Programs and Activities
Learning Lunches
The women of the Frederick Art Club meet the second Thursday of the month from September through December and March through May at the Delaplaine Art Center in Frederick. Each meeting starts with lunch and is followed by a program on topics ranging from art in architecture and storytelling to historic preservation and landscape design. We welcome summer in June with a casual get-together strictly for pleasure and also hold social events throughout the year. Find out how to join!
Art Advocacy
The club has always advocated for the arts. In 2018 the club launched a public art endeavor to honor fashion designer and Frederick, Maryland, native Claire McCardell (1905-1958). Credited with inventing American sportswear, McCardell masterminded innovative fashions that have uniquely defined decades of American fashion. The Claire McCardell Project involved creation of a bronze statue of the designer by member/sculptor Sarah Hempel Irani. Claire's likeness was unveiled in Carroll Creek Linear Park in downtown Frederick, Maryland, in October 2021, where it now presides over an elegant garden.
Broadening Our Knowledge
Club members can enjoy informative field trips each fall and spring to museums, gardens, historic sites, and other places of artistic interest. Coach travel makes the trips convenient and comfortable. We pause for lunch midday. And tickets are reasonably priced. Among the sites we've visited:
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The New Barnes Foundation Museum, Philadelphia
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The Philadelphia Museum of the Arts, Philadelphia
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The Phillips Gallery, Washington, DC
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Winterthur Museum, Delaware
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National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
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Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
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American Visionary Museum, Baltimore
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Hillwood Mansion and Gardens, Washington, DC.
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National Museum of African American Culture and Arts, Washington, DC
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Glenstone Museum, Potomac, MD
