Visiting Artist Workshop
2025 Visiting Artist & Master Workshop Series
Howard Community College’s Art & Design Department presents an annual Visiting Artist & Master Workshop Series. With a focus on community and student enrichment, the series annually features a guest artist presenting on a specific topic related to their work. Students and community members have an opportunity to participate in a credit or non-credit capacity.
About The 2025 Visiting Artist - Kini Collins
Kini Collins is a Baltimore-based multi-disciplinary artist and writer. Through many years of studying, mastering, and teaching a range of martial arts both in the US and Japan, she honed her philosophy that discipline and desire are as important as talent and that failure is a misnomer.
After an injury halted her ability to continue practicing martial arts, Kini turned her philosophy and her attention first to editing and fiction writing, then to visual arts. She began her art life with learning to draw as a way of developing her observational skills as a writer, but soon realized that art-making itself was another avenue open to her creative practices. She has since extended her visual work in different media, including clay/ceramics, painting, sculpture, and collage.
Kini continues to work as a visual artist and writer, exhibiting her artwork locally and nationally. In 2022 her novel, The Singing Bowl, was published by Spuyten Duyvil Press.
Exhibition
June 9 - August 10, 2025
The Rouse Company Foundation Gallery
Open Daily 9a.m. - 9:30p.m. (Closed on July 3 and 4)
Free Public Lecture & Reception
Thursday, June 26, 2025
6 - 7 p.m. Lecture in the Monteabaro Recital Hall
7 - 8:30 p.m. Reception
One-Day Workshop with Kini Collins
Saturday, June 28, 2025
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Lunch Break at 12:30 p.m. Bring your own brown bag lunch.
Supplies Fee: $25
Register for the Workshop with Visiting Artist Kini Collins
I have long been fascinated with ecotones, places where two different environments meet, interact and integrate -- marshlands, estuaries, field/forest, ocean/shore. When our house was being renovated we ended up with a lot of scrap wood. Not wanting to just chuck it out, it led me to a series I called LandSCRAPes, using the wood to depict wetlands. I cut, tore and ripped up sections of molding, bead board and lath, attached them roughly to a backing board, then finished them with acrylic paint.
Working from a memory of an ecotone you have visited you will create an assemblage using recycled materials. We provide backing boards, a whole lot of scrap wood, paint, hardware and tools. If you have any scraps that you value and would like to use you are welcome to bring them too.
HOROWITZ CENTER OPERATING HOURS
- The Box Office is open for in-person and over-the-phone ticket purchases, Wednesday through Friday from 12-4p.m. Contactless purchasing is preferred. Online ticket sales are available 24/7.
- E-tickets, also known as print-at-home tickets, are preferred. These tickets can be scanned through a contactless transaction either on your phone or on a paper you print at home.
CONTACT US
PHONE: 443-518-1500 EXT 0
EMAIL: boxoffice@howardcc.edu
Patron Safety Protocols
The college’s top priority remains the health, safety, and well-being of the college community. This includes the staff, students, artists, and patrons who participate in events presented in the Horowitz Center. Below you'll find information about what you can expect when you attend an exhibit or performance in the Horowitz Center this season.
