Alex Worthington is a Baltimore based artist who resides in Waverly in a big drafty house with other women as crazy as herself. Alex considers Baltimore her hometown but grew up in Tennessee. Alex is a self-taught artist who began focusing on illustration but now mainly focuses on sculptural installations. Alex aims to create a vernacular that combines the eerie magic of the enclaves she encountered throughout the foothills of the Smokey Mountains with the disparate enchantment and attitude of Baltimore to express a modern tale that meditates on issues of race, class and gender through the symbolism of familiar relics. She is currently obsessed with the formation of sugar crystals known as rock candy.

Ami Dang is a South-Asian American musician and multimedia artist born and raised in Glen Arm, Maryland. Her work shifts between electronic and acoustic music, installation, movement, video, and various intermedia forms.  Currently, she is focused on solo performance that combines experimental music notions with North Indian classical sentiments to create a unique one-woman show. Having studied North Indian classical vocals and sitar for over ten years in the United States and Delhi, India, she conjures a 21st century spell of sounds further influenced by ambient, noise, and minimal musics.  In 2005, she became a disciple (for sitar) of Dr. Anupam Mahajan of the Senia Ghurana.  A year later she graduated from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music with a bachelor’s degree in technology in music and related arts.

In 2005 and 2006, she completed two multimedia performance productions.  She directed, composed, and choreographed Unee Sau Churaasee, a one-act performance for video installation, music, and six dancers about the 1984 anti-Sikh riots of Delhi, India. She also created a performance about consumption in contemporary society entitled Reception, a show for viewer-interactive installation using MIDI sensors and five music video shorts.  Last year, shereleased a tour-only EP Because You Rained On Me, and she is currently working on a full-length album.

Ami is often thinking about Sikh spirituality and performance, how children become adults, the sounds of the body, hair, perceptions of the self and the other, translation of information, the public vs. the private, brown identities, beauty, otherness, and good beats.

Ball Movement 09, Baltimore Cup
A life size Foosball game 

created by:
Michael Benevento, and Andrew Liang

Project team:
Eamon Espey, Lisa Krause, John Bohl, Joana Kopczyk, Michael Carpenter, Krysten Watson, Miranda Pfeiffer, Matt Lohry, Jeff McGrath, Jeff Timlin, Emmanuel Nicolaidis, Stev Santillan, Adam Montegut, Erin Gleeson, and Madeline Poole, and Monique Crabb

Harnesses created by:
Risa Ono, Melanie Lester

Performers:
Harness Assistants:  Emmanuel Nicolaidis, Jeff Timlin, Krysten Watson, Risa Ono, Melanie Lester, Michael Carpenter, Miranda Pfeiffer, Joana Kopczyk

Ball Boys:  Matt Lohry, Mitchell Goodrich, John Bohl, Adam Montegut

MC: Jeff Mcgrath

Sound Effect/ DJ:  Stev Santillan, Martin Kasey.

Videographer/Photographer: Andy Shenker and Monique Crabb

    415 Worms

        ”and the little ones chewed on the bones oh…. the bones oh.”

Edward Knapp creates works in fiber, flame, glass, bone, paper, and pigment, together with harvested and found materials. His pieces are grounded in traditional forms and techniques, manifesting Vision in co-creation with Spirit. He has over 15 years of experience in the divinatory arts.

Emily C-D is is a Baltimore based artist and explorer. She is a discoverer of beauty in unexpected places and makes her art from what she finds around her. In addition to her extensive explorations of Baltimore’s most dilapidated neighborhoods, Emily has traveled to such far off places as Mexico, India, and Poland. Currently living the warehouse lifestyle in Charm City, she divides her time between drawing, dancing, drumming, biking, building, painting murals, and teaching after school art classes. Emily is a big believer in the power of combined effort and for Transmodern will collabo with Can Collective and Helicopter Dude.

Gary Kachadourian works for the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, sometimes curates exhibitions and is a working artist.

