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Art Advocates and Legislators Join Together at Maryland Art Day
More than 400 arts advocates joined First Lady
Yumi Hogan, Speaker Mike Busch, Senators Kasemeyer, Madaleno and King, Delegates McIntosh and Jones, and Commerce Secretary Mike Gill at the 2016 Maryland Arts Day.
The Maryland Citizens for the Arts event included keynote speaker Navasha Daya, co-founder and director, of The Healing and Performing Arts Youth Resiliency Group; and the presentation of the 2016
Sue Hess Maryland Arts Advocate of the Year award to Herbert D. Massie, director of community engagement, Baltimore Clayworks. |
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| Arts Day coincided with Governor Larry Hogan's announcement of a record-setting budget of $20.3 million for the Maryland State Arts Council.
Pictured: First Lady Yumi Hogan at Maryland Arts Day on February 17. Photo by Richard Lippenholz |
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Maryland Celebrates Youth Art Month
Youth Art Month (YAM), sponsored by the National Art Education Association has been held each March since 1961 and is a national celebration of art and art education. Thousands of U.S. schools participate, often with involvement of art museums and civic organizations. This year the theme is The Power of Art.
YAM exists to recognize art as a necessity for the full development of a better quality of life, provides opportunities for students to join in creative art learning, and to foster community understanding and interest in art.
The Maryland Art Education Association sponsored a flag design contest for YAM — receiving more than 100 entries from across the state. The grand prizewinner is Mariya Occorso from Parkville High School in Baltimore County. |
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Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts receives Cherry Adler Award
MSAC awarded its esteemed Cherry Adler Award to Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts (CCTA), a Howard County–based theater company founded by
Toby B. Orenstein, 44 years ago. CCTA is dedicated to educating children, preschool to teens, through the arts by creating theatrical experiences that inspire thought, action, creativity, and change.
Named after the late
Charlotte (Cherry) Adler, a former MSAC chair who founded/directed the Library Theatre in Montgomery County, the Adler family funds a $3,000 prize that accompanies the honor. Avi Adler attended, representing the family.
Read more.
L to R: Theresa Colvin, MSAC executive director; Toby Orenstein; Avi Adler and Alexandra Franco, managing director of CCTA |
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2016 Maryland Poetry Out Loud State Competition March 12
Maryland’s Poetry Out Loud State Competition is March 12, 2016 at
1 p.m. at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The event is hosted by Aaron Henkin of WYPR’s The Signal, and features Victoria Vox as the musical guest.
The national recitation competition is co-created/co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation.
Maryland has the fifth highest participation in the country, with 98,000 students memorizing a poem and competing in the program over the past decade. This year, students will recite an original poem. The National Finals are May 4 at Lisner Auditorium, Washington D.C.
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First Lady Hosts Award Ceremony Honoring Student Artists
First Lady Yumi Hogan will host an awards ceremony today at
5 p.m. honoring the artistic achievements of the State’s student artists at the House of Delegates Gallery Space in the Lowe House Office Building. Governor’s Citations will go to the three first place winners, one from each elementary, middle and high school level.
Mrs. Hogan, an adjunct professor at Maryland Institute College of Art and an accomplished artist, is an advocate for the arts and art programs in Maryland schools. The Maryland State Department of Education’s Fine Arts Office, the Maryland Arts Education Association and the Maryland State Arts Council support the exhibit.
First Lady’s 2015 Art Gallery Exhibition. Photo by
Richard Lippenholz |
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| Aether & Hemera. Voyage consists of 300 floating paper boats encasing colored LED lights for a spectacular light show in the Inner Harbor. |
Shine a Light on Baltimore
On March 28, Light City Baltimore will host the first large-scale, international light festival in the U.S. Light City is a backdrop for the celebration of ideas, ingenuity and creativity through art, music and innovation and runs through April 3, 2016, in and around the Inner Harbor.
The exhibition consists of uniquely Illuminated artworks active all days of the festival; live performances with a light component; curated musical performances and concerts enhancing and complementing light displays/sculptures; and, innovative conferences on health, youth, and creativity. Learn more.
Youth Art Month celebrated in Howard County
In honor of Youth Art Month, the Howard County Arts Council and the Howard County Public School System will host its annual spring exhibit of student artwork in Gallery I at the Howard County Center for the Arts. This year’s exhibit Game Changers: Collaboration, Play and the Search for New Ideas, features hundreds of works by students in grades
K-12. The artwork investigates the many ways students can achieve artistic innovation through games and collaboration.
