Baltimore United Viewfinders

Baltimore United Viewfinders Baltimore United Viewfinders is a youth driven organization using the arts to explore their own definition of self and place.

Mission:

To foster the leadership potential of young people as social entrepreneurs producing multimedia arts for community action and income. GOALS:

CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING

• Build a strong sense of personal/communal awareness and identity.
• Investigate and combat intrinsic and extrinsic cultural biases by developing new perspectives about themselves and their community.
• Peer-to-pee

r skill-sharing between and amongst the Senior and Junior Viewfinders provides facilitation, teaching and mentorship experience and leadership development. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

• Community “voice” through public dialogue and exchange.
• Action initiatives designed and implemented utilizing art as a tool for creative change.
• Public events in which all partner organizations celebrate their work, thereby instilling pride and accomplishment. TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Photography: schools, styles and strategies for conveying ideas, information and feelings,
including aperture settings, shutter speed, white balance, etc.
• Videography: short format editing, directing/managing shots, writing, story-boarding, etc.
• Stop animation and motion graphics, Adobe Photoshop and other digital and graphic
design applications. ENTREPRENEURISM

• Investigate larger benefits of a community arts program as they relate to economic demands of their neighborhood.
• Acquire and practice business skills sets via mentorship by local business leaders.
• Develop business plans supporting earned income strategies and related initiatives.

04/03/2018
11/20/2017

On Thursday we wanted to review the techniques we've covered so far and maybe learn a few more. We put some examples up on the projector and .vicky & .8reasons._ pointed out the techniques they recognized. Then, we played to see what we could remember about composition... and to see who knew the most about super heroes... and to see who could identify sports logos the fastest.

P.S. We have fundraising campaign going on right now. Go Check It Out http://gofundme.com/viewfinders

11/18/2017

On Wednesday, I took a table-sized sheet of polytab, oil pastels, and color pencils to Families in Recovery downtown for a Digital Storytelling workshop. Six of us sketched, doodled, and brainstormed ideas for a short film. After school, the Viewfinders continued composition studies with a photo-walk up Ashland (But mostly tossed around the football...over traffic 😑) We came back in to review the photos (But mostly watched music videos on YouTube/made random art pieces with paper, gold bells, and hot glue). We printed some out and pinned them to the rolling wall downstairs in the hall at MICA PLACE. Whenever I bump into one of the Viewfinders in the hall I'll try to have a 30 second conversation at the wall about the images....we'll see how it goes.
PS. We have a fundraising campaign going on right now. You can see what that's all about here: http://gofundme.com/viewfinders

If you missed our event Saturday, it's not too late to see the murals! Here is a map of the locations:
10/17/2017

If you missed our event Saturday, it's not too late to see the murals! Here is a map of the locations:

Becoming

10/05/2017

Gloria Garrett interviewed Ms. Kristen, one of our teachers about some of our recent work! Check it out!

09/30/2017

Apply to Maryland Institute College of Art. Powered by SlideRoom.

08/02/2017

Video Lab and Viewfinders appreciate and will truly miss Artist in Residence, Wyatt Kroopf. Check out this interview by Gloria Garrett

07/15/2017

An hour of work in less than 30 seconds!

This is our newest mural in the series of Messiah (age 10) with his hero Jackie Robinson, located at Amazing Grace Lutheran Church in Baltimore. Tomorrow we will add the text!

Showing Terri her rooftop mural. She was pretty amazed by and proud of it and the whole family was in awe of the awesome...
07/05/2017

Showing Terri her rooftop mural. She was pretty amazed by and proud of it and the whole family was in awe of the awesome view of the city!

Address

814 N Collington Avenue
Baltimore, MD
21205

Opening Hours

Wednesday 3pm - 6pm
Thursday 3pm - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 3pm

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