FRI JUN 7 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 June is PRIDE!
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: Work by talented contemporary artists Kenneth Hilker and Joseph A. Corcoran.
Highlandtown Gallery
248 S. Conkling St, Gallery A
Celebrate “Dick Brown: A Retrospective” featuring spiritual mosaics, early works, recent paintings and sculptures.
Live music by Joe Michael-Schwartz from 6-8pm
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 as we celebrate Pride Month! We’ll have free Pride stickers and flags!
Inside: Two-Person Show: Portraits by Dick Brown and Beth-Ann Wilson
Outside: LIVE fluid acrylic painting demo with Anna Myers + acoustic guitar by Rob Myers!
The Laughing Pint
3531 Gough St
Remembering How To Fly. New Work By Martha Simons
$5 greyhound drink special & kitchen is open until 10:30pm.
The Pop-Up Studio @ 3522
3522 Bank Street 1st Floor (Bank & Conkling)
The Pop-Up @3522 presents: “Celebration Born from Protest “
Celebrate Pride with Rosalie Eck, a queer artist and educator living in Charles Village, Baltimore. Her eye catching paintings and sculptural work showcase the world through fresh new eyes.
Also a curated exhibit of costumes from GTF’s upcoming production of “Hair” will be on display
Come by the Pop-up for details about this musical outdoor immersive experience happening 6/21 & 6/22.
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, June 7th, as we read from Gwynne Wimberly’s 1960 “One Touch of Ecstasy”.
Reading at 7 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.
Creative Alliance
3134 Eastern Ave
Marquee Lounge: Happy Hour with the Goldern Girls 5-8pm
It’s happy hour with the Golden Girls! No, they won’t really be here but we can pretend they are! Watch old episodes, enjoy cocktails, listen to fun tunes, make a badge to show what you love most about yourself, and celebrate PRIDE month with us!
Main Gallery: Opening Reception of “The Book Club Tryouts”
Amalie Rothschild Gallery: Amy Boone-McCreesh: More or Less
Kid’s Corner Gallery: OZ Open Minds Finale
Theater: 8pm Nick and Luke + Tongue N’ Cheek Jazz Band ($)
Roll Ice Cream & Coffee
3222 Eastern Ave
See the new mural inside Roll Ice Cream & Coffee by José Vigo. 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
A Closer Look
Photography by Jim McPherson & Ohio-based Anne Meike
Happy Hour until 7pm
Kitchen Open until 11pm
Springsteen Gallery
422 S. Highland Ave
Book of Flowers by RYAN SYRELL
On view through JULY 27, 2019
Night equalizes, it de-centers, and affirms that we are unstable and floating; unmoored from constructed time. It encourages wild oscillations between anxiety and ecstasy. A sense of porosity is amplified as sensation, perception, and memory wash together in nocturnal space.
The paintings in Book of Flowers are a suite of nocturnes; they begin at the moment of sunset and progress into night. This exhibition continues Syrell’s investigations into the affect of color and collapse of space as memory. Employing strategies of overwhelming scale and saturated palettes, each paintings’ intensity and restlessness become their own act within a play, scene within a film, or song on a record.
Night becomes the central subject of the work, directing the psyche of its inhabitants and its observers. Depicted are lived-in rooms, interiors full of material life both ephemeral and urgent. Screens access virtual spaces and windows offer portals to elsewhere while reflecting immediate surroundings. Cut flowers and vestiges of limbs haunt, while each element doubles as a barrier and an opening.
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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