Each year, the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) awards grants ranging from $1,000 - $6,000 to Maryland artists. These Individual Artist Awards (IAA) honor the unique contributions of Maryland artists to the state's creative economy and help support artists as they advance their craft.

The 2015 IAA application is now open to Maryland artists. The funding categories for 2015 include:

Non-Classical Music: Composition

Non-Classical Music: Solo Performance

Playwriting

Visual Arts: Crafts

Visual Arts: Photography

All applications must be submitted online, and the deadline for 2015 applications is 4:30 PM on Thursday, July 24, 2014.

The Maryland State Arts Council and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation will offer three webinars for IAA applicants that will:

- Address applicant eligibility, discipline categories, and work sample formats;

- Provide instructions on how to complete the online application; and

- Provide information on the submission of digital images for visual artists.

Advance registration is required. To register, please follow the link to your desired webinar date:

1: June 19 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

2: June 21 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

3: June 25 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Why join the Frederick Arts Council?

The Arts are vital to the quality of life you enjoy in Frederick County. Whether you're engaged in the arts as an audience member, patron, educator or artist, the Frederick Arts Council is your arts ally. Our purpose is to foster an environment where the arts may flourish in our community through grants and scholarships, arts advocacy and links to essential resources.

Please consider joining today!

Email [email protected]

for more information.

Did You Know? - Frederick Arts Council members receive a 10% discount on events at the Weinberg Center. Just present your membership card at the box office at time of purchase.

The Frederick Arts Council would like to thank the many volunteers, music and dance performers, member organizations for making the 21st Annual Frederick Festival of the Arts a success.

Also, thank you to all who made donations. Without the support of the community, we wouldn't be able to make the festival happen. We hope you enjoyed the weekend and will join us again next summer for our 22nd!

Thank you to our generous sponsors for their support of the 2014 FFOTA:

Fredericktowne Players and a Murder Mystery

For all of you who love murder mysteries and laughter, the Fredericktowne Players are able to combine the two. If you are having a birthday party, office party or any other social event, hiring the Fredericktowne Players will mean that your event will be a memorable one for your guests. Naturally, as we are entertainers, these murder mysteries are only for the purpose of enjoyment as we don't want to hurt anyone. However, there is a chance that any one of your guests might die of laughter or other complications.

To learn how to bring us to your location, contact: DC Cathro at [email protected]

Submissions to ART LINK

Next Edition will be published June 19

Submissions are due by Tuesday, June 17. Photos need to be in a jpeg format with 200dpi.

You or your organization must be a current member of the FAC to promote your event. If you wish to become a member or have questions please send an email to:
[email protected]

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Events

Plein-Air Painting Celebration and Competition

June 16-21

Grand Exhibition: Private Collector's Preview

Friday, June 20 - 6:30-9:30pm

William H. Talley Recreation Center, 121 N. Bentz St., Frederick

Tickets: $50, Available at the Door

Be among the first to see more than 100 fresh, original paintings of Frederick County and City scenes completed by the 2014 Easels in Frederick artists. Enjoy champagne, wine, and canap�s from the area's finest caterers. Talk with the artists. Mingle with friends, neighbors, and out-of-town art lovers.

Take home your favorite work of art. Every painting on exhibit is for sale! Enhance your personal art collection with selections that showcase local landscapes, streetscapes and iconic subject matter.

Quick Draw & Art Market

Saturday, June 21 - 9:30am-1:00pm

Imagine more than 100 artists lining the sidewalks, tucked under trees, perched on slopes overlooking a creek - set up just about any place within the designated boundaries of Downtown Frederick that has the perfect view of the perfect subject matter for their paintings. Then imagine that, at the sound of the horn, they have only two (count 'em!, two!) hours to transform their blank canvases into things of beauty!

Follow the artists to the art market, 11:45am - 1:00pm. Contest will be held rain or shine. In the event of rain, the Art Market will take place at the Talley Recreation Center.

Grand Exhibition Public Reception

Saturday, June 21 - 1:00-4:00pm

Admission Free

Artwork is on display and available for purchase. Cast a ballot for the $1,000 People's Choice Award.

For more information, visit Easels in Frederick

Calls For Artists and Auditions

CATS! Members Exhibit

Call For Artists

Artwork Delivery Dates:

Sunday, June 22, 1:00-4:00pm

Monday, June 23, 11:00am-4:00pm

Exhibit: July 5 - August 24

Delaplaine Arts Center members are invited to submit one (1) photographic work of art for the upcoming exhibit featuring cats. There is no entry fee required for this exhibit. The CATS! exhibit will be located in the Hall Gallery on the second floor of the Delaplaine Mill building.

Entries must be delivered to the Delaplaine on the dates listed above. Artists who are unable to deliver their work on the designated delivery dates should contact Diane Sibbison, Manager of Exhibits, to make alternative arrangements. Email [email protected] or call 301.698.0656 x115.

Classes & Workshops

437 North Market Street | Frederick, MD 21701 | 301-637-0145

Children's Camp and Adult Classes This Summer

with Homer Yost

* Children's camps will sculpt animals each day of camp

* Adult Figure Sculpture workshops working with nude model

* Adult Bas-Relief Animal Sculpting

To register, or for more information, go to www.griffinartcenter.com/homer

Summer Fun Camp

Camps are Filling Fast!

