Registration is open for Project STEAM MD’s - Summer Camp running June 24th - August 2nd in Owings Mills. Students 1st - 5th grades can enjoy camp activities with certified teachers including traditional and digital art, computer science, game design 3D printing, day trips, sculpture, reading comprehension, swimming, fashion, engineering and more.

This weekend - Thurmont - The Maryland Iron Festival - A blacksmithing festival where there will be blacksmithing and casting demonstrations, kids’ activities, historic foods, beer, wine, tours, art, craft and jewelry displays plus live music.

This weekend - Londontown Gardens - Shore Party - Explore the maritime history of the South River with reenactors in costume, boats, and activities for the whole family.Try your hand at rope making and seamanship, learn how sailors lived day to day and experience the art and science of navigation. In the afternoon, there will also be a discussion and demonstrations about 18th century trade with Asia.

This weekend - is the last few days of the Muddy Creek Artists Guild 10th Anniversary Spring Art Show and Sale at South River Colony Main Street Shopping Center - Check out the works of more than 50 local South County artists in a variety of mediums.

Sat - 5/18 - Maggianos in Annapolis - Kids Making Lasagna - Chef Abigail and her team teach kids how to construct a lasagna that you will take home and bake. A breakfast buffet will precede the class. Every class gets your kid points toward their own monogrammed chef coat!

Sat - 5/18 - Truxton Park - National Park Trust’s Kids to Parks Day - Activities including various sports, hiking, fishing, kayaking, archery, wild bird demos, music and more! Organized by Annapolis Recreation and Parks

Sun - 5/19 - Quiet Waters Park Charity Knitting - Third Sunday of every month, this group gathers to knit or crochet baby hats and blankets for the Anne Arundel Medical Center. All skill levels are welcome.

Sun - 5/19 - Chesapeake Beach Railway Museum - Spring Family Fun Day

Sun - 5/19 - Broadneck Park - Kite Festival and Community Picnic - Free kite kits to the first 100 children!

Mon - 5/16 - Davidsonville - The Anne Arundel Amateur Radio Club presents “Planetary Defense at NASA: Finding Near Earth Asteroids Before They Find Us”

Tues - 5/21 - Whole Foods Annapolis - Half Pint Kids Club: No-Bake Pizza Crackers for kids 3-5

Art Farm - Annapolis

Sat - 5/18 - Mother-Daughter Photography Portrait Workshop - Daughters aged 8-13 - Learn the basics of photography, get comfortable behind and in front of the lens, learn about different poses and how to work with your subject from behind the camera. All experience levels welcome.

Wed - Adult Intro to Improv Workshop continues - Learn the fundamentals of improv comedy, experience positive challenges and tons of laughs. Improv is excellent for personal development, thinking on your feet, creative brainstorming, team building and overcoming anxiety

Also registration is open for Art Farm’s Summer Art Camps for children. Camps including street art, animation, fearless photography, mixed media art, painting, drawing, storytelling, circus camp and 3D sculpture camp! Voted best fine arts camp in Annapolis and sibling discounts are available!

Maryland Hall

Now through August 15th - Weather on the Water, an exploration of the conceptual and literal interpretations of this broad subject - f/works by Annapolis Arts Alliance (AAA)

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Sun and Mon - Glass Fusing - Seascape - This class will provide you with everything you need. You will be shown how to cut, break and glue your glass to create your own Seascape!

Benjamin Banneker Museum & Park - Ellicott City

Sat - Snakes in Your Backyard - Frightened of the reptiles that might slither through your yard? Discover how the snakes of Maryland provide important ecosystem services!

Sat - MATTS Speaker Series - The Mid-Atlantic Turtles and Tortoises Society is dedicated to turtle and habitat conservation. Former MATTS VP Keith Kelley will discuss his adventures with turtles in Maryland and Florida

AACPL

Tomorrow - Discoveries: The Library at the Mall - Pirate Storytime

Sat - Mountain Road - Minecraft

Sat - Severna Park - Build a Drone Workshop - This hands-on workshop uses STEM skills to model, build and fly a drone from scratch with a licensed Global Air Media instructor. For ages 11-14, registration is required.

Mon - Severna Park - Book Buddies: Out of Remote Control (data set 7) by Ada Hopper - Read the book then come to the program for a discussion and activity.

