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Mark your calendars for a night of art, music, mischief and masquerade! MAP & Philanthropik are producing a decadently themed costume party as an extension of MAP's Fall Benefit exhibition. Don your mystery mask and join us for a surreal celebration - during the most ghoulish time of the year!

Tickets include light tastings, live entertainment, and admission to MAP's fall exhibition, "Repurposed with Purpose" curated by Doreen Bolger, former Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Featuring performances by Lineup Room Recording Studios and DJ Chris Brooks (ESL)! Stay tuned for additional performance announcements!

Tickets are $50 for General Admission, and $100 for VIP. Tickets are on sale now at www.mt.cm/guise

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We’re pleased to announce light installation artist Scott Pennington will be featured in a solo exhibition at MAP in January! Pennington’s larger than life installations have been featured in public arts festivals across the country, including the inaugural Light City Baltimore in 2016. 

Opening reception is January 18th from 6-9pm and the show will be on view until March 10th. Check out our website for more details! 

http://www.mdartplace.org/

Photo courtesy of Kyle Bergner Photography 

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Come check out Alexis Gomez’s “Being”  along with many other talented artists featured in MAP’s annual Under 500$ Exhibition! Join us, December 8th, for one of MAP’s biggest events of the year- Under $500�� is a great way to discover and purchase affordable works from regional artists, just in time for the holidays. Purchase your tickets today! www.mt.cm/under-500-1

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Come check out Jeffery Heft’s “Buzzard”, along with many other talented artists featured in MAP’s annual Under 500$ Exhibition! Join us, December 8th, for one of MAP’s biggest events of the year- Under $500​ is a great way to discover and purchase affordable works from regional artists, just in time for the holidays. Purchase your tickets today! www.mt.cm/under-500-1

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Come check out Courtney Cooper’s “Slide”, along with many other talented artists featured in MAP’s annual Under 500$ Exhibition! Join us, December 8th, for one of MAP's biggest events of the year- Under $500​ is a great way to discover and purchase affordable works from regional artists, just in time for the holidays. Purchase your tickets today! www.mt.cm/under-500-1

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Curators’ Incubator Program

We’re restoring the Curators’ Incubator program. It provides both a platform for aspiring curators to grow, and the opportunity to develop a creative, curatorial vision as part of a mentored partnership initiative.

Follow this link for more information and how to apply!

Image: Nikki Painter, featured in "The Sum of The Parts" curated by Amy Boone-McCreesh, Curators Incubator 2012 at MAP

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American Made: Mass Production | Mass Incarceration explores the role of creativity and art in the prison system. An example from the exhibition includes photographs and texts by Robert Gumpert, photographer, and Sandra Cate, sociologist. Gumpert documents meals that inmates have concocted out of their limited ingredients. The images capture a creative cooking process that entertains the inmates. The photographs are paired with Cate’s texts, which are created  from interviews with inmates. The texts recount on their cooking or baking experience in prison, and have a light, friendly tone to accompany the playful quality in the photographs.

Not every piece captures a positive meaning in response to creativity. The works by former inmate, Angelo, illustrate how inmates react to the harsh conditions they live within the prison system. Angelo was in prison for twenty years before his release in 2014. His works date from 2001-2006, and are reproductions of highly rendered ink drawings. The imagery is accompanied with text depicting his experience in prison. Angelo documents everything, from what he saw, smelled, created, as well as the prison’s needs.

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For this year’s exhibit, EDS examines how craft works as currency in the U.S. prison system. “American Made: Mass Production/ Mass Incarceration” showcases creativity as a reaction to incarceration while exposing production from forced labor.

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A sense of peace, growth, hope , and possibilities is expressed through intertwining imaginary vines of thousands of woodblock paper plates

Abhidnya Ghuge, artist, “Our Lives are Green” on view @mdartplace January 19 - March 11, 2017

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We’re loving these crowd-sourced additions to Adhidnya Ghuge’s exhibition, Our Lives are Green. Come add your own paper plate creation to the mix during our gallery hours, Tuesday - Saturday 12:00PM - 4:00PM. 

