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Grant to Walters, Hopkins aims to boost kids' cognitive abilities
The Walters Art Museum and Johns Hopkins University have received a $50,000 grant to create museum programs aimed at fostering cognitive development in preschoolers. The program, which will involve museum curators and researchers from the university's...Tags: Science and Technology, Museums, Johns Hopkins University, Arts and Culture, Arts
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Walters art exhibit focuses on Africans living in Renaissance Europe
The view of a 16th-century Lisbon street is such a teeming hodgepodge of races, social classes and religions and has so much life on display — much of it mischievous — that's it hard not to smile. Slightly to the right of center, an African...
Tags: Museums, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Arts and Culture, Artists
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Revelation at the Walters
People passing through the intersection at Charles and Centre streets recently may have noticed an intriguing banner hanging from the wall above the entrance to the Walters Art Museum. The oversize image depicts a black woman dressed in the manner of a...
Tags: Museums, Arts and Culture, Artists, Arts, Europe
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Columbus Day schedule and closings
This schedule will be in effect Monday: Government offices Open in Anne Arundel County, Annapolis, Frederick, Harford and Howard counties. Closed in Baltimore City; Baltimore and Carroll counties. Courts Closed in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll,...Tags: Anne Arundel County, Baltimore Museum of Art, Museums, Port Discovery Children's Museum, Maryland Area Regional Commuter Rail
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Ann McAllister Hughes
Ann McAllister Hughes, an artist who taught art in Baltimore's public schools and had chaired the art department at Forest Park High School, died July 27 of pulmonary failure at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson.
The longtime Randallstown resident was 83.
The...Tags: Elections, Colleges and Universities, Baltimore Museum of Art, Johns Hopkins University, Arts and Culture
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Engaged: Louann Magi and Zach Shariff
Wedding Day: September 8, 2012 Her story: Louann Magi, 45, grew up in Bedford, Pennsylvania. She is an interior designer and owner of L'Image Design Studio and lives in Glenwood. His story: Zack Shariff, 56, grew up in Pakistan and moved to Maryland...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Howard County, Human Interest, Family, Floral Design
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Newsmakers: Stevenson, Owings Mills residents hired, promoted
Katye Byram, of Stevenson, was recently hired by Baltimore School for the Arts as Development Associate. Prior to BSA, Byram owned Winters Media Group, a printing company in New York City that specialized in marketing solutions. Byram has also served on...Tags: Baltimore School for the Arts, Arts and Culture, Lawyers, Arts, Justice System
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Spurring kids' knowledge of Judaism through reading, music
Michelle Damareck's 3-year-old daughter has been singing "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider" in Hebrew, and her 5-year-old son has been learning the lessons of the Ten Commandments, thanks to a program that delivers Jewish-themed books and CDs to their home every...
Tags: Museums, Senator Theatre, Port Discovery Children's Museum, Arts and Culture, Maryland Zoo Baltimore
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Theft of Renoir from BMA in 1951 earned little notice
It was the art theft investigation that went nowhere. When a landscape painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir was stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art on Nov. 17, 1951, there were no newspaper headlines. The report filed by the Baltimore Police Department...Tags: Museums, Companies and Corporations, Baltimore Museum of Art, Police Investigations, Arts and Culture
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Laura Ryan's 'Unity' on display at Capitol
When 18-year-old Laura Ryan entered the 31st Annual Congressional Art Competition, she wanted to make a statement with her artwork. “Each section represents a different person,” says Ryan of her oil painting, “Unity,” which was...
Tags: Science and Technology, Arts and Culture, Arts, University of Maryland, College Park, Students
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Peter Marvit, scientist and music enthusiast
Peter Marvit, a 51-year-old scientist who sang with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society and sought to widen music education opportunities for city students, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital after he was shot near his Northeast Baltimore home last Monday...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Museums, Research, Arts and Culture, Music
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Margery K. 'Margie' Pozefsky, artist
Margery K. "Margie" Pozefsky, an artist and kidney transplant survivor who supported a kidney swapping transplant program at Johns Hopkins Hospital, died Friday of lung cancer at her Rockland home. She was 71.
"Margie was just a wonderful woman who had...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Johns Hopkins University, Arts and Culture, Lawyers, Health and Medical Professionals
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