The Plein Air Painters of the Chesapeake Bay (PAPCB) and the Academy Art Museum’s “Saturdays en Plein Air” painters are pleased to invite the public to an outdoor Fence Show and Sale of recent Plein Air works on First Friday, September 3, 2021, from 5-7 p.m., at the Academy Art Museum, 106 South Street, Easton, Maryland.  Participating artists include Pasquale DiIulio, Rhonda Ford, Jenn Lenderking, Diane DuBois Mullaly, Martha Pileggi, Kate Quinn, Jose Ramirez, Jim Rehak, Russell Reno, Maggii Sarfaty, Stacy Sass, Will Schulze, Sheryl Southwick, Georgette Toews, Stephen Walker, Carol Wetowich, and Maureen Wheatley.

The public is invited to meet and greet all the artists, buy art, and enjoy the Academy Art Museum galleries where admission is free on First Fridays. A portion of proceeds from the sale of paintings will be donated to the museum.

PLEIN AIR PAINTERS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY (PAPCB) started in April 2014 with four local artists painting outdoors together on Tuesdays. Now with over 50 members, from beginning artists to well-known award winners, PAPCB has annual exhibits and organizes plein air paint outs every Tuesday; mid-March thru June, and September thru mid-November. Each concludes with a critique. All levels of painters in all mediums are welcome. Membership is free, the only requirement is to attend the paint outs and paint! For more info please contact Kate Quinn, shadowkhq@icloud.com.

THE ACADEMY ART MUSEUM’S “SATURDAYS EN PLEIN AIR” PAINTERS are a group of Academy Members who paint together the last Saturday of the month April through October, en plein air, at beautiful and interesting Mid-Shore locations. Organized and mentored by instructor Diane DuBois Mullaly, each paint out concludes with a critique. This event is a free perk for Academy membership. For more info please visit academyartmuseum.org.

For more information about the Academy Art Museum, please visit academyartmuseum.org. In the event of rain this event will occur inside the museum.

EXHIBITIONS

The following Academy Art Museum exhibitions are sponsored by Talbot Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Star Democrat. Open daily, Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and Sunday, 12 noon to 4 p.m.

Close Introspection: From Picasso to Kusama
Through October 4, 2021
First Friday Reception: August 6, 2021, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

Close Introspection: From Picasso to Kusama features works by critically acclaimed mid-to-late 20th century and contemporary artists, including Helen Frankenthaler, Judy Pfaff, Pablo Picasso, Martin Puryear, and Howardena Pindell, and explores the meditative dimension of the creative process. The works in the exhibition reveal the artistic predicament of deeply considering the nature and form of a chosen subject and re-articulating the subject in a transformative way. Much like the artist, the viewer is invited to first observe closely, then consider the wider context of each work, following the formal and stylistic threads the artists offer in their respective visual languages. Close Introspection: From Picasso to Kusama offers comparisons between works from the major movements of the 20th century, from European Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism to Feminist Art.

Recent Photography Acquisitions and Highlights from the Permanent Collection presents new and exciting additions of photographic works to the Museum’s Permanent Collection, alongside existing masterworks from the vault. Including prints by artists Ansel Adams, Aaron Siskind, Berenice Abbott, William Eggleston, John Gossage, Lisette Model, Eadweard Muybridge, Robert Rauschenberg and others, the selection offers an introduction to creative, historical and methodological motifs in 19th and 20th-century photography, celebrating the artists’ diverse thematic inquiries through the medium and their technical virtuosity.

ARTS EXPRESS BUS TRIP

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Date: September 26, 2019
Few artists have shaped the contemporary artistic landscape like Jasper Johns. With a body of work spanning seventy years, and a roster of iconic images that have imprinted themselves on the public’s consciousness, Johns at ninety is still creating extraordinary artworks. This vast, unprecedented retrospective— simultaneously staged at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York—features a stunning array of the artist’s most celebrated paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints as well as many lesser-known and recent works.

