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Transcript / Audio from the Talk as Follows
Cara Ober: Welcome, everyone to BmoreArt’s Connect+Collect gallery space. Tonight we are hosting a talk with our two exhibiting artists, TLaloC and Alyssa Dennis, along with the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Baltimore chapter members Randy Sovich and Violeta Fiorino.
For anyone who does not know, BmoreArt is Baltimore’s contemporary art publication and we publish online at BmoreArt dot com about six days a week and a beautiful biannual print journal that comes out each spring and fall. We host a lot of different kinds of events for our subscribers, so we hope you consider joining our community and becoming a BmoreArt subscriber.
Jeffrey Kent: Welcome to Connect and Collect, our gallery space where we host exhibits every three months. While the shows are up, we like to host different kinds of engagements, so sign up for the newsletter and we can invite you to the next one. We also create limited edition books for each show designed by Raquel Castedo, our designer in residence.
Raquel Castedo: Hi everyone. I’ve been collaborating for about a year with BmoreArt on digital communications, and especially for the gallery – creating visual identity and special books that are inspired by the artist’s work. It’s a very cool experience of learning about them and learning what’s special about the materials they work with, the qualities of the work they do, and then transforming—based on that script that inspiration—creating something that lasts after the exhibition ends.
It’s not exactly a catalog, it’s more like a book about them with beautiful photo essays and documentation and other materials included so you know more about them beyond the exhibition. It’s really to extend knowledge about what they do. So we invite you to check it out, they’re available for sale and we are printing just 125 books.
Jeffrey Kent: And they’ll be numbered and signed by the artists.
Cara Ober: If you can’t afford to buy a work of art tonight, that’s okay. The books are $45 and we try to make it easy if you wanna take a book home with you tonight. We just got them today and we’re really excited. I want to introduce Lauren Bosek, from AIA Baltimore, our partner tonight and then I will turn it over to Inéz Sanchez de Losada, our gallery coordinator.
