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Due to an unforeseen issue with our webhost, the launch of the new website has been delayed until March 2023. We appreciate your patience and we look forward to launch day!
Arts Council of Calvert County is getting ready to unveil a totally-redesigned calvertarts.org! In addition to all the things you love about our current website, we have great new features to share, including an interactive events calendar, program information, grant applications, news archive, gallery schedule, and more to come later in the year.
If you have any questions about the new website, send an email to marketing@calvertarts.org
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Gallery Hours
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Wednesday - Sunday
Gallery Address
110 Solomons Island Road N
Prince Frederick, MD 20678
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Are you looking to show or sell your work?
The CalvART Gallery wants to showcase emerging and established artists. Submit your application today by clicking the button below!
The Arts Council of Calvert County's CalvART Gallery is made possible by way of your generous financial support. Consider making a donation today - your contribution is fully tax-deductible. Thank you!
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The CalvART Gallery Show Schedule for 2023 Has Been Announced! | |
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Farmer's Daughter
Location: Bowen Farm
1099-1045 Dan Bowen Rd. Prince Frederick, MD
Kathy Bowen chose the "Farmer's Daughter" design because, as she says, "I am one." She and her mother, Mildred Bowen, now 98, are quilters as was her grandmother, Nettie A. Bowen.
The barn is located on Dan Bowen Road which is named for Kathy's grandfather. The barn where the square hangs was built by Kathy's father, James Bowen, who raised grain crops as well as tobacco until his death in 1984. The barn stores the family's now unused tobacco planter as well as being utilized as a carpentry shop for many projects. The tobacco stripping room remains in the basement of the barn.
The land where the barn stands has been in the Bowen family for at least five generations. Currently, Kathy and her son, Jamie Shifflett, operate a cow / calf operation. They are branching out into beekeeping and hope to produce much sought after local honey.
| Are you interested in sponsoring a quilt square? Would you like to find out if your barn, home, or place of business is eligible to display one? Contact the Arts Council for more information! | | |
Call for Entries: Breaking Ground: Art About the Earth
A National Juried Exhibition
Opens February 10, 2023
Art has long been a partner of natural science to document our experiences. Imagination and vision are required when responding to the challenges of our ever-changing environment due to climate change in urban and rural ecosystems. Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center invites artists to engage in their mission to connect art and nature by creatively visualizing the impacts of sustainability on our Earth. This show will feature works highlighting the fragility, ferocity, beauty, transformation, and stark realities induced by human behavior.
all media welcome • small to large-scale works • cash awards
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Annmarie is committed to connecting people to art and nature. Through a wide variety of engaging exhibits, programs, classes, public projects, and annual events, Annmarie opens up opportunities for creativity, collaboration, and reflection. By providing opportunities for visitors to experience and engage in imaginative activities, Annmarie seeks to nurture the human spirit and contribute to a healthy society. | |
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ArtWorks@7th Presents: Cabin Fever
January 5 -29, 2023
Open House: January 7 at 1:00 PM
Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Hello to a New Year with endless possibilities! Winter days ushered us from frenzied holidays into cold January where gray skies atop leafless trees steal the landscape of warmth and forces us inside day after day - cabin fever has arrived. This visceral need to be among people, the desire to shake off the couch crumbs, the need to take in stimulating scenery is the universe telling you to get up and get out! Listen to your inner artist, take a walk, study the trees’ long limbs, smell the cold air, meet a friend for a hot drink. Come to Artworks@7th and you’ll see works by local artists like “Evening Walk” by Mike Smawley, “Tabby at the Window” by Suzanne Shelden and “Cat Sleeping on the Porch” by Davy Strong and much more to help erase those winter doldrums!
Our featured artist for January is Benita Jenkins. Benita is an enthusiastic new artist eager to share her artistic creations with the community. She paints out of enjoyment and passion and says that painting gives her peace. Come support this aspiring new artist! Her bright colored abstracts will surely brighten your winter day.
Money spent locally stays in the local economy and continues to strengthen the economic base of the entire community. Small local businesses make indispensable contributions to communities and neighborhoods. Supporting local artists allows them the opportunity to continue to serve their communities. You will often see members of Artworks@7th supporting local charities and organizations by participating in art shows, teaching workshops, and donating items for fundraisers.
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Find an activity for everyone in your family at a Calvert Library location: in Prince Frederick, Owings, Solomons, Chesapeake Beach, and online!
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The Calvert Marine Museum hosts events large and small throughout the year. Some, like Patuxent River Appreciation Days in October, are staples in the regional calendar. Others, like the Solomons Maritime Festival in May, celebrate our maritime heritage through music, food, traditional crafts and skills. No matter what your interest or age, there is something here for you. | | |
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CTSMD’s mission is to support productions and classes that showcase and educate local talent while enhancing the artistic experience for all who participate, whether on stage, behind the scenes, or in the audience. We seek to foster, promote, and increase the public knowledge and appreciation of the arts and cultural activities in Southern Maryland, while developing opportunities for children in theatre arts. Visit www.ctsmd.org for more info.