Learn more or call 410-313-ARTS (2787).
MGM National Harbor Showcases Art
Soon visitors will discover a permanent collection of high-quality art integrated into the MGM National Harbor’s public spaces. Inspired by the rich heritage of the Capital Region, the MGM National Harbor Heritage Collection will showcase commissioned and procured works by visionary local and international sculptors, photographers and mixed-media artists, including Margaret Boozer of Prince George’s County, Alice Aycock, Sam Gilliam, John Dreyfuss, John Safer, Liao Yibai and Chul Hyun Ahn of Baltimore, among others. Read more. |
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| L to R: Herb Massie, Sue Hess and John Schratwieser of Maryland Citizens for the Arts. |
| Herb Massie, a community artist, organizer, teacher, sculptor, mosaic artist, and Director of Community Engagement at Baltimore Clayworks received the "Sue Hess Maryland Arts Advocate of the Year Award" at the 2016 Maryland Arts Day, February 17.
The award is in honor of Sue Hess, MCA’s first Chair of the Board of Trustees and the longest serving member of the organization. It recognizes an individual whose advocacy efforts have significantly increased support for and public recognition of the arts in Maryland.
While Massie is a professional artist best known for his functional and sculptural clay works, mosaics and mask making, he is also an experienced educator, facilitating workshops in various recreational and PAL Centers, libraries, museums, and schools.
Read the full interview. |
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| Opportunities
National Arts Advocacy Day
Join arts advocates from across the country on March 7-8, 2016 in Washington, D.C. for the annual Arts Advocacy Day presented by Americans for the Arts. The event brings together a broad cross section of America's cultural and civic organizations, along with more than 500 grassroots advocates from across the country, to underscore the importance of developing strong public policies and appropriating increased public funding for the arts.
Learn more.
Frostburg Arts Walk
Artists can sign up for the April 23, Frostburg Arts Walk, sponsored by the Allegany Arts Council and FrostburgFirst. Sign up by March 12.
Register here.
Creative Baltimore Fund
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts is now accepting grant applications for the 2016 Creative Baltimore Fund. The grant program provides nearly $250,000 in funding to local individual artists and established non-profit cultural organizations. Applications and guidelines are available here. Deadline is April 30, 2016.
ArtsCONNECT Deadline Approaching
The deadline for Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's 2016-2017 ArtsCONNECT program is Friday, March 18, 2016. All program guidelines and application information is available here.
The ArtsCONNECT program promotes the presentation and touring of performing arts engagements of excellence across the mid-Atlantic region, supporting projects developed by presenter consortia that include both public performances and complementary activities.
For questions about the ArtsCONNECT program, contact Michelle Grove, at michelle@midatlanticarts.org. |
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| MSAC Grants
Maryland Touring
Grants ››
The fiscal year 2017 Maryland Touring Grant application is open in eGrant. Deadline is
April 15, 2016. Learn more.
A&E District Technical Assistance Grant ››
Only designated State of Maryland Arts & Entertainment Districts can apply. Arts & Entertainment Districts may receive only one Technical Assistance grant per fiscal year. The grant opens March 7, 2016 in eGrant. Deadline is
April 29, 2016.
Artist-In-Residence Grant for Schools ››
The MSAC's Artist in Residence program provides grants to Maryland schools covering half the cost of a teaching artist residency performance. Educators may browse the Artist in Residence Roster to select an MSAC artist.
Deadline is May 13, 2016,
by 5 pm. Read more. |
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Robin N. Hamilton is a journalist, writer, television host, and principal at ARoundRobin Production Company. The Maryland native resides in Silver Spring. She has worked as a broadcast journalist in Florida, New York, Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. Hamilton directed the 2015 documentary short film This Little Light of Mine: The Legacy of Fannie Hamer, featured at the upcoming Bethesda Film Fest.
The documentary explores the life of impoverished sharecropper Lou Hamer, who managed to become a powerhouse in the battle for the right to vote in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. |
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| The fourth annual Bethesda Film Fest will feature five short documentaries made by local filmmakers March 18 at 7pm and 9pm and March 19 at 8pm at Imagination Stage in downtown Bethesda. Read more.
Photo of Ms. Hamilton courtesy of ARoundRobin Production Company |
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