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February 7, 2023

Volume 23-07

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Welcome to Artist Alley,


ï»żWashington County Arts Council's electronic newsletter.


We hope this publication will engage you with the arts in your community.

WCAC welcomes your ideas and support as it continues to take the lead in bringing together the community's art organizations to strengthen our region's arts culture.

For artist information, arts events, calls for art, and more visit WCAC's web page...


www.washingtoncountyarts.com.

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Congratulations, Sara Swacina!

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The 13th Annual Washington County Art Educators

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The Washington County Arts Council Gallery hosts its February 2023 exhibit,

ï»żâ€œThe 13th Annual Washington County Art Educators.” The exhibit runs from February 9, 2023, through March 7, 2023, opening with a “meet the artist” reception at the gallery on Thursday, February 9, 2023, from 5pm to 7 pm.

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: February 17, 2023 @5pm EST*

*Please note: This is NOT a postmark deadline!

Call for Maryland Artists:

Park Circle Triangle

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www.washingtoncountyarts.com/city-triangle
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Mark your calendars!

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www.marylandiff.org
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gallerymanager@washingtoncountyarts.com
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Maryland Arts Day

ï»żregistration is open!

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and completely FREE


Get ready for the largest annual gathering of arts professionals in Maryland! This statewide arts advocacy event connects artists, educators, administrators, volunteers and trustees with lawmakers from every legislative district in Maryland.


Read more here!


Thursday, February 16 at 11AM EST

RESGISTER HERE
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Hagerstown Community College Annual Art Show

at Wilson College

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HCC art students to exhibit work at Wilson College


Wilson College, of Chambersburg, Pa. will host an exhibition of artwork by students of Hagerstown Community College’s Department of Visual Arts, beginning February 1. The exhibition will continue through March 3, in the Bogigian Gallery, which is located on the second floor of Lortz Hall on the Wilson campus.


The exhibition features works of art from current visual arts students at HCC, and includes drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photographs. HCC and Wilson are partnering to provide opportunities to students seeking growth in their disciplines and an exhibition venue outside of Hagerstown. The exhibition also provides a professional experience for those students wishing to transfer to Wilson or other four-year institutions. Both programs offer degrees in visual art, graphic design, and web design, and are well suited for those students wishing to complete a bachelor’s degree.

The Bogigian Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Admission is free. For additional information or an appointment, contact Wilson Professor of Fine Arts Philip Lindsey at 717-264-2783, or philip.lindsey@wilson.edu.

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Amazing Tablescapes is now open for voting!

Use your dollars to cast your votes for the People's Choice Award winner!


Want to see the tables in person? Visit through Feb. 12, 2023 (Museum is closed Monday) to see the tables up close. Admission to Amazing Tablescapes costs $5.

To vote, go to https://wcmfa.org/amazing-tablescapes/, and click on your favorite designer's table and vote using a major credit.

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APPLICATION CLOSES WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH AT 12PM!


The Hagerstown Arts & Entertainment District invites interested musicians to submit an application for the

2023 Call for Bands! 


The A&E District is looking for bands to play at the TWO summer music series:


MDWK Music & Market 


Featuring live music, an artisan market, food trucks, and local brews in University Plaza every Wednesday beginning July 12th


Wind Down


Featuring live music and local drinks on S. Potomac Street


Both summer music series will be held in the heart of the A&E District.


Admission is free and open to the public.


Interested musicians can apply by clicking on the button below.

Call for Bands Application

City of Hagerstown | Community Engagement Office | 1 E Franklin St, Suite 210A | 301-766-4258

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The Berkeley Arts Council is celebrating the return to in-person art instruction with a February Blizzard of Art! One day workshops and long-form (4 week) courses bring a variety of techniques and instructors to the teaching studio in downtown Martinsburg, WV. 

Learn new skills or push your boundaries in traditional media such as watercolor and acrylics. Explore the unique worlds of needle felting, parchment art, and cold wax. All February classes are half price! 

In addition to instruction, the Berkeley Arts Council offers a wide range of exciting opportunities. Members are encouraged to show artwork in the upcoming Members’ Exhibit (work must be received by 2/18/23) or participate in the Artist Co-op (rolling applications.) Volunteer your strengths and learn new skills as we Amplify the Arts!

Learn more, register, and access the most up-to-date information at www.berkeleyartswv.org. Stop into the gallery and classroom at 116 North Queen Street in Martinsburg. Contact us at 304-620-7277. Direct mail to PO Box 984, Martinsburg, WV 25402.

