The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. will host the 2017 Teaching with Small Boats Alliance conference beginning Thursday, April 27 and continuing through Saturday, April 29, 2017. The three-day conference enables participating [Read More]
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This spring, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. will open the very first exhibition to showcase the black-and-white Chesapeake-focused photography of Robert de Gast. This major exhibition, Robert de Gast’s Chesapeake, runs [Read More]
The Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is pleased to announce the appointment of Hilary Lewis as the site’s Chief Curator & Creative Director starting January 17, 2017. Lewis has [Read More]
Liz LaCorte of Cordova, Md. has joined the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. as Director of Development. LaCorte is responsible for helping to further CBMM’s mission through management of CBMM’s membership and [Read More]
Free Admission and Family Programming at the Museum on Monday CINCINNATI, OH – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will celebrate the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, January 16, beginning [Read More]
Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic masterpiece is a sweeping medieval tale of Russia’s greatest icon painter, who became known as the father of modern iconography. Discussion to follow. Saturday, February 18, 12:00–5:00PM Members $15, Nonmembers $20. Advance [Read More]
Three scholars will speak about views of Mary’s life in different cultures. Reverend Chris Visminis will address Dormition and Assumption: Meanings for the End of Mary’s Life. The Eastern and Western view of the end [Read More]
“Holy Fools” practiced the most extreme form of asceticism: purifying the soul through self-denial and a rejection of worldly comforts. Museum Curator and CEO Kent Russell traces the origins of the Holy Fool from the [Read More]
Laura Garrity-Arquitt, Museum Registrar and organizer of Holy Fools to Wonderworkers, leads a tour of the exhibit, explaining the distinctions between martyrs, stylites, prophets, ascetics and other types of Orthodox saints, and how they are [Read More]
This award-winning film depicts a modern-day “holy fool” in a powerful story of faith and salvation. In a small monastery in Northern Russia lives an unusual man whose bizarre behavior confuses his fellow monks, while [Read More]
Pushkin Hills is the story of an unsuccessful writer and inveterate alcoholic who takes a summer job at the Pushkin Hills Preserve in hopes of regaining some balance in his life, only to experience a [Read More]
Having turned 100 years old, the National Park Service inaugurates its second century with a fine art photographic exhibit at Harvard’s Fruitlands Museum titled “Find Your Park: National Parks in New England,” which includes several [Read More]
The Holburne Museum has announced the UK’s first exhibition devoted to the Bruegel dynasty, including recent attributions for two paintings from the Museum’s own collection. On view 11 February – 4 June 2017. Bruegel: Defining [Read More]
NEW EXHIBITION EXPLORES CHOCOLATE AS A COMMODITY IN 18‒19TH CENTURY NEW YORK A Taste for Chocolate on view February 17–May 29, 2017 New York, NY – The Morris-Jumel Mansion (MJM), Manhattan’s oldest house, will present [Read More]
DOYLESTOWN, PA — In March 2017, the James A. Michener Art Museum will present Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form, a groundbreaking exhibition that features never-before-seen photographs by Charles Sheeler, one of America’s most [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., has recently announced five summer internship opportunities in 2017 for current graduate and undergraduate college students. The internships are available in the curatorial, communications, development, and [Read More]
Jenifer Dolde or Earleville, Md. recently joined the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., as Collections Manager, where she is responsible for creating and maintaining CBMM’s collection records and facilitating public access to [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum has recently welcomed Lee Olson as Exhibitions Specialist. Olson has recently relocated from Rock Hall to St. Michaels, Md. to take up the position. As part of CBMM’s preservation and [Read More]