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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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SUMMARY:Ekene Ijeoma and Derrick Adams in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for a behind-the-scene conversation with the artist who created Harmony Park and the curator of Inviting Light at Blue Light Junction \nHarmony Park artist Ekene Ijeoma and artist and curator of the Inviting Light site installations\, Derrick Adams\, will share a public conversation about the project moderated by Maura Dwyer\, whose led community engagement for Inviting Light as a Project Coordinator for The Neighborhood Design Center. \n Seating is limited: Please RSVP to save a seat! \nAbout the Installation\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 interactive installations designed to channel energy between people: \n\nEnergy Poles: Checkers: This interactive light installation invites participants to use touch to connect 11 light poles. By linking bodies—which consist of roughly 60% water—participants act as electrical conductors to power the lights. 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. \nRelated Event\nHarmony Park Opening Event\, Friday\, April 17\, 6:30-8:30 pm \nAbout the Artists\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. \nDerrick Adams is the artistic director of Inviting Light and curator of the light-based site installations. His artwork spans painting\, collage\, sculpture\, performance\, video\, sound\, and public activation and explores how identity and personal narrative intersect with American iconography\, art history\, urban culture\, and Black experiences. Adams’s work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Studio Museum in Harlem\, and shown in public spaces at the National Mall\, Rockefeller Center\, and Chicago’s Navy Pier. He is the founder of Charm City Cultural Cultivation\, a non-profit organization that supports and encourages underserved communities in Baltimore through The Last Resort Artist Retreat\, a residency program that subscribes to the concept of leisure as therapy for the Black creative; The Black Baltimore Digital Database\, a collaborative counter-institutional space for collecting and safekeeping the data of local archival initiatives; and Zora’s Den\, a community of Black women writers. \n  \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.
URL:https://invitinglight.org/event/ekene-ijeoma-and-derrick-adams-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Blue Light Junction\, 209 McAllister Street\, Baltimore\, 21202
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SUMMARY:Inviting Light Happy Hour & Site Tour
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nJoin us as we gather at Guilford Hall Brewery for an Inviting Light Happy Hour and then head out for a tour of all five Inviting Light sites in the Station North Arts District\, during the April SNAD Art Walk! \nLearn more about each of the Inviting Light site installations\, including the newest installation\, Harmony Park which we will unveil officially and celebrate April 17\, and experience the creative lighting research and design throughout Station North that serves as a foundation for this project. \nSee below for more details:  \nWe’ll gather for an Inviting light Happy Hour from 6 – 7:30 at the Guilford Hall Brewery at 1611 Guilford Avenue where they will have a special on their Inviting Light Baltimore Pilsner and more for us! \nThen\, at 7:30 pm we’ll head out. Our route: We’ll walk north on Guilford\, turn right on Lanvale\, left up Barclay\, then back to Lanvale after viewing Harmony Park to go right/west on Lanvale to Charles. At Charles we’ll head to North Ave\, taking in two Inviting Light sites along the way\, then we’ll go left on North to Maryland take in two more installations. \nIt will be dark close to 8pm\, please dress appropriately and wear comfortable shoes. We will be walking at a leisurely pace\, stopping at each site to share info\, and observing light along our path. \nThe happy hour is open to all and the walk is free but please reserve your spot on the tour since space is limited\, thank you for registering! \nBackground on Inviting Light:  \nBaltimore City was awarded a grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to produce Inviting Light\, an ambitious public art project selected for the Bloomberg Public Art Challenge which supports selected projects with a $1M grant and other in kind marketing and mentorship support. Inviting Light has energized the Station North Arts District with four and soon to be five outdoor site installations curated by Derrick Adams and events and arts programming curated by José Ruiz for the community to enjoy. Learn more about each installation here. \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. \nFor any questions\, please email Catherine Borg at cborg@centralbaltimore.org \nGet news about Inviting Light by signing up for the email list at invitinglight.org and on Instagram @invitinglightbaltimore \nWe look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://invitinglight.org/event/inviting-light-happy-hour-site-tour-2/
LOCATION:Guilford Hall Brewery\, 1611 Guilford Ave\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21202
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