FRI MAY 3 ǀ 5-9 PM
Join us for the May Art Walk with over a dozen venues featuring live music, art demos, drink specials, tasty eats and more! Explore our unique array of shops, galleries, landmarks and murals on a self-guided walking tour.
Each month will feature a different theme. The theme for May is “MARIACHI!”
SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT:
Mariachi Fiesta
418 S. Conkling St
5-9pm
Celebrate the transformation of one of our favorite Highlandtown alleys into a party filled with art, music, dance and more…including:
-Live Mariachi Band
-Outdoor dining
-Traditional art making with Artesanas Mexicanas
-Games and activities including face painting!
-Traditional Dance
-Drink & Food specials from Filippo’s Restaurant & Carlos O’ Charlies
DANCE SCHEDULE
5:30pm Jovenes en Accion
6:00pm Danza Alegria
7:00pm Naciones Unidas
7:30pm Juventud Latina
RAIN PLAN: The event is rain or shine. If it pours, we’ll move the festivities inside Carlos O’ Charlie’s (3508 Eastern Ave).
ART WALK VENUES & DETAILS:
Y:ART Gallery & Fine Gifts
3402 Gough St
Best Gallery 2018 || Best East-Side Art Space 2017, Baltimore Magazine
In the Gallery: Ruth Pettus Solo Exhibition
Highlandtown Gallery
248 S. Conkling St, Gallery A
Opening of “Dick Brown: A Retrospective” featuring spiritual mosaics, early works, recent paintings and sculptures.
Live Music by Petrichor
Zwiebach Creations Gallery
248 S. Conkling St, Gallery B
Featuring the one of a kind work by artist Debbie Lynn Zwiebach and second site of “Dick Brown: A Retrospective” highlighting his mixed media and paintsaics.
Night Owl Gallery
248 S. Conkling St, Gallery C
Join us for light refreshments!
Inside: Two-Person Show: Portraits by Dick Brown and Beth-Ann Wilson
Outside: LIVE painting demo with renowned pop-artist Mowgli (weather permitting)
The Laughing Pint
3531 Gough St
Catch the last night of the show: Anthropocene Scenes: Herring Run, a mother/daughter art collaboration of Jordan and Delilah Tierney.
$5 greyhound drink special & kitchen is open until 10:30pm.
Colby’s Clothesmobile Garage
3522-A Bank St (entrance on Conkling St)
Colby’s Clothesmobile has added a brick and mortar shop in Highlandtown with men and women’s vintage clothing and accessories. Tonight explore her vintage playboy magazine collection from the 1970’s through the 1990’s.
The Pop-Up Studio @ 3522
3522 Bank Street 1st Floor (Bank & Conkling)
The Pop-Up @3522 presents: From the Hands of Justin Johnson and Lorraine Imwold.
Justin Johnson of Faces by JJ will be onsite creating live caricatures. His display will feature a collection of his artwork and limited prints for sale. Lorraine Imwold will show off her scenic painting skill with an expansive new theatrical backdrop. Exhibit curated by House of Bankerd and Guerrilla Theatre Front
RoofTop Hot
339 S. Conkling St
Featuring pottery and ceramics by local artists Monica Broere and Dennis Moore.
Rust-N-Shine [Special First Friday Opening]
410 S. Conkling St
Rust-N-Shine Presents An Evening of Vintage Smut
We’re baaack and SMUTTIER. THAN. EVER!
Join us Friday, May 3rd, as we read from Leslie Waller’s 1951 “The Bed She Made”.
Reading at 6:30 p.m. Vintage, retro, and handmade treasures on sale from 5-9 p.m.
(Only open from 5-9 p.m. during Highlandtown’s First Friday Art Walks)
Filippo’s Restaurant & Lounge featuring *Live Street Art Demos in the adjacent alley
418 S. Conkling St (and through to 417 S. Highland Ave)
Live entertainment and art. Drink specials available inside Filippo’s Lounge.
Southeast Baltimore native Adam Stab assembles a rotating crew of street artists on Highlandtown’s Mural Alley Walkway. See new paintings created LIVE every First Friday!
*Weather permitting.
PEAK Performance Training
512 S. Conkling St
Retrospective print show with Mowgli.
Charm City Hair Studio
518 S. Conkling St
Sasha Hawes is the ‘hands’ behind hand embroidery shop little sounds where she is currently exploring the significance of making, and the power of touch, in an increasingly digital and hands-free world.
Creative Alliance
3134 Eastern Ave
Marquee Lounge: Bar open starting at 5pm
Main Gallery: Opening Reception of “The Book Club Tryouts”
Amalie Rothschild Gallery: Louie’s Bookstore and Café: Back on the Wall
Theater: 8pm Hots Bits: A Queer Erotic Short Film & Arts Festival ($)
Roll Ice Cream & Coffee
3222 Eastern Ave
Come experience the culinary art of rolled ice cream. All our ice cream is made to order right in front of you. We take it from liquid to solid in less than 3 minutes.
Off the Rox
3232-A Eastern Ave
Featuring artful tasting on the First Friday Art Walk.
Snake Hill Tavern
418 S. Clinton St
Colors + Patterns by Nicole Johnson
Happy Hour until 7pm
Kitchen Open until 11pm
Springsteen Gallery
422 S. Highland Ave
Info coming soon!
Ideals of Highlandtown
3319 Eastern Ave
Stop in for a refreshment and the unique wood furniture pieces at this home goods shop.
Yellow Arrow Publishing Presents:
Highlandtown Art Walk Writer-in-Residence
The writer-in-residence for April, May and June 2019 will be Kerry Graham.
This January Kerry launched a weekly collaborative newsletter with the intention of creating a space where people of diverse backgrounds, with various worldviews, could acknowledge the number of experiences and reactions we have in common. She is also in the process of writing a book: a collection of vignettes (actual moments crafted into micro or flash narratives) about the students to whom she teaches high school English.
To read Kerry’s April write up, click here.
Presented by Highlandtown Arts & Entertainment District in partnership with Highlandtown Main Street.
Highlandtown is a designated Arts & Entertainment District. For more information visit Highlandtown Arts & Entertainment District
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