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"The Waverly Gallery"

presented by The Potomac Playmakers

 


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023 AT 8 PM

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2023 AT 8 PM 

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2023 AT 3 PM

 

Potomac Playmakers Performing Arts Center

17303 W. Washington Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740

(240) 513-6260

potomacplaymakers@gmail.com

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A comedy, The Waverly Gallery was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Gladys, the elderly matriarch of the Green family, has run an art gallery in a small Greenwich Village hotel for many years. The management wants to replace her less-than-thriving gallery with a coffee shop. Always irascible but now increasingly erratic, Gladys is a cause for concern for her daughter, her son-in-law, and her grandson, from whose point of view this poignant memory play is told. A wacky and heartrending look at the effect of senility on a family, The Waverly Gallery was a success at New York's Promenade Theatre, winning an Obie for legendary Eileen Heckart in the role of Gladys. Presented with permission from Concord Theatricals. 

Tickets are $18 and available in advance on our website, by calling our box office, or at the door before each performance.

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Make Your Own Valentine's Day Cards 

Washington County Museum of Fine Arts

February 10, 2023 from 11:00am until 1:00pm

For elementary-aged students. Homeschoolers are welcome. $15. Masking is required for all participants. Register by contacting Donna Rastelli at 301-769-5727 or drastelli@wcmfa.org, or go online. 

Fee: $15

wcmfa.org/make-your-own-valentines-day-cards
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Culture & Cocktails: Artifacts of Black History

ï»żfrom the WCHS Collection


February 2023’s Culture & Cocktails coincides with Black History Month and is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the rich history of Washington County's black residents.

Register here!


On Friday, February 10, 2023, from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST,  join local historian and author Dr. Emilie Amt for a lecture highlighting artifacts and treasures of black history from the WCHS collection, including church records, artwork, nineteenth-century photographs, and stories from the Miller House's past. Doors open at 5:30 PM, and light hors d' oeuvres will be served!

 

The featured cocktail will be the Izzy-Bizzy, a highball cocktail from Tom Bullock's 1917 guide, The Ideal Bartender, the first cocktail book by a black bartender. This cocktail combines sherry, bourbon and pineapple and lemon juice for a refreshing drink!

 

Culture & Cocktails 2023 has been made possible by the generous support of the James and Mary Schurz Foundation of Williamsport, MD.

 

Photo: The A.M.C. Ebenezer Church Sabbath School Union Hymn Book. Hagerstown, MD. J.N.S. (Note: the church was founded June, 1839).

Register Here
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Deadline just one week away!


There is just one week left to enter your work into the 9th Annual Allegany National Photography Competition & Exhibition (ANPCE)!


With more than $6500 in prizes, the competition invites photographers to submit work in three categories: monochrome, color, and the exciting photography as sculpture, which challenges photographers to think beyond the 2D image to incorporate innovative and out of the box thinking.


All entries are submitted through our online platform and the deadline to enter is February 10, 2023


Important Dates  


Deadline to Enter: February 10, 2023

Artist Notifications: February 28, 2023  

Artwork Delivery: March 24, 2023

Exhibition Dates: April 1-22, 2023

Public Opening & Awards: April 1, 2023

Artwork Shipping & Pick-Up: April 24-28, 2023

www.alleganyartscouncil.org/anpce
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The Maryland Symphony Orchestra presents


Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale


THE MARYLAND THEATRE

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Saturday, February 11, 2023 | 7:30 PM (in-person)

Sunday, February 12, 2023 | 3:00 PM (in-person and virtual)


Elizabeth Schulze Conductor

Greg Watkins Narrator

Gideon Hall The Soldier

Robert Aubry Davis The Devil

Carter Waters The Princess


MAURICE RAVEL | Le Tombeau de Couperin

IGOR STRAVINSKY | L'Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale)


The Soldier’s Tale (L'Historie du Soldat), by Igor Stravinsky, is set to text by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. Stravinsky’s celebrated masterwork fuses jazz, ragtime and tango to animate this classic Russian folktale about a soldier who trades his fiddle to the devil in exchange for untold riches. Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin, a memorial piece that was written as a tribute to his friends who had passed away during their involvement in World War I, will also be performed.


The program will feature award-winning actor, pianist, singer, musical director, composer, arranger and educational leader, Greg Watkins, as the Narrator, and television and radio personality Robert Aubry Davis as "The Devil." Carter Waters from The City Ballet School and Gideon Hall from Barbara Ingram School for the Arts will also perform in this magical evening of music, dance, and storytelling.