Gary Kachadourian will be selling a life-sized poster of a cinder block wall from a card table. This poster was created to enable the purchaser to alter his or her living space so that it may feel like a basement, institutional stairwell, laundromat, prison cell, back of shopping center, or other cinder block related space. The poster is a Xerox reproduction of a lovingly hand drawn rendition of a 4 x 5 foot section of wall.

Exploring the spaces between buildings and searching for moments of an invisible urban sublime: this is the work of Graham Coreil-Allen. Based out of the urbanized, rural village of Waverly, Baltimore, Coreil-Allen is an interventionist public artist interested in the constructs and contradictions of our built environment. Using urban analysis and research, Coreil-Allen develops projects that test the boundaries of pedestrian agency and investigate the negotiable nature of public space. His work includes temporary outdoor architectural installations, interactive service-based performances and a variety of fantastical and informative discursive maps. Whether creating crosswalks for jaywalkers, revealing hidden vistas, or helping people navigate their urban terrain, the artist always brings a sense of play and critical engagement to public space. Coreil-Allen hopes to cultivate fresh insights, engaged adventure, and democratic discourse by inviting participants to experience their everyday public realm in new and creative ways.

Raised along the Gulf Coast and most recently living and working in Brooklyn, the artist has shown with mack b, English Kills, and Pocket Utopia galleries, and has been featured in the Brooklyn Rail and the Village Voice. Coreil-Allen is now and MFA candidate at Maryland Institute College of Art.

Vagabond Kiosk

The Vagabond Kiosk will be temporary kiosk structure serving as an inverse gallery featuring readymade urban objects and sites around the H&H building. Three separate panels on the kiosk will include photos, descriptions about he found art, along with maps and brochures for participant explorers.

Hannah Brancato is an artist, craftsperson, designer and activist who believes in making and sustaining traditions through the community of art. Her work uses handmade textiles and crafts to re-evaluate the function of ornament in contemporary life. 

Brancato is an active participant in art and craft events in Baltimore City. She has curated shows and organized events at the Current Gallery and Load of Fun, in addition to exhibiting work at the Transmodern Festival and Gilah Press. She is currently a full-time Americorps volunteer at the House Of Ruth Maryland, where she is creating a Community Artist and Art + Craft Coordinator position (hruth.org).

Jewelry Making Station
Since 2008, I have volunteered through Community Art Corps/Americorps at House Of Ruth Maryland, a comprehensive domestic violence service and advocacy organization. In the agency’s emergency shelter, I am developing the infrastructure for a new Art + Craft Program. Working with staff, volunteers, and residents, I have launched an ongoing fundraiser called the Jewelry Project. Residents make and donate jewelry, which is then sold at craft fairs and in local businesses; proceeds go back to the program. Our workshops create a safe zone for dialogue about surviving domestic violence.  By giving women staying temporarily in the shelter power to raise funds for this program, they can give back to House Of Ruth while recreationally creating art.  The Jewelry Making Station will mirror these shelter-based workshops. Passersby will learn the process of creating jewelry, which they have the option of donating to the Jewelry Project. My intent is to spark a conversation about empowerment through craft; participants will give jewelry and leave with information.  

For more information about House Of Ruth, visit http://www.hruth.org.

For more information about Jewelry Project, http://thejewelryproject.blogspot.com

Hermonie is an Epistemological Liberal (sometimes things just happen. sometimes things just don’t happen). She is an Aries, born on the cusp of Pisces, in the year of the Ox. Her work is replete with the Specific, “I want to be here,” and she thrives on the Obvious, “I want you to be here with me.”

