Pecha Kucha: A Night of Visual Storytelling
Wednesday, October 16 :: 7pm
@ Current
Pecha Kucha is visual storytelling format where each presenter prepares and shares exactly 20 slides. The presentation is set to automatically advance every 20 seconds, ensuring a fun and fast-paced night of engaging talks. Get a glimpse into the past, current, and future musings of folks doing creative, inspiring, and unique work here in Baltimore!
Talks begin at 7, but the Current Space Garden Bar is open starting at 5, with happy hour from 5-7pm.
Including:
– Andrew Thorp (Artist, Sommelier)
– Andy Lowrie (Jewelry Artist)
– Jimmy Joe Roche (Filmmaker and Sound Artist)
– Marceline White (Activist, Poet, Writer)
– Margot de Messières and Tsetso Naydenov (Stop-motion Artists)
– Matthew Anderschat (Artist, Photographer)
– Michael Benevento & Julianne Hamilton (Co-directors, Current Space)
– Nadia Nazar (Sculptor, Animator, Musician, Climate Organizer)
– Olivia the Sea Turtle (Virginia Warwick)
– Rachael London (Artist, audio producer, researcher)
Bios:
Andrew Thorp is an artist living in Baltimore who also is a wine professional. Thorp has worked in several of Baltimore’s best restaurants and has been certified by the Court of Master Sommeliers.
Andy Lowrie is a jewelry artist who makes wearable, sculptural and functional objects, as well as works on paper. He is an Australian maker, living and working in the United States. Andy pursues contemporary expressions of jewelry and object making that interrogate and reflect his life and experiences while drawing on the power of a wearable object to act as an extension of a maker/wearer’s intentions and desires. Narratives of queerness, labor and environmental catastrophe are currently feeding this work. The potential of process and material as metaphor is also important to his practice, expressed through experimentation with surface finishes that include paint, powder coat and enamel. His work has been exhibited in Australia, China, Europe and North America, and has been professionally recognised with awards from Brooklyn Metal Works in New York and My-Day By-Day Gallery in Rome. From 2020-2023 he was the inaugural Teach Fellow at the Baltimore Jewelry Center. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at Towson University & Johns Hopkins University.
Jimmy Joe Roche is a Filmmaker and Sound Artist residing in Baltimore, MD. He runs the cassette tape label Ultraviolet Light and co-curates New Works, a screening series dedicated to showcasing Film and Video artists based in Baltimore. Roche is a professor of Film and Media at Johns Hopkins University. He has two children Marlowe and Otto.
Marceline White
An award-winning consumer advocate, Marceline has dodged bullets and hid aid under lacy underwear in El Salvador, been arrested and jailed in protests against U.S. involvement in El Salvador and Haiti; tear-gassed protesting global free trade agreements in Seattle, WA; Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Quebec, Canada, as well as protests in support of Black Lives Matter.
Margot de Messières and Tsetso Naydenov work in sculpture, painting, drawing, metalwork and film. Tsetso grew up among the urban towers and train yards of post-Soviet Sofia. Margot grew up with sheep and chickens on a small farm in Maryland. They met over chisels in Bulgaria and have been a team and a family ever since. With widely different individual practices, they unite as a team for public art projects, drawing from their wide ranging skills to develop unique sculptures which respond to community and place. Their sculptures have been installed throughout Maryland and their collaborative stop motion film was recently shown at the DC Shorts International Film Festival.
Matthew Anderschat is a photographer and artist hailing from Silver Spring, Maryland. His work explores metaphysical concepts including spirituality, consciousness, and identity. Matthew often employs a variety of experimental techniques such as solarization, multiple exposures, and photomontage to give his work a dream-like effect.
Michael Benevento & Julianne Hamilton are the Co-directors of Current Space, an artist-run, member-supported gallery, studio, outdoor performance space, and bar, nourishing an ongoing dialogue between artists, activists, performers, designers, curators, and thinkers. Celebrating its 20th year, Current Space is committed to showcasing, developing, and broadening the reach of artists locally and internationally.
Nadia Nazar (she/her) is a sculptor, animator, climate organizer, and musician based in Baltimore, MD. Her work delves into her relationship with the lands she has resided on, and the structures in place that have impacted and exploited both the land and (her) people.
Olivia the Sea Turtle
After finding out that Olivia’s beloved wife, Ariel the Mermaid, cheated on her with a merman, Olivia was distraught. She went out with Flounder and got black out drunk and suddenly found herself on shore. Now that Olivia is on land, she can’t seem to face her past or Ariel again. Olivia is navigating her way on land the best she can, and has found her knack for art, and even a love again. But things aren’t all smooth sailing, as you may imagine.
Rachael London (she/her) is an evolving multi-media producer, artist, designer and researcher based in Baltimore, MD.