Tues - Deale - Dinosaur STEM Storytime - For ages 3-5/students entering kindergarten - Join a paleontologist to learn about dinosaurs through stories, songs and simple preschool science activities

Wed - Crofton - 3D Print Design Class - For elementary school students and adults - Learn 3D design using Tinkercad. The objects you design will be printed after the event. Online registration is required.

Building with LEGO:

Tomorrow 5/17 - Annapolis - LEGO Challenge

Sat - 5/18 - Eastport-Annapolis Neck - Build & Play

Mon - Maryland City at Russett - Building Challenge - LEGOs

Unallocated Space - Severn

Tonight - Infosec night: Introduction to Web App Penetration Testing using Burp and Zap

Mon - Project night

Tues - Software Defined Radio Workshop - Covering the fundamentals of digital signal processing and other other RF or basic electrical engineering concepts

Wed - Lockpicking Workshop - Lockpicking as a sport and hobby is a fun mental exercise and involves manual dexterity and problem solving ability and can be quite competitive

Wed - Open House

Pongos Learning Lab/Coder Kids Club - Crofton

Sat - The Art & Design in Video Games with Tyrone Barnes - Learn the basics of game design and learn how to creative video game characters and environments. This session will also discuss the design of Overwatch

Pongos also has regular little scientist club, game club, builders club, coder kids club, chess club, robotics club and youtube stars & animators clubs.

Patuxent Lapidary Guild

Sun 5/19 - Basic Faceting - Learn how to cut a round gem from a synthetic garnet, including preforming, dopping, cutting and polishing

Annapolis Makerspace

Tomorrow - Game On! - Monthly analog gaming night where Emi will be showing off some of her favorite tabletop games and you can bring your favorites to share as well!

Mon - Electronics Class - This week covering basic electronic components and how everything works together

Tues - Monthly CAD/CAM and CNC w/Autodesk Fusion 360

Wed - Woodworking night

Thurs - Electronics night

Sat - 5/11 - Ellen Moyer Nature Park - Annapolis Maritime Museum is hosting Puddles and Paddles in the Park - Get up close and personal with Back Creek and it’s marine residents! A free family event featuring live music, educational activities for all ages, a food truck and snow cones will be on site as well as an inflatable obstacle course, environmental mosaic project, animal encouters by Scales and Tails as well as kayaking and seining!

Sat - 5/11 - Crofton - Crofton STEAM Festival from 11am-2pm at Crofton Middle School - An afternoon of family STEAM fun, sponsored by the Crofton Middle School PTA. Featuring interactive science, technology, engineering and math demos and activities for kids, STEAM professionals to meet, a STEAM scavenger hunt with awesome prizes, delicious food from local vendors and Annapolis Makerspace as well!

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Now through Sunday - Muddy Creek Artists Guild 10th Anniversary Spring Art Show and Sale at the South River Colony Main Street Shopping Center in Edgewater - Explore unique creations fro more than 50 local South County artists. Mediums include original paintings, pastels, watercolor, photography, stained glass, sculpture, pottery, textiles, jewelry and more!

Now through Sunday - Baltimore - 21st Maryland Film Festival - With over 40 feature films and more than 80 short films. Every year John Waters picks and hosts one of his favorite films of the festival.

Tues 5/14 - Whole Foods Annapolis - Half Pint Kids Club: Cucumber Sandwiches - great for kids ages 3-5

Local by Design

Wed - 5/15 - Beginner’s Watercolor Class with Raye of Light Studio. Learning the basic techniques of watercolor painting painting simple botanical lemons

Maryland Hall

Tonight - Gallery Reception: Featuring Navigation & Making an Impression. Navigation in collaboration with the Maryland Federation of Art and it coincides with the inaugural Maryland Boat Week. Making an Impression is etchings from the AACC print shop. Both shows run now through June 22nd. The reception tonight will feature wine and cheese, Artist in Residence Open Studios and a chance to meet the artists behind their newest exhibitions.

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Tomorrow - Kids Night Out - Incredibles 2 and glass fusing superheroes and eating lots of pizza!

Sunday and Monday - Mad for Mandalas - Learn how to create a beautiful mandala design on pottery, your choice of either a round or square plate.

