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From January 2026 to May 2027, engage with a hands-on, interactive work of art facilitated by artist Jamie Gerhold. A mural of an underwater coral reef scene will serve as the foundation for a vibrant and collaborative work of art. Visitors are invited to design a fish that will be incorporated into the larger work, ... 
Mixed media A collection of recent work by Montreal artist James Gardner, this exhibition continues his task of reinterpreting religious imagery through the lens of Western esotericism. Looking to the iconography of martyrdoms and the depictions of saints, Gardner’s recent work traces the historical iterations and mutations of these images while attempting to link their ... 
Works in a variety of media In this unique exhibition, artists were invited to submit proposals focusing on the topic of mental health and mental health risk by utilizing premade cribs from local artist Jim Roberts. The result is 15 artists' unique perspectives expounded upon by the same object. 
Linoleum prints Cutting these images of the historic farmland of Antietam National Battlefield is the artist’s way of cultivating a fertile line of remembrance to forge a memory of place. Places hold the history of what came before only as long as we care to acknowledge the power of place within our national discourse. Acknowledging ... 
Ceramic sculptures The work in this exhibition is a reflection on the natural world as an ever-changing playground for the mind to wander and escape from the inevitability of chaos that living in human society seemingly brings. Samantha will discuss the work in this exhibition at the Sep 5 Art Matters Artist Talk. 
Watercolor paintings These paintings focus on the Provence region of France and highlight key elements of the natural landscape through evocative imagery. Marcia will discuss the work in this exhibition at the Sep 5 Art Matters Artist Talk. 
Are you a high school student looking for a challenging art education experience? Want to work with other like-minded people in a professional artistic environment? Join our high school art club! Club members will create artwork, hear from professional artists, and curate a group exhibition of their work. Open to public, private, and homeschooled students ...
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Free – $100.00
Kids (and adults!) can stop by the Delaplaine’s Francine Brady Art Carts during your next visit and get creative! The Art Carts offer two different activities each month. SEP 15 TO NOV 15: Make cave art for our upcoming gala, Ancients and Aliens! In addition, a video for one of the activities will premiere on ... 
Experience the magic of transparent watercolor while transforming drawings from observation into vibrant and expressive paintings inspired by nature and the landscape. Learn introductory watercolor techniques and advance your skills in drawing and knowledge of color theory, composition, and the elements of art. Please bring the following materials to class: Two watercolor pads, cold press, ...
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Free – $240.00
This rich, dense lettering has the texture of formal Blackletter styles, but has more in common with the branching of the Italic hand. However, it is very different from the Italic writing of the classical Renaissance of 15th Century Italy as it is more lively and has an almost contemporary feel with the pointed O. ...
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$145.00 – $170.00
Advance your skills and explore techniques in transparent watercolor painting. Emphasis will be on the elements of art and how to integrate them into the painting process. Continue to focus on composition and creating light and movement within a watercolor painting while taking inspiration from nature and the landscape. Prerequisite: Introduction to Watercolor or equivalent ...
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Free – $325.00
Advance your skills and explore techniques in transparent watercolor painting. Emphasis will be on the elements of art and how to integrate them into the painting process. Continue to focus on composition and creating light and movement within a watercolor painting while taking inspiration from nature and the landscape. Prerequisite: Introduction to Watercolor or equivalent ...
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Free – $325.00
Watercolor An exploration of the ethereal moment of transitions, when our world shifts and the view is altered. When the beauty moves through known lines and shapes to something anew. 
Photography This series is a call to slow down and appreciate the beauty of the everyday. The photographs’ arrangements and vivid colors all stem from the artist’s love of still life. 
Paintings This exhibition celebrates small towns just outside of Frederick by capturing their churches, homes, businesses, and other buildings in paintings. 
Kids (and adults!) can stop by the Delaplaine’s Francine Brady Art Carts during your next visit and get creative! The Art Carts offer two different activities each month. OCT 15 TO DEC 15: Take inspiration from the jigsaw puzzles of our fall Artist of Inspiration, Félix González-Torres, and create a puzzle with personal meaning. In ... 
Experiment with a variety of fun and unexpected materials to create one-of-a-kind prints. Use food, Lego printing plates, found objects, and gelli plates as well as many other non-traditional items. Tuition includes all supplies. NOTE: There will be no class on November 26.
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$75.00 – $100.00
Learn the basics of drawing with pen and ink in this beginner-friendly introductory course. Start by developing techniques through drawing still life arrangements in black and white, then build on those skills through personal projects. Please bring the following materials to class: Sketch book: Bristol board, hot press watercolor, or mixed media - Other kinds ...
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$125.00 – $150.00
Independently refine ceramics skills and bring your personal visions to life in a supportive open studio environment. Students are encouraged to bring in ideas for projects and will receive as much or as little assistance as needed. Each class, there will be a demo highlighting a specific technique to be applied to new projects. Prerequisite: ...
