Category: Arts

Easton Arts & Entertainment news and updates

Sep 30
AAM Announces Grant Received from Art Bridges

The Academy Art Museum has received a generous grant from Art Bridges Foundation to offer free public programs centered on Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s monumental artwork I Refuse to be Invisible featured in the current exhibition, Fickle Mirror: Dialogues in Self-Portraiture. Art Bridges funded the expenses associated with shipping Crosby’s work from its collection based in Arkansas to Easton, […]

Sep 25
Joe Mayer: A Retrospective ~ Final Week at Trippe Gallery

On Exhibit Joe Mayer: A Retrospective “Every time I pick up the brush it’s a brand new experience,” Joe Mayer was fond of saying. “After thirty-five years devoted to watercolor landscapes I find my work keeps leaning more and more towards non-objective paintings in oils, acrylics and watercolor. My recent work reflects my attempts to create a perfect […]

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Sep 09
Trippe Gallery Update

On Exhibit Joe Mayer: A Retrospective “Every time I pick up the brush it’s a brand new experience,” Joe Mayer was fond of saying. “After thirty-five years devoted to watercolor landscapes I find my work keeps leaning more and more towards non-objective paintings in oils, acrylics and watercolor. My recent work reflects my attempts to create a perfect […]

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Sep 09
Academy Art Museum Announces the 25th Annual Craft Show

This year’s 25th annual Academy Art Museum Craft Show, will be held on October 22 & 23 with a Preview Event on October 21. The show will feature 60 juried exhibitors, including established artists, returning favorites from years past and more than 28 artists new to the show. Participating artists create work in all media […]

Aug 31
Trippe Gallery Presents Exhibition Paying Homage to Joe Mayer

From the Talbot Spy: “Every time I pick up the brush it’s a brand new experience,” Joe Mayer was fond of saying. Joe had been painting and teaching art since 1959 up until his passing in 2020. “After thirty-five years devoted to watercolor landscapes I find my work keeps leaning more and more towards non-objective […]

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Aug 25
Troika adds Joe Gyurcsak to their gallery

Troika Gallery is proud to announce that Joe Gyurcsak has joined the family! Pictured; South Light, oil, 12 x 12, troikagallery.com

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Aug 24
Chesapeake Film Festival Continues Virtually and FREE October 3 through October 9, 2022

Drive up to The Automat with Mel Brooks. Go back in time on The Long Shore of the Chesapeake with Pete Lesher, curator of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.  Let Cicely Tyson introduce you to The Other Boys of Summer who played in the Negro League alongside Jackie Robinson. Take these and other trips back in time during the Virtual Chesapeake Film […]

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Aug 08
Easton Choral Arts Society Invites Singers to Open Rehearsals

Summer is flying by, while ECAS searches for a new director to replace Wes Lockfaw. In the meantime, the ECAS music committee has chosen the program for December’s “Christmas Around the World” concert. Rehearsals will begin on Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p.m., starting August 23at Christ Church in Easton. However, ECAS is not a […]

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Aug 02
Studio B Art Gallery celebrates Plein Air Easton artists during ‘Easton Night Out’ on August 5

On the First Friday of every month, downtown Easton shops and galleries are open late and live music is performed throughout the district. Studio B Art Gallery invites you to make it one of your stops during the festivities for a special opening exhibit celebrating the gallery’s featured artists that have participated in previous Plein […]

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Jul 29
Environmental Themes Prominent In 2022 Chesapeake Film Festival

Many of our nation’s waterways are much cleaner than they were 50 years ago thanks, in part, to the Clean Water Act of 1972.  Yet today, nearly half of U.S. streams, lakes and underwater aquifers are so polluted that they are not safe for fishing, swimming, or aquatic life, including some in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. […]