The Kent Cultural Alliance announces 2025 Independent Artist Grants for Kent County Artists
The Kent Cultural Alliance (KCA) is pleased to announce the 2025 Independent Artist Grants program, which will provide $25,000 in funding to support artists living and creating in Kent County. This initiative will award 50 individual grants of $500 each as one-time financial support for artists working in a variety of disciplines. https://chestertownspy.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/ The application period will open on Saturday, February 1, 2025, at 10:00 AM and close on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at 11:59 PM. Eligible applicants must reside and actively create work in Kent County. ... [Continue Story]
Arts Highlights
Garfield Center showcases Disney’s Beauty and the Beast: A review by Peter Heck and Jane Jewell
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, playing at the Garfield Center in Chestertown through Saturday, Dec. 21, is a perfect holiday experience for the whole ... [Continue Story]
- Bookplate author event – Patrick Smithwick’s ” War’s Over, Come Home”
- Salon Talks at the Trippe Gallery with Jill Basham
- Spy Review: Isidore String Quartet Interlude by Steve Parks
- Mid-Shore Arts: A Spy Check-in with the Avalon’s Al Bond and Jessica Davies
- A Landmark Reimagined: The Revival of Easton’s Waterfowl Building
- Founded in Gratitude: Celebrating 20 Years of Plein Air Easton
- A Personal Look at the Wyeth Family of Artists: A Conversation with Victoria Wyeth
- Easton Art Galleries Host Plein Air Shows by Steve Parks
- Mid-Shore Arts: The Factory Takes on A Streetcar Named Desire for Plein Air
- David Faleris Appointed New Full-Time Executive Director of Chesapeake Music
- Mystery Artist: Who Knows Anything about this Mid-Shore Painting and Painter
- Virtuoso Cellist Sterling Elliott to Perform at the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival By James Carder
Looking at the Masters with Beverly Smith
Looking at the Masters: Charles Burchfield in Autumn
Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), born in Ashtabula, Ohio, has been associated with American Modernism, but this category does not begin to capture the ... [Continue Story]
- Looking at the Masters: Judy Baca
- Looking at the Masters: Judy Baca
- Looking at the Masters: Camille Pissarro
- Looking at the Masters: Mary Morris Vaux Walcott
- Looking at the Masters: Paul DiPasquale
- Looking at the Masters: Spain in the Golden Age – Granada’s Alhambra
- Looking at the Masters: Spain in the Golden Age – Seville
- Looking at the Masters: Spain in the Golden Age–Toledo and Seville
- Looking at the Masters: Spain in the Golden Age–Cordoba and Toledo
- Looking at the Masters: Spain in the Golden Age – Cordoba
Design with Jenn Martella
Whenever I drove to Queen Anne County to tour a House of the Week, I always enjoyed stopping to shop at The Bohemian Trading Company across from ... [Continue Story]
- Design with Jenn Martella: Oxford Victorian, circa 1875
- Design with Jenn Martella: “Duvall Lodge”
- Design with Jenn Martella: Tilghman Island Treasure
- Design with Jenn Martella: Cottage & Garage/Guest Suite
- Design with Jenn Martella: “Leggacy”, circa 1880
- Design With Jenn Martella: “Lexon”, circa Third Quarter, 18th Century
Weather Report with Cece Storm
The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
The Spy Weather Report forecast and words for September 30 to October 1 “Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all ... [Continue Story]
Delmarva Review
Taking flight? Will Delmarva Review come in for a landing?
It’s hard to imagine the Delmarva Review ever having trouble finding writers eager to submit their work. However, in 2007, when the Eastern Shore ... [Continue Story]
- Delmarva Review: The “Best of” Anthology
- Delmarva Review: Leitmotif by Rita Plush
- Delmarva Review: Arrogance by Katherine J. Williams
- Delmarva Review: A System of Seeing by Colin Jeffrey Morris
- Delmarva Review: The End of the Story by Patty Somlo
- Delmarva Review: Something More Than Winter Weighs (Upon Me) by John Muro
- Delmarva Review: Unknowable by Mary-Cecile Gee
- Delmarva Review: Traumas by Andrew Payton
- Delmarva Review: Dry Eye by Jean McDonough
- Delmarva Review: Cadence by K. Alma Peterson
Chesapeake Lens
Chesapeake Lens: Stillness by Sherri Baton
In the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, a Great White Heron reflects the serenity of ... [Continue Story]
Arts Notes
Academy Art Museum Celebrates Robert Rauschenberg’s 100th Birthday with Intimate Centennial Gathering
More than 100 of the Academy Art Museum’s closest supporters and donors gathered on October 22, to celebrate the centennial of visionary artist ... [Continue Story]
- The Artists’ Gallery to Show Freeman Dodsworth’s “Like the First Morning” on First Friday
- CBMM Brings Holiday Cheer with Eastern Shore Sea Glass & Coastal Arts Festival on Nov. 22
- “Cinematic Refuge” – The Catalyst Quartet Performs in Concert on November 23 By Jame Carder
- Legendary Environmental Journalist Tom Horton To Moderate Author Panel on the Art and Science of Conservation
- Bookplate Author Events During Downrigging
- RiverArts Studio Tour Opens October 18
- Vital Structures By Artist Lynn Goldstein Opens With Reception at The Zebra Gallery
- Eastman String Band at Mainstay October 24
- Academy Art Museum Celebrates Robert Rauschenberg’s 100th Birthday with Landmark Exhibition “Rauschenberg 100: New Connections” – Opening December 11, 2025
- The Annual Chestertown RiverArts Studio Tour will take place this year on October 18-19, October 25-26 and November 1-2.