d center baltimore

Calling all D center friends, fans, and partners!

Friends of D center! You’re invited to participate in D center Baltimore’s next exhibition, by and about our design community, Network (Temporary Permanent Collection).

In the past three years, D center Baltimore has been working hard to advocate for design awareness in the Baltimore community and beyond. With our recent expansion into the 218 Saratoga Street storefront gallery, D center @ MAP, and with our receipt of the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Placemaking Grant for our proposal with Maryland Institute College of Art, Central Baltimore Partnership, and Station North Arts and Entertainment District, we feel now is the time to revisit the questions that inspired our big tent: “Does Baltimore need a design center? If so, what would it look like, and what can it do?”

Since the first meetings were held to parse what a design center should and could be in Baltimore, many of you have played a vital role in the conversation. In thanks for your past service and in encouragement your continued involvement in the future of design in the city, we invite you to participate in our next exhibition, Network (Temporary Permanent Collection). D center @ MAP would like to include a representation of what design means to you - a project you have worked on, an advertisement of your organization, a doodle on a napkin, a letter of support, or any kind of visual media or contribution that indicates your relationship to design. Please include a brief description of the work, no more than 150 words.

Because D center includes, by mission and by practice, diverse incarnations of design, these specifications are intentionally vague. Simply submit a work that you feel best visualizes yourself or your discipline. We ask that your work be delivered, or arranged for us to pick it up, before 2 November 2011. Please RSVP by 26 October 2011.

You are welcome and encouraged to use this invitation to include others you feel would be interested in participating in not only the exhibition, but also the future of D center.

We are thankful for all that you do for the design community, and we look forward to celebrating you and your work in Network (Temporary Permanent Collection). For questions and to RSVP, please contact marian.glebes@gmail.com or mkamoss@gmail.com.