The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is participating in this year’s Maryland Lighthouse Challenge, which takes place Sept. 21-22, 2019, with an early bird date of Friday, Sept. 20 on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The 1879 Hooper Strait Lighthouse now at CBMM is one of 11 Chesapeake lighthouses featured in this year’s tour. Sponsored by the Chesapeake […]
SEATTLE – The Museum’s Aug. 24, 7-10 p.m. HangarFest is a big outdoor party surrounded by large classic airplanes under a towering three-acre roof. Centered in the Museum’s Aviation Pavilion, the 21+ event features yard games, live music from OnCore, food trucks and unlimited tastings of local craft brews, ciders, wines and spirits. The site […]
NASHVILLE, TN – The Frist Art Museum presents Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, the first major museum exhibition exclusively devoted to Native women artists from all over the United States and Canada, ranging across time and media. Organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) and developed in close cooperation with leading Native […]
Members of the public are invited to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum on Saturday, Aug. 17, and Sunday, Aug. 18, for an art show by the Working Artists Forum. This year’s show—Water, Water, Everywhere—will feature 30 juried professional artists and their works. This is the second consecutive year for this show to be held on […]
Wrestling with Angels explores how God relates to man and how man wrestles with God in order to understand life’s meaning. In this curator’s talk, discover the unspoken assumptions behind the icons, how the iconographer communicates these assumptions artistically and why they matter. The 45-minute lecture will be followed by a Q&A with the curator. […]
Museum Day is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity hosted by Smithsonian magazine. The Museum of Russian Icons, participating museums, and cultural institutions across the country provide free entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket. The Museum Day ticket provides free admission for two people on Saturday, September 21, 2019. Tickets will be available […]
The Elf Classic Yacht Race returns to the Chesapeake Bay on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, with the traditional yacht race taking place again this year on the Miles River in St. Michaels, Md. The annual race is jointly sponsored by the Classic Yacht Restoration Guild and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. “It’s very unusual to […]
This presentation focuses on depictions of God the Father, the fountainhead and source of the Holy Trinity, in Orthodox Christian iconography. Since God the Father is neither incarnate nor comprehensible to the limited human mind, how can he be iconically depicted by humans? Orthodox Christian iconographers, informed by Eastern Orthodox theology and philosophy, used various […]
Enjoy free admission all day, courtesy of the Nypro Foundation. Explore the exhibition Wrestling with Angels and head downstairs to the auditorium to make your own angel-inspired craft. Sunday, September 1, 11:00am-5:00pm Museum of Russian Icons 203 Union Street Clinton, MA 01510 Website: https://www.museumofrussianicons.org/event/first-sunday-12/
