MAP: Curators Incubator Program Thursday

The Curators Incubator brings young curators under the wing of an experienced art organization to program inventive projects for the MAP galleries. On view through October 24 are the three projects designed by this year's curators. The first of four gallery talks happens This Thursday at MAP!

Janell Olah

2009 Featured Curators:
Shelly Blake-Plock: Art of the Set-Up: Sound Objects as Artifacts
Artists: Peter Blasser. Alessandro Bosetti. Andy Hayleck. Bonnie Jones. Melissa Moore. Mike Muniak.

Rachel Sitkin: In Our Nature: Artists Reflect on the Manmade Landscape
Artists: Kim Beck. Laura Cooperman. Michelle Hagewood. Alex Lukas. Igor Pasternak.

Margaret Winslow: Soft Space: Architecture in Contemporary Art
Artists: Ronald Longsdorf. Janell Olah. Stephen Ruszkowki.

Laura Cooperman

This Thursday there will be a gallery talk and sound art performance with curator Shelly Blake-Plock and John Berndt and Art of the Set-Up artists. The program starts at 6 p.m. on Thursday, September 24. Gallery talks by the other two curators will follow in October.

For more details and info on additional programs visit the MAP Web site!

Protect Your Work!

The second of the series of five Maryland Lawyers for the Arts workshops is this Saturday! This one is called "Protecting Your Work: Navigating Contracts" with Gorman & Williams attorney and MLA Board Member Michael Yang. A road map to the types of contracts artists can expect to encounter—services, consignment, assignment, licensing, and sales—and overview of common terms and concerns.

The workshop will be held this Saturday, October 25th at Maryland Art Place (Power Plant Live! 8 Market Place, Suite 100, Baltimore 21202), 2:00 to 3:30 pm. Admission is Free.

Recent MFA grads at MAP

Maryland Art Place's current exhibition, Convergence, features work by recent graduates from MFA programs in the Baltimore area. From black and white photographs to a sculpture made of sail cloth the show includes work in a wide variety of media. The exhibition is rich with texture and sits beautifully against the pale blue walls of the MAP gallery.



Artist talks are this Friday at 6 p.m. followed by a gallery reception starting at 7 p.m. See you there!

Participating artists include:
Christian Benefiel (UMD, College Park)
Lauren Boilini (MICA)
Ruth Bowler (UMD, Baltimore County)
Andrew Buckland (MICA)
Mahwish Chishty (UMD, College Park)
Penny Forester (MICA)
Joshua Gillen (Towson University)
Ellen Harper (Towson University)
Aniko Makranczy (UMD, College Park)
Justin Storms (MICA)


Work pictured by :
Aniko Makranczy
Ellen Harper
Penny Forester


For directions to MAP and gallery hours, visit www.mdartplace.org.

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