Programs

January 13 & 14, 7pm: Performances; January 14, 2-4pm: Modern Dance Workshop
January 13-14, 2012

Maryland Art Place presents Flux/us Dance Projects performance of The Key is Only One choreographed by Judy Kurjan with selected works by Anne Reeder and Beth McKee Elliott.

January 21, 12pm-4pm

Join the Baltimore Rock Opera Society (the B.R.O.S.), Maryland's premiere marauding rock & roll theater horde, for a stage-craft workshop of epic "prop"-portions! Using ancient relics and artifacts from the far corners of Charm City, the B.R.O.S. will repurposed items such as, sousaphones and hula-hoops into giant, blinking eye-stalks, paper towel tubes into sticks of dynamite, and empty boxes of Natty Boh into robots and suits of armor. Learn the secrets of their wizardry and participate in the B.R.O.S. next original mind-blowing production, Valhella: The Ragnarockopera!!!

For all skill levels, younglings welcome.

Baltimore Rock Opera Society was founded in 2007 by a highly energetic troupe of actors, writers, musicians, and artists with the sole mission of producing original, live rock operas in Baltimore. Driven by a vision to unite the talent and energy of Baltimore’s artists in pursuit of producing an art form unlike any other available, BROS has embarked upon a mission of epic proportions.

February 4, 12-4pm

Shadow Puppetry uses simple paper cutouts and overhead projectors, to cast shadows onto a screen that spring to life with depth and movement. During the Nana Projects Shadow Puppet Workshop participants of all ages create shadow puppets from start to finish. Based on traditional shadow puppet techniques from around the world Nana Projects lead the participants in making puppets with moving parts and exploring the shadows they create on the screen.

Nana Projects is a Baltimore based company of visual alchemists creating parades and puppet shows. The Jim Henson Foundation has awarded Nana Projects two grants for their work in Shadow Puppetry; In 2010 the company received the prestigious Union Internationale de la Marionette-USA Citation of Excellence in puppetry. Nana Projects workshops encourage participation, engender pride and teamwork and are designed to be a catalyst of the imagination and purposeful playing.

Thursday, May 3, 6pm

In conjunction with her solo exhibition at MAP, Mina Cheon, a Korean-American new media artist, scholar, and educator will give a lecture on her work, career and the before and after of Polipop & Paintings. The exhibition will include 15 digital paintings coming from her mid-career solo exhibit Polipop (Political Pop Art) at the Sungkok Art Museum in Seoul, Korea. Cheon’s art addresses the relationship between media and political conflicts within Asia and Asia’s relationship with the Western world.

Thursday, May 17, 7pm

Dr. Isaacs is curator of the exhibition, Amalie Rothschild: A Retrospective View in the Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University from April 19—June 16, 2012, and also wrote two of the chapters for the book Life and Work of Amalie Rothschild, (2012). This lecture will look at the work and career of Rothschild who was one of the founders of Maryland Art Place.  Isaacs is the Coordinator of Art History and Director of the M.A. in Professional Studies (Art History Track) as well as Curator for the Department of Art + Design galleries at Towson University.  She is also the Curator of Special Projects for the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts.  Books will be available for purchase. 

Saturday, June 2

Artomatic, three day, art event originated in Washington DC, is now licensing its development model in Maryland and launching its first event in Baltimore at Maryland Art Place’s 218 W. Saratoga St. building. Accompanying this weekend long event the creators of Artomatic will speak at MAP about the event designed to create community among artists, generate an audience for artists and the arts, and expand economic development will bring to the Baltimore community. 

Saturday, July 28

“My parents have never spent $200 on a single meal, yet my wife and I have. I imagine this is true for many of my peers. What changed? Is it possible that art could see a similar shift? Does the future hold ‘arties’?” Scott Burkholder of the Baltimore Love Project, one of the the largest self initiated public art projects Baltimore has ever seen, will explore the wine and food industry of the past 30 years and suggest how the art market might enlarge and intensify its audience.