Posted by Tom Watts on September 25, 2020 · Leave a Comment
The Jo Ricks Music Series continues in Southern Maryland in October with a weekend of concerts and youth-oriented events at St. George’s Episcopal Church at 19167 Poplar Hill Lane in Valley Lee.
Posted by Tom Watts on April 22, 2019 · Leave a Comment
In the heart of the “Instant City” that became Lexington Park, the historic Maryland Bank & Trust Building is in tiptop condition and available for rent or sale. The MB&T Bank Building is at the corner of Great Mills Road and S. Shangri-La Drive in Lexington Park, MD.
Category Leader Exclusives, Lexi Leader · Tags Annmarie Garden, Annmarie Gardens, annmarie-sculpture-garden-art-center, Art Park, ArtsPark, Charlie Hewitt, Creative Arts Forum, katie watts, kay daugherty, Lexington Park MD, Maryland Bank & Trust, Tom Watts
Posted by Lexi Leader on April 4, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The blooms of the Yoshino cherry trees are temporal, a trait bestowing a not inconsiderable amount of the species’ cachet. This year they bloomed early.
Category Leader Features · Tags Annmarie Garden, Annmarie Gardens, annmarie-sculpture-garden-art-center, Art Park, ArtsPark, Charlie Hewitt, Creative Arts Forum, katie watts, kay daugherty, Lexington Park Business & Community Association, Lexington Park cherry blossoms, Lexington Park civic association, Lexington Park MD, LPBCA, Mark Pinekenstein, Pride in Park, Showtime Deli, St. Mary’s County Community Development Corporation, Tom Watts, viki volk
Posted by Lexi Leader on January 3, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Lexington Park is seeking an artist for its first public mural. The St. Mary’s Community Development Corp. is soliciting design proposals for a mural in black and white plus one accent color to appear on all or part of a 15-foot-high and 50-foot-wide cinderblock wall visible from a busy Lexington Park intersection.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Art Park, ArtsPark Cherry Blossom Festival, Bank Square Building, Earley Properties, Lexington Park Business & Community Association, Lexington Park civic association, Lexington Park Comes Alive!, LPBCA, Mark Pinekenstein, murals, Pride in Park, public mural project, Showtime Deli, Southern Maryland Heritage Area Consortium, St. Mary’s County Community Development Corporation, Three Notch Theatre, Tom Watts
Posted by Tom Watts on December 12, 2016 · Leave a Comment
St. Mary’s Community Development Corp. to launch a competition for an artist to paint the first public mural in the “Lexington Park Comes Alive!” series.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features, Lexi Leader · Tags Art Park, Lexington Park Business & Community Association, Lexington Park civic association, Lexington Park Comes Alive!, LPBCA, Mark Pinekenstein, Pride in Park, public mural project, Showtime Deli, Southern Maryland Heritage Area Consortium, St. Mary’s County Community Development Corporation, Tom Watts
Posted by Tom Watts on August 23, 2016 · 1 Comment
The stunningly successful opening of the Kay Daugherty Gallery with Charlie Hewitt’s “The Banquet Years” show drew old friends and artists and buyers.
Category Leader Exclusives · Tags Annmarie Garden, Annmarie Gardens, annmarie-sculpture-garden-art-center, Art Park, ArtsPark, Charlie Hewitt, Creative Arts Forum, katie watts, kay daugherty, The Banquet Years, Tom Watts
Posted by Tom Watts on August 8, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Painter, sculptor, and printmaker Charlie Hewitt graduated from Great Mills High School and spent formative years in St. Mary’s County, MD. His work will be shown in the new Kay Daugherty Gallery at Annmarie Garden beginning Aug. 12. “The Banquet Years” runs through Sept. 25.
Category Art & Lifestyle, Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags AMG, Annmarie Garden, Annmarie Gardens, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, annmarie-sculpture-garden-art-center, Art Park, Charlie Hewitt, Gerry D'Wynter, katie watts, kay daugherty, Tom Watts, Walt Sawyer
Posted by Tom Watts on August 2, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Annmarie Garden opens the Kay Daugherty Gallery with “The Banquet Years,” a special show of Charlie Hewitt’s running from Aug. 12 to Sept. 25, 2016. An opening reception will be held 6 to 9 pm Aug. 12.
Posted by Tom Watts on July 27, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Once upon a time a cultural renaissance cloaked St. Mary’s County, a brief decade over by 1985, that seems both quite a long time ago and just the other day to Katie Watts as she muses about the mezzanine gallery — the Kay Daugherty Gallery — at Annmarie Garden named after her mother, and its opening exhibition, “The Banquet Years,” by Charlie Hewitt.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags AMG, Annmarie Garden, Annmarie Gardens, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, annmarie-sculpture-garden-art-center, Art Park, Charlie Hewitt, Gerry D'Wynter, katie watts, kay daugherty, Tom Watts, Walt Sawyer
Posted by Lexi Leader on June 28, 2016 · 1 Comment
While Joni Mitchell sang about a tree museum, Lexington Park, Maryland, grew one. Now St. Mary’s Community Development Corp. wants to save it.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features, Lexi Leader · Tags Art Park, Lexington Park Business & Community Association, Lexington Park civic association, LPBCA, Mark Pinekenstein, Pride in Park, Showtime Deli, St. Mary’s County Community Development Corporation, Tom Watts