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MAP Annual Membership Drive

Join MAP or renew your membership today!

Maryland Art Place's innovative exhibitions and programs are made possible through  the support provided by MAP members and donors.

Membership enables MAP to maintain a beautiful and welcoming facility for artists to exhibit their work and exchange ideas with the public. MAP is pleased to continue its thirty-five year tradition of bringing contemporary art exhibitions and programs to the community, free of charge. To date, MAP has exhibited the work of over 5,000 artists in over 400 exhibitions and maintains the work of 2,500 artists in MSAC Maryland Artist Registry.

Participate in our 2017 membership drive and receive a FREE ticket to Out of Order on April 7!  This offer includes membership renewal.

Perks of MAP membership include reduced rates for submission fees, invitations to gallery talks, receptions, programs, workshops, special events and more.  

For a full list of membership packages and perks, visit MAP's website.

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Artists -- looking for opportunities to develop your art practice in new ways? 

We update our Resource Bulletin for artists weekly with regional, national, and international exhibition opportunities, grants, fellowships, residencies, and information on available studio spaces in the area. 

Follow the link to check it out!

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Abhidnya Ghuge, Unwrapped Saint, Percolated Peace, 77.

MAP presents Abhidnya Ghuge: Our Lives are Green & Heather Harvey: ENCAMPMENT in a double solo exhibition exploring space intervention & materials use. The exhibition begins with an opening reception on January 19th at 6 PM and continues until March 11, 2017.

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Heather Harvey, Nomad, site-specific installation.

MAP presents Abhidnya Ghuge: Our Lives are Green & Heather Harvey: ENCAMPMENT in a double solo exhibition exploring space intervention & materials use. The exhibition begins with an opening reception on January 19th at 6 PM and continues until March 11, 2017.

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12/09/2016

Exhibition Opening: Friday, December 9, 2016 | 7:00 PM

Maryland Art Place invites you to join us at our fourth annual "Under $500" affordable art sale this December! On Friday, December 9 at 7 o'clock join us for a first-come, first-served opportunity to purchase affordable and original works of art. The event will feature the work of Baltimore and surrounding area artists at a price point of $500 or less. Purchase work at any point throughout the evening and take home that night!

Guests can expect to mingle with other artists, collectors, patrons and general art enthusiasts at the event with an open wine and beer bar, along with light tastings with a holiday twist.

Tickets are $25 presale, $30 at the door. Preslae tickets are avalible through Missiontix here. To pay with cash or check, please connect with Naomi at naomi@mdartplace.org.  Ticket includes snacks and drinks plus free admission to "Spin & Sell" in the MAP Underground.

Can't make it on Friday night? Stop into MAP the next day, Saturday, December 10th between 11a - 4p to view the remaining works for sale. This day requires no ticket and is open to the public.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS:

Have your work noticed and purchased by area buyers & collectors, just in time for the holidays! Maryland Art Place (MAP) is seeking artists for “UNDER $500”, our upcoming winter benefit exhibition. On Friday, December 9 and Saturday, December 10, 2016, this two-day event will promote the sale of artwork by artists in the Maryland region.

The exhibition will include 1-3 works by each artist with each individual piece retailing for $500 or less. Participating artists will receive one free ticket to the opening event on Friday, December 9. Selected artists will be issued an UNDER $500 profile form in an effort to simultaneously promote the artwork and artist during the event. Proceeds from the sale of artwork will be split 50/50 with the artist and MAP.

To download the full prospectus, click here.  Please send your completed application to assistant@mdartplace.org.

Application Deadline: November 1, 2016.

Application Fee: $10 for non MAP members

Submit your fee by clicking on “Get Involved”, “Donate” on MAP’s website and simply adjust the fee to $10. Please attach your payment receipt to your application.  -OR- Pay by Check to: Maryland Art Place | c/o IMPRINT | 218 West Saratoga Street Baltimore, MD 21201

Visit our MAPortunities page for more information: http://www.mdartplace.org/opportunities/maportunities

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Stop by and check out this beautiful piece by Mina Cheon and Gabriel Kroiz!