Cast of Marley will host a FREE community concert at the intersection of Pennsylvania and North Ave. We want to offer healing and what better way to do that than through the music of the legendary Bob Marley.
All the info is in the flier below. Please help us spread the word. We want to create an atmosphere of peace and support, so everyone is invited to join us.
There will be a carpool shuttle leaving Center Stage at 2pm. We will make multiple trips. Please contact Kristina Szilagyi at kszilagyi@centerstage.org if you would like to carpool with us.
BE A PART OF THE 20th ANNUAL BALTIMORE BOOK FESTIVAL
Applications being accepted for Authors’ Tent and Exhibitors
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts is accepting applications to be a part of the 20th annual Baltimore Book Festival. Authors and literary exhibitors can apply to join the festivities at the Inner Harbor fromFriday, September 25 through Sunday, September 27, 2015. Applications are being accepted through Friday, June 5 and can be found online at www.baltimorebookfestival.org. The Baltimore Book Festival is produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts.
The Authors’ Tent at the Baltimore Book Festival is comprised of published, self-published, local and independent authors promoting their own title(s). Accepted applicants each receive promotional space in a shared tent for one day of the festival. Literary exhibitors include booksellers, publishers, authors and educational institutions. Selected exhibitors are granted space for all three days of the festival.
The Baltimore Book Festival, a premier celebration of the literary arts, features more than 200 authors, from award-winning children’s writers and illustrators to celebrity chefs and bestselling novelists, as well as regional talent on several stages, book signings, comics, more than 100 exhibitors and booksellers, children’s activities, cooking demos, exhibitors, panel discussions, poetry readings, live music and an assortment of food, beer and wine. In 2014, the festival attracted more than 100,000 attendees. Admission is free.
For more information on the Baltimore Book Festival, call 410-752-8632 or visit www.baltimorebookfestival.org.
“Subtext” by Carrie Fucile; Photographed by Sarada Conaway
“Sticky Fingers”, by Lauren Boilini. Photographed by Kim Llerena
Call for Proposals:
School 33 Project Space
Application Deadline: Monday, February 9, 2015
Notification Date: Monday, February 16, 2015
School 33 Art Center is now accepting proposals for the next two exhibitions in our 165 sq ft Project Space. Exhibitions will be approximately two months long and correspond with the exhibition dates of the Main Gallery and Members Gallery from April through August of 2015.
Applicants are encouraged, but not required to apply for School 33 Art Center membership. To join School 33 or renew your membership, please visit http://school33.org/index.cfm?page=support or call 443-263-4350.
With the Project Space, School 33 Art Center is committed to providing opportunities for emerging artists to present intimate bodies of work or realize more experimental installations that they may not otherwise have the support in doing. We are open to video projections, installations, mini-exhibitions, or any other ideas for which this would be an ideal space.
Please visit the following link for the official call, where you will find the application, or visit www.school33.org
https://boparegistrations.wufoo.com/forms/school-33-project-space-call-for-proposals/