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ENRICHMENT TEACHER

Wednesday, October 30th,
Noon – 1:00 PM
Location: TBA
Free event, catered

Elissa Blount Moorhead is an artist and producer exploring the poetics of quotidian Black life, to emphasize gestural dialectics of quiet domesticity and community building. She dwells in both immutable Black culture and the impermanence of its physical manifestations. Moorhead has created public art, exhibitions, and cultural programs for the last 25 years. She is currently a principal partner at TNEG film studios, with Arthur Jafa and Malik Sayeed. TNEG asserts that a cinema calibrated to the cultural, socioeconomic, and existential particulars of Black being is not only possible but inescapably the way forward toward a viable Black cinema. Moorhead co-founded Red Clay Arts in NYC. She has co-produced and curated over 20 exhibitions and multimedia projects including Random Occurrences; Cat Calls (Street Harassment project); Practicum; FunkGodJazzMedicine; and Art in Odd Places. She was awarded the USA Artist Fellowship in (2018), Saul Zaentz Innovation Fellowship (2017), Ford Foundation /Just Films/Rockwood Fellowship (2017) and Ruby Award (2016) Creative Capital (2019) Baker Award winner (2019). She is currently producing a documentary film on Gil Scott Heron and a AR/projection installation called As of A Now. She is the author of P is for Pussy, an illustrated “children’s” book and is featured in the new anthology How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance released in March 2019. Her upcoming film, Back and Song co-directed with Bradford Young will premiere at the Philadelphia Contemporary in October 2019.

IMET - CIRCA Panel of Visual Artists and Marine Biologists
Art and Science Collaborations on Climate Justice for a Living Ocean
Friday, September 27, Noon – 2:00 PM
Location: PAHB 428
Free: catered event

Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, 
with Adam Holofcener, Esq
Wednesday, September 25, Noon – 1:00 PM
Location: Fine Arts 558
Free: catered event

Talk description: 

Much to the chagrin of artists, there are legal implications to making creative work. This applies to amateurs and professionals alike in all mediums of expression. The minute that you put paint to canvas, or sine wave to hard drive, or light to celluloid, copyright gets involved. This can be a good thing because copyright strengthens your ability to protect and profit from your creative expressions. Similarly, whenever you collaborate with other artists, get a commission from a patron, or take on some independent contractor work, an oral or written contract is likely lurking around the corner. Contracts help humans figure out exactly what their wants, needs, and expectations are for any particular scenario. During this talk, we will cover introductory legal issues related to copyright and contracts, and we will discuss how these two areas of the law relate to your work as an artist.

Bio: 

Adam Holofcener, Esq. is the Executive Director of Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, a non-profit organization that provides pro bono legal services and education to Maryland based artists and arts organizations.  In his legal practice, Adam counsels artists and musicians on matters of copyright, trademark, contract, business entity formation, constitutional law, and other issues.  He teaches a seminar on Art and Media Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.  Adam is also a practicing musician and sound artist.  Information related to his creative endeavors can be found at www.adamgholofcener.com.  He is a dad who lives in Baltimore City, USA.

CIRCA Presents: April Danielle Lewis, Artist’s Lecture

Date: September 16th, Noon – 1:30 PM
Location Dresher Center Conference Room PAHB 216
Free: catered event

April Danielle Lewis’ recent interventions, performances, installations and experiences have situated Baltimore at the center of dialogs around history, place, and identity sharpened with a social justice and community building lens.

Bio: April Danielle Lewis is an artist, visionary, and community cultivator.

Derived from a printmaking background, her performances and interventions often involve working in multiples, repetitive actions and building a framework that allows for works and performances to naturally evolve. Her work collaborates and invites her audience to be participants in engaging and building community.

Lewis earned a degree in art and design with a concentration in printmaking from Towson University and an Associate of Arts degree in visual art from Anne Arundel Community College. She serves as the Membership Manager at Open Works, a non-profit makerspace that makes tools, technology and the knowledge to use them accessible to all, volunteers as librarian at the Station North Tool Library and serves on the board of directors at Neighborhood Housing Services Baltimore. April lives and works in Baltimore.