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Maryland Printmakers
FYI
(Archived article from
September 2000 - click
here for current articles)
| In conjunction with the Howard County Sesquicentennial Celebration, the
International Center For Artistic Development, Inc., a non profit organization located at Historic Savage Mill, is pleased to announce the First Annual Cultural Arts Festival at Savage Mill, 8600 Foundry Street, Savage, MD. The festival will be sponsored by local area merchants and the Savage Mill Foundation. This free admission festival is planned for Saturday, September 16th, 10 a.m. - 9 p.m., and Sunday, September 17th, 12 noon - 6 p.m. Artists' studios, craft shops, and antique shops will be open to the public for the festival. There will be art studio demonstrations and miniworkshops, with the artists present to greet the public. The artists market, a juried show of fine arts and non-manufactured crafts, opens at 10am Saturday. On Sunday there will be live music and drama. Both days will have clowns, balloons, strolling musicians, and food and beverage vendors. |
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Art in a Day's Work: Prints from the WPA - on view at The Baltimore Museum of Art from June 11-September 24, 2000 -examines how WPA artists identified with the role of the American worker and forever changed the development of printmaking in this country. The exhibit demonstrates how WPA prints appealed to broad audiences by depicting scenes of work and everyday life on the street, the docks, the land, and in the factories and coal mines of America. The artists, many of whom were women, minorities, and immigrants, created tens of thousands of prints during the late 1930's and early 1940's. Their images promoted fair labor practices and heightened awareness of unemployment's debilitating effects on the population during the Depression. |
 Bootleg Coal by Michael J. Gallagher, 1937, wood engraving. This print is part of Art in a Day's Work: Prints from the WPA |