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CONTACT I work in event planning, arts administration and coordination, marketing, cheerleading, curating, nurturing and making things go "boom". I am the Visual Arts Coordinator for the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts and Artscape, America's largest free arts festival. I am also a photographer. |
ARTSCAPE 2010 It appears that my first year as Visual Arts Coordinator for Artscape (July 16-19) has been a success. Nine months of brainstorming, planning and busting ass, paid off with the most action-packed Artscape I've ever witnessed.
The print media and webmags did a good job spreading the word that the Midway, one of my big Artscape projects, was "edgy", "weird" and "cool". The newspaper "b", put the Midway on the top of their "14 Awesome Attractions" list and listed all of my other projects as well, including "Moving Pictures", an interactive video installation designed, constructed and managed by PEACOCK. The Baltimore Sun ran a big story about me on the Sunday before Artscape with the headline, "An Edgier Artscape", the web version of the story went with, "Artscape gets hipper, new visual arts coordinator; Jim Lucio helps make festival cutting-edge". I had no idea my office wanted "cutting edge" and "more hip" until I read it in the papers! Now I can REALLY cut loose! Thanks to all the amazing artists who worked so hard to bring the whole crazy package together and keep the energy going the whole, hot weekend! I took a few photos to document the space before crowds arrived, I hope you were there to feel the energy in person. Once it kicked in, it kicked hard! ++++++++++ I'm excited about the new medium format camera I got in June. I'll be adding new photos HERE.
++++++++++ The idea to use the last of my polaroid film on a project called Bubonic proved impossible. I couldn't resist shooting other stuff that had nothing to do with the Bubonic theme, such as summer pool portraits and the random portraits of enchanting people.
++++++++++ APE screened at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Dec. 2009 as part of a companion film series to the Poe Exhibit that was on display in the galleries. My short film was a take on Murders in the Rue Morgue. More>>>
++++++++++ My collaboration with Wilma Martinez (below) continues. I have not seen her in a good number of months, but she sent me an email a couple of weeks ago saying she is getting very tired of the South Pacific and needs to come back to Baltimore, so I'm sure I'll have photo updates before too long. Visual documentation of some of our work can be seen HERE.
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