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Event Recap May 24, 2023

BDS Students Work With Alveole, Charm City Meadeworks and @Reedbmore to Promote the Importance of Pollinators

BDS students have been working with the folks from Alveole, a Certified B Corporation devoted to creating bee-friendly communities for healthier cities.  They currently work with organizations like the Baltimore Convention Center and The Abell Foundation which host hives on their rooftops that Alveole maintain and harvest honey and beeswax from.  It’s an inspiring and […]

BDS students have been working with the folks from Alveole, a Certified B Corporation devoted to creating bee-friendly communities for healthier cities.  They currently work with organizations like the Baltimore Convention Center and The Abell Foundation which host hives on their rooftops that Alveole maintain and harvest honey and beeswax from.  It’s an inspiring and meaningful program, with a mission to educate students and our communities on the necessity of pollinators in our ecosystem.

Alveole reached out to Baltimore Design School with an exciting opportunity to work with local artist @Reedbmore and create wire sculpture art that reflects and promotes pollinators in Baltimore.  Students would also work with Solomon Jeong, Urban Beekeeper, to learn about bees and beeswax through a ‘Wonders of Wax’ workshop (pictured above).

@Reedbmore visited BDS for the initial wire sculpture, and then hosted a workshop at Charm City Meadworks, where students could see how a business could thrive in an environment that both utilized and was good for the environment.  Reed talked with students about his background in architecture, in which he received a B.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and his work with illustration.  He discovered a passion working with wire and cable structure and found that he could express his thoughts and advocate for the community through his art.

Reed led students through several exercises so they get a feel for the strength and pliability of different gauges of wire and how malleable they were in comparison to how fragile they were when bent.  Students were tasked with creating various shapes and objects as they developed their skills.

Students created a variety of wire flowers that were hang from a master wire bee sculpture, in hopes that the community will look up as they travel through the city and ‘bee’ inspired.