The Irreplaceability of Baltimore's Copycat Building

Rob Brulinski and Alex Wein are just two of the hundreds of artists who have lived and worked over the past 30 years in Baltimore's Copycat building, a former bottle cap factory in the recently coined Station North district. But in the decades since it became the center of Baltimore's avant garde community, they're the first to document the building's entire history into a book.

The Copycat Project is a 160-page photographic catalog of current tenants, highlighting the potent creative scene that continuously germinates inside the old industrial space. The book also sheds light on the long and varied past of the building, since, as Brulinski puts it, "everyone knows what the Copycat is, but no one knows the history of it." The book will be published in June and available for purchase on the artists' website.