Category: Arts

This year’s 34th Annual Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival will take place from June 4 through June 15, 2019 at various locations in Easton, Oxford and Cambridge, Maryland.  Internationally-recognized musicians will perform the works of both familiar and lesser known composers from the 18th to the 21st centuries. During two music-filled weeks, artists and musical ensembles will delight […]

The Academy Art Museum teamed up with The Horn Point Laboratory for this year’s eARTh Arts Day Extravaganza at the Museum. Thirty-six children and adults took part in what was a busy and creative endeavor to create building projects from foam shapes, animal faces from cardboard boxes and shimmery fish from recycled CDs. For further […]

EXHIBITIONS 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. Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942–1955 Through July 10 Open daily 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free Docent Tours: Wednesdays, 11 a.m. The exhibition and its […]

Easton, MD – The riveting, award-winning documentary, Moving Stories, screens Saturday, May 11 at 3 p.m. at the Talbot County Free Library, 100 W. Dover St., Easton, MD.  Moving Stories follows Battery Dance’s troupe in India, Romania, Korea, and Iraq as the professional dancers teach tools of choreography to at-risk youth through the Dancing to Connect program. The film captures the […]

Easton’s First Friday in May event features a Spring Group Show at Troika Gallery. A reception with hor ‘d oeuvres and libations on May 3 from 5 to 8 p.m. will accompany the new masterpieces by the gallery artists. Proudly presenting the art of Jorge Alberto, Kenn Backhaus, John Ebersberger, Carolyn Egeli, Deborah Elville, Laura […]

Easton, Maryland is a finalist for USA Today’s “Best Small Town Cultural Scene.” Each small town chosen has a population of fewer than 30,000 people. Easton may be a small town, but it packs a “big cultural punch.” The Talbot Historical Society Museum, Academy Art Museum, and Avalon Theatre are mentioned as ambassadors of the […]

Audiences today generally know the career of Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) in three periods: the Sausalito, Albuquerque, Urbana, and “early Berkeley” periods of Abstract Expressionism; the Berkeley figurative/representational period; and lastly the famous Ocean Park and Healdsburg series of abstractions. Yet Diebenkorn’s earliest work remains very little known. The exhibition, Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942–1955, will be […]

EXHIBITIONS The following Academy Art Museum exhibitions are sponsored by the Talbot County Arts Council, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Star Democrat. Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942–1955 April 26–July 10 Reception: Friday, April 26, 5:30-7:00 p.m. Free Docent Tours: Wednesdays, 11 a.m. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue aim to present a comprehensive view […]

Eight high school choral ensembles took the stage on Saturday, March 2 to compete for a total of $5000 in prize monies at the Second Annual Easton Choral Arts Society (ECAS) High School Choral Competition at Easton High School in Easton, MD. The Competition was designed by ECAS to be an outreach to the youth […]