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- Visitors to The Meeting House Gallery won't see any straightforward realism in the group exhibit "Holidays." Instead, these artists often rely on spare lines and blocks of color to suggest the everyday world.
- Atwater's bakery, David Mikow Art Gallery and Bloomsbury Community Center
- Contemporary art gallery aims to use Robert Rauschenberg Foundation money to transform building, fund projects
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- Inside current and future volunteer venues, from Charm City Arts Space to BrickHaus
- The city of Paris is recognizably itself in the photographs taken by Brian P. Miller, but the people and landscapes painted by Izya Shlosberg only exist in this artist's imagination. That makes for pronounced stylistic distinctions in their two-artist exhibit at the Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton House.
- The holidays are here before you know it and often gone before you've had a chance to sample any of the wonderful seasonal offerings. Taking a day trip to any of these destinations will provide a quick cup of cheer.
- Like a visit from Santa, the first sip of eggnog or last bite of grandma's Christmas cookies, "The Nutcracker" is a holiday tradition some families simply can't do without. That's why, in spite of countless revivals every year, folks still flock to the show.
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- Many of the artists in "Art Maryland 2012" are not afraid to experiment with materials. That leads to some unusual creations in this group exhibit of regional artists at the Howard County Arts Council.
- Corradetti Glass blowing Studio and Gallery in Woodberry holds a holiday ornament-making workshop as part of Small Business Saturday.
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- You can make a case that the vases in "Triple Vision" are meant to be admired as much as used. The three artists showcased in this Columbia Art Center exhibit make vases, platters and other ceramic objects that often have whimsical shapes or surface decoration.
- Holiday productions feature new collaborations, full 'Messiah'
- Doreen Bolger leads BMA's growth, closely follows Baltimore's creative community.
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- The delicate nature of Oriental brush painting makes for a subtle exhibit by Jing-Jy Chen at the Artists' Gallery. This Laurel artist deploys watercolor and ink to create images of natural life that quietly claim your attention.
- $6.5 million renovation allowed museum officials to redefine what kind of art should hang on gallery walls.
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- One of the ways in which Renaissance artists explored their world was by painting increasingly realistic portraits. Even when they depicted historical, religious and mythic subjects, they often relied upon the people around them to serve as models. As you can see in an eye-opening exhibit at the Walters Art Museum, some of these people were black.
- Montpelier Arts Center is currently hosting three exhibits: Works by Cedric Williams; by fine arts faculty at Bowie State University; and by Steven Williams.
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- An energetic young cast is having a great time doing the musical "Rent" at Silhouette Stages. That energy would reach the audience even if the performers weren't in the habit of coming off the stage and strolling down the aisles at Slayton House Theater.
- Perhaps the only question more puzzling than who stole a Renoir landscape from the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1951 is who owns the painting now.
- The exhibit "Two Windows on the World" at the Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton House is true to its title, because Dennis Gilbert and Elizabeth N. Galloway are very different artists. Gilbert takes photographs of various subjects that often are digitally altered; Galloway depicts still-life subject matter in pastels and oil paintings.
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- "There's going to be blood," Wendy McCord warned her parents before they watched the bouts against Mobtown Mods, Speed Regime, Junkyard Dolls and Night Terrors on Oct. 13 at the DuBurns Arena in Canton. McCord, a Summit Park resident, is a member of the Charm City Roller Girls, Baltimore's only all-female flat track roller derby league.
- Artists teaching at the Bowie State University arts department will have their work on view at the Montpelier Arts Center from Nov. 2 to 28. Public reception on Nov. 2 from 7 to 9 p.m. Starting Nov. 2 through Nov. 25, the works of Steven Williams will be on display in the center's Resident Artist Gallery.
- The Ravens were not only up against the Texans Sunday, but also the first Downtown Bel Air Music Fest, which saw a small, if still enthusiastic, turnout of local music lovers.
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- Contemporary pop culture pop culture bombards us with images and associations. You'll get a sense of that sensory overload in Rex R. Stevens' exhibit "Spellbound" in Howard Community College's Rouse Company Foundation Gallery.
- The food truck trend has rolled right into MICA. Here comes the Artist's Palate.
- Teens at the Children's Home in Catonsville say they are recycling their lives and using art to illustrate their journey.
- The Bel Air Downtown Alliance, in cooperation with the Town of Bel Air, will be sponsoring a public art project entitled, "Hearts Of Harford."
- The exhibit is the first look by any art museum at Europe's black inhabitants in the 15th through 17th centuries.
- This Saturday, Oct. 13, Havre de Grace will return to those thrilling and roaring days of yesteryear, as the city holds its fifth annual Graw Days celebration to commemorate its heritage as a one-time horse racing center.
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- Laurel resident and artist Karen Isailovic has big production plans for the Laurel Factory, a concept she launched to spark the growth of the city's arts community. Although Laurel Factory is still evolving, in September, Isailovic launched Laurel Factory's first major event by kicking off a 14-week schedule of visual, educational and performing arts events, held mainly at the C Street Gallery on Saturday afternoons.
- Orpheus Collar, a 2004 graduate of the George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology, will present an artist's talk for students and
- Hampden man's artwork has been selected by American Visionary Art Museum for "The Art of Storytelling: Lies, Enchantment, Humor, Truth" exhibit running through Sept. 1. 2013.
- Don't miss the latest exhibit at the Montpelier Arts Center's Resident Artists Gallery. When first entering the gallery, you may be puzzled by what appear at first to be mostly blank walls. Lift your gaze up to the ceiling and you will feel yourself floating away with the myriad of colorful kites suspended from the rafters.
- Carl Van Vechten, a white man who played a seminal -- and controversial -- role in the Harlem Renaissance, fascinates Emily Bernard.
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- Tom and Kitty Stoner combine their love of sculpture and drawing into fabulous display of 20th-century art and beyond.