Congratulations to our UFP Signature Designs! See their banners at Bloom! The Closing for Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project on Saturday, June 28th from 5-7pm. 250 people will receive a one-of-a-kind signature poster with the following 6 designs. First come, first serve!
Exhibition remarks by Tom Stosur, Assistant Deputy Mayor
Say goodbye in style, Free admittance and open to the public!
Music. Friendly faces. Shop ’til you drop. Free lite fare. $4 local wine and beer. See the full exhibition of all the Professional and K-12 banner
Finally coming to a close. After a year of planning, 11 weeks of exhausting events, and endless hours of fun, we are celebrating Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project’s departure with a stylish affair! Join us as we say goodbye to our beloved banner project and HELLO to the continuation of the TreeBaltimore campaign.
If you missed a park event, now is the time to relive the experience! See the entire exhibition in one space. We will have 200 professionals banners on display, the 185 printed K-12 banners, you will be able to learn about TreeBaltimore and take home a tree, the Grow for Change pledge dots from the Baltimore community will be on display, there will be a visual timeline of all 6 events and it will be the last opportunity to purchase any of our merchandise before it goes through final production.
Hi all you greener cleaner city lovers! Denise here to tell you we had our fundraising party for TreeBaltimore at AVAM Wednesday night (April 2nd) and it was amazing! We heard from these great speakers:
Tom Stosur, Assistant Deputy Mayor of Baltimore, who was impressed with the Urban Forest Project’s collaborative success and it’s relevance to the Mayor’s new Sustainability commission’s efforts Mark Randall, the founder of the original Urban Forest Project in NYC shared his excitement at how we took his seed of an idea and grew it into a tree via our community stewardship approach Myra Brosius the coordinator of Tree Baltimore (beneficiary of the Urban Forest Project) talked about our success raising awareness for their campaign Maryland State Delegate Jon Cardin spoke about the value of our initiative and its relationship to Baltimore and Maryland leading the nation as a green state
A HUGE thank-you for the generosity of our sponsors whose donations made the evening wildly successful! Please click here to the “Plant Our City Green” party page to see all these amazing businesses and let them know how much you appreciate their support of this great initiative.
A great shot of the crowd and the digital banner display:
Click here to check out the photos of the event, taken by Emily Ellickson-Brown!
NEXT is “GROW” on April 12th!!! The Opening Exhibition for Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project takes place on the Johns Hopkins University Beach (corner of 33rd and N. Charles) from 12 - 6 pm! Please click here to learn more about this kick-off event!
I wanted to share that the banners are going up steadily all over the city! Right now you can see a selection of the banners along Mt. Royal Avenue near MICA’s Campus, and also up Charles Street near Johns Hopkins Campus and Wyman Park Dell. Here are a few images of the banners on Charles street! Enjoy! Do you want to get an exclusive look at all the banners, enjoy some great food & drink, and bid on some amazing silent auction items? RSVP TODAY for our April 2nd Gala at the American Visionary Art Museum.
We sat down with Jenn Tucker to talk about her banner and her recent assimilation to the Baltimore community. Click to check out her company, Cafeteria.
Thanks to everyone who participated in this week long blog blast! We at Tilt really enjoyed learning more about just a few of the designers and artists who participated! So remember, the exhibition opens April 11, 2008 and runs until June 27. The banners will be up throughout the city, and maps will be available at several locations throughout the city for you to follow!
And now for the prize winners!
Garrett Ohm: UFP Promo-Tshirt
Holly K: A custom painted tile by Jessica Pegorsch
Marybeth Morgan: Full set of banner buttons
Chad Miller: 3 tons of Carbon Offset certificates
Congratulations everyone! Don’t miss our Plant our City Green party on April 2nd. You will be able to register online soon enough. Its going to be a great event and will hopefully raise a lot of money for TreeBaltimore, our beneficiary. For more info on the event, see our Events page.
We sat down with Lindsey Muir, a graduate design student at MICA, to talk about her banner, revealed here for the first time! Let us know what you think! If you’d like to buy preorder this banner as a bag, a poster, or a t-shirt, visit the shop page!
Check out “PLEASE” by Lindsey Muir
Let us know what you think! Those who comment are eligible for today’s prize!
Today’s Prize Custom painted Tiles by Jess Pegorsch. Take a peek!
Oh, I almost forgot! Last Thursday we participated in Focus the Nation at Johns Hopkins and Maryland Institute College of Art . Focus the Nation is an educational initiative that promotes civic engagement. On January 31, thousands of colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, places of worship, civic organizations and businesses took part in this amazing event to raise awareness about global warming solutions.
The Tilt team split into two groups. Denise and Mike went to Johns Hopkins and gave a powerpoint presentation on TreeBaltimore and how their initiative of increasing the tree canopy will help our local environment. Danny, Jess and Hayley went to MICA to talk with students about the Urban Forest Project and how they can take part in our volunteer opportunities with the UFP.
I want to send out a special thank you to Jenn Tucker for volunteering her time in this event! We had a great response and are more excited as each day passes because our UFP team is ever expanding!
Check out these videos about Focus the Nation here! This and other initives like it are popping up all over the country and its so great to be a part of it! We want you to be a part of it too.
