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- Prince George's County Councilwoman Mary Lehman kicks off the holiday season for seniors at her annual Senior Appreciation Breakfast. Many soccer opportunities are available for youth in Laurel. Deerfield Run Community Center offers a variety of activities starting in January. Montpelier Arts Center has several juried art exhibitions opening in March.
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The Contemporary museum brings in national artists; at the Ivy Bookshop, local icons discuss books that influenced their lives - Photographer John Ruppert chronicled a month in Iceland with remarkable composite images of the rugged terrain, current on exhibit at C. Grimaldis Gallery.
- Visitors to Fallston High School, as well as the students and staff who are there every day, are treated to the sight of a student-designed and fabricated mosaic at the entrance to the school's main office.
- More than 100 items explore the folk art's history, relevance
- Nothing 'same old, same old' about this brilliant look at Stephen Sondheim
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- Arthur Lee Shreve Waxter, a Towson and Bolton Hill real estate developer who was a former Maryland Arts Council chairman, died of cancer Sunday at Talbot Hospice House in Easton. The former Roland Park resident was 87.
- Motion for summary judgment argues that even good-faith purchasers have no claim to stolen property
- Authors & Artists Holiday Gift Sale at the Bel Air Armory
- After an 18-month hiatus, Baltimore's Contemporary Museum has resurfaced with a shortened name and a return to its original mission.
- The pop-up Bmore3D Store launched on Black Friday and will be open through December. Its founders say it's the first 3D-only retail store in the region and one of a relative handful nationwide.
- The Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance has established a new grant program dubbed the "Rubies" that will distribute $120,000 during 2014 to support the "long-dreamed of or newly inspired creative projects" of local artists.
- Symphony Woods in downtown Columbia is a patch of nondescript land used mainly as a pathway for the tens of thousands of people who attend concerts at Merriweather Post Pavilion each year.
- For its 16th year, Carroll County's Festival of Wreaths is shaking things up a little. Once held on the first floor of the Carroll Arts Center, the popular fundraiser is moving to the second floor, allowing the center to open its annual Gallery of Gifts earlier.
- The Dancel Family Center YMCA is sponsoring its annual Turkey Trot Charity 5K on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 28, at 8:30 a.m.
- Although Eileen Williams works in fabric and Deborah Berman works in paper collage, these two artists share a collage-oriented artistic sensibility in their separate exhibits at the Columbia Art Center.
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- A hearing has been set for Jan. 10 on a motion to return "Paysage Bords de Seine" to the Baltimore Museum of Art. Meanwhile, settlement discussions are ongoing.
- Anonymous artist erected a metal statue of a person in the middle of the traffic circle at 32nd Street and Guilford Avenue. Residents think it's nice and have been putting winter clothing on it, but city transportation officials say it is not approved and must come down — and that DOT will do it unless th artist or community does it first. Nov. 22 apparently is D-Day.
- The Baltimore Museum of Art will reopen its historic entrance Nov. 23, 2014 to mark the museum's centennial. The entrance has been closed to the public since 1982.
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- The operators of the Arts by the Bay Gallery in Havre de Grace will celebrate five years of being part of the downtown area this weekend.
- The group exhibit "Art Howard County 2013" showcases quite an assortment of subjects and styles at the Howard County Arts Council. Juror Fahimeh Vahdat, who is chairperson of visual arts at Howard Community College, has picked work demonstrating the artistic diversity found within the county's art community.
- Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko is the subject of a play that explores the philosophy and ideals of art, all given vivid life in Everyman Theatre production.
- Newly discovered artworks recall a despotic regime's desperate fear of the creative spirit
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- The painter Diane Dunn and the photographer Joan Forester have different mediums, but they have a shared tendency to get close to their subjects in their exhibit "Patterns" at the Artists' Gallery
- When talking with Ali, who records simply as Abdu Ali, it quickly became apparent he is adamantly uninterested in following any trend ¿ fashion, music or otherwise.
- A Polish artist's daughter and three artists representing America, Nigeria and the Dominican Republic have forged an alliance to advance their individual creative visions – after hooking up on the Internet.
- Play about artist Mark Rothko, assistant reunites BSA instructor, alum in Everyman production
- Although watercolor is a medium deployed by both Jing-Jy Chen and Bonita Glaser in the exhibit "2 Artists 2 Views," their distinctive subjects and styles make it easy to distinguish their artwork hanging on the walls of the Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton House.
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- Ballet Theatre of Maryland artistic director Dianna Cuatto opened the ambitious 31st season for the state's premier professional ballet company with a proven winner, "Beauty and the Beast."
- Sculptor and craftsman David Knopp of Towson, who creates unique furniture out of plywood, currently has an exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum. In 1012, he won the Mary Sawyer Baker Artist Award and one of his desks was even used in the television series "Veep" during filming in Maryland.
- An opening reception for Susan Amons will run from 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 27 at the mansion, 502 W. Gordon St. At 1:30 p.m., Amons will give an informal talk on her printmaking process and her inspirations
- Geraldine G. M. Dell, an artist who was active in various cultural and educational institutions, died Oct. 9 of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 65.
- As a young girl, Jean Brinton Jaecks would sit around her family's dinner table in Severn and listen to her parents talk about nature, light and color.
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- Two-thousand-year-old manuscript is part creation myth and part travel brochure that also tells a story about two modern men
- Mary DeMarco-Wolfe, a jewelry maker in Woodberry, and Brian Beckenheimer of Mount Washington are local artists, who will be in the juried Sugarloaf art show Oct. 4-6. We profile them.
