Station North Shines: Asia North 2020 Recap for July!

Check out Station North’s third Station North Shines, where we continue to hear from the artists behind the Asia North 2020 Festival, with a more historical spin: Each artist takes inspiration from traditional Asian practices and fuses it with contemporary art. The evening starts with Paul Kim, who shared a story about how his grandfather became the subject of one of the largest portrait murals in the states, painted along North Avenue in 2014 by German artist ECB as part of Open Walls Baltimore.

The event featured two visual artists, Iranian-American painter Nahid Navab and Indonesian master silk painter Nico Gozal, both artists who take inspiration from their ancestral heritage and merge it with contemporary culture and design. Along with these two incredible visual artists, Sebastian Wang, director of the Korean traditional percussion performance troupe, Washington Samulnori, plays the the buk (barrel drum), and Ellen Zhang, an international award-winning musician, plays the guzheng, a traditional Chinese string instrument. In between artists, Brown Rice and The Crown share asian-infused food and drink recipes to make at home!

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Every month, Station North Shines “shines” a light on artists and businesses in Station North who are finding unique ways to stay engaged during the pandemic. It is supported by the William G. Baker Memorial Fund, and coordinated by the Station North Arts District, a program of Central Baltimore Partnership. This month, we partnered with the Asian Arts & Culture Center to feature a sample of the Asia North 2020 festival, and the online exhibit Tradition-Memory-Transformation: https://www.towson.edu/campus/artsculture/centers/asianarts/collection-resources/asia-north/?utm_source=redirect&utm_content=asianorth