In this workshop, you will create a 4×4″ mosaic with slate and glass. We will discuss contemporary mosaic art, materials and processes, then you will be able to make your own project to take home. All materials, tools and instruction are provided. NO prior mosaic experience needed, but this workshop is also appropriate for mosaic […]

The 2025 Howard County Chinese Cultural Center’s annual event of Multicultural Music Concert will be held this year on May 17, 2025 in HCC Smith Theater featuring renowned ocarina musicians Jingya Liu and Brian Blauch.

This concert of 1950s works highlights post-war America’s musical diversity. Selections from Bernstein’s West Side Story pulse with urban energy, blending jazz, Latin, and classical styles sung by Lourdes Rodriguez and Matthew Hill. Piston’s Symphony No. 4 sheds his usual academic tone for a vibrant tribute to industrial power. In contrast, Oboist Bethany Slater will […]

Hear the heartbeat of classical Argentinian tango channeled by a quintet of top-notch female chamber musicians and their crackerjack bandoneon player. This is tango like you’ve never imagined it: classical chops, jazz harmonies, and intimate arrangements written for the group by outstanding composers in Buenos Aires. Presented by Howard County Concert Odyssey.

Join us in the St. Louis Chapel at 4 p.m. on May 18 for “Concert by Candlelight,” our 2024-25 Season Finale. This performance features an extraordinary lineup of instrumental soloists and fan favorites: Heather Adelsberger (harpsichord), Denis Karp [traverso (flute predecessor) and recorder], John Romano (bass clarinet and recorder), and Eddie Sanders [dulcian (bassoon predecessor)]. […]

Iconic Songwriter and Pianist Ben Folds takes over Merriweather Post Pavilion for a unique one-night-only collaboration, a full length main stage concert with the Howard County Youth Orchestra.

Resident Visual Artist Exhibit 2025 is the Arts Council’s annual showcase of recent work by artists with studios at the Center for the Arts.  The Light Ekphrastic is a non-profit quarterly online journal dedicated to the creation of new written and visual artworks through collaboration between artists. Curated by founder and editor Jenny O’Grady and […]

Artists Gallery’s Featured show for May is “Kaleidoscope” Mixed Media by Amanda Milliner & Kiln Formed Glass by Karen Wallace. The show runs April 30-June 1, 2025 with a reception on Sunday May, 4 from 2-5pm. Gallery Hours: Wednesday 11 to 3 PM, and Thursday, Friday, Saturday , Sunday 11-6pm Artists’ Gallery, 8197 Main Street […]

Brian Ganz is widely regarded as one of the leading pianists of his generation. For many years Mr. Ganz has made it his mission to join vivid music-making with warmth and intimacy onstage to produce a new kind of listening experience, in which great works come to life with authentic emotional power.

Reception time is TBD. Gallery I: Paint It! Ellicott City 2025 Gallery II: No Boundaries On view 6/9-8/2, 2025

30th Anniversary Show & Collectors Night June 4 to June 28, 2025 Reception: Saturday, June 28, 2025, 6:30-8 pm Celebrate 30 years of The Artists’ Gallery! We opened in 1995 in the American City Building on Lake Kittamaqundi in Columbia under the auspices of the Rouse Company, and we moved to historic Ellicott City in […]

Directed by: Jenny Male By: William Shakespeare A hilarious romp through the world of Illyria. Shipwrecked, the quick-witted Viola, disguised in male attire, takes a position with Duke Orsino. She then finds herself at the center of an explosive love triangle in which passion and gender threaten to come undone. Twelfth Night offers us captivating […]