Academy Art Museum Announces August Events
The following Academy Art Museum exhibitions are sponsored by the Talbot County Arts Council, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Star Democrat. Open daily, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Amze Emmons: Pattern Drift
August 2–September 30, 2019
Reception with the Artist: August 2, 5:30-7 p.m.
Free Art Tours: Wednesdays, 11 a.m.
Amze Emmons is a Philadelphia-based, multi-disciplinary artist with a background in drawing and printmaking. His images evoke a sense of magical/minimal realism inspired by architectural illustration, comic books, cartoon language, information graphics, news footage, consumer packaging, and instruction manuals. An exhibition publication will accompany the show and serve as a catalogue raisonné of his oeuvre to date. The exhibition was conceived and curated by the Academy Art Museum and will travel to the Ross Art Museum, at Ohio Wesleyan University. Amze Emmons will serve as the Museum’s second Artist-in-Residence at the time of his exhibition. Details on educational and other special programming will be available on academyartmuseum.org.
James Turrell: Mapping Spaces
August 2–September 30, 2019
Reception: August 2, 5:30-7 p.m.
Free Art Tours: Wednesdays, 11 a.m.
For over half a century, the American artist James Turrell has worked directly with light and space to create artworks that engage viewers with the limits and wonder of human perception. Turrell’s group of prints, Mapping Spaces, was created in 1987 as Chambers and Cross Sections of the Roden Crater. Located in the Painted Desert region of Northern Arizona, Roden Crater is an unprecedented large-scale artwork created within a volcanic cinder cone by light and space and the culmination of the artist’s lifelong research in the field of human visual and psychological perception. Roden Crater is a controlled environment for the experience and contemplation of light. The Academy Art Museum acquired the portfolio of five color etchings with aquatint, photo-etching, soft-ground and dry point, in 2018.
Heather Harvey: The Thin Place
August 2–September 30, 2019
Reception with the Artist: August 2, 5:30–7 p.m.
Free Art Tours: Wednesdays, 11 a.m.
Visual artist Heather Harvey, Associate Professor and Chair of Art + Art History at Washington College in Chestertown, MD, works at the overlap between objective and subjective experience. Her studio practice includes night walks to collect trash inadvertently left by others; what she calls “urban beachcombing.” These materials, regarded by most as worthless and unsightly, are incorporated in order to draw out their inherent significance, beauty, and strangeness. This will be the first exhibition of her work within the community where most of her materials were gathered.
Open MIC
Second Wednesday Each Month
August 14 – Have a Heart
FREE. Contact Ray Remesch at RayRemesch@gmail.com for additional information.
Applications and Techniques of Watercolor – A Refresher
Instructor: Paul Allen Taylor paulallentaylor.com
One-Day Workshop: August 1 Thursday 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m.
Cost: $60 Members, $72 Non-members
Line and Wash for Watercolor
Instructor: Paul Allen Taylor paulallentaylor.com
Two-Day Workshop, August 2 and 3 Friday and Saturday 9:30 a.m.–4: p.m.
Cost: $90 Members, $108 Non-members
4th Annual Summer Challenge – A Painting A Day for 15 Days!
Instructor: Diane DuBois Mullaly dunepainter@earthlink.net
Three Weeks: August 10, 17, 24, Saturdays, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.
Cost: $125 Members, $150 Non-members
Pastel Workshop: Beautiful Beaches, Skies, and Seascape
Instructor: Katie Cassidy wkmcgarry@verizon.net
Two-Day Workshop: August 7 and 8 Wednesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.– 3 p.m.
Cost: $90 Members, $108 Non-members
Inspired by the Bay: A Painting Workshop (Oil or Acrylics)
Instructor: Matthew Hillier matthewhillierart@gmail.com
Three-Day Workshop: August 9, 10 and 11, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Cost: $190 Members, $228 Non-members
Kaleidoscope Summer Arts Camp
Ages 6 +
Instructor: Maria Sage
Monday–Friday, August 5–9, 10 a.m.–12 noon
Cost: $100 Members, $110 Non-members
Mosaics for Teens Ages 13+ (Adults welcome)
Instructor: Sheryl Southwick
Monday–Thursday, August 12–15 10 a.m.–12 noon
Cost: $105 Members, $115 Non-members
Puppet-Making Workshop Ages 9–14
Instructor: Dawn Malosh
Monday–Friday, August 19–23, 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Cost: $135 Members, $145 Non-members
Super Surrealists Art Camp
Ages 10-14
Instructor: Dawn Malosh
Monday–Friday, August 19–23, 1-3:30 p.m.
Cost: $135 Members, $145 Non-members
Mini Masters
An Early Enrichment Program for Children Ages 2 to 4
MSDE Childcare Development License # 255007, Exp. 11/30/20
Taking Registrations Now for the 2019–2020 School Year
The Academy Art Museum’s Mini Masters Program is creativity central for children ages 2 to 4 years old. Mini Masters is a fully licensed flexible program based on The Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center’s approach. Morning and/or afternoon classes are available, 2 or 4 days per week. Enrollment is ongoing throughout the school year. Mixed-age group of 10 children Maximum with 2 teachers. Contact Anne Hansen at AHansen@academyartmuseum.org for program details.
Piano & Guitar Lessons
Instructor: Raymond Remesch
Contact Instructor for further information at (410) 829-0335 or rayremesch@gmail.com
Ballroom and Latin Dance
Instructor: Amanda Showell
Contact instructor for information at (302) 377-3088 or visit dancingontheshore.com.
For additional information, visit academyartmuseum.org or call the Museum at 410-822-2787.