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$220.00 – $245.00
This class will begin by discussing the anatomy and planes of the head, then work from a live model each session to create a charcoal drawing. Techniques of charcoal drawing will be discussed, and examples of charcoal portraits by such artists as Kathe Kollwitz, John Singer Sargent, and others will be looked to for inspiration. ...
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Free – $235.00
Continue exploring the pottery wheel and all the opportunities for creation! Advance your skills and build on intro techniques. Prerequisite: Introduction to Wheel Throwing or equivalent. Tuition includes all supplies, as well as kiln loading and firing. Delaplaine staff will contact you to pick up your finished pieces after they have been fired. When you ...
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$230.00 – $255.00
Working from plaster casts of sculptures by artists such as Rodin, Carpeaux, and Michelangelo, create your own copy in clay while learning about proportions, anatomy, expression, and art history. Demonstrations as well as individual critiques will be part of the class. Previous drawing or sculpting experience recommended. Tuition includes all supplies, as well as kiln ...
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In this beginner friendly oil painting class, explore how to paint a portrait and capture a true likeness. Learn about the anatomy of the head, expressive mark-making, and color theory to bring your subject to life. Please bring the following materials to class: Stretched canvas: 18x24 Recommended paints: Alizarin crimson Cadmium yellow light or lemon ...
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$150.00 – $175.00
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Join other homeschoolers to dive into a different artist, method, or medium of art! By the end of each month, you’ll have completed works of art for your homeschool portfolio. This month: Learn about printmaking and mark-making. Students will explore creating prints with foam plates, gelli plates, cardboard collagraphs, and more. Registration is by month ...
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Free – $40.00
Build a tasteful side table using traditional joinery. Learn the fundamental elements of joinery and have creative control of the elements of the build. This class will teach you a repeatable skill with minimum hand tools, which will aid you in creating more traditional builds after the course. Knowledge of basic woodworking and joinery suggested ...
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$260.00 – $285.00
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Photography Part of FOCUS: A Celebration of Photography, the NJPE takes place every other year in November. The exhibition features selected photographs by regional and national artists. CALL FOR ENTRIES: Artists residing within the United States are invited to enter up to three photographs for consideration. All photographs (black & white, color, non-silver, computer-manipulated, digital, ... 
Photography Seaver’s photography uses ice and its properties as a filter through which to photograph. The result is the refraction of light, which distorts and abstracts the world seen through it. 
Photography The Dirty Window is a phantasmagoric cycle of photography that aligns with the four stages of sleep. Casamassima uses photography to explore how repetition reveals difference and where latent images surface to consciousness before dissolving again. 
Photography Elsewhere exists between places, neither here nor there. The work in Stiver’s exhibition explores themes of human connection and disconnect and feelings of belonging and misplacement, shrouded in a surreal atmosphere. 
Providing compassionate and quality behavioral health care, housing, and employment services to adults with mental illness
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Get messy and have a lot of fun making a bright, one-of-a-kind masterpiece as you build confidence and creativity and learn about color theory in a playful, engaging way. Complete the registration request form on the main Helen Smith page, if available. Submitting a request does not guarantee registration. If your child is added to ...
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Discover the magic of throwing clay on the pottery wheel and learn as you are guided through the fundamentals of wheel throwing in this one-afternoon workshop. Whether you are a beginner or looking to refine your skills, learn to center, pull, and shape clay into beautiful vessels. Join us for an afternoon of fun and ...
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$95.00 – $120.00
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Explore symmetry by designing your own colorful paper mandala. Start with a paper circle and fold and cut into fractional sections to reveal repeated patterns, combining art and math in a playful way. Complete the registration request form on the main Helen Smith page, if available. Submitting a request does not guarantee registration. If your ...
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Bad weather doesn’t have to stop your photography. Discover how to turn a simple table, a window, and everyday objects into a creative home studio in this Sunday afternoon workshop. Topics will include still life composition, understanding light and reflectors, creating mood and storytelling, and using props and backgrounds, as well as tips for flowers, ...
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$60.00 – $85.00
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Take a self-guided jaunt downtown and visit local galleries! This month, meet our Sunday Artwalk artist, Eunice Turner. Eunice's handcrafted wood items are created with intricate detailing, as she combines art with function in much of her work. She uses durable woods and finishes to ensure long-lasting enjoyment of wall art such as custom signs, ... |
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Party like it’s 1826 and celebrate the photographic arts! Join us for photo trivia, funky/cool/niche gear show-and-tell, print swapping, photo book oohing and ahhing, and more. Get to know other photographers, share your work, and check out the National Juried Photography Exhibition. Refreshments provided.
