Community Calendar

UNDER $2500
Prospectus
Virtual Application
UNDER $2500 Benefit Exhibition and Sale:
Friday, November 21 | 6 to 10 p.m. | Tickets $40
Last Chance (physical):
Saturday, November 23 | 12 to 4 p.m.
Virtual Exhibition & Sale:
Saturday, November 22, 10 a.m. – Black Friday, November 28, 10 p.m.
Live on Saturday, November 22 @ 10 a.m.
Deck the walls by giving the gift of art this holiday season! Maryland Art Place (MAP) is excited to host its 13th annual UNDER $2500 affordable art sale where artwork is sold on a first-come-first-served basis right off our gallery walls! Newly rebranded as UNDER $2500 - this event promotes the purchase of artwork by artists in the Maryland region. Guests can expect to mingle with other artists, collectors, patrons, and general art enthusiasts at the event. Take your purchases home with you the night of the event. Gift wrapping will be available on-site!
The opening night sale (physical) will take place Friday, November 21 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. (ticketed) and then again on Saturday, November 22, 2025 from Noon - 4 p.m. (free). Saturday is a ‘last chance’ opportunity to snag any artworks that remain on MAP’s walls. Tickets are $40 for opening night and can be purchased at the door or in advance.
A Message To Our Patrons: In the last 2 years inflation has been a huge contributing factor to rising artwork sales prices. Simply put, the cost of goods for artists to create their art is far higher than it used to be. The majority of galleries consider the most important contemporary artwork value segments to be under $5,000 - $10,000 according to ARTSY (2023). It is with that in mind that MAP is presenting UNDER $2500 as affordable. We look forward to showcasing a more diverse, and broader, range of artworks this year at both the UNDER $2500 and UNDER $500 price ranges.
MAP will have holiday trees on display. Enjoy a cheerful atmosphere with an open bar, light fare, and some holly jolly tunes.
A virtual sale and exhibition will also take place and will be featured online HERE from Saturday, November 22 @ 10 a.m. – BLACK FRIDAY, November 28 @ 10 p.m. Artwork will NOT be available to view online until November 22 @ 10 a.m., be sure to register in advance in the interim! Registration is free.
Virtual Buyers Sales & Pick Up: Sold artworks from the virtual auction need to be delivered by the artist to MAP after the sale closes November 28th. MAP is aiming for all sold work to be on site for Buyer pick up by Tuesday, December 2nd just in time for the holidays. Buyers will be notified once your purchase is secured and onsite at MAP. BUYERS - Please make sure your artwork is at MAP before coming to pick it up. The pickup window will be Dec 2 – Dec 6, from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. or by appointment. All artwork will be wrapped and ready to fulfill its destiny as the perfect holiday gift! Call #410.244.1959 or email [email protected] to make sure your work is on site prior to coming to MAP.

THE THANKSGIVING PLAY

BY LARISSA FASTHORSE
DIRECTED BY SUZANNE BEAL

NOVEMBER 7 – DECEMBER 7

Preview November 6
ASL Interpreted Performance November 14

Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in this biting satire, as a troupe of performatively “woke” thespians scrambles to create a pageant that somehow manages to celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month without any cultural stumbles.

Roll for initiative! Oh Crit performs improv comedy fused with Dungeons & Dragons! Join them as they embark on an adventure of twists and turns, bizarre characters, and occasional epic failure… All with the help from YOU and the whim of an unforgiving 20-sided die!

At all Oh Crit! performances, we will be collecting food donations on behalf of the Frederick Community Fridge.

Back for its second year, Abbott and the Big Ten Conference are hosting the We Give Blood Drive competition to entice students, alumni, fans, and community members to rally around their Big Ten school to donate blood, save lives, and address the country's ongoing critical blood shortage.

From August 27 to December 5, anyone eligible to donate blood can do so anywhere, anytime in the U.S. to count for their school. The school with the most donations at the end of the competition will receive $1 million to advance student or community health.

New this year, everyone who donates or attempts to donate blood throughout the competition will receive an exclusive, limited-edition, Homefield-designed T-shirt specific to their school. To receive the shirt:

1. Show up to donate
2. Submit your donation (or attempt to donate) at BigTen.Org/Abbott or by texting DONATE to 222688 (ABBOTT).
3. Click the link sent to your email
4. Use your redemption code
5. Your shirt will be shipped to the address of your choice. 

