|
|
The 3rd Annual Maryland Traditions Folklife Festival is Saturday, June 15 at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore—rain or shine. The festival is presented by the Maryland State Arts Council’s Folklife program, From Maryland Traditions.
The free, family-friendly festival features two music stages, workshops for kids and adults and a mix of distinctive Maryland foods. |
|
WYPR profiles Folklife Festival performer
“Uhwachi-Reh” is a Tuscarora name meaning “Extended Family.” Thousands of Native Americans – mostly from North Carolina’s Lumbee and Haliwa-Saponi tribes – migrated to Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood following the Depression to work in the city’s booming industrial plants. Louis Campbell (pictured), who is Lumbee, leads Uhwachi-Reh and creates ceremonial regalia influenced by inter-tribal pow-wows. In an interview with WYPR’s The Signal, Campbell says he considers dancing to be “a form of prayer in motion."
Campbell, who is cultural director at Native American Lifelines in Baltimore, will dance in the regalia, which he made by hand, at the 3rd Annual Maryland Traditions Folklife Festival. More than a dozen other traditional artists and performers will lead workshops or demonstrations in arts that include screen painting, banjo making, engraving, boat building, decoy carving and more. Music at the festival includes jazz headliner Lafayette Gilchrist and the New Volcanoes, plus a dozen other musical styles, from Doo-Wop to Bluegrass. See the 2013 Festival Program for the full festival line-up. Photo credit: Edwin Remsberg
|
| |
“Art Works” with Gov. O’Malley
A musician and artist in his own right, Maryland Gov. O’Malley’s leadership during the legislative session helped pass new public art legislation and restore arts funding to pre-recession levels. In February, he received the Americans for the Arts Public Leadership in the Arts Award, becoming the only elected official to do so as both a mayor and a governor.
As vibrant statewide arts continue to advance Maryland, the National Endowment for the Arts caught up with Governor O’Malley (pictured left in Station North Arts & Entertainment District) to ask a few questions about the arts in Maryland and beyond. Read the interview. Photo credit: Executive Office of the Governor.
|
|
State’s A&E Districts grow, attract funds
At the June 4 annual meeting of the Maryland Arts & Entertainment (A&E) Districts, the MSAC announced the addition of two new districts: Historic Stevensville (Queen Anne’s) and the Leonardtown (St. Mary’s), which brings the total number of unique A&E districts in Maryland to 22. The designation offers various tax benefits to attract artists, arts organizations and businesses to locate in a jurisdiction that is in turn enlivened by arts activities and enterprise.
The announcement comes on the heels of a new FY2012 economic impact report that shows significant growth in jobs, wages, tax revenues and GDP, compared to the previous report covering fiscal years 2008 through 2010). See CBS Local news coverage.
Also at the meeting, two major ArtPlace America grants, which impacts four A&E Districts were announced. The first, a $200,000 grant to the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts (BOPA), will support an art in transit collaboration between Baltimore’s three A&E Districts (Bromo Tower, Highlandtown and Station North.
A second grant of $240,000 to Joe’s Movement Emporium, will support phase II of “Art Lives Here,” a visibility campaign designed to showcase creative life in the Prince George’s County Gateway Arts District.
The annual A&E District Outstanding Achievement Award, which recognizes the district that achieves the greatest social and economic impact in a given year, was presented to both Gateway and Silver Spring A&E districts as co-recipients. Pictured: Brooke Kidd, Executive Director, Joe’s Movement Emporium; Barbara Bershon, MSAC Chair; Bridget Marquis, ArtPlace America Program Director.
|
|
Arts Council honors Individual Artist awardees
Maryland artists that received a Maryland State Arts Council 2013 Individual Artist Award (IAA) were honored at the annual IAA Celebration and Reception at the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM), May 20. More than 600 artists applied for the award within the categories of Fiction, Solo Theatrical Performance, Media/Digital/Electronic Arts, Painting and Works on Paper. The 87 artists were selected solely on the basis of artistic merit received grants totaling $218,000 to advance their artistic careers. See event photos on Facebook.
The ceremony was attended by MSAC council chair Barbara Bershon, vice-chair Carol Trawick and AVAM founder and director Rebecca Hoffberger. Baltimore writer Michael Downs, who received an IAA this year for his novel Painless made keynote remarks about persevering the importance of the artist to the community. Blessed Sheriff, a 10th grader at Richard Montgomery High who in April received $10,000 for placing 2nd at the National Poetry Out Loud final competition, recited her winning collection of poems, including her favorite, “The Lamb,” by Linda Gregg.
The 2014 Individual Artist Award is open for applications in the categories of Choreography, Classical Music Composition, Classical Music Solo Performance, Poetry, Sculpture, Solo Dance Performance, World Music Composition and World Music Solo Performance with a deadline of July 26, 2013.
|
| |
|
|
Festivals abound this June
June kicks off summer Festival season, with a variety of arts festivals happening across the entire state. From the mountains to the beaches, arts festivals across Maryland offer attendees to experience the artistic flavor of the region and provide artists an opportunity to showcase and sell their work. Beyond some of June’s festivals standouts (see events below), check out the Maryland Tourism Events Calendar for more.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
IN THE NEWS
|
|
EVENTS
|
- The National Music Festival at Washington College brings world-class musicians from major orchestra chamber ensembles and conservatory faculties together with gifted apprentice musicians. The result is 33 concerts, 38 events and more than 200 free open rehearsals for music lovers from around the world. June 1-15 in and around Chestertown.
