d center baltimore

2013 M.F.A. Thesis Exhibitions
Fox Building: Decker, Meyerhoff and Fox 3 galleries, 1303 W. Mount Royal Ave.; Graduate Studio Center: Sheila & Richard Riggs and Leidy galleries, 131 W. North Ave.; D center @ NAM: 16 West North Ave.; Metro Gallery, 1700 N. Charles St.; Station North Chicken Box, 1 W. North Ave.

Friday, March 29-Sunday, April 14
Reception: Friday, April 5, 5-7 p.m.
Twenty-eight graduating students from the M.F.A. in Community Arts, the M.F.A. in Graphic Design and the M.F.A. in Illustration Practice will exhibit work. 

Friday, April 19-Sunday, May 5
Reception: Friday, April 19, 5-7 p.m.
Thirty-nine graduating students from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, the Mount Royal School of Art, the M.F.A. in Photographic & Electronic Media and the Rinehart School of Sculpture will exhibit work.

D center Baltimore is pleased to announce the addition of six new members to its board, as well as the election of board officers.

Joining the board for new two-year terms are Elaine Asal, Katherine Brower, Ryan Clifford, Lou Joseph, Jaimes Mayhew, and Lori Rubeling.

Marianne Amoss has been elected board president, with Ben Stone as treasurer; Fred Scharmen will continue in his role as secretary. Klaus Philipsen, who served as president since D center’s inception, will serve for one year as Past President.

“The D center board has been energized by the addition of our new members, who join a group of outstanding designers, architects, artists, and educators dedicated to design and to Baltimore,” said new president Marianne Amoss. “We are very grateful to departing board member Khosrow Vaghari and especially outgoing president Klaus Philipsen for their valuable contributions to D center over the past several years. We’re looking forward to continuing our collaboration and engagement with the design community.”

The complete slate of D center board members for 2013–2014 is:

Rahne Alexander, Maryland Film Festival
Elaine Asal, Gensler
Marianne Amoss, Notre Dame of Maryland University
Doreen Bolger, Baltimore Museum of Art
Katherine Brower, Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks
Sidney Brower, University of Maryland College Park
Ryan Clifford, Maryland Institute College of Art
Sarah Doherty, Maryland Institute College of Art
Marian Glebes, Maryland Institute College of Art
Lou Joseph, ICA Baltimore
Frank Lucas, Lucas Associates Architects
Jaimes Mayhew, independent artist and educator
Kenneth Morgan, Coppin State University
Brian Oster, Cho Benn Holback + Associates
Klaus Philipsen, ArchPlan Inc.
Lori Rubeling, Stevenson University
Fred Scharmen, Morgan State University
Howard Stevens, Wright Constable & Skeen LLP
Ben Stone, Station North Arts & Entertainment, Inc.
Jessica Young, Thumb

For full bios of board members, please visit the About section of this website.

D center @ NAM: WEST BALTIMORE IN-PROGRESS

1-5pm Thursday 14 March 2013 | 16 W. North Ave, Baltimore MD 21201

Please join Jack Sullivan and his students for WEST BALTIMORE IN-PROGRESS, studies investigating the many questions and issues of environmental design in the urban context. These works were conducted as a collaborative effort between the landscape architecture graduate students, the instructor, professionals in practice, and representatives from local government non-profit agencies. Our goal is to understand, appreciate, and re-create city places and neighborhoods —as they were, how they exist, and what they can become in the 21 st century. In order to do this well, we need to learn how poets and prophets—as well as pragmatists and profiteers—have expressed their visions for the city and how we can propose improvements to the quality of urban life.

PRESENTATIONS @ D center INCLUDE:

Harlem Park, West Baltimore

Site Analysis: ½ mile radius from the Harlem Park Red Line Metro Stop, North and South of the
“Highway to Nowhere”.

Product: Graphic presentation and report

Urban Design Study: Harlem Park

1. Determine the future use and character of the “Highway to Nowhere”;
2. Determine the location of the rail line within the “Highway to Nowhere” corridor (central, north
side, or south side);
3. Determine potential development sites;
4. Identify the limits and character of Transit Oriented Development at the Harlem Park Metro
Stop;
5. Identify the blocks

Product:

1. Context: Baltimore City; City/County-wide Red Line; Gwynn Falls Trail nature corridor; Baltimore
waterfront connections;
2. Site Conditions/ Physical: Historic-Current Figure-ground comparison; Vacant lots, empty
homes, missing buildings;
3. Site Conditions/Social-Economic: Jobs , markets, food deserts, street life
4. Site Conditions/Environmental: Stormwater management, street tree evaluation,
5. Harlem Park Red Line Metro Stop: Calhoun-Carey Streets (development options);
6. Master Plan Proposal: Overall site study area; proposal for Harlem Park development 1” = 100’;
With stormwater management plan overlay (Watershed 263);
a. First block south of Highway to Nowhere (Saratoga Street) development potential;
b. Highway to Nowhere (future use and character);
c. Franklin and Mulberry Streets character;
d. Block development: North of Franklin Street, South of Lafayette Street, west of Arlington
Avenue, east of Monroe Street;
7. Individual Study areas: Concepts at 1”= 40’; detail design at 1” = 20’.

D center is pleased to announce our next collaboration at D center @ The North Avenue Market: The 4th Annual Publications and Multiples Fair presented by Open Space!