Cambridge Community Arts Foundation

12/11/2025

An opportunity in the New Year!

Call for artists! 📣 Adkins Arboretum is now accepting submissions for the 2026 Juried Art Show. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2026.

The theme of the show is Discovering the Native Landscapes of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and is open to original two- and three-dimensional fine arts in all mediums, including outdoor sculpture and installations.

This year's juror is Robert Blackson, is the Director & Curator of the Kohl Gallery at Washington College.

Click here for show details and submission guidelines: https://www.adkinsarboretum.org/file_download/inline/4c9db945-246c-4a41-96e3-d6c024c5bae6

Pictured is the 2025 Juried Art Show first place winning piece, Scorpio Full Moon, by Rachel Zoe.

11/04/2025

Thoughts?

11/04/2025

The Friends of the Dorchester Library Book Sale is the perfect place to gather book for the cool weather! The sale is Nov. 8th, this Saturday, from 9am to 1pm at the Cambridge Library. Lots of new donations of hardbacks and paperbacks books. Books are either a dollar or two dollars and all proceeds benefit the library programming and collections development. AND they are showcasing holiday books, mostly Christmas. There is adult fiction, books for children, craft books, and cookbooks. Stop by this Saturday!

10/13/2025

One Maryland, One Book discussion this week!

Join us at the Cambridge library next week on Thursday, October 16th, at 6:30 PM for the 2025 One Maryland, One Book Panel, Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance (and Handsell House).

09/27/2025

Check out this great exhibition at AU in DC!

Women Artists of the DMV (District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia)
Through December 7. American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC.

Barbara Januszkiewicz (American, b. 1954): Someone to Watch Over Me, 2025. Diluted acrylics on unprimed canvas, 52 x 47 x 3 in. l 132.1 x 119.4 x 7.6 cm. © Barbara Januszkiewicz. irequireart.com Join Us on Substack.

09/12/2025

Here’s what’s new in New York and beyond this fall…

This fall, New York will be treated to the long-awaited return of two institutions that help make the Big Apple one of the greatest museum cities in the world. The New Museum will open its new expansion on the Bowery with a three-floor exhibition titled “New Humans: Memories of the Future.” Uptown, the Studio Museum in Harlem will be back in action with a selection of works from its collection and an extensive overview of Tom Lloyd, whose electric-light sculptures inaugurated the museum back in 1968.

But these momentous reopenings aren’t the only art world happenings to add to your calendar this season.

Read about the exhibitions, books, and films to look forward to in fall 2025: https://www.artnews.com/list/art-in-america/features/datebook-the-art-worlds-fall-happenings-calendar-1234751059/

09/09/2025

Happy belated birthday to an iconic artist from last century!

It’s never too late to try something new. At 77 years old, Grandma Moses decided to pick up painting as something to “keep busy and out of mischief” after the passing of her husband of fifty years.

Her work was spotted by a collector, who purchased every painting he saw in a local pharmacy window. Inspired by her upbringing on a farm in Upstate New York, she is best known for her pastoral landscape of Americana. These idyllic scenes soon grabbed the attention of Hallmark and quickly after, her paintings were seen on greeting cards across the country.

Also known as Anna May Robertson, Grandma Moses was born on September 7, 1860. 🥳🎂 Happy belated birthday!

This painting of her was created by artist Kristin Helberg, who as a child always loved Grandma Moses’ artworks.

(Image Credits)
1. “Grandma Moses” by Kristin Helberg, 1996. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Kristin Helberg. ©1996 Kristin Helberg

08/25/2025

Call for entries…

Calling all artists! DCA is excited to announce a new CALL FOR ART for the upcoming November/December 2025 Exhibition, Vanishing Landscapes.

Here's a little more about the exhibition:
Vanishing Landscapes is a group exhibition of artists working across multiple mediums including painting, photography, sculpture, video, and more, who question the relationship between the environment and self. The selected works are both personal and universal responses to the disappearing natural places that we call home.

Traditionally, a landscape is defined as a natural scenery with mountains, forests, rivers, etc. Exhibited works in Vanishing Landscapes define the term 'landscape' as both the depiction of a natural scenery, as well as the emotional, psychological and cultural landscape that we share with the natural world.
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Accepting entries through 9/20! We can't wait to see your work!

More info and submit online here: https://forms.gle/5wGUSbjZkorpFdSn9

*Hard copy entry forms are available at DCA*

Contact Lillie @ LPennypacker@DorchesterArts.org for questions

08/14/2025

Meaningful quilt art explained…

08/13/2025

Such a wonderful tale!

08/11/2025

Art for all! A new class at the DCA, details below.

DETAILS AND REGISTRATION HERE: https://dorchesterarts.org/event/introduction-to-soft-pastels/2025-09-09/

08/02/2025

Note…

Revised date for community pop-up paint class!