ADULT CLASSES

Camaraderie and Critique
Mentor: Diane DuBois Mullaly www.dianeduboismullaly.com
Eight weeks: September 2, 16, October 7, 21,
November 4, 18, December 2 and 16
Thursdays, 5–6 p.m.
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Basic Potter’s Wheel
Instructor: Paul Aspell
Six Weeks: September 15 –October 20 and
November 10–December 15
Wednesdays, 9:30–11:30 a.m.

Introduction to Pastel Workshop
Instructor: Katie Cassidy wkmcgarry@verizon.net
Two-Day Workshop: September 11 and 12
Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

Weekend Workshop: Landscapes in the Tonalist Tradition
Instructor: Meg Walsh
megwalshart@gmail.com megwalsh.com
Two-Day Workshop: September 18 and 19
Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

Basic Drawing: The Fundamentals
Instructor: Katie Cassidy wkmcgarry@verizon.net
Six weeks: September 28–November 2
Tuesdays: 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Portrait Drawing in Charcoal
Instructor: Bradford Ross
brad@bradfordross.com
Four weeks: September 16–October 7
Thursdays, 10 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

Beyond Pencil and Brush – Enriching Your Toolbox
Instructor: Sheryl Southwick
sherylartist@gmail.com
Three-Day Workshop: September 22–23 and
October 19–21
Monday-Thursday, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Fundamentals of Photography: Part 1: Tame Your Camera
Instructor: Sahm Doherty-Sefton
Three Weeks: September 23, 30, October 7
Thursday evenings, 5:30–7:30 p.m.

Workshop: Oil Painting 101 – Back to Painting Basics
Instructor: Bernard Dellario
bernie.dellario@gmail.com
Three-Day Workshop: September 17, 18 and 19
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

Watercolor Workshop: Painting Glass
Instructor: Maggii Sarfaty
maggiipaints1@yahoo.com
Two-Day Workshop: September 29 and 30
Wednesday and Thursday, 1–3 p.m.

Pastel Painting – Value and Color
Instructor: Katie Cassidy
wkmcgarry@verizon.net
Five weeks: September 29–October 27
Wednesdays, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

Saturdays en Plein Air!
Mentor: Diane DuBois Mullaly www.dianeduboismullaly.com
Monthly: The last Saturday of each month, April through October, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
FREE to members of the Museum. No registration required.

CHILDREN’S CLASSES

Home School Classes
Early Fall Session:
Fridays, September 10 – October 22
(Note that there is no class on October 15)
1:00–2:30 p.m.
Late Fall Session:
Fridays, October 29 – December 17
(Note that there are no classes on November 12 or 26)
1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
The Museum offers art classes for home-schooled children, ages 6 and up. Classes focus on fine art techniques and materials. A variety of media will be explored and students will have the opportunity to visit the Museum’s exhibitions. Pre-registration is advised as space is limited in each group.

Family Art Days
HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
For Children Ages 6+ And Their Families
Saturday, September 18, 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Stop by the Museum to create a variety of projects inspired by the artwork on view and Latin American crafts.

PERFORMING ARTS CLASSES

Piano & Guitar Lessons
Instructor: Raymond Remesch
Contact Instructor for further information at (410) 829-0335 or rayremesch@gmail.com

Voice Lessons
Instructor: Georgiann Gibson
Contact instructor for Information at (410) 829-2525 or georgiann@atlanticbb.net.

For additional information, visit academyartmuseum.org or call the Museum at 410-822-2787.

EXHIBITIONS

The following Academy Art Museum exhibitions are sponsored by Talbot Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Star Democrat. Open daily, Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and Sunday, 12 noon to 4 p.m.

