The Reverse Ark School House
The Futurefarmers Reverse Ark has been built in the Contemporary Museum's galleries and the Reverse Ark School House is now open!
In the tradition of free schools and with a shared curiosity about learning, join us each Saturday at 2pm for free workshops, readings, and discussions as we explore some of the ideas surrounding the exhibition "The Reverse Ark". Workshops will explore a range of topics including farming and sustainability, DIY printing, water pollution, mapping, bird migration and much more!
SUMMER WORKSHOPS IN THE REVERSE ARK SCHOOLHOUSE
ALL WORKSHOPS ARE HELD AT THE CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM
ALL WORKSHOPS BEGIN AT 2:00 PM
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Saturday, April 11
Psychic Friends Fort Building and Lunch
The Baltimore-based artist collective Psychic Friends invites you to help build a tent in the museum galleries using some of the recycled materials gathered during the Futurefarmers installation.
Saturday, April 18th
Join artist Ian Cox and his fellow mates as they embark on a expedition from the Contemporary Museum at noon in search of natural clean drinking water. With water testing kits at our side we hope to map out where the best flowing water in Baltimore is. It is encouraged that you bring exploratory gear such as good walking shoes, canteens, binoculars, a compass, maps, sextons, etc.
Saturday, April 25th
The Feel of a Place
Join artist Ingrid Burrington as she leads a mapping and zine-production workshop that explores different models of understanding the geographic distribution of emotions in cities and other places. What places have the highest frequencies of missed connections? What is the most heartbreaking place in the city? And to what extent is mapping itself a romantic gesture?
Saturday, May, 2nd
Come to the Contemporary to work on a time capsule! Daniel Allende and the Contemporary Museum invite everyone to bring small personal effects, souvenirs and
messages to be sealed away for 50 years.
Bringing something is encouraged but not necessary
JUNE 13
Hand Drawn Map Association comes to Baltimore!
The Hand Drawn Map Association is an ongoing archive of maps and other interesting diagrams created by hand. Join the Hand Drawn Map Association to create a collectively drawn map of the United States. (http://handmaps.org)
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JUNE 20
MAKE SPORT!
The Circle Rules Federation (www.circlerulesfootball.com) invites the public to participate in a workshop for developing new competitive games and sports at the Contemporary Museum. Participants play and analyze several popular sports, assessing their strengths and weaknesses. What void does each of these games fill? How could they serve a different purpose, engage a different audience, and incorporate a different skill set? Working in various methods with members of the Circle Rules Federation, participants will adjust popular sports and build new sports that challenge their artistic sensibilities. Come dressed to engage in sports!
The Circle Rules Federation is comprised of the co-creators and most avid players of the sport Circle Rules Football, invented in 2006 as a senior theatre project at NYU’s experimental theater wing and profiled by Good Magazine and The New York Times.
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JUNE 27
Zaq Landsberg’s New Country
Artist Zag Landsberg will explain the process of inventing a new country (he bought an acre of desert on eBay and declared it a nation!). During this workshop, participants will draft a constitution and laws of governance for a new commonwealth.
JULY 11
BALTIMORE SUGGESTIONS
Artist Milana Duthie will discuss her Baltimore Suggestion Box Project, presenting some of the suggestions put forward by the public for improving the city.
Come prepared to brainstorm some solutions!
JULY 18
Smashing For Success
Michael Kimball, co-creator of the documentary film I Will Smash You, leads a workshop in which participants are encouraged to share a story about an object that has some personal meaning for them and then destroy that object in whatever manner they wish. Destroyed relics will be housed in an archive in the gallery space. Bring an item for smashing, goggles or gloves if you have them, and a will to smash.
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