The Friends of the St. Clement's Island & Piney Point Museums raise funds in order to support historical interpretation, education programs, and special needs of the sites managed by the Museum Division of St. Mary's County Department of Recreation and Parks. The Friends organization is a 501(c) 3 organization sponsoring events, assisting with acquisitions, and supporting efforts to broaden the understanding of our culture and community's heritage.
20St. Mary's County Arts Councilhttps://www.stmarysartscouncil.cominfo@smcart.org(240) 309-4061
22660 Washington St
Leonardtown, MD 20650
United States
Viki Volk explores how ‘community is created and society’s subsequent control over its members and outcasts whether writing news, features, essays, or novels. Based in Southern Maryland since the 1980s, she reported firsthand on disappearing cultures and environmental loss. Her writing for The Enterprise newspaper is archived. Two of her essays appear in Slackwater journals, one is taught in a St.
Jennifer Cognard-Black is professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where she teaches the novel, Victorian adaptations, women writers, and the literatures of food as well as workshops in creative nonfiction and the short story. Among her awards in teaching and writing, she’s served as a Fulbright Scholar to Slovenia and a Senior Fulbright Scholar to Amsterdam and is the recipient of both a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award and a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation fellowship.
Jenna Cipolloni is an independent Maryland-based writer and filmmaker.
Tristan’s research-based art often involves digital compositing and appropriation of imagery to examine the veracities of our histories and the ways in which we socially construct knowledge in our image-saturated epoch. His works have been included in recent shows at Phoenix Art Museum, Arles Voies Off, France, Noorderlicht Photography Festival, Netherlands, the National Museum of Singapore, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju, GoEun Museum of Photography, Pusan, Korea, RS Projects in Berlin, Germany and Shanghai World Exposition, China, amongst other.
From California Maryland………
Discover excellent restaurants, charming galleries and a lovely natural waterfront vista. Just steps away from the town square, you can take classes, watch artists work in their studios, or buy locally crafted paintings, sculpture, jewelry and more.
Born in San Francisco, CA, Sue Johnson earned a M.F.A. in painting from Columbia University and a B.F.A. in Painting from Syracuse University. Her creative work, situated as it is at the intersection of art, science and popular culture, and focusing on such topics as the early modern museum, the picturing of nature and women, and investigating the domestic universe and consumer culture, defies easy categorization. Revisionist in method, her immersive installations, artist books and other artworks create plausible fictions that run both parallel and counter to canonical histories.
David Froom was born in California in 1951. His music has been performed extensively throughout the United States by major orchestras, ensembles, and soloists, including, among many others, the Louisville, Seattle, Utah, League/ISCM, and Chesapeake Symphony Orchestras, The United States Marine and Navy Bands, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the 21st Century Consort, Boston Musica Viva, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt, and the Aurelia Saxophone Quartet. His music has been heard in performance in England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Holland, Cyprus,