Close Introspection: From Picasso to Kusama
August 6 – October 4, 2021
First Friday Reception: August 6, 2021, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

Close Introspection: From Picasso to Kusama features works by critically acclaimed mid-to-late 20th century and contemporary artists, including Helen Frankenthaler, Judy Pfaff, Pablo Picasso, Martin Puryear, and Howardena Pindell, and explores the meditative dimension of the creative process. The works in the exhibition reveal the artistic predicament of deeply considering the nature and form of a chosen subject and re-articulating the subject in a transformative way. Much like the artist, the viewer is invited to first observe closely, then consider the wider context of each work, following the formal and stylistic threads the artists offer in their respective visual languages. Close Introspection: From Picasso to Kusama offers comparisons between works from the major movements of the 20th century, from European Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism to Feminist Art.

Recent Photography Acquisitions and Highlights from the Permanent Collection
August 6–October 3
First Friday Reception: August 6, 5:30–7:00 p.m.
This exhibition presents new and exciting additions of photographic works to the Museum’s Permanent Collection, alongside existing masterworks from the vault. Including prints by artists Ansel Adams, Aaron Siskind, Berenice Abbott, William Eggleston, John Gossage, Lisette Model, Eadweard Muybridge, Robert Rauschenberg and others, the selection offers an introduction to creative, historical and methodological motifs in 19th and 20th century photography, celebrating the artists’ diverse thematic inquiries through the medium and their technical virtuosity.

ADULT CLASSES

Adult Class Scholarships – Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Pastels, Watercolor, and much more.
All Materials are Included. Contact Katie Cassidy for details at wkmcgarry@verizon.net for further information. Visit academyartmuseum.org for a full listing of classes. Scholarships are made possible through a generous grant from the Mid-Shore Community Foundation.

Beyond Pencil and Brush – Enriching your Toolbox
Instructor: Sheryl Southwick sherylartist@gmail.com
Four-Day Workshop: August 2-5
Three-Day Workshops: September 21-23 and October 19-21
Monday-Thursday, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

6th Annual Summer Challenge via Zoom! – A Painting a Day for 14 Days
Instructor: Diane DuBois Mullaly www.dianeduboismullaly.com
3 Weeks: August 5, 12, 19
Thursdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Workshop: ZOOM – The Business of Art-Get Your Finances Organized!
Instructor: Bernard Dellario bernie.dellario@gmail.com
1 Day Workshop: August 6
Thursday, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Workshop: Individual Still Life Creations
Instructor: Meg Walsh megwalshart@gmail.com www.megwalsh.com
Two-Day Workshop: August 7 and 8
Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Pastel Workshop: Beautiful Beaches, Skies and Seascapes
Instructor: Katie Cassidy wkmcgarry@verizon.net
Three-Day Workshop: August 10, 11 and 12
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Printmaking: Gel Plate Variations
Instructor: Rosemary Cooley rcooley1@mac.com
Three-Day Workshop: August 13, 14 and 15
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Craft Workshop: Dollhouse Doll Making
Instructor: Maggii Sarfaty maggiipaints1@yahoo.com
Two-Day Workshop: August 17 and 18
Tuesday and Wednesday, 1 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Workshop: Plein Air Landscape Painting
Instructor: Bernard Dellario bernie.dellario@gmail.com
3 Days: August 20, 21 and 22
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Saturdays en Plein Air!
Mentor: Diane DuBois Mullaly www.dianeduboismullaly.com
Monthly: The last Saturday of each month, April through October, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
FREE to members of the Museum. No registration required.

CHILDREN’S CLASSES

MIX IT UP – Creating and Experimenting
Ages 9-14
Instructor: Susan Horsey
Monday–Friday, August 2–6
10:00 a.m. –12:00 noon

Video Wizardry
Ages 9–13
Instructor: Ray Remesh
Monday–Friday, August 9–13
9:00–11:30 a.m.

PERFORMING ARTS CLASSES

Piano & Guitar Lessons
Instructor: Raymond Remesch
Contact Instructor for further information at (410) 829-0335 or rayremesch@gmail.com

Voice Lessons
Instructor: Georgiann Gibson
Contact instructor for Information at (410) 829-2525 or georgiann@atlanticbb.net.

