Mat­teo De Colle con­tacted me recently. His blog, Light Trash Design dis­plays his light­ing solu­tions and other items fash­ioned from things dis­carded. I loved his poetic descrip­tion of dis­cov­er­ing things in a recy­cling bin: Open­ing a recy­cling bin for plas­tic reminds me of a soap opera: famil­iar char­ac­ters, dif­fer­ent com­bi­na­tions each day. In fact, most of ...

Just a few things going on this week­end in Bal­ti­more… although I know there are more! Tweetor email me if there is some­thing I’m missing! TODAY: Cur­rent Gallery, Fresh Coat Fest 6PM — 11PM, music starts at 8PM! EMP Collective’s break­ing in their new venue! FDS by Nolan Cartwright 7PM — on, $5 at the door SUNDAY, ...

Do you work in col­lage? I do! Recently, Steven Rid­dle and I traded our scraps and made work that merges both of our papers. It was a lot of fun and a good chal­lenge to apply the way you typ­i­cally work with some­body else’s sensibilities. So, my ques­tion to you col­lage artists out there (all ...

When a gallery has a great turnout for their open­ing, it can be hard to snap pho­tos. This is exactly what I expe­ri­enced last Sat­ur­day at the Nudashank Gallery for their lat­est exhi­bi­tion, Strange Grip! I really enjoyed the show and how the space was trans­formed. The three artists fea­tured in the show — Bon­nie ...

Bal­ti­more! Tomor­row, Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 24th is the open­ing for Strange Grip at the Nudashank Gallery. John Bohl, Andrew Liang, and Bon­nie Brenda Scott will be show­ing their works. Great gallery, great artists… you should head on over to the H&H building! Image via Nudashank’s blog. ...

Another Bal­ti­more event I recently attended was Mon­ster Draw­ing at the Con­tem­po­rary Museum. Being the last event to be held in their space at 100 W. Cen­tre street (so close to where I live… I’ll be sad to see them leave there), I was excited to attend the event, which demys­ti­fies the draw­ing process as ...

The past cou­ple of Fri­days have been about show open­ings in Bal­ti­more, no? I apol­o­gize if you aren’t from Bal­ti­more (but per­haps it is a sign you need to visit Charm City!). Here are a cou­ple of things going on this weekend: Remem­ber when I wrote that I was headed back to school? Well, our ...

My grad­u­ate pro­gram (MFA Illus­tra­tion Prac­tice, MFA ILP for short!) has an exhi­bi­tion com­ing up next week. Every­one is hang­ing sev­eral pieces of work, all in vary­ing media and tech­niques. To really tie the show together, we are using QR codes (square bar codes you see on magazines,fliers, etc.), mak­ing the show inter­ac­tive as well. ...

Hey! Do you have Instant Net­flix and want to watch a doc­u­men­tary about a cou­ple who steadily built their impres­sive art col­lec­tion over the last half of the 21st cen­tury? Then I would say that Herb and Dorothy(2008) is the movie for you. HERB & DOROTHY Trailer from Herb & Dorothy on Vimeo. The film, now ...

On Twit­ter, I shared a pic­ture of the kit­ten I got last week, Pauline. Hav­ing not had a cat for 7+ years, it’s been a really inter­est­ing (and some­times frus­trat­ing) expe­ri­ence to have a pet again. I had to take her to the vet on Wednes­day, have her get shots, spayed… the works. Need­less to ...