Crisfield Arts and Entertainment News

Real estate registry

If you own property in the proposed Crisfield Arts and Entertainment (A & E) District, would like to own or rent property in the A & E, or are an indvidual or business who would like to move to the A & E, please complete the real estate at Crisfieldarts.org. This will allow the A & E coordinator to contact you to connect property owners with interested businesses and individuals.

A map of the potential A & E and more information on tax incentives is available at www.crisfieldarts.org/about Businesses other than arts & entertainment may qualify for other tax incentives, such as Enterprise Zone.

Ice Cream Gallery

Sunday, April 1st

Please join us when we reopen for the 2018 season.

It will be Easter Sunday, so there will be free candy for all of the kids!

We are still looking for all those local talented & crafty people out there to display their artwork in the shop. Please call 410-968-0768 & leave a message if interested.

Somerset County 4-H Crisfield sewing club

Crisfield Library

100 Collins Street, Crisfield, MD 21817

Tuesday, April 3 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

Future meetings will be scheduled at least monthly, the $15 participation fee will be collected at the second meeting.

For more information contact Jennifer Howell at 410-651-1350

Chesapeake Ghost Walks – Crisfield

April 14, 2018, 7 pm

Ghost Phone 443-735-0771

tours@chesapeakeghostwalks.com

chesapeakeghosts.com

Tour starts at 7 pm. Tour includes the Corbin Library, Ananias Crockett House, Crisfield Cemetery, Gossamer – Dr. R. R. Martin, Tawes Library, McCready Hospital, the Richard Christy House and more. Meet 15 minutes prior to the start of the tour, in front of the Baptist Temple, at the corner of Main Street and Somerset Avenue

Arts & Entertainment District Planning Committee Meeting

Crisfield City Hall, 319 W Main Street

Thurs., April 12, 5 pm

Please RSVP to events@wbycradio.com

Elks Pride Parade

Woodson Elementary School

April 22, 1 pm

The Bay Gift Vault Presents

Opening Reception - Artist Dave Marshall

952 W Main Street, Crisfield

April 27, 5 pm to 8 pm

WBYC 107.3 Crisfield Community Radio Anniversary Party

4 S Seventh Street, Crisfield

April 28, 11 am to 1 pm

Celebrate our community radio station with free food, live music, games & prizes!

www.wbycradio.com

4th Saturday Planning Meeting

Crisfield City Hall, 319 W Main Street

May 3, 5 pm, City Hall

Please RSVP to events@wbycradio.com

Water Color Plein Air Workshop with Willie Crockett

Hosted by Smith Island Experience

4 May at 12:00 to 6 May at 16:00

Smith Island, Maryland

For more information, and to book package please call Pam at 410-425-2650.

Crisfield 4th Saturday Bay Stroll

Artist and Vendor Spaces open FREE - register here

May 26, 4 pm to 7 pm

City Dock

Pig roast by Bille's Catering - Soft Crab & Crab Cakes by LMEN - Hamburgers, hot dogs & festival food!

Local artists - games - live music - beer & wine!

For more information on upcoming arts & Entertainment events, see Crisfieldarts.org

Housing needed for Plein Air artists

Plein Air Crisfield 2018 is shaping up to be a big success. Over 30 nationally recognized artists are signed up to attend and all are excited to paint our quirky and authentic town. "Plein Air" is just a fancy term for "painting in the open air." A plein air painting is achieved without use of photograhy for reference, so the paintings have a distinctly fresh and spontaneous quality to them. The artists begin painting, in and around Crisfield, Thursday May 24 and wrap up Saturday, May 26. Fresh paintings will be available for sale at the Customs House from 4-7 during the 4th Saturday Bay Stroll. A few artists are still looking for host housing. This entails giving an artist a room to stay in for the event. With or without meals. The benefit to the host.... is meeting an interesting artist and usually the artist gifts the host with a small painting. If you are interested please contact Debra Howard at the Art Center for Crisfield at Artcenterforcrisfield@gmail.com .

Give back and share our history!

Would you like to help share Crisfield's rich cultural history with children and adults? Then please consider becoming one of our tour guides for school field trips and walking tours. As a guide, you will lead your group to downtown points of interest including Charlie Adams Corner, Goode's Boat Yard, Goodsell's Alley, and Metompkin Soft Crab Packing House.The tour lasts approximately 20 minutes and chaperones will accompany all school groups. A script and training will be provided. For more information, please contact the Tawes Museum (410-968-2501) or private message us. Thank You!

Artist Registry

Performing arts & musicians, visual arts, fine arts, folk art, decoy carvers, writers

If you will potentially be working in the proposed Arts and Entertainment (A & E) District (see the map on the website ) please sign up on the registry at Crisfieldarts.org to help show how many artists would like to participate in an A & E District in Crisfield!

Have a Seat in Crisfield is sold out!! Thank you so much to everyone who has participated. We are still looking for six artists to paint chairs. If you would like to paint a chair, please contact Crisfield Arts & Entertainment District Treasurer Bill Brown at wfb8531@gmail.com.

4th Saturday Bay Strolls Return May 26

More information at Crisfieldarts.org

Artist, vendor, and food vendor applications available.

To submit additions about Arts and Entertainment events in the proposed District to this newsletter, or to be added to the mailing list, please email jmerritt@crisfieldcityhall.com.