Open Works Site Visit

Friday, November 18 at 9:30 AM
1400 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202

Join us Friday, November 18 at 9:30 AM for a CIRCA facilitated visit to Open Works, the newly launched creative center for makers and artists in Baltimore’s Station North Arts and Entertainment District.

Open Works is a project of the Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation, with substantial support from State, Corporate and Foundation partners.

This 21st century makerspace features a computer lab, electronics shop, textiles and fabrication and rapid prototyping spaces in 3-d printing, woods and metals.

Portrait Garden is a series of audio and photographic portraits of eleven women incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institute for Women in Jessup, MD, culminating a 1-1/2 year long collaboration between Ruby Award winning artist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts Lynn Cazabon. In the collaboration the inmates created perennial gardens on the prison grounds consisting of plants chosen to represent each woman, and Professor Cazabon recorded interviews with each about the selected plants and her past and present experiences with gardening. The completed portraits are photographs of the selected plants that were planted and cultivated over the course of a year, displayed with a short textual excerpt from the audio interviews and QR codes, which when scanned with a mobile device, play the full interview with each woman. The complete set of images and audio interviews are available through the project website: http://portraitgarden.org

For the month of December, Portrait Garden will be displayed as a series of 100 posters in trains within the Baltimore Light Rail system. This public dissemination is conceived as a moving gallery designed to bring the women metaphorically into the community of Baltimore City.