inside=outside

Jonathan Taube has exhibited nationally and has studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts in Louisiana, the Idyllwild Academy of the Arts in California, and is currently a junior at the Maryland Institute College of Art majoring in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a concentration in Curatorial Studies and Environmental Design. Taube’s works are an interaction with his environment and its social-political ecology. In the spring of 2008 he designed and directed the Baltimore Sweep Action Parade: Toward the Center for the exhibition, Beyond the Compass, Beyond the Square in Baltimore’s Mt. Vernon Place. In the fall of 2008 he created the fictional Invasive Species Containment Agency for his month long solo exhibition Detainees: Ailanthus Altissima at MICA’s Pinkard Gallery, where Taube comically portrayed detention officer of the common invasive “Ghetto Palm,” ascertaining the plants on frivolous charges and detaining them in the gallery. He has participated in George Ciscle’s Exhibition Development Seminar for two years with the recent opening of Follies Predicaments and Other Conundrums: the work of Laure Drogoul. Taube is currently studying the history of Urban Renewal and the historically segregated policies of Baltimore city.

I propose to initiate a new subdivision of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), tentatively called the Arts Right to Space Act of 2009 (ARSA) as a fictional attachment to the OMB Budget requirements of the Barack Obama Stimulus Package. The ARSA’s initiative is to creatively secure physical space in the urban environment for artful use. Participants will create applications under federal guidelines to have the right to enact artistic practices in Title 1 Art Slum Areas. An information office will be established at the H & H site to promote awareness of HUD’s ARSA. Real estate agents and property assessors will be available by appointment to share the opportunity for Artful Occupations. Participants may apply for artistic use permits and subsides. They will receive a tour of the area and have an opportunity to broker a Deed of Artistic Claim.

[coming soon]

“Lurch and Holler” is E. Liz Downing and Michael Willis.

Trying to save the world every weekend morning, they conjure healing vibrations by harmonizing with household appliances. They accompany these vibrations with banjo, guitar, and neighborhood sounds like trash trucks, birds, helicopters and such. Finally, “Lurch and Holler” sing, coo and growl words into the poultice which have lately been inspired by the Odyssey, Flannery O’Connor and Gertrude Stein. The resulting medicine is Appalachian Techno Psychedelia and not so far from “Lurch and Holler’s” origin, the Mystic Hillbillie Opera of the late trio, “Lambs Eat Ivy”.

Maria Vashakidze and Minna Nilanont’s crafty nights resulted in a lot of awesome products and two etsy shops. Worndress (worndress.etsy.com) is home to one of a kind jewelry, blank journals, prints and letterpress oddities while Sea Grape bath + body (seagrapesoap.etsy.com) houses lovely hand crafted spa quality products for body and soul.

For more information visit
Worndress.etsy.com
Seagrapesoap.etsy.com

Marla Parker, Elyza Brillantes, and Maria Duke are all Junior Fiber majors at the Maryland Institute College of Art. They delight in the fabulous and exciting.

Salon Matka
For the 2009 Transmodern Festival, Marla Parker, Elyza Brillantes, and Maria Duke propose opening a pseudo-salon called Salon Matka. The salon will be completely open to the air and feature a couch or some comfortable armchairs, table lamps, an area run, and some floor lamps. The girls will assume the characters of three biological Russian sisters even though none of them are either remotely Russian or remotely related. Each sister will have an appointed task to make visitors feel simultaneously welcome and slightly uncomfortable. By inviting passersby into their salon, the girls hope to place influence on the roles of femininity and maternity in the world today.

Meaghan Harrison b. 1981 Edina, MN. Harrison received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2002 and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008. She has participated in group and solo exhibitions since 2002. Most recently at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN; School 33 Baltimore, MD; the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE; Gallery Four, Baltimore, MD; and the Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. Harrison was awarded the MICA Graduate Fellowship Studio, 2008-09, at the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower and a Full-Fellowship Residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT; winter 2010. Her work has been featured in Urbanite Magazine, State of the Art, by J.W. Mahoney, contributing critic, Issue May 2006 and in the Target Corporate Collection. She currently resides in Baltimore, MD.

