Opening Day at Fenton Street Market

Spring has finally sprung, and it's time to go to market! It’s Fenton Street’s Market Grand Opening THIS Saturday, April 30th, and we couldn’t be more excited. They’ll be a 100 vendors carrying imports, arts-and-crafts, vintage wares, fine jewelry, and mouth-watering crepes. Join Sugar Paperie at the market! For the full list of fun vendors, click here.

This is a weekly outdoor market in downtown Silver Spring, featuring a variety of vendors each week. So if you can't make it this weekend (which we hope you do!), come on down next time. The market is located at the brand spankin' new Veteran's Plaza from 9-3.

The 8th Annual Transmodern Festival

The Transmodern Festival – voted “Baltimore’s Best Art Event” by the City Paper – returns April 28 – May 1, 2011. Sounds fun....but what is it, you ask? Four days of Avant Performance, Installation, Sound, Film, Mayhem, Ecstasy, and Radical Culture!
Electric Junkyard Gamelan

Transmodern is a festival of provocative works by cultural experimenters from Baltimore and the World. The artists of the 8th Annual Transmodern Festival defy traditional genres and embrace radical innovation through transmedia, clashes of organic vs. artificial intelligence, psychogeography, dislocation of consensus reality, real politic and collective cultural action.

The organizers promote/celebrate the diversity of experimental culture by highly representing artists from the following groups: women, ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, the radical subculture.

The festival’s visionary approach to presenting new multi-disciplinary work continues to attract regional art lovers, local cultural mavens, occasional passers-by, critical acclaim, and on-going academic interest. For more information, click here.

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Tonight you should go to Metro Gallery for the closing reception of Paper Fish, the show depicting the making of a shadow puppet music video for a song off Wye Oak's latest album, Civilian.


Pile of Craft and Holiday Heap veteran, Katherine Fahey, dazzles and special guests Anna & Elizabeth delight with their crankies and songs.


And if you miss it (or even if you don't), come out to the G-spot tomorrow night and see the Mafia's own Carly Goss (that's me!) singing songs along with Kathy, Anna & Elizabeth, et al, for The Same River Twice show, celebrating our dear Jones Falls.

Art::Words::Music...all the details below!

Meet the Etsy Artist - Trunk Show 4/23

Earrings by Alexandra Webb
Alexa Webb, owner of the boutique Alexandra Webb in Federal Hill, will host several Baltimore artisans on Saturday, April 23, 2011. Guests will have the opportunity to meet local Etsy selling artists and peruse their handmade wares. “Etsy is a great venue for artists and crafters, especially now that ‘handmade’ is getting the attention it deserves, but people like to meet the person behind the work,” says Webb. “We often forget to buy local, more so when we’re shopping online.”
See you there!

Meet The Etsy Artist Trunk Show
April 23, 2-5pm
1028 S. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21230

*Photo credit-Sugarloaf Crafts Festival* Artist-Primitive Twig

Sugarloaf Crafts Festival

April 29-May 1

The Sugarloaf Crafts Festival returns to Baltimore for a three day craft show featuring over 250 artists! Live demonstrations will include wheel throwing, iron forging, paper making, and copper spinning. Middle Earth Studios will present an interactive dress up theatre for children. Dozens of gourmet food producers will offer gourmet and seasonal food/drinks to sample and purchase. Many of the artists will be showcasing unique gifts for spring and summer weddings inspired by the Royal Wedding (which takes place the same weekend!). Tickets are $7 online and $9 at the door. The show is located at the Timonium Fairgrounds. Visit sugarloafcrafts.com for more info. Want to win two free tickets?? Be the first to tell us how many people visited Sugarloaf Craft Festivals last year. Email the answer to charmcitycraftmafia@gmail.com. Put Sugarloaf Crafts in the subject line. This is sure to be a great event with artsy-crafty offerings for the whole family!

Baker Artist Awards - Announced 4/19

THE BAKER ARTIST AWARDS WILL BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW NIGHT!
3 Talented Baltimore artists (in any artistic field, including writing, music or visual arts) will be awarded a $25,000 prize tomorrow night - LIVE on Maryland Public Television! Come celebrate at a viewing party at the Windup Space (12 West North Avenue, Baltimore) tomorrow- April 19th! Celebrate the awards + the Baltimore arts community, and get free pizza and beer! The party is from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, and we’ll be watching the MPT announcement on the big screen when it airs at 7:30pm. Pizza will be provided by Joe Squared, and there will be complimentary drinks as well. Please note that space is limited, so be sure to get there early!!

More info HERE

To view the work of all your favorite Baltimore artists online, visit www.bakerartistawards.org
See you tomorrow!

MD Film Fest Seeks Volunteers!

