Spoon Popkin continues her exhibit Salzburg Skizzenblock at the AIABaltimore Bookstore in May and June. The exhibit is open to the public Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Spoon Popkin received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Glasgow School of Art and the Chautauqua Institute for Performing Arts. Solo exhibitions include The Lee Nagrin Workshop (NYC, NY), The Kunstlerhaus (Salzburg, Austria), RGB Gallery (NYC, NY), The Garfield Artworks (Pittsburgh, PA) and the International Festival of Women in the Arts (Glasgow, Scotland). She has had residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Kunstlerhaus in Salzburg, Austria and has received awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and the City Arts Individual Artist Award in Visual Arts. Her work has taken her to India, the UK, Panama, Mexico, Turkey and throughout Europe.

Artist’s Statement

The work in Salzburg Skizzenblock was done during my residency with the Land of Austria Kunstlerhaus Artists Exchange, Salzburg, Austria in 2003–2004. Drawing with pen and ink on the streets as the faces flew past, I splattered the cobblestone passages of Salzburg's old city, adding my own ink to the continuum of artists who have worked in their streets.

Saturday En Plein Air Sketch Group

If you are interested in sketching or painting the built environment, come join us the last Saturday of each month. Architects and artists have been getting together to paint “en plein air” once a month around Baltimore and share in a lunch-time exchange of ideas. If you would like to receive notice of upcoming locations, please email Jillian Storms at jas8989@comcast.net.