Copycat Building
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The Copy Cat Building is a Baltimore, Maryland landmark containing artists' live/work/paint spaces.
The 1905 Baltimore City atlas shows the copycat building occupied by the Crown Cork & Seal bottle cap company. A similar sized building one block north also housed another portion of the company's enterprise with their main operation in East Baltimore.
Charles Lankford bought the 165000 square feet (15,329 m²) brick building at 1501 Guilford Avenue in 1983. The building is commonly called the "Copy Cat Building" after a billboard for the Copy Cat printing company that stood on its roof for years. At the time, it housed a variety of light-industrial tenants.
The Copy Cat Building was also home to The Wham City Art's Collective, former home to Baltimore artist Dan Deacon
, Blood Baby, Santa Dads, Videohipos, Ed Schrader, Jimmy Joe Roche
, and others. In addition to hosting local and touring acts Wham City hosted live stage performances, including of their interpretation of Beauty And The Beast
, and held the first Whartscape Festival in the building in 2006.
Bands that have played the warehouse include: Grimes, Fat Day, Lightning Bolt (Rhode Island), Black Forest/Black Sea (Rhode Island), Japanther
(Brooklyn, NY), Wolf Eyes
(Ann Arbor), Gravenhurst (England), Robotnicka (France), The Death Set, Matt + Kim, Nautical Almanac, Long Live Death, the USAISAMONSTER, Need New Body, Landed, Rapdragons, Dan Deacon
, Yukon, Muscle Brain.
Today, the Copy Cat is still home to many young artists, musicians, filmmakers, and professionals looking for a large space to live, create, study, and live in the city. The cost of rent is 50 cents per square foot.
There are many residents who utilize their living spaces to host art and music-related events. The building is used for the set of the talk show, "It's a Remarckable Time Who Cares."
Bands and other performers that currently list themselves as residents: Aardvark Mountain, Aghost, Alternate Seduction, Anteater Mountain, Avocado Happy Hour, Avocado Mountain, Happy Mountain, Danimal Collective, Auxiliary Thumbs, Baby Gap, The Babysitter's Club Mountain, Bad Soap, Baleen Relay, the Bel-Air Shitter, Bent Bread, Benjie Loveless, Bread Bender, Bon Appetit, Bored Control, Chiefs Hat, Chris Martinelli and Tropical Punch, The Church of Stop!, Crab Rangoon, Craft Service, Crumb, Crystal Mountain, Crystal Rainbow, Do While, Dope Body, Double Dagger, Each Other, Each Others, Ego Reduction, Encino Qdoba, Encino Thug, Exposed Wall, Eye Lid, Farts Per Second, Fish Lip, Focal Plane, Four Pounds of Bacon, Frank, Got Scalped?, Gotta Go to Work, Grainfinder, Grandlid, Grayson James Brown, Happy Family, Hexspeak, Holy Ghost Party, Impress, In Every Room, Iron Pile, Kirby Adams, Lee B. Freeman, Life, Leaf Shutter, Male Tuxedo Aggression, Mayonnaise Commercial, Metal Detector, Moccasin Brain, Moonraker, Mountain Mountain, My Father's Ass, No Name, Painful Dad, P.A.R.E., Pale Iron, Pare, Peanut Butter Balloon, Peanut Butter Mountain, Pet Rock, Pigment X, Pilar Diaz, Pipe Loop, Poor Mouth, Rainbow Mountain, Rainbow Crystals, Rainbow Rainbow, Rapdragons, Republican Noise, Richard Demerol, Rocktapus!, Royal Le, Run DMT, Sekret Dyke, Semya, Sharp Shitter, Slop Shoe, Smoke Like A Raven, Soda Brain, Smart Growth, Soft Cat, the Slimeys, x Stopping Down x, Turnip Bay Audio, Turnip Bay Coast Guard Marching Band, Turnip Bay Corps of Engineers, Turquoise Cats, Used Tire, Van Jones S.T.R.O.N.G., Water Tower, Walker Diggs, WCBM Rockers/Revenge, Weekends, Wild Furby, Wolfpack Jazz, Wooden Invalid, and Yawn.
The 1905 Baltimore City atlas shows the copycat building occupied by the Crown Cork & Seal bottle cap company. A similar sized building one block north also housed another portion of the company's enterprise with their main operation in East Baltimore.
Charles Lankford bought the 165000 square feet (15,329 m²) brick building at 1501 Guilford Avenue in 1983. The building is commonly called the "Copy Cat Building" after a billboard for the Copy Cat printing company that stood on its roof for years. At the time, it housed a variety of light-industrial tenants.