The Maryland Film Festival is now seeking volunteers! Have fun! Earn free screening vouchers! Be part of the excitement in Downtown Baltimore, May 5-8, 2011!
Many volunteer opportunities are available: Box Office, Tent Village, Filmmakers Lounge, Theatre Ushers, and more.
Volunteers must be at least 18 years of age, must enjoy serving the public, and must be committed to fulfilling assigned shifts.
BENEFITS: Tshirts, Screening Vouchers, Snacks, Drinks, an end-of-festival Party Pass and the opportunity to be involved with Baltimore's largest Film Event, as well as meet filmmakers and critics from around the world and be an ambassador for our fair city!

For details - CLICK HERE!

Spring Bada Bing

Come on down to Richmond Virginia for this year's SPRING BADA BING--The Boss of All Craft Shows!! Spring Bada Bing is the largest indie craft show in Virginia featuring around 65 happy go lucky super talented crafty folks!!

The mafia's very own Illegible Ink, Spaghetti Kiss, Pink Kiss Pottery, and Found Studio will be there with bells on! Make a fun weekend of it and check out the independent shops of Carytown. Yay Spring....Yay Bada Bing!!!

Apply to Pile Of Craft 2011!

Calling All Crafters!
There's still time to apply for Pile Of Craft!
Pile Of Craft 2011 Is Scheduled for June 25th, in Baltimore.
This, like every show we organize, is a juried show.
Applications close on April 17th at midnight-
We can't wait to see this year's batch of talented applicants!

CLICK HERE FOR THE APPLICATION

THIS WEEKEND IN BALTIMORE!

JOHN BOHL & JORDAN BERNIER
ARTIST BOOK RELEASE PARTY
Friday, April 8, 7-10pm
Current Gallery
421 N Howard St
Baltimore, MD 21201

Prolific Baltimore artists John Bohl and Jordan Bernier present a hand drawn and printed and self-released artist book in a show at Current Gallery tonight! See the original artwork and pick up a copy of the book, and support this local art haven.


RACK: An Experimental Fashion Event
Saturday, April 9 - 9pm
2640 St Paul St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
$5 tickets at MICA bookstore | $10 tickets at door
MICA's first of many end-of-year annual fashion events! An experimental fashion show featuring student work from the fashion and multi-media classes. Students present their innovative fashion and costume designs through visually stunning live performances and projected video. The evening will involve more than 150 people-from designers to performers, roving costumed characters and musicians.

Dress by Red Prairie Press for Liberation By Design

LIBERATION BY DESIGN - A fashion fundraiser
Saturday, April 9 - 5pm
Mattin Center - Silk Road Cafe - JHU
N. Charles Street, Baltimore.

Come see 12 innovative, fresh Baltimore artists (including CCCM's Rachel Bone) showcase their unique creative visions using the basic Little Black Dress as a canvas. The fashion show, featuring Hopkins students as models, will be followed by the opening of an online auction, where you can purchase the one-of-a-kind "wearable art" dresses you just saw! Enjoy the creative atmosphere and stunning art dresses, as well as a snack or two!
Proceeds from the auction will benefit Women's Housing Coalition


BALTIMORE TATTOO ARTS CONVENTION
April 8-10
Sheraton Baltimore Hotel
101 West Fayette Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Tickets $20/day or $40/weekend
Kids under 12 are free (if you really want to bring them).

Tattoos, Tattoo artists, live music and performances, seminars, food, entertainment, contests and vendors - such as CCCM's own Spaghetti Kiss - hocking comics, apparel, tattoo supplies, art and more!
Get a tattoo or body piercing there, or learn about all of the talented artists in your own city so that you can get one later.

THIS WEEKEND IN BALTIMORE!

FRIDAY NIGHT:


First Fridays In Hampden!!
$0! - Friday, April 1st - 6-9pm
featuring:
Holy Frijoles, Free food & Snacks along with music at TROHV
Curbside Cafe truck parked outside DOUBLE DUTCH BOUTIQUE
"Vinylmore 4" Art show at ATOMIC BOOKS!
Friends, Neighbors, Sales & Beers abound! Go Celebrate Spring already! (just wear your galoshes)
Most Hampden Shops are open late, and often have sales & freebies!


MICA Printmaking Department Exhibition!
$0 - Friday April 1, 6:30 – 9 PM
Rosenberg Gallery,
Brown Center 2nd Fl.
Mt Royal Ave.
Baltimore, MD

Out Of Order Show!
A self-hung gallery style art show at which all the art is for sale!
$40 - Friday, April 1 - 8pm
MD Art Place at Power Plant Live!
8 Market Place, Suite 100
Baltimore, MD 21202
more info HERE.

SATURDAY:

Marquee Ball 2011 at Creative Alliance
Dinner, Dance Party, Live Music, Auction, Fundraisin' Etc.
Saturday, April 2, 6pm Preview Dinner, 9pm Dance.
Dance Party $45, $40 mbrs in adv. $50 at door.
Preview Dinner $200.
More info HERE.

got a must-see-event that we missed? feel free to list it in the comments below!!
Have a great weekend!!