• Read more about New Spire Arts

New Spire Arts is a performing arts nonprofit located in Downtown Frederick founded in 2016. Our performing arts center, New Spire Stages, is located at 15 W Patrick Street and was opened in early 2019. We’ve partnered with many organizations including the YMCA, SHIP (Student Homelessness Initiative Partnership), the Frederick Arts Council, Maryland School for the Deaf, the Downtown Frederick Partnership, the Delaplaine, Heartly House, and more.

• Read more about Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET)

MET and its Founders Tad Janes & Gené Fouché have spearheaded the growth of MET from an improv troupe of young comics called the Comedy Pigs who performed in the back of local Frederick, MD bars in the late 90’s into a community stronghold.  

• Read more about DISTRICT Arts

DISTRICT Arts is dedicated to representing the work of local, regional and nationally recognized artists whose styles and techniques evoke the modern world through the dramatic use of color and form. Paint, ink, glass, clay, digital art, paper, wood, mixed media and sculpture are all represented. The juxtaposition of the designs and themes on our walls and pedestals with the surrounding centuries-old historic spires and buildings in Frederick, MD illustrates that contemporary can honor tradition.

• Read more about Jillian Abir MacMaster

Jillian Abir MacMaster (b. 1995, she/her) is a Palestinian-American photographic artist from Frederick, Maryland. She holds a BFA in photography from Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. She curated the exhibition Infinite Growth at the Frederick Arts Council in 2022.

• Read more about Downtown Frederick Arts and Entertainment District

Downtown Frederick’s A&E District is home to an impressive number of arts venues with shopping and food experiences to spare. More than 200 specialty shops, art galleries, cultural venues and signature restaurants await you.    

• Read more about CHRISTINE HAHN

Solo Exhibitions I Remember You The Sketchbook Project Brooklyn NY 2012 Immix Remix The Artists’ Gallery Frederick MD 2009 On Transience The Artists’ Gallery Frederick MD 2007 BlinkBlinkBlink The Artists’ Gallery Frederick MD 2006 All the People in the World and New Paintings Hotel Rouge Washington DC 2005 Small Group Exhibitions Compositions James Germaux and Christine Hahn Saville Gallery Cumberland MD 2011 Shunpiker Christine Hahn, Bill Gusky, Ken Huston, and Janet Van Fleet curated by, R.L. Croft School 33 Baltimore MD 2009? Selected Group Exhibitions Museum Exhibitions

• Read more about Lisa Sheirer

Lisa Sheirer is a visual artist, living and working in Frederick, Maryland. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Printmaking from West Virginia University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from The University of Notre Dame. Ms. Sheirer has been creating artwork for over 40 years.

• Read more about BRYAN BALTZ

23 years old. Maryland resident. BFA degree from MICA in General Fine Arts.

• Read more about Zdeno Mayercak

Zdeno MAYERCAK EDUCATION M.F.A. 1979 Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (equivalent) Sculpture, Drawing - received the Academy of Fine Arts Annual Award 1978 Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy Italian Government Scholarship - sculpture with Prof. Lorenzo Guerrini 1972 School of Fine Arts, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia Wood Carving, Design FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS 1996 ART/OMI, Omi, NY - International Residency 1992 Fulbright Fellowship - Finland 1992 Pollock-Krasner Grant 1992 Millay Colony for the Arts - Residency 1989 Pollock-Krasner Grant

• Read more about JOHN P. WISE