I am ecstatic to say each participant’s videos are now available! Their wise words, honesty and openness can be experienced again and shared among friends in 7 short video clips.
Visit the Autumn Leaves Site to see the other 42 participants's videos.
Walter Lomax
Gilda Johnson
Bill Clark
Anna Davis
Jeff Johnson
Dean Lynes
Selwyn Ray
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Autumn Leaves and local artists...
Autumn Leaves visual artists include myself and these six talented artists:
Nicole Buckingham Kern
Nicole lives and works in in Baltimore County, Maryland. Grew up here, went to college here at CND (College of Notre Dame of MD) left for a couple of years to pursue an MFA in Painting at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design). And came back. She’s worked for the Walters Art Museum, The American Visionary Museum, and now works at the Community College of Baltimore County managing the galleries and teaching art.
She has been exhibiting since 2000, and her work has been selected for exhibitions in Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and California.
As for her method for completing the Autumn Leaves portraits, she would like to meet with each person she is portraying and chat, usually over coffee or tea, and just get to know more about them. After the meeting, they will arrange to meet again for a photo shoot (this usually takes about an hour/hour and a half). She will take the images from the photo shoot, make adjustments and work up a composition in Photoshop. She will then create the painting/drawing from the PhotoShop source composition.
The above sample compositions are how she works through her ideas. In preparation for Autumn Leaves, she took photos of her husband’s grandmother, Althea, and tried to work up compositions based on what feature drew her the most: her eyes.
In four of the above examples (which — by the way — are terrible reproductions of what are actually super-crisp ink drawings on paper), a friend asked to be portrayed variously in a “Batman” type of setting or outfit (i.e. note the portrait superimposed on a Batman body and outfit; note the image with the “Bat light” with the words “BiO”), and in a “Terminator” scenario (note the single glowing eye and mechanized half of the face).
Paris is interested in narrative, detail, and captivating perspectives: though a poor reproduction, the image top right above shows a zoom-lens like perspective looking down on a bed with a (traumatized) woman lying down, offering a sense of drama to the image.
Paris is affable, hard working, and comfortable working with all sorts of people. he likes to draw from life and photographs, and his methodology will vary depending on the needs, interests, and availability of those he will be portraying.
Ian was selected as one of the portrait artists for this project because his work is more conceptual than literal: his “portraits” draw from images, stories and biography, but in abstracting his imagery they take on a kind ofprivate meaning… something hopefully compelling at a visual level for anyone looking, but the “story” can only be known to those initiated… those to whom the “code” is given.
(In some regard… in the sense of meaning only being accessible to “the initiated”… Ian’s work is related to how much African tribal art functions. For example, the illustration here is an example of Ndebele house painting: the abstract symbols are codes communicating to other members of the Ndebele tribe expressing specific grief and suffering, and stood for the cultural resistance to their suffering. A different kind of content from Ian’s art, but the same idea of secret, coded language and meaning.)
His approach will be to gather ideas, images, and biographical information from those he will portray, and then work up ideas that interpret or express in a manner ranging from distorted realism (like the postage stamp image above) to highly abstract (such as the watercolors above) “the story” of the person to be told… the portrait.
Ian has experience as a graphic designer, and though he has a keen intellect and well-honed notions of how to express things in metaphoric or abstract or symbolic ways, he also is very comfortable getting input and feedback from his “clients”—in this case, those he will be working with in completing their portraits.
Ian holds his MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute, College of Art and was a Hamiltonian Fellow from 2008-2010. He exhibits nationally and is collected internationally. Ian lives, works and teaches in Baltimore and its outlaying counties. He’s obsessed with the effects of mass culture and its images and is a regular contributing writer for the contemporary art journal www.BmoreArt.com.
Ian has experience as a graphic designer, and though he has a keen intellect and well-honed notions of how to express things in metaphoric or abstract or symbolic ways, he also is very comfortable getting input and feedback from his “clients”—in this case, those he will be working with in completing their portraits.
Ian holds his MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute, College of Art and was a Hamiltonian Fellow from 2008-2010. He exhibits nationally and is collected internationally. Ian lives, works and teaches in Baltimore and its outlaying counties. He’s obsessed with the effects of mass culture and its images and is a regular contributing writer for the contemporary art journal www.BmoreArt.com.
Ernest Shaw is an artist and educator, teaching and inspiring young people in a variety of settings. His own work has a distinct style, one infused with color, splash, jazz-like improvisational aspects, and a highly-developed sense of natural realism.
Ernest’s approach to his work is to work from photography… photographs he will take, but only after and as part of getting to know his subject. Ernest plans to spend some time with his subjects, gather photographic imagery for reference, then get to work.
