So I’ve been talk­ing about this for a lit­tle while, and now it’s for reals. The Col­lage Scrap Exchange on Brown Paper Bag is now hap­pen­ing! Sign up here if you are a col­lage artist and inter­ested in trad­ing your scraps with other artists! Dead­line to do this is next Fri­day, Octo­ber 21! ...

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted any street-art-related items on this blog. I’m notic­ing them all the time around Bal­ti­more, and hap­pen to live by this great block of murals on Howard street. Do you notice all of the lit­tle tags, stick­ers, and past­ings in your city? Below are the beau­ti­ful, lively, and the type of ...

Street artist JR was this year’s TED Prize win­ner (I wrote about him on Brown Paper Bag, remem­ber?). What is the TED Prize, you ask? Not only is it $100,000, but it allows you resources to carry out your wish for the world. Past win­ners have used this prize to help com­bat poverty, tackle obe­sity, ...

I came across this today, and it looks to be pretty amaz­ing (if it reaches proper fund­ing!). The Brooklyn-based artist Swoon is props­ing to install a per­ma­nent, musi­cal inter­ac­tive sculp­ture in the Bywa­ter neigh­bor­hood of New Orleans. Here’s a descrip­tion of the project (from the Kick­starter site): It will look like a house, but it ...

I wish I was tak­ing another vaca­tion. Specif­i­cally, across the pond to Leeds on June 17th through the 19th. What’s there, you ask? The LOOP Arts Fair will be going on, and it looks to be pretty great. Tal­ented illus­tra­tors, graphic design­ers, and applied artists will be on hand to trans­form the area of trans­form­ing ...

Hey Bal­ti­more­ans! The 8th annual Trans­mod­ern Fes­ti­val started Thurs­day night, and the rest of the fes­ti­val looks to have a bunch of great stuff going on. The Baltimore-born event deliv­ers four days of avant-garde per­for­mance, instal­la­tion, film, and excit­ing multi-disciplinary work. A lot of the fes­ti­val takes place near or in the Cur­rent Gallery and ...

Always a fan of Gaia’s work, he recently emailed me with some new work that’s up around Bal­ti­more. Hap­pen­ing upon his work is always great — it’s like find­ing money in your pocket. His newest pieces are large and ambi­tious, with even some doc­u­men­ta­tion of the actual appli­ca­tion of work. The fol­low­ing process shots were taken ...

On the Sat­ur­day of my Los Ange­les visit, I attended the Arts Con­tem­po­rary Los Ange­les, a fair pre­sent­ing art gal­leries around the world, spe­cial empha­sis on Los Ange­les. Over­all I really enjoyed work I saw. There was a wide range of the type of work, with smaller and larger gal­leries rep­re­sented. You could talk to ...

Hi read­ers! Are you an artist or blog­ger? Do you sell your works online? Do rep­re­sent some incred­i­ble artists? Brown Paper Bag has started a “link back” pro­gram — a way of con­nect­ing with other blogs, artists, and friends. It’s sim­ple — link Brown Paper Bag on your web­site and I will gladly link you ...

For the record, I don’t use sketch­books effec­tively as I should. Mine tend to be filled with scrib­bles, non sequiturs, and aren’t very exper­i­men­tal. The best sketch­books help artists to refine their style, and make it a safe place to “mess up” and try new things. For this Thursday’s round up, I’ve included some sketch­books ...