Art league members are encouraged to produce artwork that represents our town - a rather quite village on Maryland's Eastern Shore. We are a tourist 'destination.' Particularly on summer weekends, the town fills with visitors who come to shop, dine, visit the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and just enjoy walking around a small town. It is one of the few places left where you can ALWAYS see people walking around, holding hands and smiling!
The banner competition has two judges who look at all the entries and choose the ones they think best illustrate life in our small town... and the ones they think will make good banners.
Most of the banners are true works of art - fine art, that is. My entry this year was a little whimsical... more like a cartoon. I did have fun painting it and it makes me smile. I think that I need to have fun with my art - when I get too serious, my work looks labored.
So, here is this year's banner entry... and YES, it was juried in!
It will be hanging on Talbot Street toward to middle of April until sometime in November. All the banners are available as posters for visitors who want to go home with a special remembrance of their trip to St Michaels.
And, another plug... there will be an Art Show and Sale of banner art and more on the last weekend in April - Saturday the 28th - which is Winefest... a time to come to town, sample lots of different wines and BUY ART.
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