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you call that levity?  Seriously ben, I hope our paths cross.  there are some great things in baltimore that I know of, and probably a lot I don't. the best thing I know of is the Visionary Art Museum.  Do not miss it.  I think it is one of the great small museums of america.  Their current exhibition gives you a sense of their style:

The American Visionary Art Museum's seventeenth annual, thematic mega-exhibition ALL THINGS ROUND: Galaxies, Eyeballs & Karma is a celebration and call to awareness of the circular and voluptuous nature of life. This wholly original art exhibition features the exuberant works of 70+ inspired, intuitive artists including: Scott Weaver's 100,000 toothpick wonder, "Rolling Through The Bay;" Adolf Wölfli's intricate mandala-like works; spherical sculptures of artists who are sight-impaired; and the micro dot sock-thread embroideries of Ray Materson. Don't miss Frank Warren's all-time best true karmic "PostSecrets;" the 3-D sacred yarn paintings of the Huichol Indians; and a cosmic tribute to cyclical notions of time – including an exploration into the fast-approaching 2012 Winter Solstice "end" of the Mayan Calendar!

And I LOVE their mission statement.

Expand the definition of a worthwhile life
Engender respect for and delight in the gift of others
Increase awareness of the wide variety of choices available in life for all ... particularly students
Promote the use of innate intelligence, intuition, self-exploration and creative self-reliance
Confirm the great hunger for finding out just what each of us can do best, in our own voice, at any age.
Empower the individual to choose to do that something really, really well.
See you there.

eric

On Oct 12, 2011, at 9:43 PM, Benjamin Dickow wrote:

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> hi all,
> 
> Permit me a little levity on the listserv, please. I really look forward to
> the ASTC conference every year and I'm excited to see you there in a few
> days. I was going to invite you all to my room to party and watch a John
> Waters movie in honor of our host city of Baltimore, but...well, that won't
> work. Instead, I hope to say hi some other way and in some other place when
> we're there.
> 
> See you soon,
> Ben
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