Trust
Trust, is a mobile nail salon constructed from an army parachute. Complete with everything required for a professional manicure. In the performance I invite one viewer at a time to enter a military parachute turned tent to receive a free manicure in exchange for conversation. This intimate experience creates a intimate space for viewer and artist to engage in conversation on sensitive topics such as globalism, racism, and environmentalism to the not so serious such as childhood memories, how their day was, cooking and family ancestry.

Melissa Webb is saturated colors and intricate textures and light and movement and wind and gravity today!

Her favorite color is green.

She enjoys long walks in dense forests, real fake things, ruffles, and fluttering tendrils.

Turn-ons and turn-offs: She tends to fancy open spaces and unassuming places, and wants to find ways to break free from the limitations of white gallery walls, pedestals, and stages.

In her spare time she likes to collaborate with good friends, creating eye-catching public spectacles, alternate realities, and thought-provoking, interactive experiences for human beings.

http://www.bakerartistawards.org/nomination/view/Missy

Neil Feather has been inventing and performing with experimental musical instruments since 1970. His instrument are qualitative machines that produce scary and funny sounds to construct a music that is as unlikely as it is beautiful.

Sarada Conaway is an artist and independent curator working in Baltimore MD. Her work focuses on removing boundaries between everyday life and art. Her current body of work is a large-scale collaboration with residents of standard apartment buildings. Ms. Conaway received her BFA from the Tyler College of Art and is recent graduate of the University of Maryland MFA program.

Jackie Milad is an artist who works with drawing, performance art and installation, and often creates projects that brings these disciplines together. Her projects explore the awkward moments shared between people. She has exhibited internationally and nationally in such places such as The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Gallery 32 as part of the London Biennale, Delaware Center of Contemporary Art in Wilmington, Museum of Fine Arts in Mazatlan, Mexico and Galeria de Jovenes in Culiacan, Mexico. In 2005 she earned her MFA from Towson University, and in 2000 she received her BFA from Tufts University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts. In 1998, Ms. Milad studied painting at the Studio Arts Center International in Florence Italy. She is currently Program Coordinator for the Union Gallery at University of Maryland, College Park.

Make-Over
Sarada Conaway and Jackie Milad will offer free makeovers to self selected volunteers. Participants will receive a before, in-between and after photograph. Milad’s in-between makeovers will resemble her current series of portrait drawings; awkward, empathetic and humorous. Conaway’s makeovers create an altered appearance, and an unusual social interaction.

Shana Palmer was implanted into the valley’s surrounding the Superstition Mountains.

She is an unapologetic sensualist with a taste for surrealist animal paintings.

With the guidance of the woodland deer spirits she creates hauntingly beautiful music under the guise of Child Bride.

She would like to have you for dinner.

Nick Becker spends most of his days writing Artist Bios for Artists such as Nick Becker. Nick Becker is writing an Artist Bio for Nick Becker right now. Nick Becker spends the rest of his time learning how to make medicine from native plants and storing deer meat in preparation for 2012. Nick Becker makes a living as a psychedelic guinea pig at Johns Hopkins University. Nick Becker is not separate from you or I. Nick Becker is that there is no Nick Becker.

Smelling Salt Amusements is Heather Romney and Peter Redgrave. They are educators by trade and entertainers by whim. Please visit smellingsaltamusements.org for more information.

“Apologies by Proxy”

Sit down for 3 minutes (egg timer) and tell us a story of an event for which you feel you are owed an apology. Spoon sketches you & your tale, Lee & Spoon listen patiently & then your much overdue apology is given. Next customer please!

Spoon Popkin received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Glasgow School of Art and the Chautauqua Institute for Performing Arts. Solo exhibitions include Goucher College (Baltimore, MD), The Lee Nagrin Workshop (NY, NY),  The Kunstlerhaus (Salzburg, Austria), RGB Gallery (NY, NY), The Garfield Artworks (Pittsburgh, PA) and the International Festival of Women in the Arts (Glasgow, Scotland). She has received awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and the CityArts Individual Artist Award in Visual Arts.