This Weekend

5.8.09
Maryland Film Festival @ The Charles Theater, MICA & UB Student Center
The film festival will be going on all weekend, featuring a number of shorts programs and a few promising feature length films
*John Waters' 2009 pick! Love Songs (dir. Christophe Honoré)A Maryland Film Festival tradition! For the 11th straight MFF, Baltimore's own John Waters has chosen a film he'd like to share with unsuspecting audiences -- this year selecting Christophe Honoré's (bi-)sexually charged French musical Love Songs.
www.mdfilmfest.com

5.9.09
During the day...
Squidfire's 2009 Spring ArtMart in Mt. Vernon Square Park
Join over 50 of the best local and regional crafters and artists as they display their handmade wares in the most beautiful park in the city. The event goes on rain or shine. See you there!
Saturday May 9, 11-6pm

Mt. Vernon Square (Between Charles and Cathedral Streets)
Baltimore, MD 21201


23rd Annual Critic's Residency Program at Maryland Art Place
Artists participating in the 23rd Annual Critics’ Residency program include: Ken D. Ashton, Jessie Boyko, Dottie Campbell, Bernhard Hildebrandt, Gil Jawetz, Bonnie Crawford Kotula, Kim Manfredi, and Lynn Rybicki.
A public forum intended to address important issues relating to contemporary art on both a regional and national level is scheduled for Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 2 pm. This free event, which will include program participants, will be moderated by WYPR’s Aaron Henkin and will be followed by a reception at 3:30 pm.

Maryland Art Place
Power Plant Live!
8 Market Place, Suite 100,
Baltimore, Maryland 21202

and all night...
Rectified at Gallery Four
Gallery Four, an independent exhibition space in Downtown Baltimore, features work from four artists from New York, Wilmington, and Baltimore. This newly renovated 4,000 sq. ft. gallery features Xerox enlarged drawings by Gary Kachadourian, new sculpture and installations by Julianna Dail and Ron Longsdorf, and works on paper by Jackie Milad.
Exhibition Dates: May 9- June 13, 2009
Openng Reception: May 9, 2009 5-10pm

Gallery Four
H & H Building
405 West Franklin St. 4th Fl.
Baltimore, MD 21201
www.galleryfour.net


Rebound: Rudy Shepard and Valesk Populoh at Paperwork Gallery
Exhibition Dates: May 9- June 20, 2009
Opening Reception: May 9, 2009 7-9 pm

Paperwork Gallery
107 E. Preston St.
Baltimore, MD 21217
www.paperworkgallery.com


MASKED at School 33
Masked is an exploration of work about concealment, secrets, self-conscious and social constructions of identity which ultimately reveal a new face –a brilliant corona of strength, integrity and courage. Each work is a performance piece of sorts; the artists have used their own bodies or their own biographies to very directly create a presence that suggests a story or a secret. However, rather than being a study in psychology or narrative, where one might work to discover that secret, this assembly is exciting in that even while experiencing the powerfully posited content on the surface, we know that there is an equally powerfully complex internal life.
Participating artists include: Dawn Black, Iona Rozeal Brown, Lynden Cline, Bailey Doogan, Susan Fenton, Inga Frick, J.J. McCracken, Ledelle Moe, Elsa Mora, Elena Patino, Phyllis Plattner, and Athena Tacha.
Curated by Joan Weber
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 9 6-9pm

School 33
1427 Light Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21230
www.school33.org