Tues - Preschool Book Club - Very Hungry Caterpillar, reading the book and painting pottery related to the story

AACPL

Thurs 5/9 - Odenton - Introduction to 3D Printing - Learn the basics of 3D printing using TinkerCadFor adults, For teens

Mon 5/13 - Linthicum - Maker Mondays - Let your creative juices flow with a different STEAM activity each month! - For 'tweens, For teens

Mon 5/13 - Severna Park - Minecraft Club - Experienced builders and first-time players are welcome to come play in the world of Minecraft - For 'tweens, For teens

Tues 5/14 - Odenton - STEAM Tuesdays - Let your creative juices flow with a different STEAM activity each month! - For 'tweens, For teens

Tues 5/14 - 6:00 PM - Odenton - Chemistry Lab - Learn chemistry concepts through hands-on experiments. Materials contain allergens such as milk - For elementary school students

Unallocated Space - Severn

Tomorrow 5/10 - Defcon Group Hacker Hangout - a study group focusing on information security topics with hands on activities

Sun 5/12 - Analog Gaming Sunday - non-video gaming featuring games like Settlers of Catan,Munchkin and more

Mon 5/13 - Project Night

Tues 5/14 - Stanford Crypto 1 Study Group - Conquer the math and mystery of Cryptography through puzzles and cyphers. Break down nerdy concepts into everyday concepts.

Wed 5/15 - Weekly Open House

Patuxent Lapidary Guild

Sat - 5/11 - Beginning Silversmithing Class - No silversmithing experience required.. This class is for beginners or a refresher for previous students. Students will make one bezel set stone pendant with a bail. Students either need to bring one small to medium cabachon for the class, or they can purchase one at the class.

Annapolis Makerspace

Tues - So Sew - Sewing workshop

Wed - Woodworking night

Thurs - Electronics night

Today 5/2 - Maryland Hall - Making an Impression: Etchings from the Anne Arundel Community College Print Shop

Sat - Hammond Harwood House and Chase Lloyd downtown Annapolis - Derby Fest: Celebrate the History of Horse Racing in Annapolis - Watch the Kentucky Derby, enjoy mint juleps, beer, wine, food, games and more.

Sat 5/4 - American Visionary Art Museum - Baltimore - 21st Annual Kinetic Sculpture Race - A race of wacky, imaginative, totally human powered, works of art.. Traveling on land, through mud and over the waters of the inner harbor.

Sun 5/5 - Inaugural First Sunday Arts Festival of 2019! Head down and support the fabulous arts district with over 130 artists and vendors and great live entertainment!

Sun 5/5 - Made in Maryland Festival - Kurtz’s Beach - Pasadena - Celebrating all things Maryland! The only completely Maryland-themed festival, it features live music, local wineries, breweries, food vendors and more, including live jousting!

Sun 5/5 - AACo ASPCA Walk for the Animals at Quiet Waters Park - Take a stroll in the park, help raise money for the SPCA, check out the vendors, check out the Cars & Critters car show and check out the K9 Demo and Agility Yard!

Mon 5/6 - Annapolis Quilt Guild has their Guild Meeting on the first Monday of each month at the St Philips Episcopal Church on Bestgate Rd

Tue - 5/7 - Whole Foods Annapolis - Half Pint Kids Club: Breakfast on a Stick for kids 3-5. Learn how to make a delicious snack using all natural ingredients!

Wed - 5/8 - Annapolis Watercolor Club - Monthly general meeting at Maryland Hall

Art Farm - Annapolis

Tue - 5/7 - What’s Dope open mic night

Still a few more dates left in their Spring semester, classes including Sketchbooking, Art Discovery, Mixed Media Art, Cartooning as well as a few dates left in their Clown School at Art Farm

GEMS - Girls Excelling in Math and Science

Sat 5/4 - STEM Saturday Academy - New Carrollton Branch Library - Exploring STEM through fun hands on activities

Pongos Learning Lab/Coder Kids Club - Crofton

Sat 5/4 - The Art & Design in Video Games with artist Tyrone Barnes - Bread down the basics of game design and learn how to create video game characters and their environments

Pongos also has their regular weekday theme nights as well as their daily Little Scientists club to check out!

Annapolis Makerspace

Tues - Monthly Fusion 360 CAD night
Wed - Woodworking night
Thurs - Electronics night

Now through end of September - Brookside Gardens - Wheaton - Wings of Fancy: Live Butterfly & Caterpillar Exhibit - Interact with hundreds of native and exotic butterflies from North America, Costa Rica, Africa and Asia

Today - Newks Eatery in Annapolis - Artist Jenn Moselen will be showing you know to create a Bottle Cap Anchor Plaque, creating an anchor themed wall hanging out of bottle caps!

