Maryland Art Place at Power Plant Live
8 Market Place, Suite 100, Baltimore, MD 21202
mdartplace.org • 410-962-8565
Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee (BRSCC) invites you to visit this special exhibition. It opens May 9 at 6pm with a gallery talk & reception and runs until June 22.
Oasis Places centers around the unique ways in which a work of art can create a sense of place, whether through contemplative reflection, or interactive, viewer-participatory involvement. The “oasis” that each artist provides in their work creates a place where viewers can meet, discuss, and interact, or individually contemplate to fully activate each piece. Oasis Places builds upon the curators’ interests as an artist and curator concerned with the misinterpretation of mapped spaces by designing an exhibition around the ephemeral conditions that help to define what might be considered a place versus a space.
Steve Bradley and Nicole King have collaborated on a work based on their activities with the Brooklyn-Curtis Bay (Baybrook) community of Baltimore. This neighborhood is the subject of a Baltimore-Rotterdam art exchange with a parallel neighborhood in Rotterdam called Heijplaat
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About Bradley and King’s work
Professors Steve Bradley and Nicole King from UMBC have been working with the community in the Brooklyn-Curtis Bay (Baybrook) area of Baltimore and mapping its cultural history in a project called MappingBaybrook. Their contribution to the Oasis Places exhibition draws on their experiences with this community.
mapping Baybrook
From community building to chemical dumping, the industrial urban landscape holds stories and artifacts of the wonders and the horrors of the history of the United States of
America.
“Mapping Baybrook” is a collaborative and interdisciplinary exploration of place that blends digital mapping technologies with research into the history and culture of an industrial community in Maryland referred to as Baybrook—a merging of the names of two neighborhoods Brooklyn and Curtis Bay. This community is a mix of diverse but connected neighborhoods located along the southeast coastline of Baltimore City. The Greater Baybrook area includes the past and present neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Curtis Bay, Fairfield, Hawkin’s Point, Masonville, and Wagner’s Point.
A key objective of “Mapping Baybrook” is to document and preserve a sense of place and memory within this small harbor community cut off from downtown Baltimore by the Patapsco River. The project interprets the changes that have occurred in this overlooked but historic community throughout the arc of American industrialization.
