Dundalk Bridge Sculpture Dedication Ceremony

I sit on the board of Directors of Baltimore Arts and Music Project. It is a local non profit organization that works with young adults and children through the arts to keep them off the street and headed in the right direction in life. It is an absolutely wonderful organization with a lot of really great people involved. Below is the Press release for our upcoming event in Dundalk, Maryland. If you are available come on out and help us celebrate an awesome piece of artwork that took 51/2 years to get to this point.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: June 26, 2008

Re: The Dundalk Gateway Sculpture Dedication Ceremony

5 ½-year journey signals a new day in Dundalk

When: Thursday, July 17^th, 7:45 p.m.

What: Dedication of the Dundalk Gateway Sculpture on the CSX Railroad Bridge

Where: 1900 Dundalk Avenue, Dundalk, MD 21222

Who: Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith, Baltimore City Mayor Sheila Dixon, County Councilman John Olszewski, and other elected officials to be announced

Members, artists, and volunteers of Baltimore Art & Music Project

Baltimore Art & Music Project proudly presents the official dedication of the Dundalk CSX Gateway Sculpture on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 7:45pm on the 1900 block of Dundalk Avenue. County and City officials will join us to salute the accomplishment and the many community members who made it possible.

The project was commissioned in 2002 when Baltimore Art & Music Project (then Project Millennium, Inc.) was asked by the Dundalk Renaissance Corporation and Baltimore County Office of Community Conservation to create a Dundalk gateway project. Project Millennium founder/executive director Carla Crisp proposed a steel and metal sculpture to honor Dundalk's industrial heritage and to pay tribute to the blue collar craftsmen and women who built this town and made it a vibrant, family-oriented community. A creative team of 14 working-class artists designed, developed and built the sculpture. With funding from Baltimore County and help along the way from CSX, local businesses, boy scouts, community leaders and volunteers, the sculpture was erected on May 17, 2008.

Please join us on July 17^th at 7:45pm to celebrate Dundalk's new gateway.