The Copy Cat Building was also home to The Wham City Art's Collective, former home to Baltimore artist Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon is an American composer and electronic musician based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2003, Deacon has released eight albums under several different labels...
, Blood Baby, Santa Dads, Videohipos, Ed Schrader, Jimmy Joe Roche
Jimmy Joe Roche
Jimmy Joe Roche is an American visual artist and underground filmmaker, based in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a long-time collaborator of the Baltimore-based musician Dan Deacon.-Career:Roche's works have been screened in venues and museums all over the U.S...
, and others. In addition to hosting local and touring acts Wham City hosted live stage performances, including of their interpretation of Beauty And The Beast
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740...
, and held the first Whartscape Festival in the building in 2006.
Bands that have played the warehouse include: Grimes, Fat Day, Lightning Bolt (Rhode Island), Black Forest/Black Sea (Rhode Island), Japanther
Japanther
Japanther is an art project, established by Matt Reilly and Ian Vanek, then students at Pratt Institute. Japanther was featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and the 2011 Venice Biennale, and has collaborated with a diverse pool of artists such as gelitin, Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, Dan Graham,...
(Brooklyn, NY), Wolf Eyes
Wolf Eyes
Wolf Eyes is a post-industrial/noise band from Detroit, Michigan, United States.-History:Wolf Eyes began as a solo project of former Nautical Almanac member Nate Young, with Aaron Dilloway joining in 1998, and John Olson in 2000...
(Ann Arbor), Gravenhurst (England), Robotnicka (France), The Death Set, Matt + Kim, Nautical Almanac, Long Live Death, the USAISAMONSTER, Need New Body, Landed, Rapdragons, Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon is an American composer and electronic musician based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2003, Deacon has released eight albums under several different labels...
, Yukon, Muscle Brain.
Today, the Copy Cat is still home to many young artists, musicians, filmmakers, and professionals looking for a large space to live, create, study, and live in the city. The cost of rent is 50 cents per square foot.
There are many residents who utilize their living spaces to host art and music-related events. The building is used for the set of the talk show, "It's a Remarckable Time Who Cares."
Bands and other performers that currently list themselves as residents: Aardvark Mountain, Aghost, Alternate Seduction, Anteater Mountain, Avocado Happy Hour, Avocado Mountain, Happy Mountain, Danimal Collective, Auxiliary Thumbs, Baby Gap, The Babysitter's Club Mountain, Bad Soap, Baleen Relay, the Bel-Air Shitter, Bent Bread, Benjie Loveless, Bread Bender, Bon Appetit, Bored Control, Chiefs Hat, Chris Martinelli and Tropical Punch, The Church of Stop!, Crab Rangoon, Craft Service, Crumb, Crystal Mountain, Crystal Rainbow, Do While, Dope Body, Double Dagger, Each Other, Each Others, Ego Reduction, Encino Qdoba, Encino Thug, Exposed Wall, Eye Lid, Farts Per Second, Fish Lip, Focal Plane, Four Pounds of Bacon, Frank, Got Scalped?, Gotta Go to Work, Grainfinder, Grandlid, Grayson James Brown, Happy Family, Hexspeak, Holy Ghost Party, Impress, In Every Room, Iron Pile, Kirby Adams, Lee B. Freeman, Life, Leaf Shutter, Male Tuxedo Aggression, Mayonnaise Commercial, Metal Detector, Moccasin Brain, Moonraker, Mountain Mountain, My Father's Ass, No Name, Painful Dad, P.A.R.E., Pale Iron, Pare, Peanut Butter Balloon, Peanut Butter Mountain, Pet Rock, Pigment X, Pilar Diaz, Pipe Loop, Poor Mouth, Rainbow Mountain, Rainbow Crystals, Rainbow Rainbow, Rapdragons, Republican Noise, Richard Demerol, Rocktapus!, Royal Le, Run DMT, Sekret Dyke, Semya, Sharp Shitter, Slop Shoe, Smoke Like A Raven, Soda Brain, Smart Growth, Soft Cat, the Slimeys, x Stopping Down x, Turnip Bay Audio, Turnip Bay Coast Guard Marching Band, Turnip Bay Corps of Engineers, Turquoise Cats, Used Tire, Van Jones S.T.R.O.N.G., Water Tower, Walker Diggs, WCBM Rockers/Revenge, Weekends, Wild Furby, Wolfpack Jazz, Wooden Invalid, and Yawn.