Howard Street Mural Opening

Josh Van Horne

As part of the 2011 Transmodern festival, 8 new murals are being added to the unoccupied, city-owned, dilapidated storefronts on the 400 block of Howard street.... At least Baltimore is doing THAT with them...

The opening for the murals by artists Caitlin Cunningham, Gary Kachadourian, Jordan Bernier, Josh Van Horne, Emily C-D, and Shana Palmer is tonight at 9pm - 11pm.  Preview them here:

Josh Van Horne

Jordan Bernier

Shaun Flynn's mural which has held down the Howard St block for years (left) its new neighbor by Jordan Bernier (right)

Caitlin Cunningham

Caitlin Cunningham

Gary Kachadourian installing his mural

Bike Galleries by Dustin Carlson, Premiering @ Artscape, next stop: MIAMI!

Dustin Carlson fabricated three bike-trailor galleries which debuted at Artscape this past weekend. Ridden by Dustin, Brendan Rush and Gary Kachadourian, the project will be perfected and brought down to Miami during Basel in December!

Alex Ebstein's letter drawings

Brendan pulling Gary's piece

Median Sculptures

Artscape sculptures on pedestals for the Mt Royal Ave median

Marty Weishaar

Michael Farley

Pink bunny!!

Inside of Mike Farley's piece

Trish Tillman

Jeremy Roundtree

Patrick McDonough

Load Of Graffiti

Karly Fae Hansen (left), whose official title at Load of Fun is "Minion of Fun," put together this year's Load of Graffiti, an annual party/revamping of the alley way behind the gallery. In the past, Load of Fun has butted heads with the city over its right to graffiti in the space, due to its likelihood to inspire additional artists to "deface" other properties in the area - but this year, the gallery was given the conditional "go-ahead."

Hansen gathered her group of artists through some extensive internet outreach. By posting her photos from this event in years past, Karly has accumulated a group of graffiti artists/friends, some of whom traveled from Pennsylvania to contribute to the project.
Many of the artists started their pieces on Friday afternoon, but were forced to throw down their cans on account of the rain, so there was still plenty of action in the alley way during the reception on Saturday evening.
To see more photos from this year's Load of Graffiti, or from past Loads of Graffiti, you can check out Karly's flickr album.
Stop by and check out the new art behind 120 W North Ave, and please kids, don't tag the Station North area outside the alley, or we might lose this exciting, outdoor-art institution.