Pecha Kucha is returning to Current Space on Wednesday, May 22nd! Last year's events were so fun and interesting and we can't wait to hear what the presenters share this time.

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:
– Corinne Zmoos (musical speech-language pathologist)
– Graham Coreil-Allen (public art, placemaking, and civic engagement)
– Hannah McKenzie (global, queer nightlife research)
– Heather Graham (scientist, NASA)
– Lish Ciambrone (poet, painter, & personal trainer)
– Monique Crabb (artist)
– Nick Wisniewski (artist & builder, the Compound co-founder)

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

Bios –

Corinne Zmoos, M.S. CCC-SLP, is a musical speech-language pathologist and songwriter in the Woodberry neighborhood of Baltimore. Her private practice, Messy Happy Music Lab, specializes in autistic language acquisition, musical language therapy, adaptive music lessons, and inclusive toddler music classes. Corinne presents nationally and internationally on her framework for music theory as a critical element and intervention consideration in Gestalt Language Processing with autistic children.

Graham Coreil-Allen (he/him) is a Baltimore-based public artist making places more inclusive and livable through public art, placemaking, and civic engagement. From traffic calming pavement art and participatory urban design to creative wayfinding and interactive sculptures, Coreil-Allen infuses public space with play and intrigue.

Coreil-Allen studied at Tulane School of Architecture, completed his BA at New College of Florida and earned his MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at Maryland Institute College of Art. He has created projects with the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, The Deitch/Creative Time Art Parade, Eyebeam, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Washington Project for the Arts, Arlington Art Center, Artscape, VisArts, Current Space, ICA Baltimore, Light City, and the American Pavilion in the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale. Coreil-Allen was a 2018 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow and served as a 2020 co-chair of Baltimore City Mayor Brandon M. Scott's Arts and Culture Transition Committee.

Hannah McKenzie will present on the research project she recently completed with the support of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship (2022-2023). Her project focused on community self-organization in queer and lesbian nightlife spaces in eight countries around the world. Considering her most personal questions about humanitarianism, she spent the year in nightclubs at the grassroots and in the underground, exploring how people draw on resources within their own communities to seek empowerment in creative ways.

Dr. Heather Graham is the Staff Scientist for Agnostic Biosignatures at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. What that really means is that they spend all day thinking about life "as we don't know it" and building tools for how we might find life that doesn't share common heritage with us in our Solar System.

Lish Ciambrone
Alicia “Lish” Ciambrone is a poet, painter, and personal trainer living in Baltimore, MD. Lish’s work centers deepening the knowledge of the self through keen observance of the “other” and visa versa, embracing the paradoxical sameness/not sameness of all interconnect life. Often focused on the earthly world of bodies and plants, she especially loves dogs, cows, and bugs, and tall, tall grass.

Monique Crabb (b. 1982), a Mexican-American artist whose work represents an interplay of narrative, identity, and symbolism that speaks to the constraints of societal structures and of the human body. Her diverse practice spans textiles, installation, video, and photography, with a focus on traditional craft processes. Reshaping secondhand fabric and using colors extracted from organic materials she has foraged or grown, allows her the opportunity to materialize deep contemplations of the inward experience into various forms that reference women’s work and American culture.

Monique received her BFA in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art and MFA at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in Intermedia + Digital Arts, and for nearly a decade contributed to the Baltimore City arts community as co-director of Current Space, an artist-run gallery, studios and performance space. She teaches in the Fiber department at Maryland Institute College of Art and delivers flowers.

Nicholas Wisniewski (b.1982, Essex, Maryland) is an artist and builder working in Baltimore City. Through physical and social sculpture, he has pursued career-long questions of how we inhabit space, how we construct the city, and the economic, political, and practical stakes of both. Wisniewski uses the materials and mechanisms of the built environment to challenge forces of neglect and to nurture a cautious optimism about the possibilities of repair.

After studying painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA, 2004), Wisnewski and early collaborators with a shared interest in social practice founded Camp Baltimore and later the Baltimore Development Cooperative (BDC). These collectives were vehicles for interventionist actions that eventually—in the form of Participation Park, a squatted community garden and social space in East Baltimore’s Johnston Square—grew into longer term occupations. As part of BDC, Wisniewski was awarded the Sondheim Prize in 2009. He has presented work at the Contemporary, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Creative Time Summit (2009), and the Venice Biennale (2012); his work has been written about in the Baltimore Sun, Bmore Art, the City Paper, Art in America, and UCLA’s Critical Planning Journal.

In 2010, along with artist-collaborators, Wisniewski founded the Compound in East Baltimore Midway. Through many iterations, the Compound remains a space for genre-straying cultural production and experimentation.

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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.