The Academy Art Museum welcomes Antonio McAfee as its newest board member. McAfee is a Baltimore-based artist and educator whose work has been exhibited at the Walters Art Museum, the Kreeger Museum, the Print Center in Philadelphia, and others, and has received critical acclaim and numerous awards. He serves as Adjunct Professorial Lecturer of Photography at American University in Washington, D.C. He holds a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Corcoran College of Art and Design, an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Art and Arts and Culture Management from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

McAfee’s work explores the legacy of the photographic portraiture of historical and contemporary African-American figures, and his process involves found portraits, appropriation, and collage. The artist has strong ties to the region and the Museum. Raised in Baltimore, McAfee won First Place at the Museum’s inaugural New Photography exhibition in 2018, and his solo exhibition, Legacy, was presented in the Museum’s Selections Gallery in 2020. He was also the Museum’s Artist-in-Residence in 2020 during which he provided virtual studio tours and taught in-person workshops.

Cathy McCoy, Chair of the Museum’s Board of Trustees, states, “We are thrilled that Antonio is joining our Board. His experience last year as an exhibiting artist and lecturer demonstrated his extraordinary abilities and unique voice as a photographic artist, educator, and cultural worker. The Board and the Museum community welcome him warmly and look forward to his contributions in many important areas.”

EXHIBITIONS

The following Academy Art Museum exhibitions are sponsored by the Talbot County Arts Council, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Star Democrat. Open daily, Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and Sunday, 12 noon to 4 p.m.

Miró in New York, 1947:

Miró, Hayter and Atelier 17

April 16 – July 8, 2021

Miró in New York, 1947: Miró, Hayter and Atelier 17 explores a group of little-known etchings Joan Miró made with influential British printmaker Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, the New York outpost of his seminal printmaking studio in Paris. Both Miró and Hayter were key participants in the community of artists in Paris who ultimately formed the core of international movements in contemporary art from the 1930s to 1945. In the 1940s many of these artists, including Hayter, moved to New York to escape the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Paris. There, the confluence of these émigrés and the ingenious and energetic American artists who created Abstract Expressionism fueled the relocation of the center of the art world to New York. The exhibition will include works by Fred Becker, Terry Haass, Gabor Peterdi, André Masson, Anne Ryan, Yves Tanguy, Herman Cherry, Helen Phillips, and others, all of whom worked in Atelier 17 alongside Hayter and Miró. Works will be drawn from the Museum’s Permanent Collection and loans from Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, and private collections.

Norma Morgan: Enchanted World

April 16 – July 8, 2021

Norma Morgan: Enchanted World is an exhibition of the late artist’s prints, watercolors, paintings and drawings, and spans over 30 years of her prolific yet under-studied career. The exhibition highlights Morgan’s ability to convey a spiritual experience through her landscape and portraiture work and to effortlessly transition from formal observation to magical wonder. While her prints are a testimony to her mastery as a printmaker, her mid-career paintings, which include experimental materials such as Day-Glo acrylic, shine a light on the artist’s inquisitive mind and inventive inner world. Morgan’s unique visual language invites the viewer to step back to take in the entirety of her layered compositions and to look closer and notice the figures hiding in them. One of the two African-American women artists to study with Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17, Morgan was a trailblazer as an artist and printmaker. Her works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Library of Congress; the National Gallery of Art, and others. The Academy Art Museum is proud to present this exhibition with loans from the Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African-American Art, Mr. Donnell and Mrs. Dorothea Walker, Mr. Freddie Styles, Mr. Darryl Love, and Dolan/Maxwell. The exhibition catalog will feature essays by art historians Dr. Amalia Amaki and Dr. Christina Weyl.

 

 

 

2021 Student Art Exhibition: Students Curate the Permanent Collection!

Through 16–April 8, 2021

In March 2021, the Museum will present its student exhibition, titled The Peculiar Portrayal of People. Curated by Kent Island High School art students from the Academy Art Museum’s Permanent Collection, paired with the students’ own artwork, the exhibition is in an exciting new format. The students have been combing the collection and working on all aspects of exhibition production, including wall text and layout, with assistance from the Museum’s Curatorial and Education Departments.

