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SUMMARY:Harmony Park Opening Event
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the grand debut of Harmony Park by renowned artist Ekene Ijeoma\, the fifth and final Inviting Light site installation! \n\n\n\nHarmony Park by renowned artist Ekene Ijeoma reimagines an underutilized urban space through light\, art\, and community connection – creating a welcoming gathering place in the residentail neighborhood of Greenmount West located in the Station North Arts District. Our evening celebration on April 17 will reveal the innovative installation\, marking the culmination of the five-installation Inviting Light series. \nAbout Harmony Park\nHarmony Park is a site-responsive landwork—and the artist’s largest work to date—that transforms two vacant lots in Baltimore into a public sculpture park and garden. Sampling the checkered pattern—a symbol of unity found in the Maryland flag and Kente fabrics—the park serves as a stage for interspecies play\, inviting neighbors and pollinators to find harmony through touch and sight. This work comments on the dual crises of social division and environmental degradation\, suggesting that communal reconciliation and ecological restoration are intrinsically linked and should be addressed simultaneously. \nThe park features a contemplative landscape of varied stones and two installations designed to channel energy between people: \n\nEnergy Poles: Checkers: Participants are invited to use touch to connect 11 light poles\, including holding hands to connect distant poles. The pole lights are arranged to form the silhouette of a roof when viewed from the side\, suggesting the metaphor of this country as a home that takes all of us to build.\nSight Lines: Checkers: Located at the back of the park\, this installation invites participants to use sight to connect across 11 stone stools.\n\nThe ground is covered with a checkered pattern of various types of rocks\, such as River Rock and Pea Gravel. Through a call-and-response between these installations\, neighbors and pollinators\, a collective composition takes form\, building a public stage for the community’s rhythmic efforts toward harmony. \n Remarks at 6:30 PM \n  \nPlease RSVP!\nAbout the Artist\nEkene Ijeoma is a Nigerian-American conceptual artist who researches social\, political\, and environmental systems to poetically expose inequities and mutually empower communities. His multidisciplinary practice spans community-based landworks\, interactive light installations\, and data-driven performances that expand upon Black-American and African experiences\, symbols and practices through design and technology. In recent years\, environmental justice and ecological restoration have emerged as recurring themes in his work. In 2022\, Ijeoma founded Black Forest\, an initiative to plant over 40\,000 trees for Black lives and archive Black nature across the U.S. and the diaspora. His work has been presented by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art\, The Kennedy Center\, Contemporary Art Museum of Houston\, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. \nRelated Event: Saturday\, April 18\, 1:30 pm: Derrick Adams & Ekene Ijeoma in Conversation at Blue Light Junction\nInviting Light is facilitated by Central Baltimore Partnership (CBP) in partnership with the Neighborhood Design Center (NDC) and the Mayor’s Office. The project is made possible through funding and grants from Bloomberg Philanthropies\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, Baltimore Community Foundation\, BGE\, and the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development. Together\, the partners aim to activate public spaces\, support artists\, and strengthen neighborhoods through meaningful cultural investment. \n\n\n 
URL:https://invitinglight.org/event/harmony-park-opening-event/
LOCATION:Harmony Park\, 1707-1709 Barclay Street\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21202
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