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Art and poetry support a worthy cause in the group exhibit "Haiku for Hope," which is co-sponsored by the Columbia Art Center and Howard County Promotion and Tourism's Blossoms of Hope and Cherrybration. Proceeds go toward Howard County General Hospital's Claudia Mayer Cancer Resource Center. - When Paul Makuchal won the 39th annual Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest last month, he didn't think about it being his third win. He was humbled.
- Paolo Romeo of Artful Gourmet in Owings Mills isn't wildly avant-garde in the kitchen. But he does take an artist's care with his capable interpretations of Italian food and global favorites.
- If there were a dress code for visitors to the current exhibit in Howard Community College's Rouse Company Foundation Gallery, it would stipulate that people must wear blue jeans when going to see Julie van Hemert's "Peopled Jeans." That's because the artist uses blue jean material for her wall-hanging fabric art.
- Cathy Z. Sawdey makes spare use of thin lines to outline the full-figured models in her exhibit "Life Lines: Figurative Drawings" at the Artists' Gallery. Her very selective use of color also ensures that you're mostly looking at the expanses of white space representing her fleshy subjects.
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- A lot is being done to get people out and about in Bel Air, like First Fridays, which resume in May. And if you're going to try and bring people downtown, it's got to look nice. Bel Air is going a long way toward doing that
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- A proposed partnership between UM College Park and Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art could benefit both institutions in ways neither could afford on its own
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- Pauline H. "June" Brannan, an artist and former owner of a Mount Washington frame shop, died Tuesday from congestive heart failure and kidney disease at Greater Baltimore Medical center. She was 85.
- Up-and-coming vocal artists will perform works by Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini at the Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric.
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- The Baltimore Watercolor Society is the third oldest watercolor society in the nation and was founded in Baltimore in 1885.
- If every picture tells a story, there are dozens of stories being told in the current exhibit at the Howard County Arts Council. "Visual Storyteller: Narrative in Art" features artwork in various media by students in the Howard County Public School system.
- Maryland's largest museum reduces staff by 9 percent due to lingering effects of the recession
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- Recent concerts included an interesting program from Concert Artists of Baltimore featuring up-and-coming pianist Eric Zuber, and a D.C. recital by baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
- As the 150th anniversary of the war continues, artists look for ways to re-examine this painful chapter in our nation's history and show its relevance to modern times.
- As the 150th anniversary of the war continues, artists look for ways to re-examine this painful chapter in our nation's history and show its relevance to modern times.
- Baltimore helped the modernist painter Max Weber forge a national reputation in 1915. Today, 98 years later, this could be the city where he begins his comeback.
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- When there are 41 artists in the same exhibit, you can expect to see considerable diversity in subject matter and stylistic approach. That's certainly the case for the Baltimore Watercolor Society show at the Columbia Art Center
- U.S. attorney seeks court's help in determining owner of painting taken from Baltimore Museum of Art
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- Artists are invited to bring one work in any media to the Maryland Art Place, where the art will be displayed and for sale during the annual spring benefit exhibition.
- Carole Lynn Maier, a stained-glass artist and former House of Ruth board president, died of an auto-immune lung ailment Feb. 24 at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Kingsville resident was 60.
- Walters exhibit most comprehensive to date on important 19th century American painter
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- The objective was to depict a vivid memory on colored paper, creating a narrative of depth and symmetry.
- The town, or more precisely, Harford County, is going to the dogs and cats. At least that's the hope of those at the Humane Society of Harford County who have partnered with the Art Rooms Professional Art Supplies to host a fun competition to as a fundraiser
- Researcher Charles Limb tracked the areas of the brain that light up and shut off when jazz pianists are improvising
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