Briscoe works from photographs, and for this project expects to spend part of one day getting to know his subject(s), and part of another day taking photos to use as source material.
Briscoe’s Artist Statement:
“What I attempt to illustrate through my artwork is how an individual can communicate inner emotions, feelings or concerns in a manner that can open a silent dialogue with individuals of a like emotional state or concern. I am a firm believer in the idea that information, inspiration and knowledge can be obtained from a number of sources. I have revisited the grass roots practices of Hip-Hop and Punk cultures that were a part of my everyday experiences in the late seventies and early eighties and marrying those with the formal concepts that I have gained through my formal education.”
Briscoe was born in rural LaPlata in Charles County, MD. Briscoe attended Charles County public schools and continued on to study visual art at Charles County Community College (now the College of Southern Maryland), Morgan State University, (‘95) B.A., Howard University, (‘98) M.F.A. and the University of Baltimore, Communications Design Theory and is currently a lecturer in the visual arts at Morgan State University. Briscoe has exhibited his artwork at The James E. Lewis Museum of Art as well as the African American Museum in Dallas, SoWeBo Gallery, Baltimore, The Creative Alliance, National Black Art Show, SOHO, NY, Art-O-Matic, Washington, D.C., The Nina Simone Experience in Atlanta GA as well as others. Briscoe has also curated exhibitions such as The Evolution of Depression; revisited, drawings by Larry Scott at the James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Energies and Entities, paintings by Doris C. Kennedy and Baltimore City Arts, Turning the Corner.
Zoe’s approach is to convey story through a combination of pose, expression, distortion, make-up, and accessories or clothing. Nothing in her work appears by accident: it all carries meaning. In making portraits for this project, she will discuss things with her portrait subjects, and brainstorm different ways… different clothing, poses, accessories… that could be most fitting for telling the story of who that person is and what matters to him or her.
Zoe works from life, and expects at least a couple of in-person drawing sessions, as well as at least one preliminary “get to know you” sit-down conversation.
Zoe’s Artist Statement:
“An ongoing interest in race, gender and class motivates my work. Using the nude body—often, a corpulent black female figure—as metaphor, I explore the ironies of contemporary social and racial politics. My deliberately humorous and sexual content challenges what we view as moral and ethical. Playing on racist and sexist jokes, I point to xenophobic imagery that, in turn, alludes to collective stereotypes. The work evaluates prejudice based on appearances by literally undressing it; the particulars of cultural histories are writ large in these naked bodies.
“My sketches hold a sublingual psychological immediacy while the more detailed large-scale renderings represent a deeper sort of character study. Both allow me to contemplate notions of blackness and whiteness. I depict most of my subjects as isolated female figures. Their relationship with the world is signified by the colorful adornments they wear and the culturally loaded objects they embrace—among them, white hoods, suburban housing and sports gear. Whether penciled into a defined context or left to pose awkwardly against a blank backdrop, these characters embody ripe cultural dilemmas.”
Autumn Leaves: Give Corps Campaign
Autumn Leaves is about nothing less than the meaning of life, recognizing the deeper connectivity of our lives, and the importance of collectively gathering from time to time for no other reason than commemorating who we are, as individuals and as a community. It provides a novel, intergenerational artistic platform, establishing a new kind of community arts experience in which those younger than 50 pay tribute to those 50 or older—in appreciation of their life wisdom.
This art exhibition will have 7 major events at Area 405 running from September 19 through November 2, 2014, each highlighting an autumn group. Exhibitng the "leaves" portraits, events focus on subject's reflections to 3 questions:
This art exhibition will have 7 major events at Area 405 running from September 19 through November 2, 2014, each highlighting an autumn group. Exhibitng the "leaves" portraits, events focus on subject's reflections to 3 questions:
What gives your life meaning?
How do you think about your own dying, or passing?
What do you have to say to those coming after you, or what advice would you give your 21 year-old self?
7 Reasons to Support "Autumn Leaves"
1. It reveals a vibrant and diverse Baltimore. 2. It builds a connected community.
3. It addresses what matters most.
4. It illuminates amazing Youth Art Groups.
5. It puts art and culture to work.
6. It values leadership.
7. It offers you a chance to honor who you love and admire by including you and your words at the events celebrating those whom you wish to acknowledge
How do you think about your own dying, or passing?
What do you have to say to those coming after you, or what advice would you give your 21 year-old self?
