Associate Professor Timothy Nohe, Visual Arts, and Charlotte Keniston ’14, Imaging and Digital Arts, recently collaborated with students from the Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School for a project documenting the school’s Station North neighborhood. The project My Station North: Sounds Surrounding Us involved Nohe and Keniston providing five students ages 10-11 simple point-and-shoot cameras and audio recorders to go and interact with the diverse collection of area residents, ranging from bricklayers, to bike shop collective members, to artists based in the Copycat Building. The results are to be exhibited at an installation opening in Gallery CA at the City Arts building on June 7th at 5:00 p.m.
Speaking on June 5th with Tom Hall for WYPR’s Maryland Morning, Nohe spoke of his and Keniston’s motivations for working with the students at Baltimore Montessori, saying, “We really wanted students to get out and walk the neighborhood and really meet people, and really see the environment. To knit the school closer into the neighborhood. That’s a neighborhood that thinks of itself as Station North, but also is Greenmount West, and we were trying to tie these two entities together.”
My Station North: Sounds Surrounding Us will be on view at the Gallery CA from June 7th to July 6th.
