• Read more about Chester River Chorale, Inc.

The mission of the Chester River Chorale is to provide opportunity, education, and inspiration for amateur singers to strive for artistic excellence. Our performances strive to entertain diverse audiences and enrich the cultural life of the community.

• Read more about Garfield Center Foundation, Inc.

The Garfield Center produces year-round programming, including 5 to 6 self-produced theatrical plays and musicals per season, music events and concert bookings, monthly Open Mic and Improv events, founding-member participation in Live Playwrights' Society, a playwriting group that nurtures and supports new writers, and highly successful youth theatre education programs, including the long-standing and enormously successful Playmakers summer program.

• Read more about Chestertown Arts and Entertainment District

Enjoy visiting downtown galleries and performing arts venues in this historic river town. Dine in friendly restaurants and cafes, shop in independently owned boutiques, stroll historic tree-lined streets and enjoy the natural beauty of the Chester River.    

• Read more about KEN SCHIANO

BIO Ken is an award winning artist living in Chestertown, Maryland. His work has been exhibited widely up and down the East Coast and has found its way into many corporate and private collections.

• Read more about BARB JANUSZKIEWICZ

Barbara Morrison Januszkiewicz (born February 23, 1955) is an American painter and filmmaker who is best known for her stylistic independence; however, has associations with the Pop Art movement, Conceptual art and avant-garde elements. She specializes in watercolor painting in a hybrid style paintings that blur the line between drawing and painting– [1] Her artwork has appeared predominantly in the Washington, D.C., area, including the Phillips Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Gallery K and The Art League.

• Read more about Stephanie Somers

I was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, but was raised in Tinton Falls, NJ.  My interest in art began at a very early age and I was encouraged to pursue it through many avenues, including after school art classes and outside lessons.   I was lucky enough to have the support of many teachers, as well as family and friends. I received my BA in Studio Fine Arts from Marist College (Poughkeepsie, NY) in 2005, and in 2008, my MFA in Printmaking from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas.

• Read more about The Pam Ortiz Band Ortiz

About Pam Ortiz Pam Ortiz is that rare songwriter who can touch people where they feel deeply, where they laugh and where they cry. She did that for 10 years with the group Terra Nova in the ‘90s playing to packed coffee houses in the Baltimore, Washington area. Her songs were showcased in the three albums that the vocal group recorded.

• Read more about Steven Atkinson

Eastern Shore based photographer, Kent County, specializing in landscapes and other Delmarva Scenes.

• Read more about Judi Gunter

Although Judi has a background in teaching elementary school, she has always been involved in the arts. In addition to teaching she is Certified Quilt Judge, an award winning quilter, and fiber artist. Her work has been published in numerous magazines, and has appeared at shows in Houston, Paducah, the Albuquerque Fiber Arts Festival, Schweinfurth Art Center in New York, and various regional shows. Her unique art quilts have been displayed at various galleries throughout the Eastern Shore and are in numerous private collections.

• Read more about Linda Roy Walls

Linda Roy Walls has been photographing her Eastern Shore surroundings since 1970.