The Patapsco Inn

Hattie Wilder Karlstrom

The Patapsco Inn is a re-creation of a found vintage menu and an accompanying sound piece, experienced in person and online. The piece explores the experience of growing up in a family-owned restaurant-bar in Catonsville, Maryland in the 1950s. This work is a collaboration with the artist’s mother and grandmother. The Patapsco Inn explores restaurants and bars as gathering spaces, as well as the functionality of familial memory and legacy.

Photo provided by Brian Wilder