In person tickets are available for both performances. The Sunday performance will also be streamed on MSO Live! For more information, visit watch.marylandsymphony.org

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Cumberland Valley Artists and Photographers Exhibitions

presented by the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts

February 11, 2023 to April 23, 2023


Washington County Museum of Fine Arts marks the 90th year of the Cumberland Valley Artists and Photographers Exhibitions with an array of new works by Quad-State creators.

An annual tradition since 1933, the Cumberland Valley Artists and Photographers Exhibitions showcase, celebrate, and support artists of the Cumberland Valley region. This juried exhibition accepts work from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. The exhibitions will be on view from February 11 to April 23, 2023.

This year’s jurors were Dr. Mary Morton, curator, and head of the French paintings department at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and Dr. Leo Hsu, interim executive director of Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh and an instructor in the photography program at Carnegie Mellon University.

A total of 65 art entries from 61 artists were accepted from the 320 works entered by 127 artists. While a total of 30 photography entries from 25 photographers were accepted from a total of 223 pieces from 77 photographers.

This event distributes nearly $5,200 in cash awards to artists and photographers. Support for this exhibition has been provided by Conservit Inc., Hugh and Marty Talton, Delaplaine Foundation, Sherry Cramer, and Youngblood Studios. Some of the awards have been provided by other funders, acknowledged below.

A Cumberland Valley Artists and Photographers opening event including a panel discussion with the award-winning artists and the exhibition jurors will take place Saturday, February 11, 2 to 4 p.m. Admission is free.


For a list of winners, go to https://wcmfa.org/cumberland-valley-artists-and-photographers-exhibition/

Fee: Free

List of Winners
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“Art of Photography Workshop’’  February 11, 2023

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Like to take photos? Got the winter blues? Then sign up for the “Art of Photography Workshop” on Saturday Feb. 11 from 9:30 to 5:00 pm with Penny Knobel-Besa. You start taking photos before you even attend by photographing 20 items on a Photographer’s Scavenger Hunt list sent when you register. You bring your best 20 shots to the workshop, where they will be reviewed.  


Session is for beginners to learn some basics tips for better photos and for those who are more experienced to spend time with their camera exploring new artistic directions. Workshop includes a slide show of tips and reviewing a few Adobe Photoshop tools, discussions of how to show and sell your work, copyrights, matting and framing.  Ends with a “Model shoot”, tips for working with models, props, wedding and senior class portraits. Fee is $85 includes buffet lunch & morning goodie and fun. To register mail payment to Penny Knobel-Besa at 13910 Scofield Rd. Flintstone, Maryland, 21530 or you can email pkbphotos42@gmail.com if there isn’t enough time just bring your payment. If you would prefer a private half day session, please contact Penny Knobel Besa for an appointment. Snow date Feb. 18th.

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Auditions for Neil Simon's “The Sunshine Boys”

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Sunday Febuary 19, 2023, 7:00-9:00pm

Monday Febuary 20, 2023, 7:00-9:00pm


Potomac Playmakers Performing Arts Center

17303 W. Washington Street, Hagerstown, MD 21740

(240) 382-7269

potomacplaymakers@gmail.com

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The Potomac Playmakers announce auditions for the final show of the 2022-2023 Season, the classic Neil Simon comedy, “The Sunshine Boys!“ Al and Willie, known professionally as “Lewis and Clark”, were top-billed vaudevillians for over forty years. Now, it has been over twelve years since they’ve even spoken. When a television network requests them for a “History of Comedy” retrospective show, a grudging reunion brings the two back together to remaster their most celebrated sketch, along with a flood of memories, miseries, and laughs. Can these two comedy legends possibly work out their issues in time for their return to the public eye?

Produced with kind permission of Concord Theatricals Corp., “The Sunshine Boys” will be directed by Jim Zuna and will run May 12-14, 2023 and May 19-21, 2023. Auditions will start at 7:00 p.m. and will consist of cold readings from the script. The script includes five male roles aged mid-20’s into late 60’s/70’s, and two female roles aged mid-20’s and up.

www.potomacplaymakers.org
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Destination Arts! Events
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Opportunities for Artists


Explore MSAC grants and opportunities available to independent artists, click here for details.

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Links for Artists

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ï»żMaryland Artist Registry


Maryland Artist Marketplace

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Arts Across Maryland

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Opportunities for Artists

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The Washington County Arts Council, Inc. is funded by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC), an agency of the Department of Business & Economic Development.

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Supported in part by:

 
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The Washington County Arts Council is a proud member of

County Arts Agencies of Maryland,

Maryland Citizens for the Arts, and Americans for the Arts

 
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