Pecha Kucha is visual storytelling format where each presenter prepares and shares exactly 20 slides. The presentation is set to automatically advance every 20 seconds, ensuring a fun and fast-paced night of engaging talks. Get a glimpse into the past, current, and future musings of folks doing creative, inspiring, and unique work here in Baltimore!

Including:
– Omer Gal (artist and musician, Cookie Tongue)
– Amy Golden (sculptor, potter, teacher)
– Amy McManus (owner, Crimson & Clover Floral Design)
– Shawn Mudd (Art Hall gallery, Rowhouse Project)
– Katie Peck (artist currently focused on Rainbow Trout)

This month's Pecha Kucha will be immediately followed by a free performance by Cookie Tongue: https://withfriends.co/event/20261863/cookie_tongue

Talks begin at 7, but the Current Space Garden Bar is open starting at 5, with happy hour from 5-7pm.

Bios –

Omer Gal has been creating and showing fine art, film, music and performance for over 15 years. Omer Gal’s musical menagerie experiment Cookie Tongue bleeds out creativity in many facets together flowing in life to a unique world one can step into. A mesmerizing whimsical journey is awaiting, filled with strange songs, unexpected puppet interventions, looped sonic textures and holographic like animations on veils between worlds.

Cookie Tongue is based out of New Orleans (previously NYC/SF) and has had a rotating cast of players over the past 13 years since its creation in 2011.

Amy Golden is a sculptor, potter, teacher, and lapsed composer/soprano from Springdale, Arkansas. She lives and works in Baltimore working mostly with clay.

Amy McManus opened Crimson & Clover in 2003, after a brief, but informative dive into the floral industry just three years earlier. Her passion for flowers and how much they not only affect a space but people and their emotions so directly helped make Crimson & Clover a recognized name in the industry. Amy is an accomplished designer, passionately committed to her craft. She has studied with some of the biggest names in the industry while promoting and supporting continuing education amongst her staff.

Shawn Mudd founded Rowhouse Project, a curatorial space connecting his involvement in the Baltimore and New York art communities. He recently launched art hall, inviting domestic and international artists to exhibit solo projects. He lives in Baltimore, MD.

Katie Peck
Katie Peck was born and raised in San Jose, CA and now lives and works in Baltimore, MD as an artist and educator. She received her MFA in the Mount Royal School of Art (Multidisciplinary MFA) at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her most recent work is focused on human impacts on the environment through the lens of sport fishing and Rainbow trout globalization using humor, craft, and camp to investigate our interactions with non human creatures.

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Pecha Kucha is an monthly series at Current Space.

Interesting in sharing at a future event? Please email currentspace@gmail.com with the subject line "Pecha Kucha Proposal" – include a short description of what you'd like to talk about and a link to your website (if relevant).

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This outdoor event will be held in our rear courtyard. Enter through the alley at 421 Tyson Street. Rain or shine.
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Current Space is an artist-run gallery, studio, outdoor performance space, and garden bar; nourishing an ongoing dialogue between artists, activists, performers, designers, curators, and thinkers. Operating since November 2004, we are committed to showcasing, developing, and broadening the reach of artists locally and internationally.

Thank You
Programs at Current Space are made possible in part by supporting members like you; the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation; The Creative Baltimore Fund, which is a grant program funded by the Mayor’s Office and the City of Baltimore; and The Rouse Family Foundation.