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<><><><><><><><>Teresa Duggan : Baltimore Photographs – Opening Reception
Thursday, June 23rd : 6-7pm

Pratt Library – Light Street Branch
1251 Light Street : Baltimore 21230

 Photography exhibit featuring quirky and vibrant Baltimore City street scenes as explored by foot and bicycle. On display in June through July.

See more of her photos here and here

Meet the Artist reception event Thursday June 23, 6-7pm. Come meet the artist and chat about photography in the city. http://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/tdugganphotography

<><><><><><><><>Art / Sound / Now : Wendel Patrick and Mark Brown & Carrie Fucile
Thursday, June 23rd : 7-8:30pm

The Walters Art Museum
600 North Charles Street : Baltimore 21201

Immerse yourself in live music while you enjoy the galleries. The Art/Sound/Now performance series returns this summer, with a new lineup of Baltimore musicians performing original compositions inspired by the art. The series is held every third Thursday night this summer.

Tickets here: http://thewalters.org/events/event.aspx?e=4385

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MICA MFA in Studio Art Thesis Exhibitions

MFA, Studio Art opening reception Friday, June 24
Closing Reception – Friday, July 8th, 5-7PM
Decker, Meyerhoff, Riggs and Leidy Galleries

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Mapping Classroom Culture: Finland, Baltimore, and In Between: An Installation of Art Based Research
Works by artist-teacher-researcher Sherri Fisher

Center for Art Education Gallery in the Fred Lazarus IV Graduate Center
Exhibition dates: June 18 through July 18, 2016

Please join us for the exhibition reception and gallery talk from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 13th.

The Master of Arts in Art Education Program and The Center for Art Education at the Maryland Institute College of Art are pleased to present Mapping Classroom Culture: Finland, Baltimore, and In Between, by artist-teacher-researcher, Sherri Fisher; an installation of arts-based research in the Center for Art Education gallery in the Fred Lazarus IV Graduate Center.

Artist’s Statement by Sherri Fisher:
As a recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Teaching Award, I spent four months in Finland—the “center” of the movement on student centered learning environments—where I conducted arts-­‐based research on K-­‐12 classroom culture. I went with an interest in examining teacher/student communication in highly effective classrooms, to see how these conversations influence classroom culture. Based on field notes and research documentation from numerous Finnish classrooms, my research emerged as collage-­‐based concept maps that serve as both discussion starters and orientations to a way of thinking or to a specific place and time. Eventually, the findings largely became about autonomy: its roots, value, and place in education and culture. Autonomous learning is a constructive process that involves actively seeking meaning from, or even imposing meaning on, events (Candy, 1991: 271); it can be thought of as a social process that redistributes power and shifts the role of participants related to the construction of knowledge in the learning process (Thanasoulas, 2000). Upon returning to my own Baltimore County classroom, I often found myself very lost as I bounced these ideas around: I seemed to have the wrong map! I therefore returned to the research practice I employed in Finland, to now look at what autonomy means in my own classroom.

Artist’s Bio:
Sherri Fisher is the Visual Arts Department Chair at Patapsco High School & Center for the Arts in Baltimore County, MD, USA. An art educator for over ten years, Sherri she has been recognized, at district and state levels, for the quality of her teaching, and both the Kennedy Center and The College Board have commended her school for excellence in arts integration. She holds a BFA from Purchase College SUNY and a MAAE from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2010). Sherri serves as the Eastern Region Secondary Representative for the National Art Education Association and has presented at many national conferences on the aesthetic values of high school students as well as on classroom culture. In 2011 Sherri traveled extensively in Peru with the Fulbright-­‐Hays Group Projects Abroad program, sponsored by Morgan State University. In 2015 Sherri undertook an independent Fulbright in Finland, as an artist-­‐scholar associated with Aalto University. And this year Ms. Fisher was named NAEA Eastern Region High School Art Educator of the Year and Baltimore County Chamber of Commerce Teacher of the Year, Southeast Area.

