Hey everyone! I hope that you are doing great! It has been a month since our closing exhibition and we are so honored that we have gotten so many kind and wonderful responses to the project. It is truly remarkable. Thank you again to everyone that has been in participation with the project. While the banner part of the project is complete, we feel that our effort with TreeBaltimore has just begun.

The Baltimore Tree Trust is beginning shortly and we hope that you all support their efforts. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact us and we will get you to the right party.

To answer a few questions: that keep coming up:
1. All unique and custom orders are now closed.

2. This is a one time project in Baltimore so it will not be repeated next year. If you are interested in participating in another Urban Forest Project, check out the national site to find out more information.

3. Any artwork created during the project is property of Tilt Studio Foundation, Inc. if you have a special project idea that you would like the designs for, please let us know. before just using a low-res scan from the map or taking the small image from our website (these images are very low-res and will not represent well in large reproduction of any kind)

4. We have lots of other projects as a foundation. Our next is Marketingfortheearth.com and it will be launching shortly. Check back soon to learn more.

5. T-shirts and bags are starting to ship the second week of August. Your order will be shipped in the order that was purchased. Posters and banners have already shipped, so if you haven’t received your order, please let us know and we will find out what has happened. We appreciate everyone’s patience since this was such an enormous organizational venture for us.

So, stay in touch. Always be a tree lover and we hope that you are always a Tilt friend and supporter!

The banners finally came down today! After an amazing and touching Saturday evening reception at the Maryland Institute College of Art we made our gracious exit from the banners of Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project to the TreeBaltimore’s campaign to plant trees. The banners came down last week and were placed from basement to sky in the Brown Center.

All photos were taken by Doug Retzler

The outside of the Brown Center getting prepped for the evenings festivities

We had installations from each of the events and have two wonderful speakers; Tom Stosur, Assistant Deputy Mayor and Wanda Durden, the new acting Director for Department of Recreation and Parks. We were presented with a beautiful plaque on behalf of the city written by our dear friends Anne Draddy, the Jones Falls Watershed Association and Emily Ellickson-Brown, the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Department of Recreation and Parks.

E. Rachael Baird, Wanda Durden, Jessica M. Pegorsch, Carolyn from Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, and Tom Stosur posing for a photo!

It was a night to remember. While a bit windy, the weather held and the light generously spilled out into the Leidy Atrium, covering the room with warmth… we were all amongst friends. Those who love Baltimore City, those who love the arts and those who truly want to make a difference in our world came from all over the country to be at our event. We are so honored to have been surrounded by such a great mix of people!

An overview of the Atrium

We are almost sold out of our banners! There are another 30 banners left, which is an incredible feat, but the rest are going fast! Visit the remaining banners online at our store and purchase all custom orders before July 7th! That is just one week from today!

So, you can see… it is almost the beginning. TreeBaltimore is taking root in Baltimore and is here to stay! SUPPORT THEM as much as you can (money, time, effort, spreading the word, etc.)

Click here and visit the rest of the photos online! See a sampling below.

Shopping in our Tilt Tent with some of the pre-made sample bags!

Mike Weikert’s daughter spinning in front of our PowerPoint. She is already a performance artist!

E. Rachael Baird & Jessica M. Pegorsch enjoying a moment during the speech.

A special thank you to:
-Baltimore City Mayor’s Office for the incredible opportunity to have this project and recognition for our efforts
-Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks for assisting with coordination from start to finish and helping to volunteer at the event
-Baltimore City Department of Transportation, Street Lighting Division for assisting us with the entire project and the exhibition put up and take down
-Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts for ensuring that we had all of our t’s crossed and our i’s dotted
-Serigraphics for printing the banners and the t-shirts and pushing through the bag design with us to make this a success! Thank you for your endless hours!
-Designers, artists and K-12 students for their amazing talent and innate ability to be creative. Keep it up!
-Sponsors for helping to assist us with making this project possible.
-All of our volunteers that have helped at all of our events
-Our parents and team for their endless amount of effort and time put into making this project a success. We are forever grateful.

And a thank you for Saturday evening:
-Maryland Institute College of Art for lending us a space and assisting us with the exhibition put up and take down and event coordination
-Parkhurst Dining Services for the delicious food and alcohol serving
-AIGA Baltimore for sponsoring a table during the event and being such a great support at the end
-Lady G’s for local organic wine and beer
-Doug Retzler for photography coverage
-Scott Wilburn and Kris Vandevander for their amazing sound equipment and music

And the most special thank you of all: Thank you to our very own TreeBaltimore for having a message that we could get behind and help to support. We look forward to the results for years to come!

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The space at MICA’s Brown Center is the perfect space to showcase all of the banners from Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project. It is expansive, deep and over powering to be in this space. Please feel free to stop on by as we are working or to join us as we close the exhibition on Saturday from 5-7pm.

Thank you to everyone that has been involved. This has truly been an amazing exercise in community, design and sustainability. Tree love forever!

Photos courtesy of our Banner God and friend Brent Hooper!

First level of banners!

First, second & third levels!

The late night team: Brent Hooper (Baltimore City Dept of Transportation, Lighting… i.e. our Banner GOD), Jessica Pegorsch, E. Rachael Baird & Anthony Snead

Will Blake & Joe Onheiser from Brent Hooper’s team putting up banners. Jess preparing for them.