Concerts, Lectures & Community Days

Viking Day 

Date:  Saturday, June 10, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Bring the whole family for a day of art and activities inspired by our exhibition Landscapes & Legends of Norway. This free community celebration features axe throwing, live music and drop-in art activities for kids. Free.


 

Hiroya Tsukamoto

Date:  Saturday, Sept. 9,  4 to 6 p.m.

Cost: $15 members, $20 general public

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Hiroya Tsukamoto is an innovative acoustic guitarist and composer. Born and raised in Japan, in 2000 he received a scholarship to Berklee College of music and came to the U.S.

Tsukamoto’s instrumental abilities are indeed breathtaking and astounding, but his performances are so much more than that.  He has the unique capability of engaging an audience thru a personable and genuine approach that transfixes his audience and almost transcends his capabilities as a guitarist. Audience members will be mesmerized; Tsukamoto plays with effortless skill on the guitar and he will share different compositions inspired by lands, forests and cultures.

This concert, Sounds of a Landscape, is inspired by our exhibition, Landscape & Legends of Norway:  William Singer & His Contemporaries.

Tsukamoto headlines concerts throughout the U.S. as well as internationally, including Blue Note in NYC, United Nations and Japanese National Television (NHK). Most recently, Hiroya won second place in International Finger Style Guitar Championship in 2022.

 


Hiroya Tsukamoto


 


Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson discusses Hidden History of Claire McCardell:
Modern Design and the Birth of American Fashion

Date:  Thursday, Sept. 14, 5:30 pm.

Cost: $8 museum members, $10 general public

Profile View of Claire McCardell, 1958 photograph by Louis Dahl-Wolfe. Courtesy of the Maryland Center for History and Culture, PP238.06.003

Profile View of Claire McCardell, 1958 photograph by Louis Dahl-Wolfe. Courtesy of the Maryland Center for History and Culture, PP238.06.003

Join author Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson Thursday, Sept. 14, at 5:30 p.m. as she discusses “The Hidden History of Claire McCardell: Modern Design and the Birth of American Fashion” at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. Frederick native McCardell was a trailblazing fashion designer who made revolutionary designs that helped women live independent lives. From the 1930s through the 1950s, McCardell pioneered ingenious new designs — from separates to ballet flats to leggings—that remain staples of our wardrobes today. Dickinson is currently writing a book about McCardell, who helped invent American fashion and forever changed how we dress. Free. To register, contact Donna Rastelli at 301-739-5727 or drastelli@wcmfa.org.


Hidden History of Claire McCardell