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Art Auction + Music Party
Friday, June 24th : 6-11pm

Towson Arts Collective
40 West Chesapeake Avenue : Towson 21204

 Friday, June 24, 6-8pm Bid on Local Art & Prints by Famous Artists during our Silent Auction & Wine Basket Raffle led by Board Secretary, Professor Rich Wilson, Philosopher, Artist, Photographer, & Wood Sculptor.

Join us for a Tango Demonstration by Roger Petersen & Elizabeth Elder at 6:30pm & Bid on a series of Roger’s tango lessons & a bottle of Malbec!

SHAKE IT & Play Percussion at our music after party (9pm) led by TAC Performing Artist in Residence, Richard “Ricardo” Dinges.

 <><><><><><><><>Gabriel Kirk : The Process of Translating Art – Artist Reception
Friday, June 24th : 6-8pm

Silo Point Gallery
1200 Steuart Street : Baltimore 21230

<><><><><><><><>Brick Burn
Saturday, June 25th : 6-9pm

Baltimore Clayworks
5707 Smith Avenue : Baltimore 21209

Baltimore Clayworks is pleased to partner with Josh Copus and Marian Glebes to fire bricks from the Baltimore Mobile Community Brick Factory at the BMA (Second Location). Join us for a wood firing, beer garden by our wood kiln generously provided by Union Craft Brew Co. and a brick dance party, the new dance craze sweeping Baltimore.

This extension of a collaborative interdisciplinary project is made possible by a 2015 Rubys Artist Project Grant, an initiative conceived with start-up funding from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation and is a program of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance. Special thanks to all additional individuals and organizations that made this project possible: The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Loading Dock, Inc., Baltimore Clayworks, Union Craft Brew Co., Taylor Clay Products (NC), Potomac Valley Brick and Supply Company, Friends of Wyman Park Dell, Life After Boring Studios and everyone that created a brick at any of the mobile community brick factories!

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Art in the Hands of Men featuring Jerrell Gibbs – Opening Reception
Saturday, June 25th : 3pm

Reginald F. Lewis Museum
830 East Pratt Street : Baltimore 21202

The Reginald Lewis Museum will open its Art in the hands of Men exhibition featuring artist Jerrell Gibbs. The exhibition will feature nearly 10 works by Gibbs, primarily composed of his appropriated works of Franklin, the silenced African American male from Charles Schultz’s, Peanuts.

As an African American male growing up in Baltimore City, Jerrell Gibbs uses Franklin as a means to reflect on his experience as a black male in Baltimore. The collection touches on issues such as displacement of lower income families, deficiency within urban school systems, social class, and stigma’s placed upon a specific race of people.

The Art in the hands of Men exhibition is a collection of works from 9 artists, with works dedicated to the acknowledgment of African American trailblazers in art, history and popular culture, past and present.ere.

<><><><><><><><>The BIG Show & The Little BIG Show – Opening + BIG Show On Stage
Friday, June 24th : 6pm

The Creative Alliance
3134 Eastern Avenue : Baltimore 21224

One of the very first Creative Alliance extravaganzas, our members’ annual salon-style exhibition proudly displays over 200 works of art by professional and novice artists alike.

An annual favorite of participants and viewers alike, The Big Show & Little Big Show is our members’ opportunity to show off their visual art creations.  Any and every member is encouraged to submit one work of art that will be hung in a massive, salon-style show.  Artwork can be of any media, and members of all ages are encouraged to participate, with a special $5 fee for youth ages 17 and younger.  With so many novice and professional artists exhibiting in one place, The Big Show & Little Big Show is a fantastic opportunity to find and purchase completely unique and affordable works of art for your growing collection.

Special to our year-long 21st Birthday celebration, for the first time ever The Big Show will feature a members’ Performance Night on June 25th following the gallery reception, where any member who can sing, act, juggle, dance, play an instrument, conduct magic, or any other stage-worthy activity can also show off their skills!  Check out the event page HERE for more info about registering!

<><><><><><><><>Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling – Exhibition Opening
Friday, June 24th 

The Walters Art Museum
600 North Charles Street : Baltimore 21201