Re:location: A Super Pride Studio Project

In Collaboration with the municipalWORKSHOP

December 8, 2006 - January 7, 2007

Re:location presents an exhibition documenting the work of the Maryland
Institute College of Art’s Super Pride Studio—a long-term collaboration
with the Men’s Center in East Baltimore. Developed in the fall of 2005,
the Super Pride Studio was conceived as an innovative design and
community art intervention course aimed at calling attention to the
needs of the under-resourced East Baltimore community. Over the past
year, Super Pride Studio students have focused their activities on a
collaboration with the Men’s Center and the surrounding neighborhood,
producing such projects as The East Baltimore Bike Library, providing
refurbished bikes for loan; The Madeira Project, a design to transform
two vacant lots next to the Men’s Center into a community park and
garden; and Urban Armor, a seed-distribution project intended to spread
Black-Eyed Susan flowers (the state’s “Floral Emblem”) throughout the
abandoned lots of East Baltimore. This exhibition presents a number of
past Super Pride projects along with new work from the studio. Also
included in the exhibit is the latest project, SUPER LOT, created in
collaboration with the art group municipalWORKSHOP. Through the creation
and placement of a multi-purpose structure, SUPER LOT will transform the
parking area at the Men’s Center into an active hub for community
recreational activities.

Re:location: A Super Pride Studio Project is supported by the William G.
Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund.

Additional funding for the Super Pride Studio course at the Maryland
Institute College of Art provided by the National Endowment for the Arts
and the Baltimore Community Foundation.

Installation Photography by: Dan Meyers