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ART + FILM @ MAP

The Zo and the Invisible Friend
Drawing and animation by Glenda Wharton
&
Another World: Filmmakers Animate
Curated by Jed Dietz, Maryland Film Festival

Press Release—For Immediate Release: August 5, 2010
For more information contact: Cathy Byrd, Executive Director, MAP
410.962.8565 | cathybyrd@mdartplace.org

Exhibition dates: September 16 – November 6, 2010

Events:
September 16, 5pm-8pm: Opening Reception & Gallery Talk
October 21, 5pm–7pm: Art + Film > Rush Hour: Cocktails for Creative Professionals

Baltimore, Maryland—Maryland Art Place (MAP) is pleased to partner with the Maryland Film Festival (MFF) to present ART + FILM @ MAP, a national exhibition featuring a set of unique contemporary animation projects.

“Working with filmmakers is an exciting new venture for MAP. This exhibition explores a range of inventive styles in abstract animation,” says MAP’s Executive Director Cathy Byrd, who organized the partnership.

ART + FILM gives MAP the opportunity to introduce North Carolina-based artist Glenda Wharton and her short animation The Zo and the Invisible Friend. Featured in the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Ms. Wharton’s 35mm hand-drawn and painted film will be shown with 16 original cells.

For Another World: Filmmakers Animate, Jed Dietz, Director of the Maryland Film Festival, selected exceptional short animations by five contemporary filmmakers: Eric Dyer, Kinetic Sandwich; Sol Friedman, Junko's Shamisen; Kelly Sears, Voice on the Line; Phil Davis, Jackhammer; and Patrick Bergeron, Loop Loop. All five films have been screened in the Maryland Film Festival.

"While we're excited by the new, technologically-fed world of studio animation, these short works underscore the exciting breadth of the animation art form; it has been fun to host these filmmakers at the film festival, and it’s a privilege to partner with MAP," observed MFF Director Jed Dietz. Maryland

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Maryland Art Place is a not-for-profit contemporary art center located at the edge of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, at 8 Market Place, Suite 100, Baltimore, MD 21202. MAP energizes the region’s creative environment through dynamic exhibitions, interactive events, educational programs and urban art projects – all free and open to the public. Gallery hours: 11am to 5pm, Tuesday through Saturday. Information: mdartplace.org or 410-962-8565.

Maryland Film Festival is the region’s premiere general-interest film event. Launched in 1999 and taking place the first weekend of each May, its annual event screens over 100 narrative, documentary, animated, and experimental film and video works from all over the world, bringing dozens of filmmakers to Baltimore to share their work with audiences. MFF also offers yearround programming, including regular sneak previews of forthcoming films to its Friends of the Festival membership program, and free-to-all short-film programs within Artscape. For more information, go to www.mdfilmfest.com.