 

 

Waterwall

Site-specific installation by artist Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann

South Street Lawn at Museum

Through Spring 2021

Waterwall is a mixed-media installation created by combining acrylic, sumi ink, silkscreen, and cyanotype on collaged translucent vinyl over glass. Mann is an American painter whose work explores mythology, identity, and landscape, particularly through the unique dialogues she crafts between the slow and permeating movement of ink and paint and the dynamic layers of collaged and printed elements. Waterwall harkens back to centuries of cave murals found in Dunhuang, China, where paintings do not just describe landscapes, but become environments and magical symbols themselves. As sunlight passes through the walls and ceiling of the cube on the Academy Art Museum’s grounds, Waterwall bathes the viewer in light and detail, creating a verdant, melting, glowing, fragmented, personal, and mythological realm. The bespoke plexiglass structure for the Museum lawn was designed by Mitch Hager of HAGER + HUCK Architecture. Sponsors of Waterwall are the Maryland State Arts Council, Talbot County Arts Council, and Catherine McCoy.

ADULT CLASSES

Adult Class Scholarships – Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Pastels, Watercolor, and much more.

All Materials are Included. Contact Katie Cassidy for details at 410-820-5222 or email

[email protected] for further information. Visit academyartmuseum.org for a full listing of classes. Scholarships are made possible through a generous grant from the Mid-Shore Community Foundation.

Workshop: Introducing Figures in Your Landscape Paintings

Instructor: Bernard Dellario, [email protected]

3 Days: Friday, April 16–Sunday, April 18 in studio

Time: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Cost: $210 Members, $260 Non-members

Collage Workshop: Welcome Spring!

Instructor: Sheryl Southwick

[email protected]

One Day Workshop: April 13 in studio

Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. – 12 Noon

Cost per workshop: $65 Members, $78 Non-members

(plus $10 materials fee payable to instructor for mulberry paper packs and glue sticks)

Saturdays en Plein Air!

Mentor: Diane DuBois Mullaly

dianeduboismullaly.com

Monthly: The last Saturday of each month en Plein Air

April–October, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

Cost: Free to Members

CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS

Home School Mini Sessions

Friday Spring Mini Session for 6 to 9-year-olds

1:00–2:30 p.m.: April 23 – May 21

Instructor: Constance Del Nero (Visual Arts Studio)

Friday Spring Mini Session for ages 10+

1:00–2:30 p.m.: April 23 – May 21

Instructor: Theresa Schram (Painting Studio)

Cost (per session): $75 Members, $85 Non-members

After the first full-priced tuition, siblings attend for $50 (members) and $56 (Non-members)

The Museum offers art classes for the area’s home-schooled children, ages six and up.  Classes focus on fine art techniques and materials.  A variety of media is explored. Students visit the Museum’s exhibitions when appropriate.  The spring home-school session is five weeks long. Note that after the first full-priced tuition, siblings attend for 1/3 off!

Earth Day Activities

April 22nd is Earth Day, and the Museum is offering many ways to focus on caring for our planet. During the entire month of April, please bring your used water-based markers to the Museum and leave them in a special box at the front desk.  At the end of the month, the Museum will box them up and ship them to Crayola for recycling. From Tuesday, April 20th through Sunday, April 25th, stop by the Museum to pick up your free Earth Day Family Art Kits. Art teachers often have extra materials left over from special projects. Rather than letting these materials go to waste, the Museum will package them up into grab-n-go boxes. Each kit will include random art supplies and suggestions for how to use them to make art.

PERFORMING ARTS CLASSES

Piano & Guitar Lessons

Instructor: Raymond Remesch

Contact Instructor for further information at (410) 829-0335 or [email protected]

Voice Lessons

Instructor: Georgiann Gibson

Contact instructor for Information at (410) 829-2525 or [email protected].

MUSEUM COVID-19 GUIDELINES

Per City, State, and CDC guidelines, new safety measures have been implemented to ensure limited attendance and adequate space for social distancing. Masks must be worn at all times by participants and instructors. Prior to visiting the Academy Art Museum, visitors are encouraged to visit AAM’s website to read more about the Museum’s reopening protocols. Responses to frequently asked questions can be found on the Visit Page.

If you aren’t able to visit the Museum at this time, please enjoy our available virtual tours, art activities, artist talks, and virtual platform, Art at Home. We look forward to seeing you soon at AAM.

For additional information, visit academyartmuseum.org or call the Museum at 410-822-2787.

The Museum announced changes to its Board of Trustees. Four new trustees have been appointed to the Board: Elizabeth “Diz” Hormel, Christine Martin, MaryLou Armstrong Peters, and Elizabeth B. Underhill, while three trustees have retired.