- Traditional string musicians from across America square off at the annual Deer Creek Fiddler’s Convention, featuring Oldtime, Bluegrass and Celtic Music, clog dancing, crafts, Maryland foods and more! Presented by Common Ground on the Hill, Sat., June 8 at the Carroll County Farm Museum.
- The Allegany County Arts Council presents its third annual Mountain Maryland Plein Air event featuring 30 juried artists from across the U.S. The artists painted throughout Allegany and Garrett counties and their work goes on sale at the Arts Council's Saville Gallery in Cumberland. May 29-June 16.
- Berlin Arts & Entertainment District presents 2nd Fridays, featuring an art stroll, artist receptions, street music, and more—all within 15 minute from Ocean City. Jun. 14, Jul. 12 and Aug. 9.
- The Annapolis Arts, Crafts and Wine Festival is a two-day outdoor celebration of the arts that presents 200 of the region’s best artists and crafters. Browse the juried exhibition while sampling wines from more than 25 Maryland wineries and listening to jazz. June 8-9, Annapolis.
- Columbia Festival of the Arts offers music, dance, comedy, poetry, art exhibits, film and more—including ManneqART, a makeup and hair art competition in Historic Savage Mill. The festival runs June 14-29 in Columbia and culminates with a performance by comedienne Paula Poundstone.
- The Charles County Arts Alliance brings together artists from across the county for its 20th Charles County Art Fest, presenting music, visual art, drama, dance and literature. It is the largest arts festival in Charles County. Sat., June 8 in La Plata.
- A gem of Southern Maryland, the Summer Concert Series, presented by St. Mary’s College, returns, with Friday evening concerts from June 26-July 21. “Night in Vienna,” “Peter, that Wolf, & Other Wild Things,” and “A Star Spangles Night,” are among this year’s concert themes.
- The 18th Takoma Park Jazz Fest, June 9, features all day performance on two stages, sharing its Carroll Avenue location with the Takoma Park Farmer’s Market, which offers local Maryland food delights. 2013 headliners include the acoustic quartet Veronneau and Chris Vadala—one of the country’s woodwind artists—along with his quartet.
|
OPPORTUNITIES
& DEADLINES |
Deadlines for Maryland State Arts Council programs:
- Arts & Entertainment Districts Technical Assistance Grant: Designated Arts & Entertainment Districts are eligible to apply. The application is now open in eGrant. There are four application deadlines:
- July 25, 2013 for activities that will begin or take place between October 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014
- September 12, 2013 for activities that will begin or take place between January 1, 2014 and June 30, 2014
- January 23, 2013 for activities that will begin or take place between April 1, 2014 and June 30, 2014
- Individual Artist Award: Individual Maryland artists practicing within the disciplines of Choreography, Classical Music Composition, Classical Music Solo Performance, Poetry, Sculpture, Solo Dance Performance, World Music Composition and World Music Solo Performance are eligible to apply. Grant guidelines will be posted by April 15 and the application will open in eGrant around June 1, with a deadline of July 26, 2013.
- Poetry Out Loud: Registration for POL 2013-2014 opened May 1, 2013 with an application deadline of October 1, 2013. All Maryland schools are eligible to apply.
Join the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC), June 26 from 1:00-3:00pm at Ocean Pines Library (11107 Cathell Road, Ocean Pines, MD 21811) for an informational meeting about MSAC’s Arts in Education (AiE) program. AiE Program Director Chris Stewart as she presents information on grants available to schools for residencies and assemblies and special budget options for the Lower Shore. Information for artists interested in working in the schools, including professional development opportunities and grants for individual artists, will also be shared. RSVP to Chris Stewart, cstewart@msac.org or 410-767-6476.
Through the 2014 Film Festivals Grants Program, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences supports film festivals that make festival events more accessible to the general public, provide greater access to minority and less visible filmmakers, and help strengthen the connection between the filmmaker and the public. The deadline to apply is June 26, 2013.
The Open Society Audience Engagement Grant supports photographers to take an existing body of work on a social justice or human rights issue and devise an innovative and effective way of using that work as a tool for social change. Five to eight grants ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 will be granted. The deadline to apply is June 18.
Maryland Art Place (MAP) is seeking artists working in a diverse range of media for a Regional Juried Exhibition, opening September 19, 2013. The exhibition is intended to explore the contemporary, cultural climate of Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania and will be juried by Kristen Hileman, Curator of Contemporary Art and Department Head at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The deadline to apply is July 5, 2013.
The National Endowment for the Arts’ “Art Works” grant for school-based projects provides grants ranging from $10,000-$100,000 to arts projects that include instruction for youth, generally between ages 5 and 18, that result in increased knowledge and skills in the arts. The deadline to apply is August 8, 2013.
|
175
W. Ostend St., Suite E
Baltimore, MD 21230 |
|
410-767-6555 TTY1-800-735-2258 |
|
www.msac.org |
| |
Martin
O'Malley, Governor |
|
|