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$12.00 – $15.00
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Are you seeking artistic community and physical space to make your art? Come to Third Space Open Studio to meet other artists and create your work in a supportive environment. Third Space is what you make it! Open to adult artists of any visual artistic medium. Artists must provide their own supplies. The Delaplaine provides ...
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Free – $5.00
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Kids (and adults!) can stop by the Delaplaine’s Francine Brady Art Carts during your next visit and get creative! The Art Carts offer two different activities each month. NOV 15 TO JAN 15: Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, create circular color studies to witness how colors interact with each other. In addition, a video for one ... |
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Associate Curator Yuri Stone will present on four recent installations of work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Glenstone Museum. One of the most significant artists to emerge out of New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Gonzalez-Torres is best known for using everyday materials to evocatively express both the personal and the political. ... |
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Are you seeking artistic community and physical space to make your art? Come to Third Space Open Studio to meet other artists and create your work in a supportive environment. Third Space is what you make it! Open to adult artists of any visual artistic medium. Artists must provide their own supplies. The Delaplaine provides ...
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Build on the foundations of basic hand quilting skills and learn different ways to mark a quilt for quilting. In this Saturday afternoon workshop, experiment with different thread weights and quilting motifs and discover ways hand quilting can be a central design element in quiltmaking. Tuition includes all supplies.
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$65.00 – $90.00
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Continue to develop your skills in jewelry fabrication. Class sessions will include reviews and demos of essential techniques such as soldering, stone setting, and bezel making. Ideas for new directions will be discussed, with opportunity to explore alternative techniques and materials. Prerequisite: Beginning Jewelry or equivalent. Please bring the following materials to class: Safety glasses ...
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$105.00 – $130.00
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Join other homeschoolers to dive into a different artist, method, or medium of art! By the end of each month, you’ll have completed works of art for your homeschool portfolio. This month: Combine different art media to create layered and textured works of art, themed around the winter season. Registration is by month only, space ...
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Free – $40.00
Learn the fundamentals of jewelry fabrication to create a forged cuff bracelet, a stack of bangles, earrings, or a soldered chain necklace. Techniques such as piercing, drilling, sawing, stamping, annealing, and simple soldering will be covered. Ideal for the new or novice jeweler, this class emphasizes safety, tool mastery, and skill development while supporting you ...
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$105.00 – $130.00
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Bundle up as we photograph over 20 boats with their elaborate lighting displays, all located on Carroll Creek! For this one-evening workshop, we will start in the classroom to cover the appropriate camera controls, then head outside to capture unique photos of the stunning fleet. We will also take classic light trail photos along Market ...
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$55.00 – $80.00
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Fiber This exhibition features members of the Clustered Spires Quilt Guild who have made work from two themed challenges: create a quilt that illustrates your favorite song and one that uses geometric shapes as a point of departure. Members of the Quilt Guild will discuss the work in this exhibition at the Dec 5 Art ... 
Work in photo collage and soft pastel The work in this exhibition is a reflection of hope for reconciliation of the cultural divides affecting us in politics, class, religion, gender, and culture and the boundaries put in place between humanity and the natural world. Cynthia will discuss the work in this exhibition at the Dec ... 
Mixed media This series of intimate portraits were created on the pages of discarded books using pencil, watercolor, and acrylic. They focus on fleeting expressions, gestures, and moments of recognition. Their modest scale invites close looking, encouraging viewers to slow down and engage with the humanity found in ordinary, often overlooked moments. Johan will discuss ... 
Watercolor With a wide range of subject matter and techniques, the work in this exhibition comes from Signature Members of The Baltimore Watercolor Society, one of America’s oldest watercolor societies. This exhibit will include awards for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Honorable Mentions by BWS selected juror, Luis Perez. 
Celebrating the festive atmosphere of Frederick during the holidays. See Exhibition Opportunities for call for entries. 
Grab a cup of cocoa or cider and check off your holiday gift list with one-of-a-kind artworks at our annual artists' market! The event features 20+ vendors showcasing a wide array of artworks and gift items for sale created by local artists and artisans. Check back for a list of participating vendors. Admission is FREE! ...
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Design a snowy scene through the perspective of a window using mixed media and collage processes. Complete the registration request form on the main Helen Smith page, if available. Submitting a request does not guarantee registration. If your child is added to the workshop, you should receive an email notification mid-week before the workshop. If ...
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Create this cozy winter cardinal using fun mixed media techniques to create shape, texture, and lots of color! Complete the registration request form on the main Helen Smith page, if available. Submitting a request does not guarantee registration. If your child is added to the workshop, you should receive an email notification mid-week before the ...
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Calling all elves! Join us for another year of one of our most popular children’s programs, Secret Elf Workshop! The best gifts are the ones you make, so travel up to the North Pole (a.k.a. our 3rd-floor studio) to create arts and crafts that you can give as holiday gifts. Space is limited, and registration ...
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$10.00 – $12.00
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