JUNE 30, 2022
THE LIVING ROOM
Location:
the Garage at R.House
301 West 29th Street Baltimore, MD 21211
Date and time
Thu, June 30, 2022, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
What we did!
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1. Communal dining.
We started the night with our gluten-free Lebanese inspired dish prepared by our resident chef Jeff Lyons.
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2. Art auction.
We hosted a fun silent art auction with local Baltimore artist. (5 total pieces of artwork was sold!)
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3. Bingo.
We ended the night with a fun themed throwback hip-hop & pop bingo game. We put everyone’s 2000s knowledge too the test and gave out prizes from Canton Kayak Club, Lation Outdoors, and B.Willow!
Similar to the ideals of Emerson in our communal space let’s all get comfortable in our uncomfortableness together.
Artists
We sold 5 pieces of artwork! Contact an artist if you would like to purchase a print or an original.
Bria Sterling-Wilson
“Free Roaming” | Collage (Print Edition of 7) | 20x20 | 2020
Bria Sterling-Wilson is a photographer and collage artist from Baltimore, Maryland. She received her B.F.A in Photography and Digital Arts from Towson University, Towson, MD in 2021. Sterling-Wilson uses found imagery, magazines, newspaper, and fabrics to construct alluring scenes, portraits, and interiors to express the black experience. Sterling-Wilson has exhibited in Brooklyn, New York, Los Angles, California, Washington, D.C, Rehoboth, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland. Sterling-Wilson was awarded Young Artist recipient for the Trawick Prize Exhibition in 2020 and received 1st place in the 6th Rehoboth Art League Regional Juried Photography Exhibition in 2021. Sterling-Wilson's collage works are featured in Black Collagists: The Book by Teri Henderson and the cover art for Marcus Board Jr's Invisible Weapons: Infiltrating Resistance and Defeating Movements.
Sold for $525
Yewande K Davis
“Miss sue from alabama, her real name Suzianna” | 8x10
Yewande Kotun Davis is a Nigerian American artist based in Baltimore, Maryland. She grew up heavily involved in the arts, and ultimately chose visual art as her way of communing with the world. Yewande uses art, design, and storytelling as vehicles for self-care and community care. She currently works from her home studio and has exhibited in Baltimore, Washington, DC, Hermosa Beach, California, and Atlanta.
Sold for $125
Book Karnjanakit
“Sunday Afternoon” | Mixed Media | 11x14 | 2019
Book Karnjanakit, aka Koobta (She/They), is a cartoonist and illustrator originally from Bangkok, now living in Baltimore. Her frequently used media include watercolor, pencil color, collage, and digital. Every day she is still learning and unlearning about gender, sexuality, social justice, and cultural differences. Her free time is often spent watching birds, thinking silly thoughts, exploring the city, and eating yummy food.
“The Legendary Snailies” | Silk Screened | 12x16 | 2020
Sold for $50
Christina Delago
“An Offering” | Color digital photo on matte paper | 22x30 | 2014
Christina Delgado became a photographer and an artist later in life. Her experience started as a hobby; then became a profession and her reason for wanting to become a teacher early in her career. She has been an educator, a photographer, community advocate, and culture worker for well over 17 years. She is the founder of Tola’s Room, a collective of the arts, community, & education located in NE Baltimore. This space educates and influences using art, culture, and community organizing, while also serving as the only Puerto Rican cultural hub in Baltimore City. She is currently on the Maryland State Arts Council Artist-in-Resident Roster and works with Arts for Learning Maryland as an arts equity advisor, mentor, and Teaching Artist. She also serves in the Community Advocacy Position on the Board of the Environmental Control Board for Baltimore City. Christina is deeply invested in issues of diversity, equity, and art empowerment, upholding the mindset that these issues are a collective responsibility and thus require engagement and action.
Déjà
“BLACK & BLUE” | 24x24
From a young age, Déjà has always had a passion for the arts. Throughout her adolescence, she was introduced to the professional arts community. Obtaining the knowledge from her visual arts and stage design classes gave her the foundation needed to grow within her many crafts, thus allowing her to open up through other forms of art and design. Déjà’s process contains integrations of multiple media such as - abstract and contemporary art, lighting design, audio, sound design, and set/ installation design to create a conceptual piece and an open experience. She is constantly experimenting with all forms of media, texture, and acrylics to allow the paintings to come together as one whole picture. She believes her paintings emphasize chaos because what is depicted in the paintings is unpredictable, disorderly, and formless. This is something Déjà chooses to embrace, not within her paintings but herself.
Villager
“cows they're domesticating us” | Acrylic and Oil pastel | 16x20 | 2022
Currently based in Baltimore, MD, villager is a neo-expressionist painter born in Lagos, Nigeria. As a budding artist, villager presently uses acrylic and oil pastels to create simplistic yet concrete, abstract images that invite the viewer to create their interpretations of the work without the burden of rigidity and perfection.
Using primitive and child-like motifs, villager challenges themselves to construct visuals, experiences, and stories to be shared and occupied by the viewer. Villager's work allows them to explore interconnectedness and invites viewers to understand our shared human conditions better.
Jocelyn Campbell
“Through your Eyes” | Watercolor | 10x14 | 2022
Jocelyn Campbell is an interdisciplinary artist whose primary interests lie in watercolor and video art/installation. Campbell’s work explores the intersectionality of being Black and a woman, as well as Black spirituality and Christianity. She draws inspiration from the experiences of herself and others in her community, as well as her ancestors.
Sold for $50
Event Sponsors
Lee Colored Lenses
Lee Timmons is a Baltimore based filmmaker and editor, who's been sharpening her skills as a narrative storyteller since 2015. With prior experience as a songwriter and musician, she relies equally on compelling visuals and soundtracking to connect with viewers on a visceral level. Through her production company, LCL+Films, she strives to tell stories that represent those most marginalized and underrepresented in an authentic and genuine manner. Find out more
Margarita Photography
Based in Baltimore, Maryland. Margarita Photography specializes in documenting weddings and portraits in an authentic modern way. Find out more.
Second Chance, Inc
At Second Chance, we’ve made it our mission to hire and retain individuals with barriers to employment, reclaim reusable appliances, furniture, fixtures and materials that would otherwise be discarded and overflow landfills; and renew both people and things to useful life. Find out more.
B.Willow
B.Willow is a specialty houseplant and flower shop in Remington, with a focus on tropicals, desert plants and air plants. Our mission is to provide meaningful, insightful, and beneficial ways of experiencing nature on a frequent basis. With a focus on Baltimore, we hope to bring more nature into people’s homes, businesses, schools and organizations. We are open Tuesday-Sunday from 11-7PM, weekends 11-6PM!. Find out more
Wegmans
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Canton Kayak Club
CKC is a growing cooperative, motivated by volunteers with a sense of purpose and community. To enhance our program offerings, they partner with organizations that focus on outdoor recreation, environmental issues, paddle sports, and accessibility and diversity to increase our value to our members. Find out more.