Food from Chipotle and a special arts and crafts sale featuring the Charm City Craft Mafia. Participate and draw on one of the 8 commmunity leaves that will be up for auction. 154’ of leafs on the hillside to walk through. First chance to purchase a signature bag. First come, first serve
Fastspot presents, Find your leaf:
The local Baltimore interactive agency, Fastspot created an intuitive and interactive tool for drawing a leaf as their submission for Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project. The program enabled the ability to reach out and receive designs from all over the city and be able to experience Baltimore through the eyes of the community. Walk through our banner installation, put your mark on one of our leaves, or journey throughout the park to explore the rest of the designs. Enjoy the designs that the community created in Carroll Park!
Like leaves, we are all unique and individual as people. What are your values and personality like? Are you family oriented? Perhaps you are eco-friendly? Find the leaf that best represents you and make your mark on it!
Join us in our venture to design one of 8 community leafs. Come to Carroll Park on June 8th and find that leaf that best suits your personality traits. Put your mark on it and meet someone new in the community who is similar to you!
Live Music by KB Drive
Scott Wilburn – Vocals
Sean Wilburn – Bass
Mike Trail – Guitar
Pete Ilenda – Guitar
Brent Wiedal – Drums
Our friend Christine Neill is showing her love for nature with an expressive collection of work opening this Friday at Goya Contemporary. This show is an opportunity to see the original works of art from her banner series as well as to see her incredible perception of nature.
When: Reception is this Friday May 30, 6 to 8 pm
Where: Goya Contemporary 3000 Chestnut Ave Baltimore MD 21211 410.366.2001
Christine Neill collaborated with Designer Lew Fifield to produce a series of banners for the Urban Forest Project: bmore-ufp.org.This exhibit includes the original paintings they used as images for the banners that will hanging in four Baltimore City parks until June 27.
Growing performance sculpture in Charles Village Parade—
finishing at Festival in Wyman Park Dell on Saturday, May 31, Noon to 4 pm
Trees are the ultimate living art installation— now’s your chance to become apart of our growing tree canopy in Baltimore!
Join us in Wyman Park Dell as part of the Charles Village Festival and literally be apart of the sculpture. 200 people/tree ambassadors receive 2 shades of large green dots bearing tree-related words. Beginning before, during the Parade and at the Festival, the dots will be handed out. We will ask pedestrians to pledge to preserve Baltimore’s trees and to live more sustainably. At 4 pm, we will convene in The Dell for a 5 minute Tree Ceremony. With the dots, we will recreate the Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project logo (shown above). Watch the sculpture grow as more people join us and see our canopy take over the lower lawn of the Dell!
Call for Participants
The Urban Forest Project is seeking 200+ participants on Saturday, May 31. Meet up at 9 am at the start of the Charles Village Parade to walk with the dots and hand out through out the route. Throughout the day participants will collect names of people that are pledging to live more sustainably. We are asking that each dot have at least 5 names— showing a 1,000 people that have pledged. At 4 pm we will convene in the lower lawn of The Dell and have the Tree Ceremony; positioning the dots around the brown branch structure. This will create the larger tree canopy. The dots will remain in place until 6 pm and then will be available for take away by the community.
Our very first design award winner! Chad Miller from Harbor Hospital has been our signature Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project designer since the beginning last year. His Think Green Hon banner design won the gold award under the Pro-Bono category for the Hermes Creative Awards. This award is presented by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals and Chad won the 2008 category. Everyone should give him a huge round of applause for this incredibly special award.
We are all looking forward to great things from you, Chad! CONGRATULATIONS!
Patterson was completely covered with red burlap on Saturday and Sunday . As the Baltimore Sun stated: “At Patterson Park, the ribbons — burlap stained red by natural dyes — will form just one element of the installation. Snaking more than 5,000 feet northward from the southwest corner of South Patterson Park and Eastern avenues, they delineate an easily traveled path in the direction of the park’s famed pagoda.” That description hits the nail on the head.
It truly was a site to see. With Gensler’s incredible team of 4 working around the clock, Jason, Elaine, Stefan and Brett truly displayed a magical experience on Saturday. With windstorms and rain all morning on Saturday, they dutifully finished out their vision and immediately the sun came out.
The band played, “Here comes the sun” and the sun literally popped out and stayed for 6 hours. It was incredible! We had a wonderful turn out with people of all ages. It was amazing to see the children interact with the space and to spend the day running around the sod land forms and in and out of the stakes.
Most importantly, however, it was amazing to see everyone out amongst the trees.
Hope everyone comes out to see the amazing exhibition put together by Gensler Architects and Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project tomorrow in Patterson Park from 12-4pm! For right now check out some new images by Greg Pease. Click here to visit his website!
And it has started… the Gensler installation has taken over Patterson. Literally taking the meaning of tree canopy to a new level, Gensler has created an installation that has furthered the mission of Baltimore: Urban Forest Project. They have brung together 3 unique elements: Burlap (symbolizing the tree canopy), Stakes (symbolizing the shaft of a tree) and sod (symbolizing the root of a tree). The entire park has been transformed into a living, breathing exhibition. Rooted in the center of the park where the Saturday event will take place, there are “points” from each corner of the park that draw the community into the event space below the boat basin lake.
Thank you to the amazing volunteers who have been integral in the success of this installation.
The installation has already started taking shape, so feel free to go out and take a look. Make sure you come out this weekend and play! 12-4pm on Saturday, May 10th!
Check out the photos below for a sneak peak at the installation in progress!
Gensler is bringing its vision for the role of urban green space to Patterson Park as part of Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project. This playful installation, Park Life | City Movement, encourages the public to
Hi all–Danny here! Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out in support on Saturday April 12th at Hopkins! It was a great, relaxed event. Check out some of the shots here below of our Create Change Tree and the crowd! Don’t forget to visit the events page to learn about all the events surround the Urban Forest Project. And since the weather has been great, its a perfect time to take a drive around the city and see what we’ve been up to!
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!
