Showing posts with label Art Artists Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art Artists Culture. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

The Carroll County Arts Center is showing a documentary film STEP on January 26, 2018

The Carroll County Arts Center is showing a documentary film STEP on January 26, 2018

“STEP” is an inspiring documentary of the senior year of a girls’ high-school step dance team in inner-city Baltimore.

The film is sponsored by JeannieBird Baking Company and hosted by FLIC - Film Lovers in Carroll County and Carroll Arts Center

Westminster Md. - The Carroll County Arts Center (CCAC) is showing a Documentary film STEP on January 26, 2018 at 1 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., highlighting three Senior members of the STEP dance team @ the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women in Baltimore City.

The film documents their senior year preparing for the STEP competition at Bowie State College along with preparation for college entrance. The film shows the young women striving to be the first in their families to attend college and make dancing a success against the backdrop of social unrest in the city.

According to the JeannieBird Baking Company, “this Friday we’re sponsoring two showings of the hip documentary Step at the @carrollartscenter AND we’ll be sampling some of our sweets in the lobby before the evening show!

“STEP is an inspiring documentary of the senior year of a girls’ high-school step dance team in inner-city Baltimore. The evening screening will be followed with a short step performance by The Lethal Ladies of BLYSW (pronounced bliss.)”

It won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2017 Sundance American Film Institute Doc’s Festival and the NAACP Image Award.

The young women will be performing live after the movie and then doing a Q&A from the audience. Jeannie Bird Bakery is sponsoring the film. For more information go to www.CarrollCountyArtsCouncil.org.

Film Lovers in Carroll County

91 W Main St, Westminster, Maryland 21157
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See also - Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art, artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson: “That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!” - See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
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Friday, September 1, 2017

Mexican Folk Dance Group to perform at the Carroll Arts Center Sept. 16, 2017

Mexican Folk Dance Group to perform at the Carroll Arts Center Sept. 16, 2017

The Carroll County Arts Council is pleased to host Bailes de Mi Tierra (Dances of My Land) on Saturday, September 16 at 7 pm. Celebrate Mexican Independence Day with a live performance by this talented dance troupe who are ambassadors of the Latino Community. Their colorful costumes and lively music provide a rich representation of Mexican heritage and traditions.

Bailes de Mi Tierra’s mission is to preserve, promote, and present Mexican traditions through music, dance, and folklore. Accompanied with lively sounds of Mexican music, their repertoire includes vibrant dances from 6 regions of Mexico; Sinaloa, Jalisco, Veracruz, Norte (which includes dances from Chihuahua, and Tamaulipas), Chiapas, and tropical dances such as Cha-Cha-Cha & Cumbia.

Now in its 9th year, the group has performed in various venues throughout Baltimore and surrounding communities of Ellicott City, Columbia, and Washington, D.C. Bailes de Mi Tierra not only serves as ambassadors of the Mexican community but the entire Latino community of Baltimore by showcasing and demonstrating the beauty and richness that Latinos bring to Baltimore and beyond.

Sponsored by Becki & Joe Maurio.

Tickets for the performance are $10 Adults / $8 ages 25 & under, and ages 60 & Up. CCAC Members receive additional 10% off. Tickets can be purchased on line at www.CarrollCountyArtsCouncil.org or by calling 410/848-7272.

The Carroll Arts Center is located in a restored art deco movie theatre in downtown Westminster at 91 West Main Street.

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“Bailes de Mi Tierra – Mexican Folk Dance Group.” Sat. September 16 at 7 pm. Celebrate Mexican Independence Day with a performance by this talented dance troupe who are ambassadors of the Latino Community. Their colorful costumes and lively music provide a rich representation of Mexican heritage and traditions. $8-10. Carroll Arts Center, 91 W. Main St., Westminster, MD 21157. 410-848-7272. Online tickets and more info at www.CarrollCountyArtsCouncil.org

Art Artists Maurio Becky, People Maurio Becki, Art Artists Culture, World Mexico, Carroll Co Community Events, Art Carroll Arts Center,

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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
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E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com

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See also - Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art, artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson: “That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!” - See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

French Boys’ Choir to perform Wednesday, August 26, at 7pm at Grace Lutheran Church


Les Petits Chanteurs de France to perform Wednesday, August 26, at 7pm at Grace Lutheran Church http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/08/french-boys-choir-to-perform-wednesday.html 

Grace Lutheran Church will be co-hosting, with the Children’s Chorus of Carroll County, a performance by Les Petits Chanteurs de France in the Sanctuary on Wednesday, August 26, at 7pm, as part of our Pot Luck and Song series. 

