Mill Valley Cultural Arts Umbrella

The Mill Valley Cultural Arts Umbrella is partnering with Adornment Craft Center and Gallery to host the MVCAU 1st Annual Members Show, Entitled: Under Our Umbrella.  The show will run from July 19th to August 14th at Adornment Craft Center and Gallery.  The gallery is located at 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 130 Baltimore, MD 21211 at the Meadow Mill Center. The show’s public opening reception will be held on Juy 19th from 4 PM to 6PM, with wine, light fare and music provided.  All Umbrella members are invited to provide one or two pieces of art for the show.  Those interested please follow instructions and rules provided below:

Instructions:

1. All art must be ready to hang. Free standing sculptures must not require assembly and must be ready to stand, with a solid stance or heavy base. Sculptures can’t be dangerously tipsy.
2. All work must be for sale, a consignment deal of 70/30 split has been arranged  (70% Artist 30% Gallery).
3. All Pieces for the show must be accompanied by an Entry form and consignment form.
4. Forms are available for download at the blow listed links or available at Adornment Craft Center and Gallery during drop off:
5. Submission Form: http://www.adornment.net/Forms/Artist_Submission_Form.pdf
6. Consignment form: http://www.adornment.net/Forms/ConsignmentAgreement.pdf
7. Pick up hard copies at: Adornment Craft Center and Gallery at: 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 130 (at Meadow Mills) Baltimore, MD 21211
8. Drop off days are from July 14th to 16th between the hours of 10 AM and 8 PM at Adornment Gallery and Craft Center, 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 130 (at Meadow Mills) Baltimore, MD 21211.

Gallery Rules:

1. No BYOB. Wine and light fare will be provided.
2. All art must never have been shown in a Gallery before.
3. No Last minute changes to the show.  Once a piece is dropped off and the forms are signed, the artwork is in the show as registered.
4. No Pornography, but nudes are welcome.
5. Adornment Gallery holds the right to reject any piece of art that does not meet the requirements.
6. At 6 PM the Art Opening is over, we will move the opening to an after party, location to be announced.  

By Mark Sober,

Just a friendly last-minute reminder about the first of our election year “specials” (The Candidate” shows in October):

(Hopefully, there’ll be a good discussion after; in response to my Facebook invtation I received a note from a local writer who plans to come because he wants to see if he still hates Mr. Smith…!!)

FILMTALK, Wheeler Auditorium, Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St.

• June 14   10AM - - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

In their second collaboration (after 1938’s You Can?t Take It With You), director Frank Capra and star James Stewart create the character of Jefferson Smith, an altruistic, naïve small-town newspaperman who becomes an erstwhile Senator forced to deal with corruption in politics. The film received an Academy Award (Best Original Story), a New York Film Critics Circle Award (Best Actor), and was placed on the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry in 1989. (USA, 1939, 130 min., b&w)

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By Denny Lynch 

The letter from the office of the Mayor of Paris (Marie de Paris) arrived at my house in Hampden a few weeks before I mounted my photography exhibition in the City of Light.

I had invited Mayor Bertrand Delanoe to my opening on March 12 at the American Library in Paris. The brown envelope, which the letter arrived in, was marked urgent and was addressed to Monsieur Denny Lynch. Well, I thought to myself, it is only natural that the Mayor of Hampden extend an invitation to the Mayor of Paris.

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