For additional information, visit academyartmuseum.org or call the Museum at 410-822-2787.

The Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD has recently published two exhibition catalogues on its current exhibitions, Miró in New York, 1947: Miró, Hayter and Atelier 17 and Norma Morgan: Enchanted World.

Miró in New York, 1947: Miró, Hayter and Atelier 17 explores a group of little-known etchings Joan Miró made with influential British printmaker Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, the New York outpost of his seminal printmaking studio in Paris. Both Miró and Hayter were key participants in the community of artists in Paris who ultimately formed the core of international movements in contemporary art from the 1930s to 1945. The exhibition is open to the public through July 8, 2021 and viewable online through August 1, 2021.

Mehves Lelic, Curator at the Academy Art Museum comments, “The catalogue explores a transformative moment in the history of printmaking when Spanish artist Joan Miró visits New York and enters an exciting world of experimentation and collaboration at Atelier 17, Stanley William Hayter’s famed printmaking studio. Together, the artists at the Atelier embrace the importance of process and discover new frontiers in the medium.”

“The rich color gradients, dynamic lines and overlapping textures in the prints in this exhibition may offer encouragement and respite as we recover from this past year’s pandemic. Many of the prints in the exhibition were created soon after the end of World War II, by artists who experienced its tumult and horrors first-hand. The historical and artistic underpinnings of the works in Miró in New York, 1947 are complex, and beckon the viewer to connect with them on multiple levels, from an understanding of the historical context of the convergence of so many great artists at Atelier 17, to what experimental methods such as cutting into a printing plate, using soldering wire, and achieving simultaneous color printing mean for the present moment of printmaking in contemporary art,” she adds.

Works are drawn from the Museum’s Permanent Collection and loans from Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, and private collections. The exhibition catalogue includes the wide breadth of experimental and collaborative work done at Atelier 17, with pieces by Fred Becker, Terry Haass, Gabor Peterdi, Anne Ryan, Yves Tanguy, Helen Phillips, Alice Trumbull-Mason, and others, all of whom worked in Atelier 17 alongside Hayter and Miró.

Norma Morgan: Enchanted World is an exhibition of the late artist’s prints, watercolors, paintings and drawings. The exhibition highlights Morgan’s ability to convey a spiritual experience through her landscape and portraiture work and to effortlessly transition from formal observation to magical wonder. The exhibition will be open to the public through August 1, 2021.

Lelic explains, “The planning of Norma Morgan: Enchanted World started out with a simple aim: to do the artist’s profoundly compelling work justice. As a young artist and a student of Stanley William Hayter, whose printmaking legacy is explored in-depth in the concurrent exhibition Miró in New York, 1947, Norma Morgan was responsive to contemporary ideas and open to advancing her technical skills. She was also a pioneer as one of the two known African-American women to work at the studio.”

“This exhibition seeks to highlight the overall significance of Morgan’s prolific career of over 50 years, during which the artist conjured an entire magical realm, from homages to Civil Rights icons to haunting observations of the landscapes of Great Britain and the Catskills. The rich textures and subtle details in her work parallel the imposing yet quiet vistas she was fond of and which she depicted with remarkable technical skill and fluency across multiple mediums.”

The Academy Art Museum is proud to present this exhibition with loans from the Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art, Mr. Donnell and Mrs. Dorothea Walker Collection of African American Art, Mr. Freddie Styles, Mr. Darryl Love, and Dolan/Maxwell. The exhibition catalog features essays by art historians Dr. Amalia Amaki and Dr. Christina Weyl.

For further information on these exhibitions or to purchase an exhibition catalogue, visit academyartmuseum.org or call 410-822-2787. The cost of each catalogue is $20.

The Academy Art Museum (AAM) in Easton, Maryland, will present its annual Juneteenth Celebration on Sunday, June 20, from 12 to 4 p.m. on the Museum grounds. This festive, free celebration of African American culture, art, and history promises fun for all ages. A full range of family activities, entertainment, food vendors, and free tours of artwork by African American artist Norma Morgan in the Museum’s exhibition, “Norma Morgan: Enchanted World” will be offered. The exhibition “Miró in New York, 1947: Miró, Hayter and Atelier 17” also on display, will be free to view.