Les Petits Chanteurs de France is a French Boys’ Choir consisting of 22 boys from the ages of 7 to 17 performing classical repertoire as well as folk, Broadway and even Disney tunes.

They have received notoriety through their many concerts in prestigious places, TV shows, national and international tours, radio broadcastings, religious ceremonies, charity galas, etc (http://www.petitchanteursdefrance.fr/).

Please do not miss what will truly be a memorable musical event for Grace Lutheran Church!





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Baltimore Sun Carroll Eagle: 
Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com

My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/


See also - Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art, artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson: “That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!” - See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Artworks by Lyndi McNulty Reception at Birdies Café Friday Oct. 25, 5:30-7:30pm


You are invited to a reception to see Lyndi McNulty’s new exhibit "Seeing in Color" at Birdies Café on October 25, 5:30-7:30pm. Enjoy light refreshments and visit with friends.  We are having Birdie’s prize winning lobster salad, wine and American beer! Lyndi McNulty

Birdie's Café phone number: 410-848.7931

Location: 233 East Main Street, Westminster, MD 21157


Birdie's Café
233 East Main Street
Westminster, MD 21157



Local Award-Winning Artist and owner of Gizmos Art helps promote, encourage and support artists in any way she can. By Kerri Gaither

To learn more about this artist/art advocate – Lyndi McNulty - or to contact her, visit www.Gizmosart.com.





Gizmos Art:
1 New Windsor Rd
Westminster, MD
You must make an appointment
Call: 410-876-7939
Or contact us at: framing AT GizmosArt DOT com


Lyndi Steward McNulty


September 16, 2010


Lyndi Steward McNulty September 16 2010 brief bio                                                                                                                           

Gizmos - Lyndi Steward McNulty


September 16, 2010


Lyndi Steward McNulty, a prize winning artist, has been an artist since she was four years old. Her style has been the same since she began to paint in high school. Bright colors and abstract design elements are typical of her work.

She is most influenced by Theophile Steinlen, Alphonse Mucha, Theberge and Franz Marc.  Her favorite subjects are animals and local farm scenes in Carroll County, Maryland.

McNulty has studied fine art at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Middle Tennessee State University, and Southwest Craft Center in San Antonio, Texas and the Rochester Institute of Technology.  She holds and M.S. from The Johns Hopkins University and an M.L.S. from the University of Oklahoma.

She has also done design work professionally, both as an airbrush artist and as a commercial design artist.  She has worked as a museum curator, not only curating the collection, but also designing and installing the exhibits for three museums.

McNulty has owned Gizmos Art for nearly 30 years, a business started by her mother Betty McNulty, where she does custom framing and the restoration of paintings, paper, photographs, and frames and appraisals of all kinds.

McNulty is a member of the Art Deco Society of Washington D.C.; the Baltimore Museum of Art, The New England Appraisers Association and the Carroll County Arts Council.  She may be reached at www.gizmosart.com and 410-876-7939.

Lyndi Steward McNulty September 16 2010 brief bio

Lyndi Steward McNulty, Dayhoff, Westminster, Maryland, Carroll County, art, artists, framing, appraisers, appraisals,



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“Color-Graphemic gustatory Synesthesia” by Kevin Dayhoff November 24, 2009


The Thanksgiving holiday is always a mixed-up mashed-up confusion of words, colors, music, and taste.  It’s an arrhythmic cacophony chromaticism of atonal colors…  The holiday started several days early as I devoured each word in Hindi …  by Kevin Dayhoff November 24, 2009

[20091124 colorgraphemic synesthesia] Dayhoff Art


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“Color-Graphemic gustatory Synesthesia” by Kevin Dayhoff 24Nov09 http://tinyurl.com/y8stz35 #art #writing http://twitpic.com/ra315 The Thanksgiving holiday is always a mixed-up mashed-up confusion of words, colors, music, and taste.  It’s an arrhythmic cacophony chromaticism of atonal colors…  The holiday started several days early as I devoured each word in Hindi …

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Asymmetry and color-graphemic synesthesia

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Artist Joyce Scott to speak at McDaniel College Oct 30

Artist Joyce Scott to speak at McDaniel College Oct 30

Joyce Scott: The Shape I'm In

The Queen of Beadwork will share how she incorporates provocative and contentious political and social issues in her exuberant beaded sculptural forms and neckpieces.

