Sandbox Initiative

10/13/2017

"The artwork is being dedicated in honor of artist and arts advocate Alex Castro, who broadened Chestertown’s artistic and cultural horizons during his time here as a resident and Washington College faculty member. At the college, Castro lectured in Art and was for several years the director of the Kohl Gallery. Castro was the driving force behind the Sandbox, a creative arts program of Washington College."

The Town of Chestertown and the Chestertown Arts & Entertainment District invite the public to the Saturday, October 14 dedication of the David Hess sculpture Broad Reach, which is being installed in Wilmer Park as the first artwork commissioned under Chestertown’s Public Arts Master Plan. The cerem...

03/14/2017

GREAT FUNDING NEWS FOR BROAD REACH SCULPTURE!!

An anonymous donor has stepped forward with matching funds of up to $20,000 towards the remaining $40,000 needed to construct and install the Broad Reach children’s sculpture at Wilmer Park.

This means that every dollar donated between now and April 30 will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $20,000!

You can donate any amount, either through the Broad Reach GoFundMe page at https://www.gofundme.com/CtownSculpture or by check earmarked “Broad Reach Donation” to the Town of Chestertown, 118 N. Cross Street, Chestertown, MD 21620. Charitable contributions to the Town of Chestertown are tax-deductible under section 170(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Chestertown’s support for the arts hearkens back to 1898, when private funds were raised by the dedicated women of the Ladies Improvement Society to beautify Fountain Park. Central to that effort was the purchase of a fountain by Robert Wood & Co., a Philadelphia based foundry. Inspired by a sculpture by Antonio Canova, the fountain features the goddess H**e, cupbearer of the gods, and has served as a welcoming ambassador to citizens and visitors for nearly twelve decades.

Similarly, Broad Reach will serve as a metaphor for our community’s maritime roots and its flourishing arts scene. It is also the inaugural work initiated by the Chestertown Public Arts Master Plan, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Program.

Broad Reach was designed to provide a welcoming space for young families and visitors to Wilmer Park, and it will serve as a beacon for Chestertown’s vibrant downtown and Arts and Entertainment District.

Stay tuned for details about the unveiling and dedication plans, which are tentatively scheduled for May 2017.

If you value public art, please do your part!

02/24/2017

Exploring the dynamic intersections where land meets water, air meets earth, man meets nature, the built meets the wild, upland reaches lowland and the wood’s edge opens to fields.

12/08/2016

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration continues to buy into the valuable connections between science and art.

This Apple Music original celebrates the space agency’s groundbreaking journey to Jupiter—and the intersection between science and art.

12/02/2016

Hope springs eternal.

It seems the nation’s younger citizens are finally favouring the beauty of the natural world over the...

11/30/2016

Exposure to the arts can have a great deal of impact on how we undertake scientific research. A valuable lesson many still need to understand and embrace.

"My writing teacher was a writer, a composer, a film producer. She was a true artist in every sense. And I’m sure you noticed the connection between the art of writing and the art of doing science, right? Science, including the type of satellite remote sensing at which NASA excels, is based on making detailed observations and allowing those observations to tell their story. NASA spacecraft give us images of glaciers, volcanoes, forests, large cities and sea ice, among other stories of a changing planet. And it’s up to us to see the details in those stories. When the images—the stories—have enough detail, we can interpret them and make meaning out of them."

A dark night brings another sunrise, a winter brings another spring, and a goodbye brings another hello

11/29/2016

An astounding step towards a greener, more artful approach to nature and the future.

The green space would be 12 times the size of New York's Central Park and includes a thousand-acre hardwood forest.

11/29/2016

Due to the loss of our downtown space we will be hosting Nicole Capobianco's series of Eco-Costumes from the recent Washington College production of "Macbeth" outside of Kohl Gallery this First Friday. Cole was the recipient of one of our student/faculty collaborative grants, and traveled to England and Scotland over the summer to research greener methods of costume production.

11/04/2016

Join us tonight for our final First Friday!

11/01/2016

This week SANDBOX and The CV Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and the Concert Series welcome Paul Miller, AKA DJ SPooky! It is also our final first Friday so please come by to see us!

10/26/2016

The Kalmar Nyckel has arrived for the Sultana Education Foundation's Downrigging Weekend! Seen here in front of "River Orrery" by Patti and Dave Hegland, of Hegland Glass and Sculptor Breon Gilleran.