Artscape: A Blast Since 1982

Last weekend, Shane and I went to the 30th annual celebration of Artscape, the largest free arts festival in the United States. We weren't sure what we would find there, and we weren't disappointed!

The weekend was all about the year 1982 (the very first Artscape), so of course they had tons of 80s  pop culture references, karaoke, and even a fashion show.

And yes, it's hard to see, but the guy had on black lipstick. He had some sort of goth grunge outfit before that one, and apparently just liked the lipstick, I don't know.

This looks so stereotypically 80s...a mobile dance party. 

Now let's not forget about the art! It wasn't exactly paintings and photographs, although they did have plenty of that stuff at the vendor booths. This was more interactive, physical, installation sort of work.  There was rock opera, courtesy of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society:

Decorated cars, like the cartoon car, which holds the world record for most hours of airbrush paint time:

Hey look! I found Waldo!

The Heaven and Hell car, which was pretty cool: 

In case you couldn't tell, the left photo is Heaven, the right photo is Hell. 

And lots and lots of sculptures!

Mustache rides, anyone?

My favorite picture from the day, I caught this little girl pondering this sculpture. So cute!

This was a really cool installation piece. Each wooden box held a solar powered speaker, which made music in the sunlight.

Yum, nothing hits the spot quite like a strawberry banana smoothie with sunglasses :) Much needed after being in the sun all afternoon.

If you want to see any more  pictures from the day, you can find them in my Picasa album. Hopefully you are inspired to go and make some art of your own!