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Title A name given to the resource Station North Oral History Collection Subject The topic of the resource artists community activists planned unit developments Greenmount West Station North Arts and Entertainment District oral history public history Description An account of the resource This collection examines collective ownership of artists' live-work spaces in Baltimore, Maryland’s Station North Arts and Entertainment District. Interviews were conducted between October 2012 and July 2013 with artists and residents of the Cork Factory warehouse at 1601 Guilford Avenue in Station North. Topics include the history of the Cork Factory building, development of the state’s first arts and entertainment district, the process of redevelopment and neighborhood change, as well as personal histories from artists and activists involved with the project. The complete collection--which consists of 10 audio interviews, corresponding transcripts, and photographs of interviewees--is available through the <a href="https://archivesspace.ubalt.edu/repositories/2/resources/112">online collection guide</a>. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Aiden Faust conducted the interviews and took the associated portraits between October 2012 and July 2013. Aiden curated the exhibit in August 2014 and added it to this site in October 2019. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://archivesspace.ubalt.edu/repositories/2/resources/112">Station North Oral History Collection, UB Special Collections & Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <a href="https://langsdale.ubalt.edu/special-collections/">University of Baltimore Special Collections & Archives</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2013 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Use of these images is governed by U.S. copyright law. The University of Baltimore Special Collections and Archives makes digital surrogates of collections accessible if they are in the public domain, the rights are owned by the University of Baltimore, the Special Collections and Archives has permission to make them accessible, or there are no known restrictions on use. Due to the nature of archival collections, rights information is not always discernible. The Special Collections and Archives is eager to hear from any rights owners wishing to provide accurate information. Upon request, material will be removed from view while a rights issue is addressed. Contact the Special Collections and Archives for more information regarding this image. Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context R0113-SNOH Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2019-10 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Transcription of the interviews in this collection was made possible through the support of the University of Baltimore Foundation's Baltimore Renaissance Seed Scholarship Fund. Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Sound Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Aiden Faust Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Kate Thomas Location The location of the interview Baltimore, Maryland Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound KT: So, for instance, the gallery—as much as we would hold that open for gallery space, for art shows and things of that nature—it also was a huge place for gathering people. The stuff that has gone on in that gallery is just amazing over the years. I mean, all kinds of political organizations have met there, had meetings there, gatherings. I remember that we had Bernardine Dohrn from the sixties come one time and speak to us. There were just all kinds of things going on around here that revolved around it. So there always was a combination of activism [and art] here. So it’s the bent of the people in the neighborhood and us, in particular, but also the direction of the gallery for a long time. I think it’s kind of a nice marriage, probably not an unusual one. Artists have been involved in political activism for [a long time]. Nonetheless, I always thought that was a good part of it. And, for me, I was probably more interested in that direction, to a certain extent, than the arts. I like looking art, you know, I like art. I have nothing against art. [Laughs] I don’t do it, you know, I probably have less enthusiasm for that. My activism over time became—we sort of all went in different directions—but mine became, over time, sexuality. I took on the mission many years ago to create a more sex-positive world. At least the world that I have any influence over, it in various ways of teaching and clinical work and speaking, just all kinds of stuff, joining organizations and so forth. So I used the gallery a lot for those kinds of activities. And all of us had different areas that we were interested in promoting. Bob did a lot of his work up there in the gallery, in our building, you know, in terms of promoting physical, emotional and spiritual health, through Eastern wisdom and Tai Chi and so forth. We did Tai Chi classes here for years and did workshops for people up in the gallery for many years, on and on and on. Dennis was involved in a zillion organizations, I can’t even tell you how many. I have a book that lists all of that. [Laughs] But