Elizabeth “Diz” Hormel of Trappe, MD, and Washington, D.C. is the owner and designer of Diz Hormel Jewelry, where she handcrafts exclusive pieces of jewelry from gold, silver, and precious and semi-precious stones. Her deep appreciation for all things artistic crosses many disciplines. She also was the co-owner and principal chef for Dish Catering in D.C. Having served as a Board Member and then as President of the Hut Foundation, Hormel continues to further its mission of fostering the arts, protecting the environment, and assisting the underserved and those in need.

Christine Martin is a native of Washington, D.C. currently residing in Chevy Chase and Bozman, MD. Martin is retired having had an over 30-year career in finance and investments. She served as Managing Director – Marketing at the asset management firm Trust Company of the West. Christine’s non-profit board experience includes the Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee for the Avalon Foundation and Treasurer and Chair, Finance and Investment Committee, for the Christ Child Society of Washington D.C. She also served on the boards of Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, the Washington, D.C. Archdiocesan Cemetery Corporation, and the Garrison Art Center.

MaryLou Armstrong Peters of Easton had a varied career has included serving as Vice-President of JR Management, a hotel management/ownership company, and 20 years as President of Whitehurst Imports, Inc., an international import company in the gift industry. Peters’ civic activities have included serving as a board member of the Friends of Talbot Hospice and Vice-Chair and Chair of the Avalon Foundation, during the period that the building was purchased from the Town of Easton and substantial

renovations were planned, approved, funded, and undertaken. During this time, Peters also served on a successful class fundraising for her college and co-chaired the successful final phase of its recent capital campaign.

Elizabeth “Liz” B. Underhill divides her time between homes in the D.C. area and Easton. Underhill spent a decade in recruitment and marketing positions in the corporate world. Since that time, she has devoted much of her energy to philanthropic and volunteer activities. She served on the board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., where she chaired the fall gala. Liz served on the Women’s Board of the American Heart Association for 20 years and served in such fundraising roles as annual luncheon co-chair and auction chair. For the Joffrey Ballet, Liz served as the D.C. event co-chair.

Leaving the Museum’s Board of Trustees are Nancy Powell, Jocelyn Eysymontt, and Holly Fine.

“The Museum is deeply grateful to Nancy, Jocelyn, and Holly for six years of dedicated service on the Board. Highlights of their lasting contributions include Nancy’s leadership of an important and effective Long Range Plan, Jocelyn’s co-chairing the Museum’s most successful Capital Campaign in its history, and Holly’s elevating the Academy Art Museum Craft Show to unprecedented heights. I will greatly miss working with these three amazing women,” commented Board Chair Cathy McCoy.

EXHIBITIONS

The following Academy Art Museum exhibitions are sponsored by the Talbot County Arts Council, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Star Democrat. Open daily, Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and Sunday, 12 noon to 4 p.m.

2021 Student Art Exhibition: Students Curate the Permanent Collection!
March 16–April 8, 2021
In March 2021, the Museum will present its student exhibition, titled “The Peculiar Portrayal of People.” Curated by Kent Island High School art students from the Academy Art Museum’s Permanent Collection, paired with the students’ own artwork, the exhibition is in an exciting new format. The students have been combing the collection and working on all aspects of exhibition production, including wall text and layout, with assistance from the Museum’s Curatorial and Education Departments.

From Cassatt to Chicago: A Celebration of Women Artists in the Permanent Collection
Through March 20, 2021
Following the centennial of the 19th Amendment, celebrated in 2020, this exhibition presents selected highlights of works of the nearly 100 female artists in the Museum’s Permanent Collection, including Mary Cassatt, Judy Chicago, Terry Haass, Terry Parmelee, Grace Hartigan, Kiki Smith, Anne Truitt, Renee Stout, and others. The Museum is proud that works by female artists make up nearly a quarter of its Permanent Collection, which is twice the national average for U.S. museums. The works in the exhibition cover a wide range of movements and interests from mid-20th century to our present moment, including minimalism, abstraction, and contemporary art. The exhibition demonstrates the diverse accomplishments of female artists in the Museum’s Permanent Collection and raises important questions about gender equality and representation in the art world.

Academy Art Museum’s Instructor Exhibition
Through March 20, 2021
The Academy Art Museum presents recent works by its exceptional team of instructors. As practicing local artists working in multiple mediums, the instructors of our adult and children’s classes engage with what is in and around our community and beyond in intriguing ways. Their experience guiding budding and experienced student artists informs their work, as their technical proficiency and artistic curiosity intertwine, delivering a colorful and dynamic exhibition. Exhibiting artists Include: Paul Aspell, Steve Bleinberger, Katie Cassidy, Rosemary Cooley, Bernie Dellario, Constance Del Nero, Georgia June Goldberg, Matthew Hillier, Susan Horsey, Maire McArdle, Diane DuBois Mullaly, Julia Rogers, Brad Ross, Maggii Sarfaty, Theresa Schram, Sahm Doherty Sefton, Sheryl Southwick, Cid Collins Walker, Steve Walker, and Meg Walsh.

