News from the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay
The 10th Biennial Chesapeake International Chamber Music Competition for Young Professionals will be held live on April 2, 2022, at 1 p.m. at the Ebenezer Theater in Easton, Maryland and live-streamed all day. This exciting daylong celebration of chamber music will feature five of the most distinguished young ensembles competing for the Lerman Gold ($10,000) […]
Continue ReadingDespite the pandemic, music has never been stronger in the secondary public schools in Talbot County. An ambitious Artists-in-Residence Program, which initially began through collaboration between the Talbot County Arts Council, Chesapeake Music, the University of Maryland School (UMD) of Music faculty, and Easton Middle School (EMS), has expanded this year to include band students […]
Continue ReadingEaston – The Talbot County Arts Council is awarding full tuition-paid summer arts scholarships to six Talbot County students who have just completed grades 9 through 12. This program provides grants for advanced art studies during summer 2020 to students with outstanding artistic promise. It is named in honor of the late Willard A. Lockwood, […]
Continue ReadingThe Talbot County Arts Council has announced its twentieth annual program of summer arts scholarships for Talbot County residents now enrolled in the 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grades. The program provides grants for advanced art studies during Summer 2019 to students with outstanding artistic promise. It is named in honor of the late Willard […]
Continue ReadingEaston – The Talbot County Arts Council held its annual Winners Circle Reception at the Academy Art Museum on the evening of November 14, 2018. The ceremony honored nine teenage recipients of summer arts scholarships as well as almost 40 non-profit and government-related organizations and 13 public and private elementary and secondary schools that received […]
Continue ReadingThe Talbot County Arts Council and the St. Michaels Art league are pleased to announce the winners of their first jointly sponsored art show currently being held at the Easton Library. The event was judged by Julie Madden of Howard County and St. Michaels. Julie, a prior board member and Executive Director of the Maryland […]
Continue ReadingContinuum Dance will perform its fall concert Open Up at several Eastern Shore venues this September. Open Up will take the stage of Colonel Richardson High School in Federalsburg on Saturday, September 15 and at the Prager Family Auditorium in Easton on Saturday, September 22, 2018 with each day featuring two shows at 3pm and […]
Continue ReadingExciting news for Talbot County Artists! Join the Talbot County Arts Council and the St. Michaels Art League who are jointly sponsoring an art exhibition during October at the Talbot County Free Library in Easton. This event is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Maryland State Arts Council and the 40th anniversary of the […]
Continue ReadingThe Talbot County Arts Council has approved Community Arts Development Grants to 36 local organizations for arts-related programs and projects during fiscal year 2019 (July 2018 through June 2019). The budget for these programs is the highest-ever annual total of $80,000, made possible by a just-announced increase in the Arts Council’s own state grant of […]
Continue ReadingThe Talbot County Arts Council has announced its program of Arts-in-Education (AinE) Grants to local public and private elementary and secondary schools for the 2018-2019 school year. The grants support visiting artist or visiting performer programs during school hours. Applications for AinE Grants must be signed by school principals and submitted by September 30. Selections […]
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