and the Phampersand Press
It’s no news that word travels fast here in Smalltimore… After pushing our press release yesterday, we’ve already had some responses and recaps. I’m so thankful to be a part of not only this collective, but also this greater community that understands and supports our mission and goals. <3 u, Baltimore.
link to the CityPaper and more to come.
so this is like, really huge, and if I haven’t seen you in a long time, it’s because I’ve been buried under Board of Directors activities and getting things to sound Just Right and we’ve finally sent out press releases so it’s like Official and Stuff and I’m pretty excited and this has been consuming us for the last few months and hey, this is one sentence because I say it is.
Was way too swamped last week/weekend to link these, but the show that Alex and I curated has been getting some press!
A writeup in the Sun by Tim Swift. I have some mixed feelings about the article, but I think they mostly stem from how hyper-sensitive one can become when it’s a project they’ve been working on for months and months and months, and perhaps an objective opinion is different from how they see it. In any case, I’m really glad that some of the artists were able to share their experience, and I hope it brought some people outside of our usual audience to the show. We’ve already sold two pieces!
Artblog of all artblogs, the artblog I read religiously while in grad school, home to some of my favoritist art writers and thinkers, did a bit about the show too! So thrilled we got a mention from this blog I so admire.
A few pictures are up on Radar Redux’s flickr. Thanks for visiting, guys!
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Must say, after all the stress and coordinating and calming down the other artists who were stressed, Alex and I are pretty pleased with how things came together. Some artists had really successful experiences and will continue their correspondence; other artists weren’t as enthusiastic, but I think they were nonetheless able to learn more about their studio practice. What I loved was hearing so many participants say that they learned to work in a way they never had before, and that they started asking themselves all sorts of new questions. Awesome!
The joint opening in Philly was a success, we raged pretty late into the evening, and I got some much needed catch up time with my old Philly crew. (I’d say we had a little too much fun; I’m still hibernating a bit in recovery!) I’m also really excited that we’ll be hosting the Philly kids down here for the closing. It sounds like there will be quite a few of them caravaning together, and I expect it to be an all around super crazy fun time happy. Freda and Andrew will be doing a more involved version of their AMAZING performance piece (not sure what the permissions are on that facebook vid… sorry!), and I think we’ll have a combination of Bmore and Philly bands that night. Followed by whatever cavorting/celebrating/on the town we’ll be doing after the closing. So good!
As mentioned in my previous 2 spazz posts, I can’t get over how awesome 2010 has been already, even barring the total mountain of SUCK that 2009 was. I’m pumped!
It’s official! The Baltimore Community Foundation has announced their Confetti Grant recipients, and the Hexagon is among this group of Awesome! I can’t even begin to express how ecstatic I am about this, how I tiptoed into the space a little over a year ago just to meet some creative people in a new town and am a part of a big quirky family striving to bring the best in emerging art and music to Baltimore. We are so darn pumped. AND totally flattered to receive these grants along with our local friends and colleagues who share our DIY vision. Like seriously, when I look over that list of recipients, I am so proud that we were all considered together.
Go Baltimore!
Go Hexagon!
Go DIY!
Go Collectivism!!
Happy New Year!!!!
The Charm City Craft Mafia will be featured this week on WYPR’s The Signal! The program airs today at noon and 7 PM.
(for some reason Signalradio.org isn’t working right now… keep checking back though! or you can just stream through WYPR.org)
The folks over at Radar wrote up a nice little review of our opening/music event at the Hexagon last Friday.
I have a foggy memory of a few people going through the space with video cameras and assumed it was for a school project when they asked me to [drunkenly] talk about some of the work in the gallery. In any case, I think it’s a fun watch, and you can listen to me ramble on about nothing and everything towards the end of the video.
Photo by Baltimore City Paper
It’s taken me a while to find myself creatively since I’ve moved back to Baltimore. While I do have days where I miss Philadelphia with all my heart, I think this fall I have finally been able to find my little niche here. I’m proud and happy to be a part of some smaller talented co-ops and community groups, and it means so much to me to be able to make things and bounce ideas off other people who love making things.
That said, one of my favorite collectives, The Charm City Craft Mafia, has a big feature in this week’s City Paper, which is also the annual Holiday Guide. Martin Johnson did a great writeup about our group, what we do, and the madness that comes with being a crafter around the holidays.
Look at all of my books! *grin* I hadn’t ever seen Baltimore’s version of a citypaper holiday guide, so I just assumed it would be some other inky black and white photo, in a corner, with my other colleagues on the spread, so imagine my surprise while half asleep on the train, I opened up the CP and there I was… I can’t help feeling a bit self-conscious, but hey, I’m thrilled that the Craft Mafia (and hopefully my Etsy shop, hint hint nudge nudge) will have some good hits as a result of the article. Here’s to digging in my heels and gettin’ comfortable in Baltimore.
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