Tomorrow through Sunday - 7th Annual AwesomeCon - DC Convention Center - The Mid-Atlantic’s premier pop culture convention attended by over 80k fans of comics, technology, science, TV and film! There’s hundreds of hours of programming including celebrities and experts, exclusive reveals, cosplay fashion shows, gaming tournaments as well as their family friendly Awesome Con Jr pavilion. Returning this year is the Smithsonian presenting FutureCon, a science pavilion showcasing the intersection of science and science-fiction. Also back is Pride Alley presented by Geek OUT and Washington Blade, shining a spotlight on LGBTQ creators and fans. Something for everyone!

Sat - National Electronics Museum in Linthicum, near BWI - RobotFest - An annual event for anyone interested in the creative use of technology. Featuring roboticists, hackers, artists, hobbyists and makers of any age. So many cool things to see in the museum as well as the guest organizations for Robotfest

Sat - Quiet Waters Park Earth Day Festival - starting with the Annual Run for Nature 5K, the event will also feature live music, food trucks, vendors and a guided kayak tour!

Sat - Bacon Ridge Natural Area in Crownsville - 14th Annual Walk in the Woods sponsored by the Scenic Rivers Land Trust and the AACo Dept of Recreation and PArks. Explore the beautiful Bacon Ridge area, enjoying a variety of guided hikes including bird watching, amphibian searches and naturalist hikes scheduled throughout the day.

Sun - Hancock’s Resolution farmhouse in Gibson Island - Spring Farm Festival - Featuring the oldest grove of lilacs open to the public in AACo. The festival will feature farm animals typical of a working farm, folk music, crafts, beekeeping demonstrations and more.

Sun - Maryland Ave, downtown Annapolis - Maryland Avenue Earth Day Spring Fest - Enjoy an old fashioned street festival with green exhibitors, merchants and vendors offering art, antiques, jewelry, fashion, home decor, crafts, food and activities for the entire family.

Tue morning - Whole Foods in Annapolis - Every Tuesday, Whole Foods has a HalfPint Kids Club culinary or craft workshop and this week is Banana Sushi for ages 3-5. Also check out their semi regular Wednesday night food fitness classes and Friday night general cooking classes like Designer Pasta and Pasta Sauces tomorrow night!

Wed - 5/1 is May Day! Celebrate with the 63rd annual May Day Basket Competition sponsored by the Garden Club of Old Annapolis Town.

Local by Design

Today - Rustic Signs with Cricket Studio

Wed - Zentangle - An easy to learn drawing technique that inspires creativity and develops mindfulness

Art Farm - Annapolis

Tomorrow - Woodburning Workshop - Learn the techniques of pyrography, the art of drawing with fire.

Wednesday - six week Intro to Improv Class starts

There’s also a few of their Spring Semester classes you can drop in on..

Sunday night Clown School
Monday night Sketchbooking for ages 11-15
Tuesday night Art Discovery for ages 5-7
Wednesday night Mixed Media for ages 8-11
Thursday night Cartooning for ages 11-15

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Tonight - Glass Enamel Painting - Putting April Flowers on stemmed or stemless wine glasses, beer steins, pint glasses and mason jars!

Benjamin Banneker Museum & Park - Ellicott City

Sat - Moss Workshop - On the lsat Saturday of each month, they take a closer look at a moss or two and identify them!

AACPL

Today - Deale - Coding Club - Teaching kids how to program using the simple drag and drop programming language, Scratch

Sat - Eastport Annapolis Neck Library - Taste the Rainbow - Bring the little ones, ages 2-6, to play games and learn about healthy eating. Each child will have an opportunity to taste colorful fruits and vegetables!

Today - Maryland City at Russett - Storytime Goes STEM

Today - Linthicum - Build & Play - Legos

Wednesday - Linthicum - Chess Club

Patuxent Lapidary Guild

Sunday - Earleigh Heights Fire Dept - Severna Park - Patuxent Lapidary Guild annual Gem, Jewelry, Fossil and Mineral Show - See what some of their members have created and see what you could learn how to do yourself at PLG

Sat 4/20 - Londontown Garden - Spring Plant Sale - Their annual plant sale returns featuring an emphasis on plans found in London Town’s horticultural collections.

