Exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS

The Delaplaine offers five main galleries on two floors showcasing local, regional, and national artists, and two community art galleries.

Galleries Open Daily | FREE Admission

Now on View

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Nov 2–Dec 29 • M&T Gallery ALLY CHRISTMAS Impressions of Frederick: Reimagining Perception
Nov 2–Dec 29 • Moreland Gallery RON AMES Waterworks
Nov 2–Dec 29 • Hall Gallery LINDA AGAR-HENDRIX Dowell Farm
Dec 7–29 • Delaplaine East Gallery Margaret Dowell Inspired by...
Nov 2–Dec 29 • Hall Gallery CLUSTERED SPIRES QUILT GUILD

Art Matters Artist Talks

Join us on most First Saturdays 2–3 pm for artist talks featuring new exhibiting artists. See upcoming talks here.

Meet the Artists

Join us on most First Saturdays 3–5 pm for new exhibition openings and to meet the artists.

Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

Margaret Dowell

Dowell Farm • Paintings
DEC 7–29

For Our Ancestors

Dowell collapses time and space in this series of paintings, using the tobacco fields of her family’s Southern Maryland farm as a way to think about the correlations between an artist’s labor in the studio and the labor of her ancestry.

 

Clustered Spires Quilt Guild

Inspired by…. • Fiber
DEC 7–29

Through the Keyhole by Jessica Halpin

This exhibition by Members of the Clustered Spires Quilt Guild features a wide range of quilting imagery, color, and techniques. Members were asked to make work that is a reflection on personal inspiration and include imagery and words based off of where that inspiration motivates their creative work.

Ally Christmas

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NOV 2–DEC 29

a shining

As a way to combat anxiety and chronic pain, Christmas’s work focuses on repetition in production, simulating ritual. Her work vacillates between more traditional forms of photography and alternative and mixed-media methods including cyanotype printing and hand-embroidered images.

Linda Agar-Hendrix

Waterworks • Photography and mixed media
NOV 2–DEC 29

Ice Beach Waves

Combining photography, wood, and ceramics, the work in this exhibition explores water as a theme and hopes to express its varying aspects through the variety of techniques and materials.

 

Ron Ames

Impressions of Frederick: Reimagining Perception • Photography
NOV 2–DEC 29

Carroll Creek

Ames’s approach to photography attempts to use the camera like a brush to reimagine perception, to alter, not only what he sees, but how he sees it. Using long exposure techniques and intentional camera movement, Ames creates abstracted images of the world around him.

Frederick County Arts Association

FCAA Members Exhibition • Works in a variety of media
JAN 4–26

Self Portrait of Sentient Earth II by Juliet Hossain

The annual FCAA exhibition features members’ artworks in a variety of media, including paintings, photography, mixed media, drawings, collages, ceramics, and sculpture. FCAA’s approximately 100 members range from casual painters to full-time professionals. Vote for your favorite piece at the front desk; the artwork with the most votes will receive the People’s Choice Award.

 

Jin Lee

Gash • Sculpture
JAN 4–FEB 23

Fecund

Provoked by recent political controversies surrounding women’s rights, Lee’s work focuses on conflict and responses to conflict’s power to result in transformation for the individual and society.

Noelani Jones

Time is a Place • Works in a variety of media
JAN 4–FEB 23

Jones’s work in this exhibition focuses on the accrual of thread in woven cloth and its metaphorical and actual connection to time and place. All of the textiles in the exhibition have been made with reciprocity with the land in mind, from the cultivation of plants for dyeing to the utilization of a foot-powered loom.

Metro Washington Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America

The Power of Color • Colored Pencil
FEB 1–23

Sweet Face by Pat Monical

Wassily Kandinsky said, “Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” Join the Metro Washington Chapter 109 of the Color Pencil Society of America as they strive to bring awareness to the beauty and richness of colored pencil as a medium for creating fine art.

Robert D’Arista & Lee Newman

Lineage • Prints and paintings
FEB 1–23

Bending Figure by Robert D’Arista

The artworks in this exhibition are a reflection on the tradition of teaching in the visual arts and how aesthetic ideas and techniques are passed on to successive generations. Lee Newman’s own work will be accompanied by those of his teacher, Robert D’Arista.

Frederick County Public Schools Youth Art Month Student Exhibition

Works in a variety of media
MAR 1–30

This annual Youth Art Month exhibition features hundreds of 2–D and 3–D artworks created by students from each public school within Frederick County.

Frederick County Public Schools Faculty Show

Works in a variety of media
MAR 1–30

Ikigai by Valerie Pickett

A salute to those who make Youth Art Month possible, this exhibition showcases the creative talents of FCPS educators.

Bettie Awards Exhibition

Works in a variety of media
MAR 1–APR 27

Untitled by Jane Orellana, 2024 Bettie Award Grand Prize Winner

View artworks created by local youth selected as the 2025Bettie Award Winners, who will be announced on Facebook on February 8. Join us at the Delaplaine on March 1 at 2 pm when the winners are presented and the Grand Prize announced.

 

Community Galleries

Community Art Gallery

Featuring artworks created by local nonprofits, community groups, schools, and service organizations

DEC • MD School for the Deaf, offering free public education to deaf and hard-of-hearing students

JAN • Mount Airy Christian Academy, a private school serving students pre-K–12

FEB • Laurel Hall School, serving individuals with an emotional disability, autism, or multiple disabilities 

MAR • St. John’s Regional Catholic School, a private school serving students pre-K–8

Community Outreach Gallery

Showcasing artworks created through our program partnerships with other nonprofits and organizations

DEC • Celebrate Frederick Holiday Art Competition, holiday-themed works of art about the City of Frederick

JAN–FEB • Stella’s Girls, empowering youth to become social change agents in their communities 

MAR–APR • FCPS Unified Exhibition 

Past Exhibitions

View links to our Flickr albums of past exhibitions.

Satellite Galleries

The Delaplaine also operates three satellite galleries in partnership with Frederick County Public Libraries.