A Dialogue in 4 Acts

A Dialogue in 4 Acts invites the Weitzman community to learn about and participate in the process of making a monument as a part of the Mobile Community Brick Factory & Monument exhibit. The Mobile Community Brick Factory & Monument is a project centered in process, people, and making. To date, we have engaged over 15,000 people in Baltimore, made over 2,500 unique bricks, and collected over 1,000 personal stories from Baltimore residents.

While The Mobile Community Brick Factory & Monument creates a shared space for co-design and ultra-mobile brickmaking, visitors and participants in A Dialogue in 4 Acts find connections to stories that are like their own.

Marian April Glebes is a conceptual artist, preservation planner, wife, activist, gardener, and human. In 2015, she became the inaugural Artist-In-Residence at the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Patricia and Mark Joseph Center for Education, during which she mounted a yearlong exhibition and associated public programming. She received a 2015 Rubys Artist Award from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation and three Our Town Creative Placemaking Grants from the NEA (2011, 2016, 2019) for her collaborative work in the public realm. Glebes’s work has been included in various solo and group exhibitions in Baltimore and beyond. She curates exhibitions and temporal public art installations, happenings, conversations, and lecture series. Having received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2004 and her MFA from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in 2009, she has made a home in Baltimore, and supports artist-run spaces as a consultant and works on the Cultural Landscapes team at Quinn Evans while pursuing dual master’s degrees in City and Regional Planning and Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. When not a student herself, she teaches as Part-Time Faculty at MICA in the General Fine Arts Department which she joined in 2012.

If you require any accessibility accommodation, such as live captioning, audio description, or a sign language interpreter, please email news@design.upenn.edu. Please note, we require at least five (5) business days’ notice.