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Exhibits Calendar

The Ward Museum of Wildfowl Arts exhibits calendar is updated regularly. If you would like us to keep you informed about upcoming exhibits, please subscribe to our email newsletter. A complete listing of all Museum sponsored events can be seen on our Program Calendar.

 
Dec2 12/2/2011 10:00 AM - 2/5/2012 5:00 PM Swanfall
Swanfall
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Swans have fascinated humans for centuries; these beautiful and graceful creatures have been cast as central characters in fairy tales and mythology, revered as the vehicles of Hindu deities, and kept as living decorations in the gardens of royalty. Their natural behavior and habitat is equally fascinating; their mating and migratory patterns, species distribution, fossil record, and evolution history are all rich areas of research. This exhibit in the Welcome Gallery will showcase carvings, pai...
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Jan27 1/27/2012 - 4/8/2012 Maryland Masters: Edwin Remsberg’s Portraits of Maryland Traditions
Maryland Masters: Edwin Remsberg’s Portraits of Maryland Traditions
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Maryland Masters: Edwin Remsberg’s Portraits of Maryland Traditions is a collection of images that reveal the unique flavor of Maryland and its distinctive community traditions. These traditions have been handed down from generation to generation, from master to apprentice. Edwin Remsberg, Maryland photographer and Maryland Traditions collaborator since 2008, has captured these rituals in this series of portraits of men and women performing their individual practices, including some of the state...
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Feb10 2/10/2012 - 4/1/2012 Making Her Mark: A Showcase of Women Carvers
Making Her Mark: A Showcase of Women Carvers
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In honor of Women’s History Month, the Ward Museum features an exhibit of carvings by women from the early twentieth century to the present day. Although birdcarving is associated strongly with men, women have been carving since at least the 1920s, when Helen Lay Strong of upstate New York began selling her carvings of miniature waterfowl, songbirds, and dogs. Gladys Black, “the bird lady of Iowa” and an avid conservationist, exhibited a carving in the very first Worlds exhibition by the Ward Fo...
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Apr6 4/6/2012 - 6/10/2012 Art, Children's Literature, and the Environment: Art and Photography from Green Earth Book Awards
Art, Children's Literature, and the Environment: Art and Photography from Green Earth Book Awards
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The Welcome Gallery features an amazing variety of art and photography from scratchboard to watercolors, cartoon art to stop-action photographs, to appeal to environmentalists of all ages. Works by Green Earth Book Award and honor book recipients depict topics as diverse as exploring every child's backyard, the reforestation of Kenya, protecting the tree kangaroos of Papua New Guinea, and the melting ice of the arctic. The Green Earth Book Award (GEBA) was created by the Newton Marasco Foundat...
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Apr13 4/13/2012 - 7/8/2012 Subject to Interpretation
Subject to Interpretation
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In 1987, the Ward World Championship Carving Competition introduced an interpretive category to the lineup of divisions, allowing for carvings that emphasize form, content, and movement over realism. This exhibit features a selection of the wide variety of bird species rendered by artists in ways that provoke thought and wonder.

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Jun15 6/15/2012 - 8/5/2012 Something to Crow About: A Cultural History of the Chicken
Something to Crow About: A Cultural History of the Chicken
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One of the most common and widespread domestic animals, chickens have been providing meat and eggs for humans for at least 5000 years. In fact, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird. From the backyard to the table, chickens have played an important role in the culture of the Eastern Shore for generations. This exhibit in the Welcome Gallery will examine the history of this staple of farm life and traditional foodways through art, archival photographs and ephemera, a...
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Jul13 7/13/2012 - 9/30/2012 The Photography of A. Aubrey Bodine
The Photography of A. Aubrey Bodine
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In photographic circles around the world, A. Aubrey Bodine (1906-1970) was regarded as one of the finest pictorialists of the twentieth century. His pictures were exhibited in hundreds of prestigious shows, in scores of museums, and he won awards against top competition. His photographs were seen in the Sunday Sun, numerous books and magazines, on calendars, as murals, and as framed prints decorating homes. This exhibit, on display in the LaMay Gallery, showcases a selection of Bodine’s work in ...
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