EXHIBITIONS
The Delaplaine offers five main galleries on two floors showcasing local, regional, and national artists. In addition, the Community Art Gallery features artworks from local schools and nonprofit organizations, and the Community Outreach Gallery primarily features artwork created through our Community Outreach program partnerships. Galleries are open daily and admission is free.
The Delaplaine also operates three satellite galleries in partnership with Frederick County Public Libraries.
Art Matters Artist Talks
Join us on most First Saturdays for artist talks from new exhibiting artists, 2-3 pm.
Meet the Artists
Join us on most First Saturdays for new exhibition openings and to meet the artists, 3–5 pm.
Past Exhibitions
View links to our Flickr albums of past exhibitions.
MAR 2–APR 28
Bettie Awards Exhibition
Works in a variety of media
View artworks created by local youth selected as 2024’sBettie Award Winners, who will be announced on Facebook on February 10. Join us at the Delaplaine on March 2 at 2 pm when the winners are presented and the Grand Prize announced. See page 20 for more information about the annual awards program.
APR 6–28
Emerging Perspectives
Works in a variety of media
This annual juried exhibition highlights young adult artists at the outset of their creative endeavors.
ABOUT THE JUROR: Ryan Lauterio is an artist, curator, the Assistant Professor in the Art Foundation Program at Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Director of Shockoe Artspace in Richmond, VA. Lauterio’s work has been published in New American Paintings, Beautiful/Decay, Sick of the Radio, and Image Journal. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art.
APR 6–28
Delaplaine Faculty Show
Works in a variety of media
A showcase of the talents of those who teach at The Delaplaine Arts Center, including painters, metalsmiths, photographers, sculptors, and more.
MAR/APR
Frederick County Public Schools Youth Art Month Unified Exhibition
APR
Friends Meeting School, an independent school in Ijamsville, MD, serving K12 students
MAY 4–JUL 7
National Juried Exhibition
Works in a variety of media
The Delaplaine’s annual juried show features works by artists from around the region and the nation.
ABOUT THE JUROR: Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah is an arts administrator, exhibition producer, curator, and researcher working in Washington, DC. She is currently the Director of Programs at the Qatar America Institute for Culture, where she oversees exhibitions, programs, and partnerships. She has also held senior-level roles at Washington Studio School, The Fabric Workshopand Museum, Art Fraud Insights, and International Arts and Artists. She holdsa BA from George Mason University and an MA from Georgetown University, where she focused on modern and contemporary cultural production, heritage, and diplomacy.
MAY 4–JUN 30
Joseph Gerlak
Explorations of Light and Shadow
Mixed media
Gerlak creates wall-hanging mixed-media pieces that function both as paintings and sculptures, and are informed by light and shadow as well as the subtle and fleeting occurrence of color, shape, and form over time.
MAY 4–JUN 30
Stacy Lund Levy
Painting from Life
Watercolor
With a love for portrait and figure drawing, as well as textures and patterns, Painting from Life is a group of watercolors painted from people and places encountered in the artist’s everyday life.
MAY 4–JUN 30
Eunice Turner
Lincoln’s Triad: A Visual Chronicle of History
Mixed media on wood
This series of 3–D work blends a cubist-inspired geometric sensibilitywith elements of Pop Art in depicting the life of Abraham Lincoln.
Transformative Arts Project, a nonprofit amplifying the voices of vulnerable communities
MAY/JUN
The Difference 2-17, a skills enrichment center for neurological diversity and autism
Each 1 Teach 1, a minority-led nonprofit offering coping skills to youth and their families