Carol could tell you. So that’s been a nice marriage. When Dennis died, we did a memorial service up in the gallery. And Dennis had directed it, from before he died, but also probably a little bit from the grave, making sure that we all did it just right, just the way that he wanted it to be. One of the things that he wanted people to do—it was a huge gathering, it was a couple hundred people, all smashed into the galley—he wanted everybody to talk about their work in the world. Basically, their activism. And that was really interesting, the way that people see what their role is. You have a passion; you know what I’m talking about. AF: Sure. KT: The archival pieces. It’s nice to have people directed in all kinds of ways. AF: And the fact your community here, people support each other whatever the overlapping passions that you have? KT: I think so. Yeah. I think it is. I think it is in really in a sense taking that all seriously, that we all have this important work to do in the world. And although it doesn’t all intersect in a sense, it all forms part of this larger picture. Certainly the work that I do is not what other people see as activism, but it is. It’s a corner of it. Or whatever anybody else does. So yeah, I think there’s a lot of support for it, definitely. And we’ve all been sad to see the gallery go, because that formed the space to make it all happen. AF: Yeah. KT: But it just became reality and we had to let go of it. So that’s been a big change. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Four minutes and twenty-seven seconds Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource On the Gallery and Activism: Kate Thomas Interview Excerpt Subject The topic of the resource Station North Arts District artists community activists Greenmount West Description An account of the resource Excerpt from an oral history interview with Kate Thomas. The interview was conducted in Baltimore, Maryland on March 2, 2013. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Aiden Faust Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Station North Oral History Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Baltimore Special Collections & Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013-03-02 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Dennis Livingston galleries Kate Thomas life's work sexology Tai Chi teaching https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/44124/archive/files/789d6e1c2142bcfd5885bc502cca0b1c.mp3?Expires=1774483200&Signature=uCroEMMgEpxc0gtl2Sc0Xm%7EwUCPNzrKYKecu2qcph4OICavYHwmss0Vyi4X4yKtMnSQCjWJo3x3rI3GfTnDEbm6SZ-QNaIFwpEe3ArykiF5eA1WS2VJLT8JFyEynt2YrA9tixcexraTEpZr3gKTbbg%7Etuu-4cftCG4O0nQuVVMeMK0cP5cd1hdLYIBKkqYswetXerFU1%7EiQt1Djpl8EefHWDqAVA6m5Wn-6tbmrRkv-E4tbRWsvfPIO4Px58-%7EVRDm-ZQMvEQRlaCJ6HSKQIYJeywQIRCgTDzf0sMc4ouFukP2RzKnWGE7CoOkrOPuUIBpEMaCICoOMaMFNAuZYH7w__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 7a4b0b03457a33a0f1d4e5d4168dba07 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Station North Oral History Collection Subject The topic of the resource artists community activists planned unit developments Greenmount West Station North Arts and Entertainment District oral history public history Description An account of the resource This collection examines collective ownership of artists' live-work spaces in Baltimore, Maryland’s Station North Arts and Entertainment District. Interviews were conducted between October 2012 and July 2013 with artists and residents of the Cork Factory warehouse at 1601 Guilford Avenue in Station North. Topics include the history of the Cork Factory building, development of the state’s first arts and entertainment district, the process of redevelopment and neighborhood change, as well as personal histories from artists and activists involved with the project. The complete collection--which consists of 10 audio interviews, corresponding transcripts, and photographs of interviewees--is available through the <a href="https://archivesspace.ubalt.edu/repositories/2/resources/112">online collection guide</a>. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Aiden Faust conducted the interviews and took the associated portraits between October 2012 and July 2013. Aiden curated the exhibit in August 2014 and added it to this site in October 2019. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://archivesspace.ubalt.edu/repositories/2/resources/112">Station North Oral History Collection, UB Special Collections & Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <a href="https://langsdale.ubalt.edu/special-collections/">University of Baltimore Special Collections & Archives</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2013 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Use of these images is governed by U.S. copyright law. The University of Baltimore Special Collections and Archives makes digital surrogates of collections accessible if they are in the public domain, the rights are owned by the University of Baltimore, the Special Collections and Archives has permission to make them accessible, or there are no known restrictions on use. Due to the nature of archival collections, rights information is not always discernible. The Special Collections and Archives is eager to hear from any rights owners wishing to provide accurate information. Upon request, material will be removed from view while a rights issue is addressed. Contact the Special Collections and Archives for more information regarding this image. Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context R0113-SNOH Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2019-10 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Transcription of the interviews in this collection was made possible through the support of the University of Baltimore Foundation's Baltimore Renaissance Seed Scholarship Fund. Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Sound Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Aiden Faust Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Carol Higgs Location The location of the interview Baltimore, Maryland Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound AF: How much do you think that you bought lessons from South Baltimore here, as far as neighborhood and community? CH: Yeah. For myself, not very much, really. Because I moved to Baltimore from Annapolis. So I was very involved in the Annapolis community and politics and activism. I was part of a tenants’ rights group in Annapolis. But when I moved to Baltimore, to move in with Dennis, I probably was only in that rowhouse in South Baltimore for just a couple of years before we moved here. But for Dennis, he bought a lot of what he learned. And in fact, when we moved in this neighborhood, Dale Hargrave, who I said, is the current president of New Greenmount West [Community Association], was already living here. And Dennis knew Dale, because Dale did recycling in South Baltimore and was part of the Recycling Coalition that Dennis and others were part of. So he had contacts everywhere. And he brought in our experience—which was his experience, much more than mine—of watching something that was vibrant and mixed and a wonderful soup of people become bland and vanilla. And healthy, I guess, but just… I don’t know. Life left the streets for us. That’s how he saw it. I’m sure that people living there now don’t feel that way. It’s not to disparage them. But there was something that was there that he truly loved that left. And so he found it here. And he didn’t want to see it leave again. So he tried to figure out what happened in South Baltimore. Part of it was that a bunch of developers came in and bought up houses. And the community association, I guess, was not prepared for this somehow. So he wanted this community association to be prepared. “Hey, this is going to take off. This is going to take off. Developers are going to show up here.” And they are! He was absolutely right. They’re going to show up here, and we need make sure that they come to the community association. That we know what’s going on in our neighborhood. We had lots of abandon houses here that the City owned. We didn’t want the City just taking them all and selling them to whoever. You know? We wanted to know who they are going to. What are their plans? So Dennis took that from his experience from COPO [Coalition of Peninsula Organizations]—You know, the coalitions that he had there around community organizations. He was involved with… I can’t remember. Oh, what was it? There was an African American neighborhood that was slated… AF: Oh. Sharp-Leadenhall. CH: Sharp-Leadenhall. Dennis was vice president of COPO and therefore was very involved with Sharp-Leadenhall and making sure that community remained. Because developers were breathing down their necks trying to get that community. And this was affordable public housing. And they just wanted the land, you know? They were seeing dollar [signs]. And that community won. But they were really organized. And had this woman named Mildred Moon, I believe her name was, who was just an amazing organizer. She was great. And then she had all this other help from other—you know, COPO was a coalition of community organizations—so she had help from other organizations, but she was leading it, and she knew just what do. So he bought a lot, I think, to this neighborhood. I think that the thing that we both bought is social activism, being able to look around and feel like we want to be a part of our community and we want to find out what the community feels it’s lacking and what it might want, and see if we can figure out a way to leverage. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Four minutes and twenty-seven seconds Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource On Lessons from South Baltimore: Carol Higgs Interview Excerpt Subject The topic of the resource Station North Arts District artists community activists Greenmount West Description An account of the resource Excerpt from oral history interview with Carol Higgs. The interview was conducted in Baltimore, Maryland on April 10, 2013. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Aiden Faust Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Station North Oral History Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Baltimore Special Collections & Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013-04-10 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Carol Higgs community associations COPO Dale Hargrave Dennis Livingston Federal Hill gentrification Greenmount West Mildred Moon Sharp Leadenhall South Baltimore