CREATIVE PROCESS

From Lynn Tomlinson, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Media & Film:

This fall semester the process artwork behind my animated films The Elephant’s Song and The Ballad of Holland Island House, as well as a small-scale projection of Aqua Dome, the collaborative animated installation piece created for TU’s Watson King Planetarium and funded by CoLAB, will be on display as part of this show at the Park School of Baltimore. The opening is Thursday, September 26, 4:30-7. Janna Rice is Park School’s Exhibitions Educator as well as a TU Studio Art MFA alumna.

Artwork Left to Right: Chris Bathgate, Greg Minah, Lynn Tomlinson, Firaxis Games.Images courtesy of the Artists.

CREATIVE PROCESS

September 26–December 6, 2019 | Reception: Thursday, September 26, 4:30–7 pm.

Chris Bathgate, Firaxis Games, Greg Minah, Lynn Tomlinson, and Park School Students

This show examines how we explore, develop, and illuminate ideas. It features the work of several local artists whose work is process oriented, and will also include the work of Park School Students.

Chris Bathgate is a self-trained machinist. He utilizes handmade tools and automated CNC (computer numerical control) milling and drilling machines to create precisely-crafted elements that assemble into complex sculptures.

The Artists of Firaxis Games (a game developer based in Hunt Valley, MD) will be featuring the work of several of their artists. They will share with us how they develop images and sounds in order to bring their games to life on screen.

Greg Minah grew up in Columbia, Maryland and graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park with degrees in English Literature and Studio Art. He creates vibrant action paintings full of fluid, exuberant motion.

Using a tactile clay-on-glass technique, Lynn Tomlinson creates poignant short films that investigate environmental and historical stories told from unusual points-of-view.

The exhibition will also feature the work of Park School Students in Core 9 Science in the Library Gallery.

The Monument Quilt

After 6 years of organizing, and after 49 displays in 33 cities across the US and Mexico, the culminating display of the Monument Quilt is set for May 31 – June 2, 2019, on the National Mall in Washington, DC, between 12th and 14th St. This will be the only time that the quilt will be viewed in its entirety.

The Monument Quilt, a project of Baltimore based FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, is a collection of over 3,000 stories by survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence and our allies, written, painted, and stitched onto red fabric. Our stories literally blanket highly public, outdoor places to create and demand space to heal, and resist a singular narrative about sexual violence.  Learn more: themonumentquilt.org

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Monument Quilt, 2019

The NAMES Project and the Monument Quilt: Public Rituals For Grief

Dr. Kalima Young

Hosted by the The Textile Museum | Main Stage at 10:30am-12pm | Featuring Dr. Kalima Young and Julie Rhoad, President and CEO of the Names Project Foundation

On Saturday, June 1, 2019 Towson University faculty member from the Department of Electronic Media and Film, Dr. Kalima Young, will head to the main stage on the National Mall. Dr. Kalima Young and the President and CEO of the NAMES Project Foundation, Julie Rhoad, will discuss this history and current presence of the NAMES Project, the current state of AIDS activism, and the ways in which the Monument Quilt honors this legacy, by intervening in oppressive and silencing responses to sexual and intimate partner violence, with a focus on LGBTQ survivors and survivors of color. The Monument Quilt owes its existence to the NAMES Project, an ongoing ritual for grief for those lost to AIDS. Founded in 1985, the NAMES Project intervenes in the homophobic response to AIDS in the US, and created a platform for loved ones to grieve their loss. Read more from Dr. Kalima Young: Monument Quilt History Series: Kalima Young

AIDS quilt, 1987