New membership processing website! Update your member record, renew your membership, join MAPAPA, participate in MAPAPA blog, post or sign up for events and workshops.   Click here to go to the site | click here for login instructions.

With thanks to our membership for their approval, MAPAPA welcomes a new Board of Directors and Officers for 2008. Click here to see the complete list.

Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts (MHCA) is currently accepting applications for available spaces in its Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program. This program is designed to allow Maryland artists access to affordable studio space while interfacing with the community. Click here for more information and who to contact.

MAPAPA Exhibition at River Farm, headquarters of the American Horticultural Society (AHS), July 2 - August 23, 2008. Click here for more details and list of exhibitors.

Sperlak Show Opens on July 4

Eva Keller Carson exhibition July 15-26 Annapolis

Camille Przewodek paints 2008 California wildfires and presents Aug. 4-8 workshop Easton

New Paint Outs & Events: Paint Herndon, Aug. 29-Sept. 1, and more!

43rd Chadds Ford Art Show - Join the Chadds Ford Art Show on Sept 6 & 7, 2008 for a new and fun experience.

Paint Annapolis 2007- See Paint Annapolis Award Winners | Gallery

Paint Annapolis 2008 will be held September 17 to September 21, 2008. Paint Annapolis 2008 is a juried competition produced by MAPAPA with support from Maryland Hall, the City of Annapolis, and our sponsors. The competition is a city-wide event which in 2008 will include other fine art exhibitions, lectures and demonstrations. Click here for Press Release.

Volunteer Coordinator for Paint Annapolis 2008 needed! Please contact Nancy McCarra at nancymccarra@aol.com if you would like to join in and be the Paint Annapolis 2008 Volunteer Coordinator.

All Member Paint Out & Show – Paint Annapolis 2008 Sept. 18-20 – Concurrent with Paint Annapolis 2008, this year there will be an all-member MAPAPA Paint Out. Members are encouraged to join the Paint Out in historic downtown Annapolis culminating in an all-member exhibition and sale of work in the halls of Maryland Hall. Depending on the number of artists participating, at least one painting per member will be on display. Three works will be selected to hang in the front display case. Work will be up and for sale to the public during the well attended Paint Annapolis Collector’s Preview, the Paint Annapolis reception, and the month that the Paint Annapolis show is on exhibition. For more information contact Eva Carson at evakellercarson@gmail.com or register on http://www.mapapa.shuttlepod.org.

Sept. 27 – Paint Out Plus with instructor Ellen Gavin, Millville, NJ 

Annual Meeting 2007 Review.

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Check out the latest Plein Air Kitty cartoons

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