Taking it to the BMA!

LOOK MA, I’M IN THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART! Last year I was totally honored and flabbergasted to receive the Baker Artist Award in Interdisciplinary Arts from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance. The Baker Artist Awards recognize artists who demonstrate excellence in three areas: Mastery of Craft, Depth of Artistic Exploration, and Unique Vision. Along with cash awards, selected awardees in the Visual Arts and Interdisciplinary Arts categories are invited to participate in a bi-annual exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art. And I was the lucky 2024 winner!

The honorarium and opportunity to show at one of our city’s prestigious art museums spurred me to create my most ambitious work to date—Fantastic Village. Recalling the concrete geometries of Modernist / Brutalist playgrounds, Fantastic Village suggests communities are brilliant, ever-changing modular systems where we play out our lives. It pays tribute to the artist Virginia Dortch Dorazio’s 1953 award-winning playground design of the same name—recognized by the Museum of Modern Art and once a common feature in public parks nationwide. Though now demolished, her structures live on in Fantastic Village, which also evokes saltbox seaside homes, earthen tribal dwellings, and any place where people live and dream together. Colorful light plays across and through the faces of these structures as our collective hopes, disappointments, joys and sorrows play out publicly and privately in the places we live.

It was a long journey, folks. If you want to read more about the inception, creation and installation of Fantastic Village, follow me here.

The Oracle Returns!

ALL HAIL THE ORACLE! I’m so happy and proud to share the resurrection of this piece! The Oracle is an interactive animation installation that invites users to ask questions AND encourages users to consider the relationship between intimacy, personal privacy, and trust in technology.

Oracle is currently enjoying a limited run at Port Discovery Children’s Museum in Baltimore. Go pay a visit, or stay tuned for announcements about a special visit day coming soon!

Many many thanks to the staff at Port Discovery, the amazing programming skills of Jeff Bucklew, and Danielle Nekimken’s instigations to bring this fun and wonderful piece back to life!

SMALL FOODS ON
THE (OBSCURE) MAP

The 13th annual Small Foods Party, of which I am the graphic designer and founding member, is now officially on the map! In the Atlas Obscura, that is. Baltimore's premiere party for tiny edibles is featured in the new Gastro Obscura!

The 2018 Small Foods Party will be taking place on March 3rd at 7 pm at the American Visionary Arts Museum. Get your tickets here.

AND THEY'RE OFF!

New developments on the The Herd for Light City 2018. The fleet is crossing the Pacific and will be with us soon.

There is now a BLOG. I'll be posting with some regularity with this page to keep folks informed of the fabricaion, preparation and installation of the project. Find a link to the biog here.

There will be some great upcoming news about other organizations coming on board to the project. Keep it locked on the blog for upcoming developments.

THE HERD TAKES LIGHT CITY BALTIMORE, 2018

It's with shining joy that I announce that I'll be bringing a brand new installation piece called The Herd to Light City 2018 in Baltimore, MD. 

Between April 14 – 21 a herd of 375 glowing inflatables will roll into Baltimore Harbor for your viewing pleasure. These solar-powered doggies will be available for purchase after the festival. Not only can you take home a piece this ambitious art work, but all proceeds from sales will be donated to Baltimore healthy harbor non-profits. Learn more about The Herd here.

I'd love to see you at the harbor this Spring! And, if you are interested in helping out, volunteers and paid positions are available! See here for more details.