Archive for the ‘fun’ Category

Gina Dawson

02.01.2012 · Posted in artist, fun

I first spoke of the work of Gina Daw­son when I saw it as part of a group show, Boundry Proof, at the Guest Spot Art Space in Bal­ti­more. She cre­ated these amaz­ing minia­ture funeral wreathes made out of paper. The text on the ban­ners were extracted from rejec­tion let­ters, which Gina had embroidered: Check­ing ...

Television

12.16.2011 · Posted in fun, video

I am done with finals! I am done with mak­ing pre­sen­ta­tions and writ­ing papers! Dur­ing win­ter break I can focus on Brown Paper Bag and art mak­ing again! Hooray! Now that I can really watch things on the inter­net again, here’s what I will be catch­ing up on: // Lit­tle Paper Planes TV The Lit­tle Paper ...

Remake // Booooooom!

12.15.2011 · Posted in artist, fun

By now you’ve heard of Boooooom’s Remake project, yes? If not, it is recre­at­ing a famous work of art using pho­tog­ra­phy. Sounds fairly sim­ple, ref­er­enc­ing clas­sic art, but there are so many ways you can take the project! It’s won­der­ful to see all of the dif­fer­ent inter­pre­ta­tions. Jeff from Booooooom had me pick some of ...

Over the weekend: Multiplicity, Paper Chasers, Gulp Yarn Bang!, Dead Reckoning

11.21.2011 · Posted in artist, baltimore, fun, gallery

Despite spend­ing upwards of 20 hours in my stu­dio this week­end (in a flurry of paper scraps to say the least), I was able to check out sev­eral shows this week­end. Rang­ing from minia­tures to yarn, paper to paint­ing, shows at Gallery 500, Nudashank, and School 33 demon­strated a var­ied aes­thetic through­out Baltimore. Mul­ti­plic­ity, at ...

Maryland Art Place // IMPACT

11.14.2011 · Posted in artist, baltimore, fun, gallery

This past Fri­day, I had the plea­sure of attend­ing the after party of IMPACT at the Mary­land Art Place. IMPACT was a two-fold event; ear­lier in the evening, there was a gala with a silent auc­tion while later then turned into the after party. IMPACT hon­ors twelve women who have made an impact on Baltimore’s ...

GIVEAWAY // Win a poster from UPrinting.com!

10.27.2011 · Posted in fun, giveaway

Hey image mak­ers! Itch­ing to get some of your work printed? UPrinting.com is giv­ing away one poster print to a lucky Brown Paper Bag reader! (US read­ers only, sorry!) What would you get printed? Online print­ing offers a vari­ety of ser­vices and prod­ucts, includ­ing poster print­ing for your art­work or photo enlarge­ments. To enter this give­away ...