7 Reasons to Support "Autumn Leaves"
1. It reveals a vibrant and diverse Baltimore. 2. It builds a connected community.
3. It addresses what matters most.
4. It illuminates amazing Youth Art Groups.
5. It puts art and culture to work.
6. It values leadership.
7. It offers you a chance to honor who you love and admire by including you and your words at the events celebrating those whom you wish to acknowledge
Another chapter finished
From Baltimore to NYC to VA....selected as a participating artist by Mera Rubell of the Rubell Family Collection for the Washington Project for the Arts SELECT 2014 Art Auction Exhibition & Gala.
SELECT 2014 now showing at Artisphere!
Arlington Independent Media gives us a sneak peek of Washington Project for the Arts' SELECT 2014 EXHIBITION & AUCTION. Only 1 week left to check out this amazing show for free! Tickets for the Auction Gala, March 22nd, are on sale now!
Baltimore Artists + WPA + Mera Rubell = LOVE
WASHINGTON PROJECT FOR THE ARTS ANNOUNCES MERA RUBELL ARTIST SELECTIONS FOR SELECT 2014; EXHIBITION OF WORKS TO BE HOSTED AT MARIANNE BOESKY GALLERY IN NEW YORK
Baltimore Artists + WPA + Mera Rubell = LOVE is an exclusive preview of Mera Rubell’s selections for her role as curator in SELECT 2014.
WPA is pleased to announce an exclusive preview exhibition of SELECT 2014 works chosen by Mera Rubell, Co-Founder of the Rubell Family Collection. From January 11 through January 18, 2014, Marianne Boesky Gallery‘s uptown space (118 E 64th Street) will host Baltimore Artists + WPA + Mera Rubell = LOVE, an exhibition featuring the 25 works chosen through the 36 Studios/36 Hours adventure. The New York preview is a first for WPA and the SELECT auction.
Baltimore Artists + WPA + Mera Rubell = LOVE will be hosted by Marianne Boesky Gallery, 118 E 64th Street, New York, NY 10065 from January 11 through January 18, 2014. Hours are Tuesday – Saturday: 10am – 6pm. Admission is free.
Evelyn Everywoman: Ordinary Women
In Jan 2014 an artists’ installation at the Howard County Center for the Arts will explore the personae of “Ordinary Women”.
Evelyn Everywoman, a vintage manikin, isn’t famous or notorious. She is at first glance old and ordinary. However, clothed in garments fabricated from the materials and messages chosen by collaborating artists, she will reflect women’s lived lives. Her “dress form” anonymity will be complemented by the artists’ self-portraits.
The gallery will become closet-like with the art garments hanging from the ceiling. The clothing Evelyn wears will be changed periodically, and she will be placed in front of different portraits. As one looks across the gallery from any direction, faces and garments will visually realign. The changing face, body, and identity shaped by culture, society, economics and the hand of the artist, will reveal that there is no such thing as an “ordinary woman”. The narratives of women have just begun.
Diana Marta, Curator
CONGREGATE thanks You!
Thanks to you, the funds have been raised to support the "CONGREGATE art + faith + community" exhibition. Thank you from the participating congregations, artists in residence, professors and the M.F.A in Curatorial Practice class of 2014.
Don't forget to mark your calendars!
Don't forget to mark your calendars!
“CONGREGATE art + faith + community”
On View September 6–September 25, 2013
Opening Reception Friday, September 6, 2013 5pm-7pm
Sheila & Richard Riggs and Leidy Galleries
131 W. North Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201
Inside of Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Graduate Studio Center
Curated by MICA’s M.F.A in Curatorial Practice class of 2014
A People United, justice for Trayvon
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| Justice for Trayvon Martin Rally 03/24/2012 |
As closing arguments are wrapping up for the Trayvon Martin trail, prosecutor, John Guy makes a valid point to the panel.
"Your verdict is not going to bring Trayvon Martin back to life. It's not going to change the past. But it will forever define it."
Recently, in our own City of Baltimore, there have been countless senseless acts of violence against our younger generations from those who have developed a high tolerance of violence, and feed off a silent majority. As we have seen with the case of Trayvon Martin, the number of rally's across the country, and through social media, when we stand united, we can be heard and action can take place. Let use this same momentum and not remain silent in our own neighborhoods and cities, because what we don't do now will "forever define our people".
Below is a musical tribute in Trayvon Martin's memory by local guitarist / poet Hollywood Infinite and poet / vocalist Alex Alexander
Video By Alex Alexnder
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| BLACK, 2012 |
2013 Prom Season
I was finally able to put together a few of my favorites from this year's prom sessions. Shout out to the class of 2014 and a big congratulations to the parents of these bright young adults!