Wednesday, October 30 at 7:00 pm, McDaniel Lounge in McDaniel Hall



[20131030 Joyce Scott to speak at McD Oct 30]

"Joyce Scoot to speak..." inadvertently double-posted… Darn it…



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Seale, former Black Panther leader, will speak at McDaniel next Tuesday

By Kevin Dayhoff, kevindayhoff@gmail.com

Bobby Seale, the former chairman and co-founder of the Black Panther Party is scheduled to come to speak at McDaniel College at The Forum in Decker College Center on Tuesday, October 1.

Photo of Bobby Seale courtesy of bobbyseale.com


Seale, who has long since renounced violence as a strategy for social change, helped found the Panthers in 1966. At the time, the organization was dedicated to defending African-Americans against perceived incidences of police brutality and providing a community-based network of self-help social services.

Seale left the Panthers in 1974 after his more militant views moderated. He subsequently endorsed a nonviolent strategy that centered upon providing community services to African Americans.

Seale was born in Dallas, Texas in 1936 but grew up in Oakland, California. Seale met Black Panther Party co-founder, Huey P. Newton while attending what was then-known as Oakland City College, now part of the Peralta Community College District, which includes Merritt and Laney College.

Both Seale and Newton were admirers of Malcolm X and his teachings and were moved by his assassination after a speaking engagement in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965. Three gunmen rushed Malcolm onstage and shot him 15 times at close range. The 39-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.

In the mid-1960s, a growing number of civil rights advocates were unhappy with the lack of progress in implementing integration and other civil rights reforms and many, especially young people, had begun to reject the non-violent tactics advocated by the traditional 1950s and early 1960s leaders in the civil rights movement.

After the death of Malcolm X, many of the younger African-Americans felt disenchanted and disenfranchised by the mainstream civil rights movement, and began to explore others ways to make themselves heard.

They adopted Malcolm's slogan, "Freedom by any means necessary," and began forming a network of Panther chapters throughout the country.

A McDaniel College information release reports, the Panthers developed into a militant Marxist revolutionary group that continued to gain popularity throughout the late 1960s. In 1968 membership increased from 400 members to 5,000 members and 45 chapters and branches. According to J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Panthers were the "No. 1 threat to the internal security of the nation."

Seale's lecture next Tuesday is titled, "From the Sixties to the Future," and according to McDaniel College, he “will transport the audience back to a time when the activism of hundreds of thousands of protesters created cross-cultural coalitions, numerous community programs, and an unforgettable synergy of forces. Seale will share his thoughts on how we must reach for the future and understand how all civil-human rights issues today are interconnected, interdependent and interrelated with environmental problems, political issues, and global economics.”


At 6:00 pm, Bobby Seale will autograph historical posters, books, and DVDs for sale. His presentation begins at 7 p.m.
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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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Artist Joyce Scott to speak at McDaniel College Oct 30

Artist Joyce Scott to speak at McDaniel College Oct 30

Joyce Scott: The Shape I'm In

The Queen of Beadwork will share how she incorporates provocative and contentious political and social issues in her exuberant beaded sculptural forms and neckpieces.

Wednesday, October 30 at 7:00 pm, McDaniel Lounge in McDaniel Hall



[20131030 Joyce Scott to speak at McD Oct 30]

“Joyce Scott to speak” inadvertently double-posted… Darn it…



Also see:


Seale, former Black Panther leader, will speak at McDaniel next Tuesday

By Kevin Dayhoff, kevindayhoff@gmail.com

Bobby Seale, the former chairman and co-founder of the Black Panther Party is scheduled to come to speak at McDaniel College at The Forum in Decker College Center on Tuesday, October 1.

Photo of Bobby Seale courtesy of bobbyseale.com


Seale, who has long since renounced violence as a strategy for social change, helped found the Panthers in 1966. At the time, the organization was dedicated to defending African-Americans against perceived incidences of police brutality and providing a community-based network of self-help social services.

Seale left the Panthers in 1974 after his more militant views moderated. He subsequently endorsed a nonviolent strategy that centered upon providing community services to African Americans.

