
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. 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. These funds may be used for a range of artistic needs, including ... [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: Mary Morris Vaux Walcott
Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940), considered to be one of America’s most important naturalists, recorded in watercolor paintings over 1000 North American ... [Continue Story]
- 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
- Looking at the Masters: Camille Pissarro
- Looking at the Masters: Gustave Caillebotte
- Looking at the Masters: Jacques-Joseph Tissot
- Looking at the Masters: Guiseppe De Nettis
Design with Jenn Martella

Whenever I am lucky to be invited by friends who are boaters for a cruise up the Miles River, I always look forward to passing by this property. Like ... [Continue Story]
- Design With Jenn Martella: “Lexon”, circa Third Quarter, 18th Century
- Design with Jenn Martella: Adaptive Re-Use in Chestertown
- Design with Jenn Martella: New Year, New Construction
- Design with Jenn Martella: Historic Victorian Gem, circa 1910
- Design with Jenn Martella: Coastal Interiors by Hollace Kutay
- Design with Jenn Martella: Royal Oak Flush
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: “September Morning” By Lee Goodwin
An early morning on the Naval Academy Bridge that spans the Severn River in Annapolis. “September ... [Continue Story]
Arts Notes

Artisan Jewelry By Designer Ruth Kellum-Oglesby
Attendees at Easton’s September First Friday Event soon discovered not all of the art was indoors in galleries. To launch her line of artisan jewelry, ... [Continue Story]
- Tred Avon Players Presents Hot ‘n’ Cole: A Cole Porter Celebration!
- CBMM Hosts Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival XLII on Oct. 3-5
- Tickets on Sale for GCA’s “The Elephant Man”
- Allegro Academy Choral Music Theory Course
- Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra Presents Ensemble Series Concert Featuring Pianist Michael McHale
- A Musical Visit To Easton Is More Than Meets The Eye
- TAP Auditions: Things My Mother Taught Me
- The Eastern Shore Writers Association and Cult Classic Brewing Company Announce Inaugural Holiday Book Festival
- GCA Announces “The Kitchen Sink of Horrors” Fundraiser Concert and Costume Contest
- MassoniArt Exhibition: Marcy Dunn Ramsey Summer In The Aerie