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The Howard County Arts Council (HCAC) is currently accepting applications for Camp Volunteers (unpaid) for its 2013 Visual and Performing Arts Summer Camps. Downloadable applications are available on the “Getting Involved” page of HCAC’s website at www.hocoarts.org.…

Perhaps your skinny jeans are calling.  Or maybe you’d just like to crank out a lot of exercise on a spring morning along with hundreds of others. 

Whatever your motive, you are invited to strap on your running shoes and join Glen Mar United Methodist Church’s first Family 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, April 20. The course will start and end at Glen Mar.  The running/walking will start at 9 a.m. so it would be a good idea to settle in well before area streets are closed.  Don’t sweat the…

Tickets are available for Howard County’s signature event, Celebration of the Arts in Howard County, on Saturday, March 23, 2013 at the Peter and Elizabeth Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD. Tickets can be purchased via…

The Howard County Arts Council will honor its 2012 Howie Award winners at the 16^th Annual Celebration of the Arts on Saturday, March 23, 2013, at the Peter and Elizabeth Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD.  The Celebration gala gives members of Howard County’s arts, education, government, and business communities the opportunity to gather to honor individuals and businesses that have made significant…

The Howard County Arts Council (HCAC) is currently accepting applications for its FY14 Community Arts Development Grant Program. The Community Arts Development Grant Program funds day-to-day activities for county arts organizations, as well as arts-related projects for new arts organizations or non-arts groups.

In an effort to streamline the grants process and make it more convenient for applicants, HCAC has transitioned to a web-based online grant application system. Applicants…

The Howard County Arts Council, in its 32nd year of service to the public of Howard County, presents the 16^th Annual Celebration of the Arts in Howard County on Saturday, March 23, 2013 at the Peter and Elizabeth Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center, Howard Community College (HCC), Columbia, MD. Dr. Kathleen Hetherington, President of HCC, will serve as Honorary Chair.  Richard W. Story, Senior Vice President for Marketing, JPB Enterprises, Inc. will emcee the…

The Howard County Arts Council continues its ongoing drop-in portrait sessions at The Howard County Center for the Arts. The sessions consist of a single pose with the same model over multiple weeks for detailed figure-study work.  A monitor coordinates all sessions, however,…

The Arts Council is looking for volunteers to assist with the Celebration of the Arts in Howard County gala, to be held on Saturday, March 23, 2013 at the Peter & Elizabeth Horowitz Visual & Performing Arts Center at Howard Community College. Help is…

Laurel, Maryland…Laurel, Maryland had at least two Civil War hospitals. A flood washed away a railroad bridge and the soldier guarding it.  Between 1861-1865 at least 10 different units of Union Civil War soldiers from New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, and Michigan camped around what is now the American Legion…

The Howard County chapter of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) will host Jazz Night featuring Columbia Jazz Combo on Friday, March 8th, at Ten Oaks Ballroom, 5000 Signal Bell Lane, Clarksville, MD 21029. This exciting evening of music will begin at 7:00 p.m. with a silent auction.

Advance tickets may be purchased for $35 for an individual, $60 for a couple or $300 for a table of 10 at…

Tickets are now available for Howard County’s signature arts event, Celebration of the Arts in Howard County, on Saturday, March 23, 2013 at the Peter and Elizabeth Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD.

Tickets are $100 and $50 online at  http://www.hocoarts.org/celebration_of_the_arts.php, by phone at 410-313-ARTS (2787), or in the office…

The Howard County Arts Council (HCAC) is currently accepting applications for Camp Assistants (paid) and Camp Volunteers (unpaid) for its 2013 Visual and Performing Arts Summer Camps. Downloadable applications are available on the “Getting Involved” page of HCAC’s website at www.hocoarts.org.

Duties of the Assistant and Volunteer positions include preparing classrooms and materials for the day’s activities, supervising campers in art-related…

Registration has begun for visual and performing arts summer programs at the Howard County Arts Council (HCAC) in Ellicott City.  Programs are open to the public, regardless of residency in Howard County, for students entering grades K-7.  Campers must be at least 5 years of age by September 1, 2013 to…

The Howard County Arts Council is pleased to announce that seven Baltimore City organizations have been awarded grants through the new Outreach Howard Grant Program. A total of $30,000 was awarded.  Outreach Howard was established to encourage recipients of the Arts Council’s Baltimore City Arts and Cultural grants to extend the reach of their programs directly to Howard County residents by producing an arts and/or cultural activity at a location in Howard…

The Howard County Arts Council, in its 32^nd year of service to the public of Howard County, presents the 16^th Annual Celebration of the Arts in Howard County on Saturday, March 23, 2013 at the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center at Howard Community College (HCC) in Columbia. HCC President Dr. Kathleen Hetherington will serve as Honorary Chair and Richard W. Story, Director of Marketing at JPB Enterprises will emcee the event.

The…

ELLICOTT CITY, MD — Howard County Arts Council (HCAC) is pleased to announce the 12 sites and sculptures selected for ARTsites 2013, its second public art initiative in Howard County, MD. The sculptures will be installed in April 2013 and will remain in place for one year.

About ARTsites:

ARTsites 2013 is a year-long outdoor public art exhibit that will take place at 12 sites throughout Howard County. The goal of ARTsites 2013 is to place…

Registration has begun for Howard County Arts Council’s (HCAC) winter educational programs at the Howard County Center for the Arts in Ellicott City. HCAC  offers classes and workshops for ages five to adult. Winter arts programs, open to the public, begin January 28. Classes range in duration from six to eight weeks.…

 With all due respect to jolly old Santa Claus and the attention he garners during the holiday season, Glen Mar United Methodist Church will focus on the true meaning of Christmas at its annual Walk to Bethlehem on Nov. 30, Dec. 1 and 2. 

The community is welcome to drop in…

Symphony of Lights, a 20-minute drive-through spectacle of more than 70 larger-than-life holiday light displays benefiting Howard County General Hospital, will open nightly this year from 6 to 10 p.m. starting Nov. 19 through Jan. 6, 2013, but is closed Dec. 31 for the Midnight at 7 event. The display is located in Symphony Woods off Broken Land Parkway in Columbia, Md.

Symphony of Lights, which attracts more than 100,000 visitors each year, offers a series of animated and stationary…