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The primary objective of the Chamber Orchestra of Southern Maryland in Concert (COSMIC) is to provide the Southern Maryland community with high quality classical music performed by its own local musicians. COSMIC Symphony provides an enjoyable orchestral experience for a large cross section of our community through the diversity of our musical selections. The music selections include a family program, music for young adults, holiday favorites, and symphonic music for the serious concertgoers.
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Founded in 2010, New Direction Community Theater was created to provide entertainment and acting opportunities for all ages in addition to serving as a local hub for thespians and audience members interested in an intimate theater-going experience.
Our mission and purpose is to enrich, educate and entertain our Calvert County Community by providing a quality, live theater experience for all ages. Along with traditional shows, we offer one children’s show annually for our young actors and audiences.
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Southern Maryland Bluegrass Concert Series at the Elk's
https://www.somdbluegrass.com/
February 12, 2023 - Lonesome River Band
March 12 - Volume Five
April 6 - High Fidelity
Calvert Elks Lodge
1015 Dares Beach Road
Prince, Frederick, MD
Tickets $20 (under 12 free with paying adult) available for purchase at the door. Concert begins at 2:00 PM - Doors open at noon. Food and beverages available for sale, 50/50 raffles and door prizes.
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The Twin Beach Players (TBP), Inc. (incoporated 27 August 1998) is a nonprofit community theater group based in Chesapeake Beach and North Beach, Maryland. The TBP will promote the performing arts and culture for the residents of the Twin Beach communities. The TBP plans to provide the community with three theatrical productions per season, and would appreciate the continuing support of the community.
Today, the TBP remains a viable and creative community theatre, featuring the talents of volunteer actors, directors, designers and crew, drawn from the Twin Beach communities. The membership has grown with the business and community support and from those who support and love community theater.
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Grants are Available Now From These Organizations! | Click on the organization's logo to be redirected to their grants webpage. | | |
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strengthens instruction by investing in outstanding teachers' self-determined professional growth and development in order to support student success, enrich teachers' practice, and strengthen schools and communities. Summer fellowship grants are provided to pre-K-12 teachers throughout the continental United States and Hawaii to pursue self-designed professional learning. Teachers decide what they want to learn and where they want to learn it. As scientists, researchers, artists, and agents of change, selected Fellows return to their classrooms with new ideas that transform student learning and achievement. Full-time pre-K-12 grade teachers who spend at least 50% of their time directly providing instruction to students and have at least three years' experience are eligible to apply. Individuals may apply for up to $5,000, and teams may apply for up to $10,000. The application deadline is January 19, 2023. Application guidelines are available on the Fund for Teachers website.
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supports innovative temporary public art projects that enhance the vibrancy of cities in the 50 United States and territories including Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Marianas. Mayors of U.S. cities with 30,000 residents or more may apply for up to $1 million in funding to create temporary public art projects that celebrate creativity, enhance urban identity, encourage public-private collaborations, and strengthen local economies. Submissions across all artistic disciplines will be considered. Up to ten winners will be chosen to execute their projects, which may include multiple installations in a single city, over 24 months. Grants will cover project-related expenditures including development, execution, and marketing. Applications must be submitted by the mayor or chief executive of the city on behalf of a collaboration between the city and an artist or arts organization. The deadline to apply is February 15, 2023. The online application is available on the Public Art Challenge website.
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Tri-M Foundation: Performing Arts Grant Program
The mission of the Tri-M Foundation is to cultivate and promote the production and presentation of regional performing and media arts. The Foundation's Performing Arts Grant Program provides grants ranging from $3,000 to $10,000 for the development and presentation of innovative, high-quality performing arts projects, events, and festivals by regional nonprofit arts organizations. For 2023-2024, the Foundation will award grants in the disciplines of theatre and dance. Projects should represent a unique regional perspective, and projects that address sensitive topics, controversial politics, and uncomfortable subjects are welcome. Eligible applicants include nonprofit arts organizations with annual operating budgets of under $1,000,000, nonprofit umbrella arts organizations, and individual artists or small arts organizations without 501(c)(3) status who identify a nonprofit umbrella arts organization as a fiscal sponsor. The application deadline for projects scheduled from August 2023 to July 2024 is February 15, 2023. Application guidelines and forms are available on the Foundation's website.
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Got Something to Add? Share it With Us! | If you have an event coming up, send all the details and promo materials to marketing@calvertarts.org by Thursday at 6:00 PM to be included in the following Friday's Weekend Kaleidoscope. The Arts Council of Calvert County is proud to support and promote Calvert County's Creative Community! | | | | |
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