10.21.2022 Maryland Waterways Exhibition
Gaithersburg, MD (October 21, 2022) The City of Gaithersburg and the Gaithersburg Parks, Arts and Recreation Corporation (G-PARC) present Maryland Waterways, a juried exhibition to benefit the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. The artwork will be on display from October 21, 2022, through January 16, 2023. The Benjamin Gaither Center is located at 80-A Bureau Drive and is open Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. A reception to meet the artists is being planned and more details will be available on the City's website and social media. This exhibit is open to the public. Masks and social distancing are encouraged.
Thirty pieces of art for this exhibit were chosen by a jury committee that included professional artists, members of G-PARC's Arts & Culture Alliance, and a member of the City's Stormwater Management Team. The committee remarked that it was difficult to narrow the exhibit down to the thirty pieces from the seventy-nine submitted for consideration as part of the call to artists. The exhibit is part of G-PARC's Arts & the Environment initiative and the call to artists requested artwork that included a dominant feature depicting our beautiful Maryland waterways, including creeks, streams, rivers, lakes, the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic shoreline.
The exhibiting artists include Loretta Anyomi, Robert Ausura, Carolyn Avery, Ken Bachman, Robert Barkin, Barbara Bell, Patrick Brown, Holly Buehler, John Canan, Howard Clark, Kathy Daywalt, Jackie Detrick, Rafael Galan, Madeleine Greenwald, Gail Kaplan-Wassell, Mary Kosterlitz, Lisa Leitner, Markham Luke, Al Neyman, Melissa Ou, Carlos Ramos, Bill Schmidt, Alden Schofield, Ellen Sherfey, Dale Shore, Jeanne Sullivan, David Terrar, Sheryl Walker, Chris Wikman, and Michelle Yanity.
All of the pieces are available for purchase with a portion of the sales going to benefit the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. G-PARC's Arts & the Environment initiates have included the annual Storm Drain Art Contest and Paint the Plow activities, which also bring attention to and educate about the need to protect the Chesapeake watershed.
Please note that all images and artwork are copyrighted by the artists. For more information, please contact the City's Gallery Program Coordinator at 301-258-6394, e-mail artgalleries@gaithersburgmd.
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The City's visual arts program is funded in part by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC). To discover more about MSAC grants and how they impact Maryland's arts sector, visit www.msac.org.
