July 15, 16 & 17, 2016 Baltimore, MD “Explore What’s Out There” at America’s Largest Free Arts Festival! Produced by ALWAYS FREE! Why Space? A starting point for interpretation, space is tangible, literal and metaphorical, and spans across all disciplines. The vast STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) related organizations and businesses within our region are plentiful, and with pop culture’s fascination with all things interstellar, our theme provides attendees an exciting level of both entertainment and education. Using the tagline “Explore What’s Out There,” festival-goers can Sponsored by launch off into a truly out of this world experience as the space theme is incorporated throughout the festival’s visual and performing arts programming. Special thanks to our Space Advisory Committee. We hope you will “Explore What’s Out There” at Artscape 2016! Space Advisory Committee Michael Buckley, Public Information Officer, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Gray Lamb, Artist, MICA graduate Artscape is produced by: Bonnie Meinke, Ph.D., Outreach Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute Timothy Nohe, Director, Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts, UMBC The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts is Jim O’Leary, Senior Scientist, Maryland a non-profit organization serving as Baltimore Science Center City’s arts council, event center and film office. BOPA annually reaches an audience of over one Fred Scharmen, Assistant Professor, School of million people through more than 30 programs Architecture and Planning, Morgan State University — including Artscape. Greg Stanley, Creative Director, Johns Hopkins University, Office of Communications #Artscape2016 #ExploreWhatsOutThere www.artscape.org 2 3 Artscape’s Universe artists participating in their first outdoor art show. Selected Emerging Artists are paired with Access Center established artists working in the same medium Outside The Lyric on to answer questions about exhibiting and offer Mount Royal Avenue advice on maximizing sales, booth design and art Artscape is proud to partner with Accessible pricing. The program also provides a space in the Festivals, to ensure the festival continues to be Artists’ Market, free of cost. accessible to all attendees. Visit the festival’s official Access Center, outside of The Lyric on Artscape After Hours presented by Mount Royal Avenue, for accessibility information North Charles Street from Preston Street to and support. All portable restroom locations North Avenue, Friday & Saturday, 9pm–11pm include accessible restrooms. All indoor visual Continue your extraterrestrial Artscape experience and performing arts venues are accessible. Visit along Charles Street and keep the party going! www.artscape.org or the mobile app for our • Art/HAB complete accessibility plan. • Celestial Light Act I. Sun and Act II. Moon • Circus of Wonders • Crater! ART/HAB • LOL@Artscape – Comedy Club (Artist – Gray Lamb | Baltimore, MD) Charles Street Bridge ART/HAB is a space age habitat created to explore • University of Baltimore presents Gamescape the idea of what is the essence of a “habitat.” • Food & Beverages Housed in three geodesic domes, the installation • “In the Neighborhood” events and promotions hypothesizes how explorers and scientists would • DJs and bands on the Johns Hopkins adapt their new living space to survive in an University Station North Stage extraterrestrial environment. Featuring Jenn Kim • Party Like It’s 1999…Again! and Kyle Long. (Prince Dance Party, Friday) • Bmore Does Bowie Artist-Run Art Fair (David Bowie tribute, Saturday) 1700 Charles Street • Moloch’s Institute for Extranormal Research Returning for its third year, the Artist-Run Art Fair • “Sink or Fly” by The Loading Dock, Inc. provides Artscape visitors access to the work of • Space Place emerging contemporary artists, as exhibited by artist-run galleries and curatorial projects from Artscape Gallery Network Baltimore and around the country. Artist-run Citywide spaces are a vital part of a city’s contemporary art The Artscape Gallery Network provides art lovers community and the Artist-Run Art Fair showcases with an extended opportunity to enjoy Baltimore’s this thriving national community. The Artist-Run talented artists before, during, and after the Art Fair will run until 9pm Friday and Saturday, festival weekend. The Gallery Network connects and 8pm on Sunday, and is curated and organized 23 Baltimore galleries to a wider audience by Open Space, an artist-run gallery located at through a promotional campaign. Gallery Network 512 West Franklin Street in Baltimore, MD. exhibitions will highlight 2016 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize applicants, along Artists’ Market & Emerging Artist Program with artists working throughout the region. The Mount Royal Avenue from Lafayette Street to Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize is held North Charles Street in conjunction with the annual Artscape juried Juried from a pool of 300 applicants, the Artists’ exhibition and is produced by the Baltimore Office Market consists of more than 130 vendors of Promotion & The Arts. that form a vibrant marketplace of paintings, ceramics, 2-D and 3-D mixed media art, metal art, photography, wood art, wearable art, and so much more! The Emerging Artist Program supports 4 5 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Artscape Crater! Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral Street (Artist – Miki Flores-Amper | Baltimore, MD) The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the 1704 North Charles Street (across from Baltimore City Public Schools partner to present the Charles Theater) a full weekend of activities featuring the music, Crater! is the crash site of an intergalactic, funky dance and art of Baltimore City school children. fresh, 8-foot in diameter, glowing, geodesic Check out the schedule grid on pages 16–21 for meteor projecting light and sound. The site, more information. extending 45 feet across, is a shallow dipped bowl. Festival-goers can participate by exploring BmoreFit Dance Walk the surface of the bowl and creating chalk art Starts at Mount Royal and Lafayette avenues, then around the site. goes North on Charles Street to the Johns Hopkins University Station North Stage; Saturday, July 16, The Art of Food in Baltimore Step-off at 10:30am Artscape’s 2016 food & beverage program knocks BmoreFit, a local non-profit organization whose it out of the universe this year, with 100% of focus is integrating movement into elementary our food vendors hailing from Maryland. school classrooms, is hosting the 2nd annual From Area 51 Food Truck Encounters of the Best DanceWalk at Artscape to benefit underserved kids Kind to the Cathedral Street Cosmic Food Arena, in city schools. Participants will lace up their shoes Artscape offers a cosmic collection of local food. and prepare to boogie down with their friends All proceeds from the festival’s beer and wine while raising money to meet BMoreFit’s mission stands directly benefit the festival, helping to of making every kid more healthy and fit! All ensure Artscape stays 100% free and open to the registrants receive a DanceWalk t-shirt and other public. Special thanks to our volunteer group, the cool stuff! Prizes, awards and more dancing fun Maryland Food Bank. will conclude the DanceWallk on Charles Street at the Johns Hopkins University Station North Stage. Food Locations: Learn more at www.BMoreFit.org. • Morgan State University Sound Off Live! Stage • Johns Hopkins University Station Celestial Light — Act 1. Sun and Act 2. Moon North Stage (Artist – Samantha Rausch | Chicago, IL) • Planet 1300 Dining on Charles Street Charles Street Bridge • Cathedral Street Cosmic Food Arena Celestial Light transports festival-goers into a • Mount Royal Intergalactic Food Vendors whimsical world, bringing awareness to the • Area 51 Food Truck Encounters Of The mystical and metaphorical ideas behind what the Best Kind sun and moon represent. Fred Lazarus IV Artscape Prize (“The Fred”) The two sculptures of Celestial Light will be Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral Street activated throughout the weekend by various Hannah Smoot of the Baltimore School for the performers and by viewer participation. By Arts is this year’s winner of The Fred Lazarus crossing from one side of the moon to the other, IV Artscape Prize (“The Fred”), a competitive audiences are encouraged to experience an up program that seeks to recognize and encourage close and personal view of its interior space. artistic talent in Baltimore City. Rising high school seniors apply for the prize which awards $1,000 Cultural Organizations to a Baltimore City school student artist. The Mount Royal Avenue selected artist also receives a stipend to produce Interspersed throughout the Artists’ Market a solo exhibition in conjunction with the annual on Artscape’s main concourse, local cultural, festival, with mentorship from the Baltimore Office educational and STEAM-related organizations are of Promotion & The Arts. The prize is named in on hand to provide resources to festival-goers. honor of the Maryland Institute College of Art’s long-serving president. 6 7 Guest Services In the Neighborhood Visit one of our three Guest Services locations for Artscape has teamed up with businesses and general festival information, festival merchandise organizations in the community to encourage and basic first aid. Official festival programs will festival-goers to explore what’s out there in the be available at all locations: neighborhood. 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