CreativeMornings - March

Hi!

I was able to go to another amazing CreativeMornings talk this month, this time at the Walters Art Museum!  That's right down the street from us and somehow we haven't gone there yet!

The talk was in a big auditorium in the basement.  It was really nice!

This month the topic was Ink, and the speaker was Mary Mashburn, a letterpress instructor at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), the owner of Typecast Press, and the person responsible for helping move the Globe Poster collection to MICA.





With her was Allison Fisher, a MICA student-turned-instructor, who runs the Globe Poster Collection along with Mary.

Mary talked about the history behind Globe Posters, its trip to its new home at MICA, and everything in between.  It was so interesting!  She had so many great stories and they passed around some very cool things that were used long ago (and today!) to make posters on letterpress machines.



Here is a great interview with both women by Strangers with Style, one of the CreativeMorning sponsors!

In 2011, MICA bought the Globe Poster collection, which was very exciting news.  This meant that 1) this gigantic historic collection would stay in Baltimore, and 2) it would remain in (almost one) piece, instead of being completely split apart.  MICA purchased almost the entire collection.

Here are some great articles and posts I found from around the time that this move was happening:

MICA 

Baltimore Sun 

Baltimore Print Studios 

Friends of Globe 

NPR 

This purchase by MICA was a huge deal and everyone was writing about it!

Globe Poster began printing in 1929 and in 1975, the Cicero family took over and kept it running until 2010.  In 2011, brothers Bob and Frank Cicero sold the collection to MICA.  It took 16 trucks-full to move the collection!

Globe Poster is famous for their neon colors and fat wood type (do a Google search for "globe poster" and you'll see).



Their posters advertised everything from circuses to hip hop and R&B musicians and concerts.  Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Etta Jones, James Brown....so many artists used Globe to print their concert posters!  In Mary's slideshow was a picture showing us just some of the thousands of musician heads they have in the collection.  So cool!

  

We got some great swag this month, printed by students at MICA!  We got these cute mini signs to hold up in this month's edition of Confuse CM, some awesome notebooks with letterpress-printed covers and pages made from paper cut from Shoo-Fly menus, and even some temporary tattoos (how approp...INK!).





So fun!  They also did a raffle for some of the amazing posters they made specifically for this event!  Sadly they didn't pick my name!



Dooby's, again, provided delish breakfast.  This time we got sugar-crusted popovers and banana thyme bread!  And coffee, of course.

 


The other sponsors for CreativeMornings Baltimore are Shine Creative and Stuckey Design!

Here is Globe's Etsy shop, where you can buy some of the really cool things they make!

ALSO, all this time that I've been writing blog posts about CreativeMornings, I have never included a link to a video of the actual presentation!  How silly of me!  Here is a video of Mary's presentation!  You can watch this and learn all of the amazing stuff that Mary taught us.

I will also update my past CM blog posts with the videos of the presentations!

Thanks for reading!