Info: https://www.thepealecenter.org/peale-faces/

Your Face, Your Place in History

Baltimore artist and participatory-history specialist Lauren Muney is hand-creating and installing custom silhouette (profile portraits) friezes of 300 Baltimore City, Maryland, residents’ silhouettes for long-term, free public installation at the Peale. These faces will encircle several rooms of the historical Peale walls, giving visitors, residents and guests the opportunity to feel the Baltimore ‘family’ all around them.

Social Justice in a Portrait

All of the faces will be profiles, all in the same color—classic black. The portraits showcase the beauty and dignity of each individual. Although a silhouette is a historical portrait form, it speaks to contemporary values of equality: each face will be equally represented and equally valued because they are seen for their essence—not their skin color nor social class, nor any weight of society’s judgements.

The contemporary—but historical-style—portraits on historic walls will allow community residents to visualize themselves as a part of history. When the installation is completed, the sitters will see their faces honored and represented in a public place of historic and contemporary significance; representation is a powerful connection to self- and community-respect and for shifting paradigms of inequity in society.

Baltimore region only: Schedule of sittings: https://calendly.com/peale-faces