ST MICHAELS, MD – Jane Sinclair, apprenticeship navigator for the Division of Workforce Development & Adult Learning with the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation, recently paid a visit to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., to meet several of its current Shipwright Apprentices. Pictured with Sinclair (far right), are CBMM […]
Continue ReadingA new exhibition in the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Waterfowling building, Deconstructing Decoys: The Culture of Collecting, will open to the public on Saturday, April 13, 2019. What makes a decoy “collectible”? How do you distinguish a Susquehanna Flats duck from a Chincoteague carvers’ work? Buying and selling carved and painted wooden waterfowl—once used simply […]
Continue ReadingWilmington, DE – The Delaware Art Museum is delighted to announce the inaugural year of the Distinguished Artist Series-a core part of the Museum’s strategic vision to highlight local artists and welcome diverse audiences. This new program celebrates artists who have-for fifty years or more-impacted contemporary art in the greater Wilmington area through their artistic […]
Continue ReadingSt Michaels – Beginning Saturday, April 6 and continuing through June 29, 2019 the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. will be exhibiting Beach Finds of the Chesapeake. The special exhibition kicks off the April 6 & 7, 2019 Eastern Shore Sea Glass & Coastal Arts Festival, which has been moved this year […]
Continue ReadingWilmington, DE Fairy Tales to Nursery Rhymes: The Droller Collection of Picture Book Art March 2 – May 12, 2019 Gallery 10: The Anthony N. and Catherine A. Fusco Gallery From the Brothers Grimm and Mother Goose to Dinosaur Bob and Bumble-Ardy, engaging stories and captivating images come alive in the art of picture books. […]
Continue ReadingOcean City, Maryland – During the month of February, the Museum’s changing exhibit, Archives and Artifacts, focuses on black history within Ocean City, MD. This exhibit is a pictorial history that provides insight into the lives of black men and women living and working in Ocean City from the 1930s through the 1960s. African Americans […]
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, February 19 and continuing Thursday, February 21, 2019 the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is offering a Krenov-style plane-making workshop that runs from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. each evening, with each participant going home at the end of the workshop with a working hand plane they built. Participants will join Shipyard Manager Michael […]
Continue ReadingFREE PRESENTATION “The Rosedale Beach Hotel and Resort” Date: Saturday, February 2, 2019 Time: 10:30 a.m. Location: Delaware Public Archives – 121 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. N. – Dover, DE 19901 www.archives.delaware.gov Presenter: Tamara Jubilee-Shaw In the pre-integration era of the 20th century, there were very few places for people of color to go […]
Continue ReadingDOVER, DE – DNREC’s First State Heritage Parks’ monthly “First Saturday in the First State” will host “Black Migrations, Urban Realities for the African-American Community in Delaware,” and other programs as a part of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the national organization that founded African-American History Month. The “First […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – Iver C. Franzen Maritime, LLC, an Annapolis-based firm specializing in historic vessel naval architecture services, has been chosen by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum to design the newest iteration of 17th century pinnace Maryland Dove. Maryland Dove, a representation of the trading ship that accompanied the first European settlers to what […]
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