“Picture This”: The 2025 Plein Air Play is About the Festival Itself
An annual feature of the Plein Air Competition and Arts Festival has been a theatrical performance from Easton’s own Factory Arts Project, a nonprofit community workshop for the performing arts. From Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams, productions by the project have been some of the most anticipated and appreciated highlights of the festival.But this has been a tough year for the ... [Continue Story]
Arts Highlights
The Art of Art Education at the Academy Art Museum: A Chat with Matt Moore
Editor's note: With the help of a special agent working undercover at the Academy Art Museum, the Spy shares this interview with the newly appointed ... [Continue Story]
- The Spy-Chesapeake Film Festival Podcast: A Chat with Director/Producer Ted Adams
- Joe Holt’s ‘First Friday’ Finale – For Now by Steve Parks
- From One Generation to the Next: A Community Mural Reimagined by Val Cavalheri
- Plein Air Easton Hall of Fame 2025: Al Bond
- Avalon Donates New Gallery to AAM for Plein Air (Sort of): A Chat with Al Bond and Charlotte Potter Kasic
- Easton Art Galleries Welcome Plein Air by Steve Parks
- Plein Air Easton Hall of Fame 2025: David Grafton As Remembered by Stephen Griffin
- Plein Air Easton Hall of Fame 2025: Working Artist Forum
- When the Anderson Twins Play Ellington, History Swings Back to Life by Al Sikes
- Plein Air Easton Hall of Fame 2025: Hali and Scott Asplundh
- Plein Air Easton Hall of Fame 2025: Diane DuBois Mullaly
- A Live Night at the Opera and More Classics by Steve Parks
Delmarva Review
Taking flight? Will Delmarva Review come in for a landing?
It’s hard to imagine the Delmarva Review ever having trouble finding writers eager to submit their work. However, in 2007, when the Eastern Shore Writers Association was a ... [Continue Story]
- Delmarva Review: The “Best of” Anthology
- Delmarva Review: Leitmotif by Rita Plush
- Delmarva Review: Arrogance by Katherine J. Williams
- Delmarva Review: A System of Seeing by Colin Jeffrey Morris
- Delmarva Review: The End of the Story by Patty Somlo
- Delmarva Review: Something More Than Winter Weighs (Upon Me) by John Muro
- Delmarva Review: Unknowable by Mary-Cecile Gee
- Delmarva Review: Traumas by Andrew Payton
- Delmarva Review: Dry Eye by Jean McDonough
- Delmarva Review: Cadence by K. Alma Peterson
- Delmarva Review: You Learn Transaction, Before Anything Else by Marlowe Jones
- Delmarva Review: Now Dimming by Mercedes Lawry
Chesapeake Lens
Chesapeake Lens: “Balance” by John Rock
Balance is critical in a log canoe race. In life, too. “Balance” by John Rock. ... [Continue Story]
- Chesapeake Lens: “Fawn and Friend” by Tricia Volkman
- Chesapeake Lens: “Companions” by Jay Fleming
- Chesapeake Lens: “The Dragon’s Lair” By John Maloney
- Chesapeake Lens: “Crossings” By David Sites
- Chesapeake Lens: “Gulp” By Sherri Baton
- Chesapeake Lens: “Idle in Awe” By Paul Hanley, Jr.
- Chesapeake Lens:”Lady of the Bay” By David Sites
- Chesapeake Lens: “Dippin’ for Crabs” by Tracey Johns
- Chesapeake Lens: “On the Prowl” by Richard Bodorff
- Chesapeake Lens: “Jack Meets the Morning” By James Dissette
- Chesapeake Lens: “Magothy Sunrise” By Louise Zeitlin
- Chesapeake Lens: “The C & O Canal” By Lee Goodwin
- Chesapeake Lens: “Stillness” By Sherri Baton
- Chesapeake Lens: “To Go” By Jay Fleming
- Chesapeake Lens: Title: “Watchful” By Wesley Finneyfrock
Looking at the Masters with Beverly Smith
Looking at the Masters: Spain in the Golden Age – Cordoba
The Golden Age of Spain lasted from 711 until 1492 CE. Muslims migrated from Arabia across the straights of Gibraltar to the Iberian Peninsula of Spain and settled in what they called Al-Andalus. Originally part of the Holy Roman Empire, the region was conquered in the 5th Century by the Visigoths, who were Germanic Christians. […]
- Looking at the Masters: Camille Pissarro
- Looking at the Masters: Gustave Caillebotte
- Looking at the Masters: Jacques-Joseph Tissot
- Looking at the Masters: Guiseppe De Nettis
- Looking at the Masters: Tom Deininger
- Looking at the Masters: Miriam Schapiro
- Looking at the Masters: Xu Zhen
- Looking at the Masters: Patricia Tobacco Forrester
- Design with Jenn Martella: Pin Oak House
- Looking at the Masters: Poppies
- Looking at the Masters: Imogene Cunningham
- Looking at the Masters: Ruth Asawa
- Looking at the Masters: Renoir
- Looking at the Masters: Mizue Sawano
- Looking at the Masters: Tree of Life
Weather Report with Cecile Storm
The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
The Spy Weather Report forecast and words for September 30 to October 1 “Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all ... [Continue Story]
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
- Publisher’s Notes: A Different Summer, Spy Weather, and a Few More Spies
The Library Guy with Bill Peak
The Library Guy: Donald Hall Award Winning Poet Joy Priest
Bill’s guest today is the young poet Joy Priest, whose very first book of poetry, Horsepower, won the prestigious Donald Hall Prize for Poetry last ... [Continue Story]
- The Library Guy: Ann Finkbeiner on Wars in Space
- The Library Guy: USNA Poet Temple Cone Talks to Bill Peak
- The Library Guy: Poet Meredith Davies Hadaway Talks to Bill Peak
- The Library Guy: Poet Sue Ellen Thompson Talks to Bill Peak
- The Library Guy: New Yorker Writer Casey Cep on Dorothy Day
- The Library Guy: An Exit Interview with Talbot County Free Library’s Bill Peak
Arts Notes
Trumpet and Percussion Highlight the Next Classical Concert at the Mainstay in Rock Hall
What do a trumpet, several percussion instruments, Johann Sebastian Bach, planets, and Baroque-era composer Jean Joseph Mouret all have in common? ... [Continue Story]
- Allegro Academy Scholarships
- Easton Artist Earns National Recognition with Etching in Prestigious Washington, D.C. Exhibition
- Studio B Art Gallery Presents “Brushstrokes Abroad” – A Celebration of Travel Through Art
- Art Elevated: 2025 Competition and Festival Marks a Historic High for Plein Air Easton
- Academy Art Museum Announces Upcoming Exhibition with Artist Anita Groener
- Academy Art Museum Seeks Director of Development to Help Lead a Bold New Chapter
- Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra Completes Finland Tour
- Outdoor Sculpture Invitational: Artists in Dialogue with Landscape on View at Adkins Arboretum
- Chestertown Artist’s Work is Going to the Moon
- MassoniArt Show Summer 2025 Gallery Artist Exhibition July 15 – August 15
- Academy Art Museum Welcomes Matthew Moore as New Director of Education
- All Aboard for Murder on the Orient Express at Church Hill Theatre
