Arts
The arts are essential to the quality of life in Frederick. The FWCC Arts Community Service Program allows our members to participate in, promote and support a broad spectrum of activities that enhance the arts. Many of our members also support local arts by attending plays, exhibits, lectures, and concerts as a group.
In partnership with community arts organizations and as a club, we participate in:
We sponsor an annual contest with monetary awards for middle and high school students placing first, second, third and honorable mention. Each year we receive between 90, to over 100 works of art from Frederick County middle and high schools. This year's application and information is found at the bottom of this page. The deadline is December 21, 2020.
In partnership with the Frederick Community College, the student art is on display for the community to enjoy. Our members raise money to provide the monetary awards and to make contributions to district and state youth art.
Maintain a membership in Arts council; help to staff the volunteer coordination booth during the annual 2-day Frederick Festival of the Arts.
Member Projects: Within our club, there are many talented artists and artisans who lend their talents to bettering our community. Recent projects include:
· Painting wine bottles for the state convention
· Crafting handmade products
Contact Debbie Winkles (dwinkles56@gmail.com), Arts Community Projects Manager, for information on how you can become involved.
2020 Youth Art Competition Awards
First Place, Middle School. Glitched, by Celia Tchouaffe, Grade 8, Ballenger Creek MS
In the Word of the Artist
Marcos Posse-Mir, First Place, High School, Drawing and Painting
- My main issue while creating my piece of art was finding a sharp exact knife to cut the cardboard with in the classroom. Getting little details with a broken or dull exacto knife is extremely difficult.
- One of my favorite bands are Queens of the Stone Age and I love their frontman so I decided to draw him.
- I mostly enjoy playing and writing music so most of my visual art will be in the form of videos, album covers, and merch. I would enjoy making visual art for fun to relax but its not really a passion of mine.
Samantha Kohout, First Place, Digital Photography
- Using the smoke-bombs I had bought, I struggled primarily with getting the smoke to flow in the most fluid directions... I was dealing with full clouds of colored smoke getting in the way of my camera setup.
- I am a huge advocate for the arts. Throughout high school I have always been drawn to participating in art extra-curriculars. I have done photography for about six years now. I have participated in color guard and taken photos for band, I participate in drama and tech for the musicals and plays as well as taking pictures for them... I plan to major in either Photography or business in college, as I hope to manage a photography business in the future.
Imani Campbell, 2nd Place, High School Drawing and Painting
- I hadn't worked with pure ink like that in almost two years, having taken graphics courses during my Junior year. So I needed quite a bit of practice and warm ups before I could make the effort to detail my piece.
- When working with ink you have to be careful about just how much ink you use/dont use, since if a value is too light or too dark in the wrong place, it can hurt the piece as a whole. And if you add too much water to an area, the ink can spread a bit too far and provide inaccurate gradients. I had to be extremely careful since I was pretty rusty with that medium.
- I plan on majoring in Graphic Design/Illustration in college for a future career path. I've always been interested in art ... since I was a kid I've found all things "artsy" fascinating.