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    Academy Art Museum Announces March Events

    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.

    Gamelatron @ AAM: Bodyphones
    Front Yard Through Summer 2020
    The Academy Art Museum presents Bodyphones, an immersive installation by Aaron Taylor Kuffner (1975). Kuffner is an American conceptual artist, based in New York. The artwork’s goal is to expand the legacy and creative cultural power of the traditional Indonesian gamelan through innovation.

    Gamelatron

    LECTURES

    Kittredge-Wilson Lecture
    March 27, 2020, 6 p.m.
    Steve Ziger, Partner, Ziger/Snead of Baltimore, MD Lecture Architecture for the Arts
    Cost: $24 Members; $29 Non-Members
    Steve Ziger is a partner at the Top-50 US Architects firm of Ziger/Snead of Baltimore, MD, which serves as the architect for the AAM’s new Courtyard Entrance and Gallery Renovations. With dedication to a distilled design approach, a focus on relationships, and active community engagement, the firm’s mission that great design can have a positive impact on our quality of life has resulted in transformative projects for many non-profits and institutions in Baltimore and beyond. He is the only Baltimore-based architect to be elevated to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows

    ARTS EXPRESS TRIPS

    National Gallery of Art
    Degas at the Opéra & Painting from Nature: European Landscape Sketches, 1770–1870
    March 24, 2020
    Cost: $60 Members; $72 Non-Members
    Celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Opéra’s founding, Degas at the Opéra will present approximately 100 of the artist’s best-known and beloved works in a range of media, including paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and sculpture. Painting from Nature: European Landscape Sketches, 1770–1870 includes such intrepid artists such as Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, John Constable, Simon Denis, Jules Coignet, and André Giroux— highly skilled at quickly capturing effects of light and atmosphere.

    Edgar Degas, The Curtain, c. 1880. Pastel over charcoal and monotype on laid paper National Gallery of Art, Washington Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon.

    SPECIAL EVENTS

    Open MIC – Second Wednesday Each Month
    March 11 – Because
    FREE. Contact Ray Remesch at RayRemesch@gmail.com for additional information.

    ADULT CLASSES

    Photo Shoot Adventures
    Instructors: Maire McArdle and Steve Walker
    4 weeks: March 7-28
    Saturdays, 2-4:30 p.m.

    Steve Walker

    Basic Drawing: The Fundamentals
    Instructor: Katie Cassidy   wkmcgarry@verizon.net
    4 weeks, March 7 – March 28

    Still Life Painting Workshop
    Instructor: Bernard Dellario   bernie.dellario@gmail.com
    Weekend workshop: March 14 – March 15
    Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

    Bernard Dellario

    Building Blocks of the Impressionist Landscape — One Element Each Week
    Instructor:  Diane DuBois Mullaly   www.dianeduboismullaly.com
    6 weeks: March 19 – April 30 (no class April 9)
    Thursdays, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

    Realism to Abstraction
    Instructor: Sheryl Southwick
    4 weeks: March 3 – 24
    Tuesdays, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

    The Naturalist’s Notebook; Spring Botanicals
    Instructor: Maggii Sarfaty
    4 weeks:  March 4 – March 25
    Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

    Maggii Sarfaty

    Printmaking Workshop: The Painterly Print
    Instructor: Rosemary Cooley
    3-day workshop: March 13, 14 and 15
    Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

    Fundamentals of Photography: Tame Your Camera and Beyond Digital
    Instructor: Sahm Doherty-Sefton
    dohertysefton@aol.com      www.Sahmdohertysefton.com
    3 Weeks: March 11, 18, 25  
    Wednesdays, 6 – 8 p.m.

    CHILDREN’S CLASSES

    Spring After-School Art Club
    Grades 1 through 4
    Instructor: Susan Horsey
    Seven Fridays:  March 20–May 15 (no class on April 10), 3:30–4:30 p.m.
    Cost: $105 Members, $115 Non-Members
    The Art Club offers fun and engaging projects for children of all skill levels. Exploration of individual ideas and creativity is encouraged. The instructor will focus on a variety of media, including painting, printmaking, 3-D wire construction, collage, pastels, and graphite, while also teaching stylistic secrets of famous artists.

    PERFORMING ARTS CLASSES
    Piano & Guitar Lessons
    Instructor: Raymond Remesch
    Contact Instructor for further information at (410) 829-0335 or rayremesch@gmail.com.

    Voice Lessons
    Instructor: Georgiann Gibson
    Contact instructor for Information at (410) 829-2525 or georgiann@atlanticbb.net.

    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.