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Post Typography is opening our studio for our 6th annual one-day-only print & ephemera sale on Saturday, December 16 from 12:00 noon to 4:00 PM. We have new prints available only at this sale (and some past favorites are back again)! Stop by and grab original, affordable gifts for the holidays—most items are priced between $5 and $50.

The sale will feature limited edition prints, posters, books, music, and apparel produced by Post Typography including:

•    Screenprinted Future Islands 2017 tour posters — this is the only place to get all 3 of the star chart triptych posters.

•    More screenprinted posters for Double Dagger, Dan Deacon, Future Islands, the Baltimore Museum of Art and more!

•    Post Typography-designed T-shirts, scarves, tote bags, and notecards.

•    Signed posters for the Maryland Film Festival, Johns Hopkins Film Festival, and our classic Bill Murray Groundhog Day movie poster.

•    Limited edition prints from our OSAYCANYOUSEE show

•    Out-of-print Double Dagger vinyl including rare Masks EP!

Other goods for sale include snazzily-packaged music by Peals, Double Dagger, and Pure Junk along with signed copies of Lettering & Type and other Post Typography publications.

The sale takes place at our studio in Old Goucher at 2219 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 on Saturday, December 16 from 12:00 – 4:00 PM. Come early! Most items are available in limited quantities — first come, first served. (Prints cannot be reserved ahead of time.)

Facebook event: http://bit.ly/2AFAMSs

More info at posttypography.com or email [email protected].

<><><><><><><><>Current Art Market
Saturday, December 16th : 12pm-6pm

Current Space
421 North Howard Street : 21201

Current’s 5th Annual Art Market in support of local artists and friends. No gallery commission, no table fees, no bullsh!t.

Come buy art directly from the artists, meet the person behind the work, and support them by buying art for yourself or someone special.

Monique Crabb
Elena Johnston
Anna Crooks
Lisa Krause
Shelby Rose
Whitney Simpkins
Zoe Friedman

and more TBA

*picture from Art Market 2015

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Wildness: a film by Wu Tsang | Screening with Elliot Doughtie
Saturday, December 16th : 1pm

School 33 Art Center
1247 Light Street : 21230

Join us on Saturday, December 16 at 1pm for a screening of the film ‘WILDNESS’ by Wu Tsang! This screening will be presented by Elliot Doughtie, who’s installation titled Lost Earring is currently on view in our Project Space, and will be followed by a discussion of the film.

Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, WILDNESS is a documentary portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar in the MacArthur Park area that has been home for Latin/LBGT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical-realist flourish, the bar itself becomes a character, narrating what happens when a group of young artists create a weekly performance art/dance party (organized by director Wu Tsang and DJs NGUZUNGUZU & Total Freedom) called Wildness, which explodes into creativity and conflict. What does “safe space” mean, and who needs it? And how does it differ among us? At the Silver Platter, the search for answers to these questions creates coalitions across generations.?

Wu Tsang is a filmmaker, visual artist, and performer who incorporates strategies of activism, art making, and stage production across a range of multi-disciplinary projects. While Tsang’s work has a rich visual style, her attention to shifting identities, transitional spaces, and communities emphasizes contingent identifiers such as language, voice, and persona, prompting inquiries into how individuals and communities resist ingrained social prejudices. Using the frameworks of popular media forums such as cinema, television, theater and dance clubs, her work considers prescient debates about social gathering as a form of insurgency and the political capacity of contemporary art.

In his multi-media installation, Lost Earring, Elliot Doughtie ponders how our cultural touchstones shift over time while considering the evolution of his own queer sexuality and transgender body. Found materials and cast plaster sculptures of familiar plumbing implements surround a projection of an isolated clip from the 1996 movie Bound by the filmmaking duo the Wachowski siblings — pruriently discovered by Doughtie as a teenager in search of his own identity. As two disembodied hands endlessly tighten and untighten the hidden plumbing of a bathroom sink, this charged and repeated gesture explores a non-heteronormative narrative of function and aspiration. Through the use of light, objects, and moving imagery, Lost Earring reimagines the commonplace setting of a bathroom in a queer and trans context — where bodies and minds are often flooded with emotions from terror to desire.

<><><><><><><><>Navasha Daya Presents: A Soulful Rock & Roll Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
Saturday, December 16th : 8pm

Creative Alliance
3134 Eastern Avenue : 21224

This Jimi Hendrix tribute concert will feature a stellar band, including soulful guitarist Matthew Chase. Other special guests include:

Kelly Bell (Kelly Bell Blues Band)
Katrina Ford (Celebration)
Lafayette Gilchrist (Lafayette Gilchrist & The New Volcanoes)
And others…

Navasha Daya expresses her Mississippi blues and soul lineage by honoring the bluesy, soulful and psychedelic Jimi Hendrix!  “Jimi Hendrix’s blues roots are very evident in his playing. Utilizing his guitar as the paint brush and his innovative pedal effects as the color pallet, his artistic compositions changed the way the guitarist approached music and influenced some of rock & roll’s most recognized artists.” ~Navasha Daya.

SAT DEC 16 | 8PM | $25, $22 MEMBERS ( +$3 at the door)

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Joshua Highter’s process-driven, abstract paintings focus on the intersection between observation and memory. Higher utilizes drawing, painting, and printmaking to create a richly textured surface where the visual space plays with tensions between the familiar, observed experiences, and the foreign, distant memories that are remnants these experiences.

Higher earned his MFA in painting from Indiana University, Bloomington and currently lives in Takoma Park, Maryland. Prior to moving to the DC metro area, the artist lived in Berkeley, California and spent three years teaching drawing and painting as a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Davis. Prior to moving to California, he taught drawing and painting at Herron College of Art and Design in Indianapolis. He has been an artist in residence at Root Division, in San Francisco, and at the Vermont Studio Center. He currently spends his days as “Dad,” exploring with his son Aurele, and teaches at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), Smithsonian Associates, and at the George Washington Corcoran Center for the Arts. Higher is originally from Vermont and will always call the Green Mountains “home”.

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