Exhibition Programming: September 13, 2024 - Station North Second Friday Artwalk Opening Reception 5-9pm, FREE Opening remarks at 7pm Join us at AREA 405 during the Station North 2nd Friday Artwalk to celebrate the opening of the exhibition. October 11, 2024 - Station North Second Friday Artwalk Variety Show and Film Screening 7-9pm, FREE In this modern interpretation of the vaudeville format, artists who are exhibiting in the exhibition, or who practice performance arts closely related to animation, will take the stage for a series of 5-10 minute acts of eclectic delight. An animation screening of short films by artists in the exhibition will follow the live acts with a short Q&A. These artists push the boundaries of animation as an artform, making films that incorporate experimental techniques, alternative narrative and non-narrative approaches, and a span of new and old technology. Visitors are welcome to attend all or part of the event. Sponsored by FreeFall Baltimore, Area 405, and Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival. Sweaty Eyeballs Festival Programming: October 18, 2024, Time TBA Festival Opening Party October 20, 2024, Time TBA Artists’ Talk and Closing Celebration Curatorial Notes: In partnership with Baltimore’s homegrown Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, Area 405 Gallery hosts a group show, Sweaty Eyeballs: Animation Adjacent. Animation is an all-encompassing artform, embracing any medium and process an artist can come up with. Each frame of an animated film is an artwork in its own right, but when the artwork extends beyond the screen into the gallery, expect the unexpected. This exhibition highlights work by animators that finds its best home off the screen and outside the theater. Whether made during film production or as an adjacent practice, the artists in this exhibition expand their work through collage, sculpture, protocinema, projection mapping, augmented reality, and generative processing. Artists: Kelley Bell Jim Doran Robby Gilbert Taylor Goad Eva Grandoni Amy Lee Ketchum Eric Millikin Kat Navarro Tim Nohe Stephanie J. Williams SKRFF_ology: Corrie Francis Parks/Daniel Nuderscher/Thom Parks Curator: Corrie Francis Parks Corrie Francis Parks is an inventor of animation approaches, driven to discover new methods of movement through an exploratory studio practice. Her short films and installations adopt, adapt and undermine the illusion of life through hybrid digital/physical methods. She is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and author of the book, Fluid Frames: Animating Under the Camera with Sand, Clay, Paint and Pixels.