15Kent Cultural Alliancehttps://kentculture.orgjohn@kentculture.org(410) 778-3700
101 Spring Avenue
Chestertown, MD 21620
United States
The Town of Chestertown is an incorporated municipality.
Welcome to European Bronze, your one-stop shop for amazing bronze sculptures, statues, and more. We take satisfaction in delivering a varied range of efficient and ornamental bronze masterpieces that represent the spirit of beauty, history, and culture as passionate artisans and professional distributors.
Nevin Dawson (viola/violin) studied viola at Penn State University and has played with many symphonies and chamber ensembles, including Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, Canberra Symphony Orchestra, and the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra. He currently teaches violin, viola, and cello at Music Life in Chestertown, MD. As a versatile player in many genres including classical, folk, and jazz, he plays with Shore Strings, the Dover Symphony, Harp & Soul, Front Porch Orchestra, Oltre Ponte Trio, and is featured on eight studio albums.
Niamh Corcoran, a Maryland-based writer and artist, lives in a small town on the water, where the main roads wind up at sunset. Born to a family of English teachers, she graduated from Yale University (BA English) and American University (MFA Creative Writing). The recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Poetry, her writing appears widely in journals, including The Los Angeles Review, Puerto del Sol, River Styx, Third Coast, and elsewhere. Scribe Dog Studio is her art practice, her heart-work.
Marianne Laino Sade has taught art to children at the Walters Art Museum and has led art workshops and classes for all ages in Pennsylvania and presently does so in Maryland. She is the author/illustrator of a new children's book, "TAPUM!" Sade’s work has been in many shows, including a 52 foot billboard installation by “LED Baltimore.com” where one of her Crow Bars series first appeared in 2015. She is also an Art-O-Mat artist whose organization makes art affordable through refurbished stylish cigarette vending machines around the country.
Mike Pugh learned to craft American pottery in the North Carolina tradition from Jerry Beaumont in Phoenix, Maryland. He earned degrees in Architecture and History, later doing graduate studies in Education. Before opening his pottery on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Mike Pugh practiced architectural preservation, taught for DC and Baltimore City Schools, and even worked at a local grain elevator. In his work, he seeks to understand the rich vernacular of his surroundings in telling his own story through clay.
We are a husband and wife team known for our innovative designs, complex construction, and precise finishing of our art glass. Acute attention to detail during each phase of the process is critical to a finished piece of our work. Our intricate designs incorporate hundreds of multi-layered hand-pulled murrine individually placed within thin strips of clear, transparent or opaque glass placed on edge. Once formed, each piece is extensively coldworked — shaped, ground, sandblasted and polished to enhance the visual impact and feel of our finished vessels and sculpture.
I have been a pottery maker since 1964. My craft is wheel thrown stoneware of functional ceramics. My clay body and base glazes were formulated while I was a graduate student at Pratt Institute in the 1960s. Since 1978 my studio has been in Still Pond, Maryland. In 1977 the National Endowment for the Arts granted me funds to host an apprentice in my studio for a year. From 1984 to 2011 I was a teacher and art department chairman at Severn School in Severna Park, Maryland.