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- The two artist-exhibit "Perspectives" at the Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton House actually involves a shared perspective. Both Karen Carpenter and Irene Whitaker use acrylic and mixed media to make abstract paintings; and both artists also study with Martha Lohaus in Clarksville.
- Organizers of the Lunar Bay Music and Arts Festival of Havre de Grace will have to find a new venue for next year's jam-band festival in order to hold crowds larger than those which graced the inaugural Lunar Bay in June.
- Elkridge Elementary School extends an invitation to an autumn celebration in honor of the men (young and old) who serve as role models for the students with a "guy-focused" fall festival on Wednesday, Oct. 9,
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- The only daughter of eminent French artist Henri Matisse lived a long, eventful life. That is not what some might have predicted for Marguerite Matisse, who is the subject of an intimate, intriguing new exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
- It seems appropriate that the three-artist exhibit at the Howard County Arts Council, "Tension and Flow: Sculpture in Flux," sprawls over so much of the floor and walls in its Gallery I. Art will seem to cover much of Howard County this weekend, as the arts council's annual "Road to the Arts" features coordinated receptions for exhibits in various galleries in Ellicott City, Columbia, Historic Savage Mill and Fulton.
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- Innovative exhibition forges relationships between the Maryland Institute College of Art and neighborhood congregations
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- It is in Marian Gliese's nature to see the natural world in a slightly abstracted and very colorful way.
- Benjamin Schulman opens the first art gallery on The Avenue in Hampden. He was short-lived director of Baltimore Clayworks but resigned under fire for firing several staff members.
- The two artists who have separate exhibits at Howard Community College are artists-in-residence at Baltimore Clayworks. Although their exhibited sculptural objects incorporate ceramics, as you would expect, these are mixed medium creations whose materials also include wood and metal.
- Eighteen months after they first moved out of their basement space and left their "underground" art background behind, the Towson Arts Collective is on the move again, this time to the former Kinkos space on West Chesapeake Avenue.
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- Did you know Cylburn Arboretum has an artist in residence? Patricia Bennett, 36, of Mount Washington, has been on the job since January, quietly under the radar. Now, she is getting ready for an exhibition of her work in November at Cylburn. It's a varied body of work too, because in addition to 'plein air' nature paintings, she does lesser known "live event" painting, in which she paints people during live events.
- In rare contemporary exhibit, photographs capture works separated from the viewer
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- A unique partnership was launched Aug. 7 that will allow five local artists to display one-of-a-kind paintings at Katzen Eye Group's Bel Air location
- When the historic Annapolis Market House reopens within the next week or two, it will feature artwork by members of the Annapolis Senior Center on large banners.
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- Dan and Louise Runion of Clarksville may be humble antique and art dealers working out of a bedroom-sized cubicle in Frederick, but they're big in Poland.
- Isabel H. Klots, widow of the noted painter Trafford Klots who was a major benefactor to the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Maryland Institute College of Art, died Thursday of heart failure at Roland Park Place. She was 96.
- The two-story mural on a north Baltimore house is the work of the city's "Wall Hunters," a group made of artists and a housing activist seeking to publicly shame absentee landlords and elected officials into addressing the issue of vacant homes. The visual vigilantes, who have put up about a dozen murals across the city the summer, risk trespassing and vandalism arrests because they act without the owners' knowledge or consent.
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- Assertive colors grab your attention in the group exhibit "Local Color 2013" at the Artists' Gallery. It doesn't hurt that the artistic subject matter merits such bright treatment.
- Lisa lorentzen Verterheim Museum Award Winner
- The "Summer '13" show at C. Grimaldis Gallery brings together an eclectic, invigorating mix of artists and media.
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- The Columbia Photo Artists' exhibit at the Meeting House Gallery has the punning title "Snap Decisions." It's clear that a lot of planning went into these photographs before they were snapped, because the compositions and lighting are carefully thought out.
- Artists working outdoors are at the mercy of the weather. That explains why so many of the paintings, watercolors and pastels have a rainy day feeling in the Howard County Arts Council's exhibit "Paint It! Ellicott City." If there were a theme song for this group show, it would be "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Canvas."
- Leake Hall, MICA's newest dorm, is going from groundbreaking to housing students in eight months.
- Artscape festival-goers pitch in to paint murals in community art project called "10,000 brushes," creating 10 mini-murals that will be displayed around Baltimore.
- This 32nd annual Artscape is expected to attract more than 300,000 people before wrapping up Sunday night. A good many of them are likely to wend their way to the Art Car Show, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary at the festival.
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- The Sun needs a full-time critic covering the visual arts
- Catonsville and Arbutus students and teachers explore and create art at BCPS summer visual arts program
- Baltimore artist creates works inspired by El Greco painting
- Paint It! Ellicott City starts Friday, July 12 in historical Ellicott City
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- Popular new amateur arts classes combine brushes, easels and cocktails