Musical acts include hip hop artist Javier Starks, who performed at AAM’s 2019 Juneteenth; D.C. jazz singer Alison Crockett, who performed during AAM’s 2020 Virtual Juneteenth; and more. The program also includes a Family Craft Project, hosted by Constance Del Nero, Director of Children’s Education & Community Programs at AAM from 12 to 4 p.m. Drawing inspiration from the patterns and symbols associated with the holiday, participants will create a collaborative public artwork that will be on view on the Museum’s front lawn through August 31, 2021.

Free tours of the exhibition “Norma Morgan: Enchanted World” will be offered every 20 minutes to the hour starting at 11:40 a.m. and continuing at 12:40 p.m., 1:40 p.m., 2:40 p.m., 3:40 p.m., with a final tour at 4 p.m.

There will also be food offerings and resource booths available, including the Neighborhood Service Center, the Chesapeake Multicultural Resource Center, and the Talbot County Free Library. This year, the event will offer a Vaccine Tent where the Talbot County Health Department will be providing COVID-19 Vaccinations from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the front lawn of the Museum.

Sponsors of this year’s event include Talbot Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, Bette Kenzie, Paris Foods, the Granville Fund of the Mid-Shore Community Foundation, Catherine McCoy, and Beverly and Richard Tilghman. For further information, visit academyartmuseum.org or call 410-822-2787.

The Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland is again hosting a Studio Sale/Art Book Sale on Saturday, June 5 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. outdoors and in the Museum’s newly renovated spaces.

“This Studio and Art Book Sale provides an excellent venue for our art instructors to sell their work at prices affordable to the public. We will also be introducing the wide range of art classes we offer for adults year-round – everything from drawing to pottery to collage. We can’t wait to share what we are doing at the Museum and the amazing artistic talent here on the Mid Shore,” states Katie Cassidy, the Museum’s Education Consultant.

Photo: Participants at the Museum’s Studio Art Sale/Art Book Sale to be held on June 5 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Museum’s newly renovated spaces on South Street and Harrison Street in Easton, Maryland.

The event will feature the Museum’s instructors who are all professional artists: Paul Aspell, Bernie Dellario, Diane DuBois Mullaly, Brad Ross, Meg Walsh, Sheryl Southwick, Maggii Sarfaty, Rosemary Cooley, and Katie Cassidy.  The Studio Sale will offer unframed art, demonstrations, and studies for sale for no more than $300 each, as well as a large selection of pottery and ceramics. There will also be frames and art materials for sale at some tables. Museum students will be selling work on the Museum’s front lawn.

The Art Book Sale in the atrium will offer hundreds of art books for sale at reduced prices. Proceeds from the Art Book Sale will benefit the Museum’s adult curriculum.

“We have had donations from people’s libraries of exceptional art books – desirable classics and out-of-print books, instructional art books, biographies of artists, and books about art collections.  Many fabulous books came from the libraries of retired museum directors,” Cassidy adds.

Participants will enter through the Museum’s newly designed courtyard off Harrison Street, continue through the Museum’s atrium, and exit through the front lawn on South Street. The Art Book Sale will be held in the Museum’s atrium, while the Studio Sale will be held at tables outside.

For further information, visit academyartmuseum.org or call 410-822-2787.

The Museum is located at 106 South Street and is one of Easton’s historic landmarks – deeply tied to the educational community in Easton since 1800. Its permanent collection includes important paintings by Gene Davis and Anne Truitt among others and is especially strong on works paper by modern American and European masters. The Museum holds drawings, photographs, and prints by artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Robert Rauschenberg, and Martin Puryear. Visitors experience national and regional exhibitions, concerts, lectures, educational programs, and visual and performing arts classes for adults and children.