Load of Fun Arts

02/06/2024

A brief question for those Artists of ‘Retirement Age’ (who don't ever really retire). Like myself, so many of us survive on the most minimal of Social Security. So few of us have a retirement nest egg. So many of us live alone with spouses departed. And so many of us live with daily medical challenges that if it weren't for Medicare would have us in the poorhouse long ago. After all the years of uncompensated cultural work we contributed to Baltimore City over the years isn't there some kind of Cultural Fund or Foundation that sees the need to support us as we age? How do you as an older artist care for your future?

08/27/2019

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-empire-state-mind

A very interesting series on the 'American Empire'.
A worthwhile listen I highly recommend.

Part two of OTM's "On American Expansion" series.

10/23/2015

10/23/2015

A photographer known for taking striking portraits of members of the black q***r community in South Africa turns the camera on herself.

10/22/2015

http://www.citypaper.com/special/fallartsguide/2015/bcpnews-scum-segregated-communities-and-upward-mobility-a-state-of-the-arts-manifesto-with-10-points-to-impr-20151013-htmlstory.html

The New York art dream is dead. Living in New York is more expensive than ever, and the prospect of working enough hours to pay rent, purchase supplies, and still have time to produce work is tough without some kind of benefactor. Don't move there. Don't even try. Support the scene here and put...

09/04/2015

http://baltimorestyle.com/13238/for-arts-sake/

For Art’s Sake With fewer donor dollars at the ready, local arts organizations are putting most of their creative energy into staying afloat. By Bret McCabe • Photographs by Justin Tsucalas Ben Stone, executive director of Station North, sends good vibes to Priya Bhayana, director of Bromo Tower Art…

08/03/2015

https://www.facebook.com/sherwin.mark.12/posts/858894707493639

A crowd of city officials, including Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, urban planners, and consultants, packed into the first floor of the City Arts building last night to announce the launch of a new project called Leveraging Investments in Neighborhood Corridors (LINCS), which will "revitalize...

07/22/2015

I’ve come to witness any change at all in my neighborhood with a sense of trepidation and skepticism bordering on paranoia. As a resident of what my friends and I refer to as “The Station North Arts and Gentrification District,” no news is usually good news. So I was, a…

07/18/2015

MICHAEL BALL 1959 - 2015
Thank you kind and fiesty Michael ... remembered by many.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6D9qmktZCA

(by M. Ball)

07/06/2015

From our Placemakers and Takers issue, released this weekend. By Sean M. Starowitz and Julia Cole “Cities are the handiwork of the real estate man” – J.C. Nichols ‘Place’ is a tricky word in the En...

06/23/2015

See? I can do it too. I can create a sensationalized and misleading headline in order to attract readers. It was the headline from the Washington Post’s June 10 article “After the Riots, Baltimore’s best shot at redemption may be its art community” by Frances Stead Sellers that actually made me catc…

06/10/2015

http://www.citypaper.com/news/columns/conflicts-of-interest/bcpnews-conflicts-of-interest-kicked-out-like-a-can-20150609,0,3496811.story

There is a rite of passage that most artists or musicians will go through in Baltimore: Somebody calls in a code violation and your DIY space gets shut down. I remember when it happened to CP Photo Editor J.M. Giordano at Load of Fun. And CP photographer Noah Scialom , Barnyard Shark and composer Ru…