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Maryland Folklife Festival Returns Creative Alliance played host to the fifth annual Maryland Traditions Folklife Festival on June 13. Among the hundreds of visitors to the free event was First Lady Yumi Hogan. An artist herself, she took in a Korean drumming show and enjoyed numerous demonstrations including shipbuilding, drum making and poster printing. The day’s highlights included dance competitions, live bands, ethnic foods and crab picking. Enjoy photos from the festival here. |
| The Maryland Folklife Program documents, promotes and sustains living traditions through Maryland Traditions, its statewide partnership initiative. The program offers Apprenticeship and Project grants, the annual Achievement in Living Traditions and Arts (ALTA) Awards and the Maryland Traditions Folklife Festival.
Photo: First Lady Yumi Hogan enjoying the festival, by Michael G. Stewart |
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The Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) elected its slate of officers at the Council's June meeting. Carol Trawick of Montgomery County continues as chair, along with Sandi Oxx of Frederick County, as vice chair. New to the trio of officers is Carla DuPree of Howard County as secretary/treasurer. Governor Larry Hogan reappointed Trawick and Du Pree to continue to serve second terms with the MSAC. Councilor Dr. Eric Conway, who was appointed to the council in 2009, has served honorably and MSAC thanks him for his years of dedicated service. Dr. Conway is the director of the Morgan State University Choir and the chairperson of Morgan’s Fine and Performing Arts Department. MSAC is an appointed body of 17 citizens. The Governor names 13 members to three-year terms, which are renewable once. The President of the Senate and Speaker of the House each appoint two private citizens and two legislators. Learn more. Pictured L to R: Carla Du Pree, Carol Trawick and Sandi Oxx |
The recent Individual Artist Award (IAA) celebration honored the immense talent and diversity of Maryland’s artists. During the ceremony, guests enjoyed a variety of music from IAA awardees: Greg Latta, Anne Hambleton Watts and Paul Carr and his jazz ensemble. More than 400 artists applied for the 2015 IAA grants. The 88 awardees received a total of $233,000 in grants to advance their artistic careers. The 2015 Awards went to artists working in the categories of Crafts, Non-Classical Music Composition, Non-Classical Music Solo Performance, Photography, and Playwriting. The deadline to apply for next year’s awards is July 23, 2015. Learn more. Pictured: Letitia VanSant and the Bonafides by Edwin Remsberg |
CAAM members, representing 15 counties, met in June for their annual gathering at the MSAC offices in Baltimore. CAAM is a non-profit statewide assembly of arts councils established to foster, promote, and develop skills and articulate the needs of Maryland's diverse arts communities. CAAM works in cooperation with the MSAC and Maryland Citizens for the Arts (MCA) to increase artistic opportunities for Maryland artists, arts organizations and citizens. The organization meets quarterly each year. Maryland has 23 County Arts Councils, and the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts in Baltimore City. Pictured are executive directors and representatives of CAAM, and Pamela Dunne, MSAC program director |
Maryland Communities Receive National Recognition for Dynamic Arts Culture Silver Spring is home to the American Film Institute’s AFI Silver Theatre and Culture Center and AFI Docs, entertainment, musical, and ethnic festivals, the most notable of which are the Silverdocs documentary film festival and The Silver Spring Jazz Festival. Other notable organizations in the region are the Olney Theatre Center, Round House Theatre and Imagination Stage both in Bethesda. Arts events include Festival for the Arts in Frederick and performances by the Rockville Chorus, Rockville Civic Ballet, Rockville Concert Band and others. In addition, Easton/Talbot County ranked 18th in the country on the NCAR Top 20 Arts Vibrant Medium and Small Cities (population under 1 million) list. The Avalon Theatre is the heart of Easton’s arts scene, highlighting everything from symphony orchestras to blue grass bands. Also included are the Academy Art Museum, Easton Choral Arts Society, Chesapeake Chamber Music, Chesapeake Youth Chorale, Bach to the Future and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. Learn more. Public Art Blooms in Baltimore County A panel selected two pieces to launch this innovative project, “Leaves of Grass” by Pattie Porter Firestone, and “Uncle Mike's Animal House,” by Mike Shaffer. The official opening of LAND&ART@MARC is on Saturday, August 1, 10 a.m. to noon at the Baltimore County Ag Center in Cockeysville, in conjunction with the 70th Annual Hereford Junior Farm Fair. Read more. Local Arts Agencies, Be Heard Report Reflects Growing Arts Industry Public Spaces Debate
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Kathy Hornig is Festivals Director at the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts (BOPA). She is organizing her 13th Artscape. MSAC: Can you tell us about your background? Kathy Hornig: I'm an O’s lovin’-crab cake eating -15-star, 15-stripe flag-Purple Fridays-Cross Street Market-kind of Baltimore girl! I am an alumnus of the University of Baltimore, St. Mary's College and Annapolis High, with a brief detour at Oxford to study Medieval and Renaissance poetry. MSAC: How long have you been in charge of Artscape? Kathy Hornig: My first Artscape was 2002. MSAC: How does your office coordinate such a large, popular festival? What are the challenges? Kathy Hornig: Our BOPA team brings an incredible amount of energy, enthusiasm, hard work and joy to coordinating Artscape – and that is really the only way to pull off something this large and popular! Probably our biggest challenge is that most festivals of Artscape’s size and caliber have a year-round dedicated staff, but we’re also producing BOPA’s 30+ other programs, in addition to Artscape. MSAC: Is there a specific year that stand out as ill-fated or an exceptionally memorable year? Why? Kathy Hornig: Every Artscape holds special memories for me, and of course, there have been many standout exhibitions and concerts over the years (shout out to CAKE!). But if I had to pick just one – it was 1999, and I was actually a festivalgoer, not on staff. That’s because right before we headed down to Artscape, I told my husband Rick that I was expecting our son! Read More. Known as America's largest free arts festival, Artscape attracts 350,000+ attendees over three days (July 17-19) at Charles Street and Mount Royal Avenue in Baltimore City. |
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Hilary Hachey is a metalsmith creating distinctive and complex jewelry. She is a 2015 Individual Artist Award winner and will have a booth in the Artists Market at Artscape, July 17-19. "I consider my work to be architectonic. That is, a type of perceived sensibility to form and design that prefers the simple over the complex and the well-built over the mass-produced," she says. By translating a design into wearable adornment, her aim is to find the intersection of fine art and the production of functional objects. Hilary studied Metalsmithing at The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She creates each of her pieces by hand in her Baltimore studio and sells her jewelry across the country. Learn more. |
| Featured Events | |||
Through July 28 Perspectives: by John and Shari Kuhn |
July 2 – August 20 Summer Concert Series |
July 9 & 16 Thursday Summer Concert Series |
July 17-19 Artscape |
