Sowebo Board
Bill Adler, President & Board
bill@soweboarts.org
Joanne Drummond, Vice-President & Board
joanne@soweboarts.org
Phyllis Van Meerhaeghe, Treasurer & Board
phyllis@soweboarts.org
Cari Knowles, Member-at-Large
cari@soweboarts.org
Debbie Adler, Member-at-Large
Scotty Stevenson, Webmaster
scotty@soweboarts.org
Mission Statement & Goals
Sowebo Arts Inc. is a Baltimore non-profit community arts organization.
Our Mission: “Is to foster community enrichment through the promotion of the arts”.
In this pursuit Sowebo Arts mines the talents of our neighborhood artists, musicians, and working professionals. We also strive to bring outside artists and their work into our community.
Mailing Address SoWeBo Arts Inc
100 S. Stricker Street
Baltimore, MD. 21223
410-566-8368
sowebo@soweboarts.org
Sowebo Arts
- Supports and organizes the Sowebohemian Arts Festival every Memorial Day Weekend.
- Sponsors yearly open studio visits and summer film series in historic Union Square Park.
- Organizes the Artist Market during the Union Square Cookie Tour.
- Promotes the membership exhibition and community space in the Adler Gallery at 100 S. Stricker St.
- Maintains the www.soweboarts.org website to support and promote the community artists and events.
- Developing children's educational art events and workshops.
Sustaining Southwest Baltimore's longstanding
grassroots art culture.
Many professional artists live in Sowebo. This includes some of the areas earliest pioneers, people who transformed dilapidated properties, old bathhouses, chicken factories, firehouse, collapsed mansions, into attractive housing, work, and gallery space. Their investments have sustained a unique community, which is now the foundation for revitalization. Artists living beyond its borders know and value Sowebo.
- The Sowebohemian Arts Festival is held every of Memorial Day weekend Sunday surrounding historic Hollins Market. Baltimore's largest free music venue presenting dozens of local bands with 3 blocks of Arts & Crafts vendors, puppet shows, outdoor sculpture, and kid's art & fun, and a large salon style non-juried art exhibit.
- Sowebo Poster Show and Auction. Every year local and regional artists create and then donate original works of art on our unique posters. These posters auctioned after the Fe
Sowebo Donation
Please help Sowebo Arts be a viable force in our art community with a generous donation through secure PayPal. We are a 501c3 non-profit organization and your gift is tax deductable.Sowebo Community
Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins StreetBlack Cherry’s Puppetry Resource Center and Theater is an association of artists and performers dedicated to the development of the art of puppetry serving audiences of all ages in communities throughout the Baltimore and Mid-Atlantic Region with highly acclaimed performances and innovative educational programming. Black Cherry works with rod puppets, shadow puppets, hand puppets, and marionettes. All are painstaking crafted by hand, as are the sets, backdrops, and props. Music and scripts are composed in collaboration with other visual and performing artists. Black Cherry's productions for young audiences are based on multicultural myths and fables and combine entertainment with education. Their productions for older audiences consist of original stories some incorporating social and political commentary. Black Cherry is currently building Baltimore’s first permanent puppet theater located at 1115 Hollins St. This project includes the completion and outfitting of a black box theater, offices, library and puppetry resource center as well as the creation of a new outdoor performance space. The outdoor performance garden opened in the summer of 2002. The theater’s opening is in the fall of 2003. http://www.blackcherry.org
In The Garden
Betsey Waters retail garden store within walking distance that specializes in containers and gardening in small spacesHours: Thursday - Saturday
10:00-5:30
(410) 233-3922
Umri Siki
Robert Williams1100 Hollins Street
410-837-8777
Once again our community has blinked and found a wonderful new neighbor opening a business in our midst. Robert Williams’s new African art gallery will have everything from spirit filled Ivory Coast and Congo masks, to Dogon carved figures rich with creation stories, to beautiful Mali “Bogalifine” dresses, hats, and jewelry. Robert, who says he was drawn to the “good feel” of the 1100 Hollins St. corner store has already tapped into our artist community, enlisting many to paint almost every square inch of the gallery with Adinkra symbols. But this will be more than a place just to buy art, chothing, and jewelry. Robert is passionate about the history and meaning behind the art work and is a teacher to anyone who listens. He plans to bring children through to learn about the many traditions of African art. His gallery is named Umri Siki: “New Day” in Swahili.
www.soweboarts.org/UmriSiki.html for images.
Links to Friends
Art Organizations
Black Cherry Puppet Theater
Creative Alliance
School 33 Art Center
Radar Review
Maryland Art Place
American Visionary Art Museum
The Station North Arts and Entertainment District
Fluid Movement
Art Exposure Inc
www.poetryinbaltimore.com
Our Neighborhood
Union SquareAt Home Baltimore / Micha Dannenberg
B&O Railroad Museum
The Irish Shrine at Lemmon St
Ridgely's Delight