Academy Art Museum Announces June Events

The Academy Art Museum exhibitions are funded by the Maryland State Arts Council, the Talbot County Arts Council, and Chesapeake Publishing.

Paulette Tavormina: Seizing Beauty

through July 10, 2016

Curator-Led Tour: Wednesday, June 15, 12 noon

Paulette Tavormina’s photographs often recall the sumptuous detail of seventeenth century Old Master still life painters and serve as intensely personal interpretations of timeless, universal stories. Her meticulously orchestrated and beautifully lit photographs are boldly contemporary in their precision, capturing delphiniums, roses, lemons, figs, beetles, and porcelain bowls. Tavormina’s photographs are in museum, corporate, and private collections around the globe.Tavormina’s new book Paulette Tavormina: Seizing Beauty (The Monacelli Press, New York, 2016) features as an essay by Academy Art Museum Senior Curator Anke Van Wagenberg.

 

Peter Milton: Living Old Master

Through July 18, 2016

Peter Winslow Milton (1930) is a major force in the printmaking world. Milton conveys meaning through a contextual environment of people, places, and moments in time. A creator of black and white etchings and engravings that often display an extraordinary degree of photo-realistic detail placed in the service of a truly visionary aesthetic, his themes include architecture, history, myth, and memory, their intersections and hidden juxtapositions.

 

Brooke Rogers: In the Offing

Through June 12

Brooke Rogers: In the Offing will showcase the work of regional artist, Brooke Rogers, who grew up in Ocean City, MD. Living near the ocean is an important influence on his work, which has ranged from abstraction in a reductive vein, to a somewhat cartoony figuration. Minimalism and Pop Art have held sway over his work in a back-and-forth manner. Abstraction has won out in recent years.

 

 

Ernie Satchell: A Few of MY Favorite Things

June 17 – August 7, 2016

The exhibition features the ceramics of artist Ernest Satchell, a native of the Eastern Shore and retired professor from UMES. Under the tutelage of his mentor Jimmie Mosely and visiting professor Kenneth Beittel from Pennsylvania State University, he became proficient in throwing large vessels and found his true calling … ceramics.

 

 

Selections from the Grover Batts Collection

Through August 7

During his lifetime, Washington resident Grover Batts donated close to 200 works on paper to the Museum, thereby helping the collecting direction the Museum might take. Upon his death in July 2014, Batts left dozens of artworks to the Museum. His magnanimous gift includes works by renowned late 19th and 20th century American and European artists.

 

 

SPECIAL EVENTS

2016 Juneteenth Celebration

Friday, June 17 at 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, June 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Academy Art Museum & Waterfowl Building

Sponsored by the Academy Art Museum and the Frederick Douglass Honor Society

The theme of this year’s celebration is “Celebrating Our Heritage in Art and Stories.” This year’s program will include a variety of free events.

• Ruth Starr Rose (1887 – 1965): Revelations of African American Life in Maryland and the World exhibition on view in the Waterfowl Building through June 19 offers a rare glimpse into African American life at the turn of the century on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
• Ernie Satchell: A Few of MY Favorite Things (June 17 – August 7, 2016) exhibition features the ceramics of artist Ernest Satchell, a native of the Eastern Shore and retired professor from UMES.
• Keynote talk by Carole Boston Weatherford, Professor and Director of the Professional Writing Program at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, NC, and author of the award winning children’s book, Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom.

 

Other activities include the acknowledgement of 2016 Juneteenth Honorees Jeffery Moaney, Barbara Paca, and St. Matthew United Methodist Church, as well as performances by local church choirs, art projects for children and families, craft displays, food, and a knowledge village in the block of South Street between the Museum and the Waterfowl Building. For further information, visit academyartmuseum.org or call 410-822-2787.

 

ADULT CLASSES

Workshops

The Impressionist Landscape – Mini Workshop – Barns, Cottages, Structures

Instructor:  Diane DuBois Mullaly

Saturday June 4, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Cost:  $65 Members, $95 Non-members

 

Painting

Saturdays en Plein Air!

Mentor:  Diane DuBois Mullaly

Monthly:  the Last Saturday of each month through October, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

FREE to Members of the Academy

 

Introduction to Pastels

Instructor: Katie Cassidy

3 days: Tuesday – Thursday, June 21, 22 and 24

Time, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Cost: $125 Members, $155 Non-members (plus small materials fee)

 

Photography

Private Lessons in Photography or Photoshop

Instructor: George Holzer

Time and number of weeks: variable

Cost: per hour fee

Contact: George Holzer Photography & Digital Imaging, www.georgeholzer.com or [email protected], or call 410-820-0462 (studio) or 410-310-2604 (cell).

 

Organizing, Storing and Sharing Photos with Your Smartphone

Instructor: Scott Kane

2 Days: Tuesdays, June 7 and 14

6 – 8 p.m.

Cost per class: $50 Members, $80 Non-members

 

Adult Dance

Adult Ballroom & Latin Dance, Amanda Showell (410) 482-6169, ww.dancingontheshore.com

 

CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING

Summer Camps

 

Writing and Illustrating Books

Ages 3-5

Instructor: Heather Crow

Monday-Friday: June 20-24

9-10:30 a.m.

Cost: $105 Members, $115 Non-members

 

Writing and Illustrating Books

Ages 6-8

Instructor: Heather Crow

Monday-Friday: June 20-24

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Cost: $130 Members, $140 Non-members

 

Writing and Illustrating a Book or Graphic Novel

Ages 9 and up

Instructor: Heather Crow

Monday-Friday: June 20-24

1-3 p.m.

Cost: $140 Members, $150 Non-members

 

Oil Painting Outdoors in Plein Air!

Ages 12+

Instructor:  Diane DuBois Mullaly

Monday-Thursday June 27-30

10am – 12:30 p.m.

Cost: $130 Members; $140 Non-members

 

Sketch it! A Sketchbook Journey

Ages 8 -13

Instructor: Susan Horsey

Monday-Friday, June 27- July 1

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

Cost: $130 Members, $140 Non-members

 

Preschool Classes

Mini Master Academy

Registering Students for the 2016 – 2017 School Year

For ages 2 – 5 years

Mini Masters Academy introduces young children to new ideas through a thematic approach to learning that emphasizes relationships and the ability to make meaningful connections.  It teaches a basic life skill … how to learn … and focuses on strategies and techniques that can be applied to almost any encounter with the unknown. The rich resources of the Academy Art Museum offer a wonderful venue for teaching these sensory explorations.  The resources come in many forms, from artwork to museum professionals.

 

For further information on any exhibitions, classes, or programs or to register, visit academyartmuseum.org or call 410-822-2787.