Towson Arts Collective to Move

The nonprofit is packing up and moving around the corner to Chesapeake Avenue.

Towson Arts Collective is on the move. The Towson nonprofit, currently located in a basement below The Greene Turtle, will move around the corner to the ground floor of the Lafayette Building at 40 W. Chesapeake Ave., president Brian Truax said Friday. The move will happen in time for the 5-year-old collective's new exhibit, set to begin April 12. "It's happening soon," Truax said. "We need to paint." The Lafayette Building was sold in 2010 in a foreclosure auction as part of Towson Commons. Recently, the arts collective used space at Towson Commons to host a winter craft sale and briefly borrowed gallery space on the corner of York Road and Pennsylvania Avenue that Towson University's art department wasn't immediately using. That …

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Towson Times: Theft at Arts Collective

Seven pieces discovered missing last month

Loni Ingraham reports that the Towson Arts Collective and Baltimore County police are looking for information on a theft there sometime between Oct. 13 and 14. Seven art pieces, valued at more than $1,650, were stolen from the gallery on York Road. The collective's president, Brian Truax, told supporters and members about the theft via email and said, "measures have been taken to ensure the safety of everything on premises, and further measures are in motion to indubitably secure the facility." Anyone with information on the crime is asked to call Baltimore County police at 410-307-2020. Dave Morgan wrote a column about Towson Arts Collective in September.

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Keeping In Tune

Behind the Red Door: Towson Arts Collective

Towson Arts Collective aims to help local arts scene thrive

 Have you ever been to New York City? I have, but only a handful of times and usually on trips which were too short to accomplish anything substantial. I often feel that even though I haven't had quite as much one on one time with the Big Apple as some, it all seems very familiar to me. My guess is that it's the same for almost anyone, seeing as countless movies, television shows, and books take place there. A consumer of even just one of these media outlets would be hard pressed not to feel somewhat of an intimacy with good old NYC. One feature of The City, along with others like it, is its arts scene. We all have images of Broadway, the thespian artery teaming with performers and performances alike. Or what about Greenwich Village, the …

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