Girls play Women Air Force Service Pilots during Sept. 9 Living History Experience, and earn a Girl Scout badge SEATTLE – Girl Scouts in grades 4-5 can earn a Playing the Past badge by participating [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2017
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OysterFest, a celebration of the Chesapeake’s favorite bivalve, will return to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. The event features live music, an oyster stew competition, boat rides, retriever demonstrations, oysters [Read More]
With days beginning to shorten and fall approaching, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s marine railway service season will soon be coming to a close. Led by Shipwright James DelAguila, and with the hard work of [Read More]
Free Shakespeare and the Queen City exhibition now open CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center’s (CMC) newest exhibition takes guests on a whimsical journey through 400 years of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare and the Queen City features [Read More]
Author Michelle Evans discusses her new book about the remarkable X-15 SEATTLE – On Aug. 26, the Museum hosts a lecture and book signing with author Michelle Evans, who will talk about her new book, [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., is offering three sessions of its Family Boatshop program this fall. Participation is limited, with advanced registration needed. Held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., recently received a $100,000 grant from the Grayce B. Kerr Fund, an Easton-based philanthropy that supports educational achievement and growth. “The Grayce B. Kerr Fund is [Read More]
Rare Art, Artifacts, Manuscripts and Currencies Will Illustrate the Black Experience in America CINCINNATI, OH –The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center announces its upcoming exhibition schedule today, featuring The Kinsey African American Art & History [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Model Guild is offering a beginner’s model boatbuilding workshop from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 21 and 22, with limited participation and advanced registration needed. The weekend workshop [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., begins its Fall Speaker Series on Oct. 18 and continues on select dates through Dec. 6, 2017. All of the sessions from the four-part series will [Read More]
The Brown Arts Initiative (BAI) at Brown University today announced the launch of the Warren and Allison Kanders Lecture Series, an annual series of presentations and student interactions led by prominent contemporary artists and art-world [Read More]
Through a grant from the Miles River Yacht Club Foundation, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will be addressing boater safety at its September 2 Charity Boat Auction by providing free life jackets with boats auctioned [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will host a four-day Timber Framing Workshop this fall, running from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, September 28, to Sunday, October 1. In this workshop, participants will learn about [Read More]
Dominic Marinucci of Ridgely, Md., has joined the staff of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., as a Seasonal Boat Cleaner with the Charity Boat Donation Program. CBMM’s Charity Boat Donation Program [Read More]
Angela Susan Anton, president of the board of trustees of Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., announced that Charles A. Riley II, Ph.D. has been named director of the Museum. Dr. Riley’s [Read More]
Lynn Davis: On Ice on view August 24 – November 30, 2017, presents a selection of photographs from the artist’s longstanding engagement with the icebergs on the sea outside of Ilulissat, a small town on [Read More]
Winners to be Recognized for Contest Sponsored By Toyota Summer 2017 CINCINNATI, OH – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center has announced the winners of the third annual 2017 Toyota Picture Freedom Art Contest and [Read More]
Borusan Contemporary will present a special exhibition of work by Diana Thater, the influential Los Angeles-based artist, in its Istanbul galleries September 16, 2017, through February 18, 2018. Diana Thater: A Runaway World was originally [Read More]