Baltimore Sweep Action: Towards the Center is a cross-neighborhood project, which engages four distant communities in Baltimore. Through the meditative and cleansing action of sweeping, participants perform a gesture counter to the expanding motion of gentrification. Pushing towards the center, participants will celebrate crossing boundaries, and civic pride while being drawn towards the beautiful Mt Vernon Place raising awareness for the Walters exhibit Maps: Finding our Place in the World. The viewer in the park is confronted with a monumental relic of community collaboration. The trash is displayed openly as a reminder to the viewer that we must openly face our social and environmental problems.