Last year, the University of Nebraska won, and is using the funds to advance student health on campus. The University of Maryland is competing this year and will host several blood drives on campus and in the surrounding area throughout the competition. To find a blood drive near you, please visit: https://bigten.org/abbott/maryland

This focus exhibition of 10 works explores the relationship between burning fossil fuels—namely, coal—and the emergence of European modernism. Drawing on research conducted by climate scientists and art historians, the exhibition presents a range of paintings and works on paper by Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, James McNeill Whistler, and others to explore the ways that their artistic practices and style emerged, in part, in response to widespread pollution in London and Paris.
Presented as part of the Turn Again to the Earth environmental initiative.

More than 50 works on paper investigate how artists working in Europe and French-occupied northern Africa watched and participated as nature became a resource for people to hoard or share.

Drawn from the BMA’s George A. Lucas Collection, this exhibition of 19th-century art foregrounds the many ways that human relationships, including imperialism and capitalism, affect the environment. Deconstructing Nature is organized thematically, focusing on five environments and the ways artists explored them in their work: The Desert, The Forest, The Field, The City, and The Studio.

Born and raised in Baltimore, George A. Lucas (1824–1909) spent most of his adult life immersed in the Parisian art world and amassed a personal collection of nearly 20,000 works of art. In 1996, the BMA, with funds from the State of Maryland and the generosity of numerous individuals in the community, purchased the George A. Lucas Collection, which had been on extended loan to the Museum for more than 60 years.

In this focus exhibition of approximately 20 photographs, prints, drawings, and textiles, the natural environment is a source of creative inspiration worth celebrating and protecting.

Works by artists such as Winslow Homer, Richard Misrach, Charles Sheeler, and Kiki Smith, among many others, depict the elements of air, water, earth, and fire and address broader themes of ecological awareness and preservation. These themes range from how artists have used visual language to convey the act of locating oneself in nature; works that depict natural forms through the physical integration of environmental components; and artists’ commentary on sites of environmental disaster, the sociopolitical ramifications of human impact, and the potential of symbiotic healing for this planet and its occupants.

For thousands of years, East Asia’s cultures have viewed human life as part of a much larger system that encompasses the natural world. Drawn from the BMA’s collection, this exhibition boasts more than 40 objects—from magnificent ink drawings to beautifully crafted stoneware and poignant contemporary photographs and prints. They bring into the galleries the mountains and seas, wild and supernatural animals, and plant life that are extensive across East Asian imagery and often carry symbolic meaning.

Works on view include robust 13th-century ceramic vessels, delicate porcelain, carved jade, intricately sewn textiles, and large-scale photography; collectively, these artworks represent the impulse to fully understand the natural world as foundational to our existence, as shaped by human life, and as an enduring metaphor of survival.

UNDER $2500
Prospectus
Virtual Application
UNDER $2500 Benefit Exhibition and Sale:
Friday, November 21 | 6 to 10 p.m. | Tickets $40
Last Chance (physical):
Saturday, November 23 | 12 to 4 p.m.
Virtual Exhibition & Sale:
Saturday, November 22, 10 a.m. – Black Friday, November 28, 10 p.m.
Live on Saturday, November 22 @ 10 a.m.
Deck the walls by giving the gift of art this holiday season! Maryland Art Place (MAP) is excited to host its 13th annual UNDER $2500 affordable art sale where artwork is sold on a first-come-first-served basis right off our gallery walls! Newly rebranded as UNDER $2500 - this event promotes the purchase of artwork by artists in the Maryland region.
A virtual sale and exhibition will also take place and will be featured online HERE from Saturday, November 22 @ 10 a.m. – BLACK FRIDAY, November 28 @ 10 p.m. Artwork will NOT be available to view online until November 22 @ 10 a.m., be sure to register in advance in the interim! Registration is free.
A Message To Our Patrons: In the last 2 years inflation has been a huge contributing factor to rising artwork sales prices. Simply put, the cost of goods for artists to create their art is far higher than it used to be. The majority of galleries consider the most important contemporary artwork value segments to be under $5,000 - $10,000 according to ARTSY (2023). It is with that in mind that MAP is presenting UNDER $2500 as affordable. We look forward to showcasing a more diverse, and broader, range of artworks this year at both the UNDER $2500 and UNDER $500 price ranges.
Virtual Buyers Sales & Pick Up: Sold artworks from the virtual auction need to be delivered by the artist to MAP after the sale closes November 28th. MAP is aiming for all sold work to be on site for Buyer pick up by Tuesday, December 2nd just in time for the holidays. Buyers will be notified once your purchase is secured and onsite at MAP. BUYERS - Please make sure your artwork is at MAP before coming to pick it up. The pickup window will be Dec 2 – Dec 6, from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. or by appointment. All artwork will be wrapped and ready to fulfill its destiny as the perfect holiday gift! Call #410.244.1959 or email [email protected] to make sure your work is on site prior to coming to MAP.