Courtney, Western High School Junior Prom
Hayes, Milford Mill Academy Junior Prom
Tylisha, Carver Vocational Technical High School
Baltimore-Based Fashion Designer Carlous Palmer
This spring I had the opportunity to work with Baltimore-based fashion designer, Carlous Palmer, one of six nominees in the ready-to-wear category for the upcoming Fashion Awards MD being held June 15th at MICA's Brown Center.
In a recent article in Baltimore's Gay Life, Carlous explains his work is primarily in women’s ready to wear with his clientele consisting of, “women over 35 who are risk takers, a woman who naturally stands out and demands to be noticed."
With, the world as his palette, Carlous' designer pieces are often mistaken as haute couture by fashion laypersons. His designs are a mixture of textiles and shapes with a minimalist sensibility and unique fabrics.
All Carlous Palmer designs are sold exclusively through the Katwalk Boutique, 1709 Aliceanna St, Baltimore, MD, 410.669.0600
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| Fashion Awards MD 2013 |
On June 15, 2013 at MICA’s Brown Center the second annual “Fashion Awards MD” ceremony will be held. Categories that cover virtually every facet of the industry including photography, makeup, media, wardrobe, hair, and modeling will be featured in addition to fashion shows and live performances.
The event will be hosted by Johnny Anastacio and Lianca Lyons, stars of Style Network’s reality television series Kimora: House of Fab.
A limited number of tickets for the public are available through www.FashionAwardsMD.com.
Fashion Awards MD
Saturday, June 15
The Brown Center at MICA • 1301 W. Mt. Royal Ave.
6pm Social Hour • 7pm Seating • 7:30pm show time
Congratulations!
2013 Bakers Artist Awards
Congratulations to this round of Mary Sawyers Baker Prize Winners: JONATHAN LATIANO, DARIUSZ SKORACZEWSKI, and LYNNE PARKS!
2013 Baker Artist Awards from Baker Artist Awards on Vimeo.
Prom Season is here
This past weekend I had the opportunity to photograph one of my best friend's son for his junior prom. This moment reminded me how fast 14years can past, and how much Hayes has grown into a fine young man...
Looking up to you
Starting in his mother's basement, teaching himself how to make beats, George started on a road that would soon turn into one of his greatest accomplishments.
Always a young man persistent to master his skill, George knew he could offer more then just a beat. He eventually turned the half bath in his mom's basement into a home recording studio with only "One Mic".
Through helping local artists, George's love for producing went to the next level. Teaming up with with his younger cousin, Darnell Tillman, they began building what is now known as D&G Productionz.
Darnell's skill in graphic design and video gave D&G Productionz the opportunity to offer more to Baltimore's local artists.
With the rest being HIStory, D&G Productionz is hitting the streets of Baltimore hard making music & promotional videos.
The road may have not always been easy, but D&G Productionz has proved over and over again that amazing things can happen when you OWN your #grind. Keep it up guys!
Love... Aunt Tiff
Connect with D&G Productionz:
InstaGram: dngproductionz
FaceBook: D&G Productionz
YouTube: D&G Productionz Channel
The Impact of the Arts in Baltimore
Spring is here and the arts are alive in Baltimore! Festivals, fairs, open studio tours, and more are happening in and around the city. Be sure to get out and support your local artists.
Check out these sites for things to see and do!
Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance
Baltimore Fun Guide
Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts
Visit Baltimore
Station North Arts & Entertainment District
Highlandtown Arts & Entertainment District
Bromo Tower Arts & Entertainment District
Check out these sites for things to see and do!
Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance
Baltimore Fun Guide
Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts
Visit Baltimore
Station North Arts & Entertainment District
Highlandtown Arts & Entertainment District
Bromo Tower Arts & Entertainment District
February Online Fundraiser & Auction
The Bruun Studios online auction features a work by artist Tiffany Jones with proceeds to benefit the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center.
For more than three decades, the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center has sought to bring creative expression and urban consciousness to Baltimore through visual and performing arts education and development opportunities for children, youth and adults in our community.
Bruun Studios is led by Peter Bruun, an artist, educator, curator, and community activist, Bruun Studios’ philosophical approach is grounded in the belief art is a broad idea, essential to individual and cultural identity. As such, art is not marginal, but rather core to who we are.
The auction ends at 11:59pm, February 28, and to access the auction site please visit, Bruun Studios Online Auction
Spread the word about this opportunity to own a beautiful piece of art, and support a deserving non-profit organization.
Thank you for your support!
Family
I always look at my nephews and think about how much they remind me of my Dad. They have big hearts and love hard. The oldest, George, has come into his own and I love seeing him learn what it means to be a father to his first son.
Here are a few of their first family portraits since Georgie has been born.
Here are a few of their first family portraits since Georgie has been born.
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