Seale was born in Dallas, Texas in 1936 but grew up in Oakland, California. Seale met Black Panther Party co-founder, Huey P. Newton while attending what was then-known as Oakland City College, now part of the Peralta Community College District, which includes Merritt and Laney College.

Both Seale and Newton were admirers of Malcolm X and his teachings and were moved by his assassination after a speaking engagement in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965. Three gunmen rushed Malcolm onstage and shot him 15 times at close range. The 39-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.

In the mid-1960s, a growing number of civil rights advocates were unhappy with the lack of progress in implementing integration and other civil rights reforms and many, especially young people, had begun to reject the non-violent tactics advocated by the traditional 1950s and early 1960s leaders in the civil rights movement.

After the death of Malcolm X, many of the younger African-Americans felt disenchanted and disenfranchised by the mainstream civil rights movement, and began to explore others ways to make themselves heard.

They adopted Malcolm's slogan, "Freedom by any means necessary," and began forming a network of Panther chapters throughout the country.

A McDaniel College information release reports, the Panthers developed into a militant Marxist revolutionary group that continued to gain popularity throughout the late 1960s. In 1968 membership increased from 400 members to 5,000 members and 45 chapters and branches. According to J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Panthers were the "No. 1 threat to the internal security of the nation."

Seale's lecture next Tuesday is titled, "From the Sixties to the Future," and according to McDaniel College, he “will transport the audience back to a time when the activism of hundreds of thousands of protesters created cross-cultural coalitions, numerous community programs, and an unforgettable synergy of forces. Seale will share his thoughts on how we must reach for the future and understand how all civil-human rights issues today are interconnected, interdependent and interrelated with environmental problems, political issues, and global economics.”


At 6:00 pm, Bobby Seale will autograph historical posters, books, and DVDs for sale. His presentation begins at 7 p.m.
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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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Monday, October 15, 2012

Carroll County Maryland Ag Center and 2012 Corn Maze

The Ag Center
... the place to look for Agriculture, Sporting Events and Entertainment of all kinds ... http://www.carrollcountyagcenter.com/

WELCOME to the Carroll County Agriculture Center ... 20+ acres of indoor facilities, outdoor areas, meeting facilities, function and banquet rooms – and the state-of-the-artDanele Shipley Memorial Arena, and much more!
For more than 50 years the Ag Center has been the region's premier location for rodeo's, livestock and equestrian outings, live music and entertainment shows, auto and motorcycle events, trade shows and exhibits, and of course – the Carroll County 4-H and FFA Fair. It is also the permanent home of the long-running Carroll County Farmers Market and the highly–regarded 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County!

In 2012 we again bring you lots of new events and shows ... our annual tractor pull in the spring, huge indoor flea markets, boxing events, musical shows and concerts, corn maze, and lots more.

Carroll County Ag Center 2012 Corn Maze
150th Anniversary of the American Civil War
Open weekends September 28 until November 4, 2012

Hours: Friday and Saturday: 5PM-9PM and Sundays: Family Day 1PM-6PM
Straw maze, pumpkins, and more!!!
Admission: $10.00 for adults $5.00 for children 3-12

Group appointments and rate available.

Go to www.carrollcountyagcenter.com or www.ccag.biz call 410-848-6704 for more information. 706 Agriculture Center, Westminster, MD 21157



We are located in Westminster, MD in central beautiful Carroll County just 25 minutes from the BALTIMORE Beltway (MD 695). The Ag Center and Shipley Arena are perfectly situated to meet the diverse needs of those in Carroll County and our neighbors in Baltimore, Washington D.C., southern Pennsylvania and Delaware. We are here for you – YEAR-ROUND – presenting the best in Agriculture, Sporting Events and Entertainment of all kinds!

Visit us soon – we look forward to hosting you in comfort and style! Learn about upcoming shows and events on our website www.carrollcountyagcenter.com – visit us here often.

To book any of our facilities – or inquire about rates, specifications, etc. contact Nichole McLaughlin, Manager at 410-848-6704 or info@carrollcountyagcenter.com
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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Smallwood artist Jerry DeWitt to display critically acclaimed rural farm paintings at Off Track Art in Westminster.


Smallwood artist Jerry DeWitt to display critically acclaimed rural farm paintings at Off Track Art in Westminster.