The Fun Company, Maryland Ensemble Theatre's (MET) family theatre, is now enrolling students for its burgeoning summer camp for kids and teens, Fun Camp. Fun Camp's wildly popular and successful summer camps are an intense, yet fun filled experience for young performers.

Depending on the session, campers spend the first week exploring exercises in acting, improvisation, voice, movement, theatrical design, song and dance. That is followed by a jam packed week of rehearsing for their final performance which is open to the public. Final performances are structured to reflect the individual participants of each session and are created based on their creativity, imaginations and unique characters.

The Fun Camp is offering three different two week sessions that will run between June 23 - August 15, 2014. All camps are held Monday through Friday from 10am to 3pm with final performances taking place on the last Friday of the session at 3pm (except July 4 there will be no class and that final performance will be July 5). The first session of the camp will run from June 23 through July 5, the second from July 7 to July 18 and the final session from August 4 through August 15. All sessions are $380 with discounts available for additional family members or multiple camps.

For more information on each of the three sessions and to register, visit the Fun Camp registration page.

Local Art Exhibits

Current Exhibits

Sheryl Massaro

Now - June 29

2014 Annual Juried Exhibit

Now - June 22

Exhibit of artists' work selected by juror Margaret Winslow, Associate Curator for Contemporary Art at the Delaware Art Museum

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Upcoming Exhibits

Marty Ittner

June 21 - August 17

Emerson Myers

June 28 - July 27

Bruce Woodward

June 28 - July 27

Monica J. Davis
July 5 - August 16

CATS!

July 5 - August 24

Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center
40 Carroll Creek Parkway
Frederick, MD 21701
www.delaplaine.org

TAG of Frederick

216 North Market Street

Open Fri-Sun Noon-5pm

"Touch�" by Bill Knapp

13th Annual Box Show

"Smokin' Hot" Box Show

featuring wooden cigar boxes that have been painted, sculpted, and transformed into works of art

Closing Reception

Saturday, June 28, 5-8pm

Pieces are for sale in a silent auction through the end of the closing reception. For much more information on the show, please visit www.the-artists-gallery.org

"Copper" by Phyllis Jacobs

Best of TAG

July 4 - 27

Opening Reception

Saturday, July 5, 5-9pm

In July, The Artists' Gallery will celebrate a grand opening in its new location at 216 North Market Street. To introduce the space, the members of this artist-owned gallery will have a show entitled, "Best of TAG." Members will exhibit pieces from the bodies of work for which they have become best known over the years.

"Ginkgo Owl" by Julie Maynard

"Women's Work" by Joanna Morrison

Learn more at www.the-artists-gallery.org or 301-696-8187.

In My Own Back Yard

Photographs in Frederick

Robert Kienle

On exhibit through the end of July at Unique Optique

Tuesday through Saturday 10am-6pm, Wednesday until 8pm

9 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701

(301) 620-8590

Local Theatre/Dance/Music

Maryland Ensemble Theatre

31 West Patrick Street

Frederick, MD 21701

Box Office: 301-694-4744 or

marylandensemble.org

In the Next Room or

The Vibrator Play

by Sarah Ruhl

directed by Julie Herber

FINAL WEEKEND!

Friday through Sunday

Tickets: Adults $25.50, Students/Seniors $21.50, Thursdays $16.50

(includes $1.50 ticketing fee)

In a seemingly perfect, well-to-do Victorian home, proper gentleman and scientist Dr. Givings has innocently invented an extraordinary new device for treating "hysteria." Set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity, the play centers on a doctor and his wife and how his new therapy affects their entire household. For mature audiences.

The Star Stealer

A World Premiere by Caitlyn Joy

June 7 - 29

Saturdays and Sundays, 2pm

All Tickets $13.50

Bishop Magellan Orion wants to be an intrepid space explorer like his hero Xavier Zenith so he's spending the summer in orbit before his parents send him off to the Intergalactic Academy. Soon, Bishop and his friends discover a greedy, star-stealing creature that threatens the entire universe!

The Comedy Pigs

Final Show of Season!

Saturday, June 21, 10:30pm

Tickets just $6 with "In Next Room" stub,

$13.50 without stub

Fredericktowne Players

306 East Patrick Street

Frederick, MD 21701

fredericktowneplayers.org

All Shook Up

July 18-19, 25-27

Jack B. Kussmaul Theatre

Frederick Community College

Tickets: $22.00

Inspired by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and featuring the songs of Elvis Presley! It's 1955 and into a square little town in a square little state rides a guitar-playing roustabout who changes everything and everyone he meets in this hip-swiveling, lip-curling musical fantasy that'll have you jumpin' out of your blue suede shoes with such classics as "Love Me Tender", "Heartbreak Hotel", Jailhouse Rock", "Burning Love" and "Don't Be Cruel". Will true love prevail? Will the power of music win the day? Will this small town in the Midwest survive getting all shook up? These questions and more are answered as the characters come together for a finale that will leave you all shook up!

The Frederick Arts Council promotes, supports and

advocates for the arts in Frederick County, Maryland.

11 West Patrick Street, Suite 201

Frederick, MD 21701

301-662-4190

www.frederickartscouncil.org