Carly Bales
Carly J. Bales is a Baltimore artist working primarily in performance. Her work explores femininity and gender dynamics, power and control, intimacy and strangeness through performance, and often, a healthy dose of humor. Carly is the curator of the PULSE performance salon and event series, a project and experimental staging ground for the development and elevation of performance work in Baltimore. She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of programming for EMP Collective, a multi-use space and incubation nest in downtown Baltimore (“Best Collective” 2012, “Best Multi-Use Space” 2014, “Best New Series” 2015, Baltimore City Paper). She is also the co-director of Le Mondo, an initiative to create artist-owned real estate in the heart of Baltimore and develop an internationally-recognized hub for experimental arts. Historically, Carly J. Bales was birthed from a fissure in the ground at the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, made her way down to the Everglades to wrestle alligators, and now endures long, cold Baltimore winters without a proper coat and shoes, disappointing her mother greatly.