Performance Archives - Uncustomary

Monster Mash – One Woman Flash Mob 2020

by Uncustomary | Oct 17, 2020 | Performance, Street Art

In 2013, when I first started my business, I was putting on an event every month. I had been pretty successful for just starting and having almost no following with a many dozen people showing up for my first three events. Then, four months in, on a Saturday where a...

Honk If You Love Bubbles

by Uncustomary | May 12, 2020 | Performance, Street Art

We didn’t get to have the Bubble Parade this year, which is really sad. So I wanted to still celebrate bubbles. One of the most common things I hear from participants at the Bubble Parade every year is that they wish this was every week because they wish they...

When Life Gives You Lemons…

by Uncustomary | May 3, 2020 | Performance, Street Art

Between cold weather, mental illness, break ups, and just a general lack of inspiration, I haven’t been doing a lot of guerrilla art and I miss it. I haven’t had that many original ideas lately, but I decided that didn’t mean I couldn’t still...

No Pants Subway Ride DC 2020

by Uncustomary | Jan 19, 2020 | Performance, Body Positivity

If you’re new around here, I’m happy to introduce you to one of my favorite annual traditions: the No Pants Subway Ride! It started way back in 2002 in New York, when Improv Everywhere was just beginning. Now that group is a straight up movement, and the...

Monster Mash – A One Woman Flash Mob

by Uncustomary | Oct 16, 2019 | Performance

[Throwback to 2013 – to see the 2020 version, click here] Every month I host a community event, and October’s was supposed to be a flash mob. I made a Facebook event and told all my friends to join me in Baltimore. There was no choreography to memorize, we...

Mama Duck Crossing Street With Her Rubber Ducklings

by Uncustomary | Aug 30, 2019 | Performance, Street Art

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but in the past year I’ve become pretty obsessed with ducks. It all started with this pair of ducks that just wander our neighborhood. There is no water to be found. They just moved to Baltimore and love it here, and I...