Waterwall
Site-specific installation by artist Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann
South Street Lawn at Museum
Through Spring 2021
Waterwall is a mixed-media installation created by combining acrylic, sumi ink, silkscreen, and cyanotype on collaged translucent vinyl over glass. Mann is an American painter whose work explores mythology, identity, and landscape, particularly through the unique dialogues she crafts between the slow and permeating movement of ink and paint and the dynamic layers of collaged and printed elements. Waterwall harkens back to centuries of cave murals found in Dunhuang, China, where paintings do not just describe landscapes, but become environments and magical symbols themselves. As sunlight passes through the walls and ceiling of the cube on the Academy Art Museum’s grounds, Waterwall bathes the viewer in light and detail, creating a verdant, melting, glowing, fragmented, personal, and mythological realm. The bespoke plexiglass structure for the Museum lawn was designed by Mitch Hager of HAGER + HUCK Architecture. Sponsors of Waterwall are the Maryland State Arts Council, Talbot County Arts Council, and Catherine McCoy.

ADULT CLASSES

Adult Class Scholarships – Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Pastels, Watercolor, and much more.
All Materials are Included. Contact Katie Cassidy for details at 410-820-5222 or email
[email protected] for further information. Visit academyartmuseum.org for a full listing of classes. Scholarships are made possible through a generous grant from the Mid-Shore Community Foundation.

Collage Workshop: Scrap Happy Day in March
Instructor: Sheryl Southwick
[email protected]
One Day Workshop: March 16
Tuesday, 9:30 a.m.–12 noon
Cost: $65 Members, $78 Non-members, (plus $10 materials fee payable to instructor for mulberry
paper packs and glue sticks)

Building Blocks of the Impressionist Landscape via Zoom! – One Element Each Week
Instructor: Diane DuBois Mullaly
dianeduboismullaly.com
6 weeks: March 18–April 22 on Zoom
Thursdays, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Cost: $125 Members, $150 Non-members

Workshop: At the Edge of Day – Nocturnes in the Tonalist Tradition
Instructor: Meg Walsh
[email protected]
2 Days: Saturday, March 6 & Sunday, March 7
Time: 10 a.m.–3 p.m.
Cost: $150 Members, $180 Non-members

Basic Drawing: The Fundamentals
Instructor: Katie Cassidy
[email protected]
4 weeks: March 13–April 3 in studio
Saturdays: 10 a.m.–1 p.m.
Cost: $175 Members, $210 Non-members

Painting in Gouache or Watercolor: Small Interiors
Instructor: Sheryl Southwick
[email protected]
4 weeks: March 5–March 26 in studio
Fridays, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Cost: $150 Members, $180 Non-members

Pastel Painting: Techniques and Applications
Instructor: Katie Cassidy
[email protected]
4 weeks: March 24–April 14 in studio
Wednesdays, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.
Cost: $185 Members, $215 Non-members

Printmaking: The Painterly Print
Instructor: Rosemary Cooley
3 Day Workshop: Friday, March 19–Sunday, March 21
Time: 10 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
Cost: $185 Members, $222 Non- members
(plus $35 materials fee paid to instructor for paper, inks, gesso, fixative,
and pastels, as well as use of plates and tools)

PERFORMING ARTS CLASSES

Piano & Guitar Lessons
Instructor: Raymond Remesch
Contact Instructor for further information at (410) 829-0335 or [email protected]

Voice Lessons
Instructor: Georgiann Gibson
Contact instructor for Information at (410) 829-2525 or [email protected].

MUSEUM COVID-19 GUIDELINES
Per City, State, and CDC guidelines, new safety measures have been implemented to ensure limited attendance and adequate space for social distancing. Masks must be worn at all times by participants and instructors. Prior to visiting the Academy Art Museum, visitors are encouraged to visit AAM’s website to read more about the Museum’s reopening protocols. Responses to frequently asked questions can be found on the Visit Page.
If you aren’t able to visit the Museum at this time, please enjoy our available virtual tours, art activities, artist talks, and virtual platform, Art at Home. We look forward to seeing you soon at AAM.

For additional information, visit academyartmuseum.org or call the Museum at 410-822-278