Show opens with a reception for the artist on Friday, September 7, 2012 at 5:30 to 7:30 at Off Track Art, [http://offtrackart.blogspot.com/] 11 Liberty Street – side entrance in the Liberty Building in historic downtown Westminster. The show will continue through October.

By Kevin Dayhoff, kevindayhoff@gmail.com


Off Track Art is celebrating the art of Jerry DeWitt for its first opening of the fall season on Friday, Sept. 7th, 2012 from 5:30--7:30, to show his beautiful watercolors from a variety of locales including Carroll County.

Mr. DeWitt, a Smallwood, Carroll County Maryland artist, has just returned from Montana and Michigan. Earlier in the year, this past March, Mr. DeWitt was the featured artist in the Babylon Great Hall at Carroll Community College. [http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2012/03/jerry-dewitt-discusses-his-farm.html] The highly successful show was well-received and the opening was packed. It has been reported that Mr. DeWitt sold a large number of painting at the Carroll Community College show…

“Jerry DeWitt was born in Michigan in 1933 and has been painting, primarily watercolors, since his teenage years,” according to information provided by the artist…

“Over 300 paintings hang in homes and businesses from Alaska to Florida. His work has been shown in galleries in Washington, DC; Montana; and Maryland. Mr. DeWitt’s Montana paintings were featured in American Artist magazine. 

“Mr. DeWitt enjoys traveling, and has series of paintings from Maine and from Frederick and Carroll Counties. His subjects are often old farm buildings or homes, as he strives to capture and retain the spirit of American places of the heart.

“Viewers may be drawn to tranquil scenes and transported to a quieter, more peaceful time. He has a special affinity for birds and has painted many species. Jerry has framed many of his paintings in old barn wood, sometimes from the very site portrayed.

“Most notable of these paintings is his award-winning portrait of the Wye Oak, framed in the wood from that famous tree.

According to an article about Mr. DeWitt’s work by critically acclaimed Carroll County artist, photographer, and writer, Phil Grout, “When Jerry DeWitt paints a barn, there's a bit of the gentle clanging of cowbells mixing in with the watercolors. [http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2012/03/smallwood-artist-jerry-dewitt-draws.html]

“That sound echoes back to his grandfather's Depression-era farm at the end of a lane in Bedford County, Pa. He was just 2 years old when his father left home for good and the youngster was uprooted from Lansing, Mich., to live with his grandparents.

“And in between trips to the pasture to the hand-dug well for another bucket of water, or out to the shed for an arm load of firewood, the sights and sounds and smells of farm life wrapped themselves around Jerry's memory, eventually finding their way to paint and paper more than 30 years later…

After Mr. DeWitt served in the Navy during the Korean War, “became a house carpenter building houses in Maryland and Florida.

“Years later, with his wife, Kris, and four children, Jerry answered his calling — back on the farm, with paints and brushes instead of water bucket and firewood. The family went to Florida for a visit to his wife's parents. Jerry stayed behind in Hagerstown.

“He had a week all to himself. So he went to a five and 10 store in town and bought a set of watercolors and some brushes and then headed out to a barn he'd spotted many times along Interstate-70 on his way to a house construction site.

“DeWitt was 37 when he sat out there on the east side of Cosen's Barn with his new set of paints.

“‘That was it. Time disappeared,’ he says. ‘Something was opening up inside of me, and I could hear those cowbells. I could smell my grandfather's barn.’”

For more information and photographs of Mr. DeWitt and his work, see Phil Grout’s article, “Smallwood artist Jerry DeWitt draws creative inspiration from his farm past,” in the Baltimore Sun on March 17, 2012, about Mr. DeWitt’s work and his well-received and highly successful show at Carroll Community College. [http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-03-17/explore/ph-ce-dewitt-and-wisdom-0318-20120317_1_oil-painting-smallwood-farm-life]

Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at kevindayhoff@gmail.com. Writer Phil Grout contributed to this article.


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“Off Track Art” is an artists’ co-op and gallery located in the historic Liberty Building at 11 Liberty Street – next to the railroad tracks, off of the Sentinel parking lot at the corner of West Main St and MD 27-Liberty St - in historic downtown Westminster, Carroll County Maryland. 

Open: Wed-Fri. Noon to 6 PM , Sat. 10 AM - 5 PM. http://offtrackart.blogspot.com/ 
 For news and information on Off Track Art previous to December 15, 2011, you can go to http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/search/label/Art%20Off%20Track%20Art

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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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