The Frog Prince and Jack and the Beanstalk @ the Black Cherry Puppet Theater

Wondering what to do with your kids between Christmas and New Years? Bring them to Black Cherry! Come celebrate the close of a phenomenal year with something old and something new! Starting with the marionette classic "The Frog Prince!" on Monday and then on Wednesday "Jack and the Beanstalk".

Monday, December 28, 2009
THE FROG PRINCE
Doors at noon, show at 1 pm
$5

Wednesday, December 30, 2009
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
Doors at noon, show at 1 pm
$5


There will be bags of popcorn for sale (only a quarter), mulled cider, and other treats. And tickets are only 5 bucks!

It will be FUUUUNNNNNN!

Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins St. Baltimore MD 21223

Fountain Art Fair in Miami

Better late than never.....Fountain fair, which still has yet to be taken very seriously, contained some cool/interesting highlights in and among the lowbrow and/or sloppy work. Under-attended during its normal hours, and scaring off the more conservative art collectors, what with the ramshackle sauna full of naked Scandinavian men in the front yard (sorry, no photos), the fair still revels in its "avant-garde" reputation. Here's the good stuff:

Alex Lukas' awesome screenprints at Glowlab

Don Porchella

Sara Nightingale Gallery's booth above and below

Christian Little above and below

MATSUKAZE @ the LOF/T

Matsukaze by Kan'ami

A reevisioning of a classic Japanese Noh Theatre piece through a collaborative and experimental process.
It is a story of a zen priest who discovers the souls of two deceased girls, Matsukaze and Murasame, forever waiting for their lost love on the shore.

An ancient Japanese play brought to life with a hodge-podge of
Baltimore artists including:
Ayako Kataoka,
Kaitlin Murphy,
Sam Shea,
Savannah Reich,
Conner Kizer,
Adam Endres,
Ami Dang,
Katrina Ford,
Peter Blasser,
Carson Garhart,
Dan Breen,
Paul Neidhardt.

With direction by Walker Teret, Justin Durel and Evan Moritz.
Designed by Sarah Fask.
December 17, 18 and 19th 8pm LOF/T
$uggested

Heady Mugs Opens @ Nudashank

Jessie and Annie

Robby Rackleff and Jordan Bernier

Lesser Gonzalez

Caitlin Cunningham

Benjamin Edmiston and Anne

Shaun Flynn

Lora and Michael

Cara and Victoria

Christian Herr

Virginia and Emanuel

David Ubias

Cullen

Sean

Sheena and Bethany

Ryan Browning

Lora

Alex Ebstein and D'Metrius Rice

Seth and Jimmy

John

More photos on the Bmore Art blog

Last Minute Stockin Stuffa Sale @ the H&H!!!

Easter Rabbit Book Release Party and More Than Words gallery exhibition @ Hexagon

The Hexagon and Publishing Genius Press present: Easter Rabbit Book Release Party and More Than Words gallery exhibition.
December 12th, 2009 to January 3, 2010.
Opening Reception and Release Party: December 12 starting at 7pm

Baltimore author Joseph Young is celebrating the release of his book of microfictions, Easter Rabbit, by bringing together a diverse team of musicians, performers, and visual artists to add their vision to the book’s stories.

Easter Rabbit, published by local small press Publishing Genius, comprises 86 extremely short stories, with some stories as short as 17 words. At the release party, a team of actors will dramatize several of the stories, while a group of painters and other artists will show work inspired by the book. Local band Sweatpants will be on hand to play music composed especially for the event.

Artists included in the exhibition are Lauren Boilini, Graham Coreil-Allen, Kathy Fahey, Luca DiPierro, Paul Jeanes, Magnolia Laurie, and Easter Rabbit cover artist Christine Sajecki. Actors are Linda Franklin and Caleb Stine, directed by Nancy Murray. Sweatpants is Adam Robinson, Jamie Gaughran-Perez, and David NeSmith.

Opening tonight @ charles theatre workers art wall

Charles Theatre Workers Art Wall
Opening Reception:
Thursday, December 10 from 7-9 pm

Aqua Wynwood 2009 (MIAMI)

Paul Wackers

Aqua 2009 was a little disappointing to those of us who loved the awesome, illustration/West Coast aesthetic of the 2008 fair. This year, Wynwood had to hold it down for the Aqua establishment, as Aqua Hotel did not take place. Leaving many of its previous participants without an affordable option for exhibiting, Aqua's quality of work fell drastically, shifting from the psychedelic to the low brow/Juxtapoz genres. Gross. Thankfully, Elenor Harwood and Michael Rosenthal galleries kept it real with some Paul Wackers paintings (@ EH's booth) and new Megan Whitmarsh pieces (@ MR). Below are pix of the good, the bad and/or the noteworthy:

Paul Wackers

Paul Wackers

Barry McGee

Dean Monogenis

Michael Bizon

Iris Schieferstein

detail

A Sidney Pink over a creepy glass sculpture

This is rad, it had no label but I liked it

Old Laylah Ali piece

Yuhi Hasegawa

grossy new goth/lowbrow work

seriously?

Paul Oberst

Nick Kuszyk

James Benjamin Franklin

Megan Whitmarsh above and three below

Cara Ober!!

Ginette LaPalme above and below

Andrew Wilson. This drawing rules.

Kyle Field. I love Kyle Field, but these are not my fav.

More gross art

A.J. Fosik

This was pretty funny

eh.