Art Farm - Annapolis

Sun - The Clown School at Art Farm

Still a few more classes left in their Spring Session:

Thursdays - Cartooning for ages 11-15
Mondays - Sketchbooking for ages 11-15
Tuesdays - Art discovery for ages 5-7
Wednesdays - Mix Media Art for ages 8-11

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

A few Spring Flint workshops for the kids… ages 6-13 should check out today’s Handbuilding Clay workshop making Elephant Wall Vases…

… tomorrow’s Glass Fusing workshop making a Spring Flower Bowl..

… or Monday’s Canvas workshop making a Boots Bouquet

.. and for adults, tomorrow they’re doing Glass Enamel Painting making April Flowers

AACPL

Today - Annapolis (temp capital drive) - LEGO Imagination Station

Sat - Mountain Rd - building with Minecraft

Sat - Odenton - Build & Play with LEGOs

Sat - Crofton - celebrating Earth Day - Join local Master Watershed Stewards for fun activities for the whole family including storytime, games, arts and crafts, water explorations and the interactive murder mystery “Who Killed Rocky Rock Fish?”

Pongos Learning Lab/Coder Kids Club - Crofton

Weekdays - Little Scientists Club for ages 3-6 with adult - Kids explore chemistry, physics, biology, earth science and more..

Tonight - Robotics Club Thursday Night
Tomorrow - More Little Scientists and Friday night Gamer Night
Mon - LEGO Club
Tues - Coder Kids Club and Chess Club
Wed Morning - Preschool robotics Club
Wed - YouTube Stars & Animators Club

Annapolis Makerspace

Fri - Game On! Analog Game Night! - Come and check out some fun and unique board and card games, bring your favorite or play what we got.

Tues - 4/23 - Monthly General Meeting and Open House

CHANGE: WEDNESDAYs are now our official Woodworking Night - If you want to get into woodworking or want to pick someone’s brain on a project you’re working on, drop by on Mondays to meet other local woodworkers.

Thurs - Electronics Night - Discussing electronics, microcontrollers and single board computers like the Raspberry Pi

Today - 4/11 - Creative and Performing Arts of South County in Edgewater is having a Portrait Workshop - Exploring the basics of creating naturalistic portraits as well as drawing from observation. No experience required, just bring a photo to work off of, headshots only.

Sat 4/13 - Maggiano’s Annapolis Mall - Kids Class - Meatballs Marinara - Kids will learn how to build their own meatballs and marinara sauce. Kids will receive their own chef hat and apron that they can take home with them. Class is preceded by a buffet style breakfast and the bar will be open with $2 mimosas and $5 bloody marys for mom and dad. After 8 classes, the kids will receive a monogrammed chef coat!

Sat 4/13 - Howard Community College - GreenFest 2019 - f/ Green vendors, DIY workshops, kids activities, native plant sale. Green building tours, wildlife exhibits, rain barrel giveaways and more

Sat 4/13 - Beverly Triton Nature Park - i-Naturalist Hike - Join one of their rangers for a short hike and introduction to the i-Naturalist phone app which lets you take photos of things in nature to help build a global database of environmental observations. Bring an iPhone or Android phone and shoes you don’t mind getting muddy.

Tomorrow through April 23 - Westminster - PEEP Show - 12th annual display of marshmallow masterpieces with more than 150 exhibits including sculptures, dioramas, oversized characters and more inspired by Peeps!

Local by Design

Sat 4/13 - Cherry Blossoms in Watercolor

Art Farm - Annapolis

New location! Off of Chinquapin Round Road

Sat 4/13 - Ukrainian Egg Decorating - Create a beautiful egg in the time-honored Ukrainian tradition of Pysanky, a symbolic piece of art to invoke a new world vision!

Also check out their various ongoing art classes in mixed media, cartooning, adult drawing and sketchbooking as well as their kids spring semester classes.

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Fr 4/12i - Kids Night Out: Peter Rabbit

Sun 4/14 - Wet Clay - Making handmade ceramic Tick Tock Clocks, a clock face made from wet ceramic with real working clock hands.

GEMS - girls excelling in math and sciencehttps://gemspgcounty.org/

Sat 4/13 - STEM Saturday Academy at the New Carrollton Branch Library - Exploring STEM through hands on activities. Breakfast and lunch provided. Register today at gemspgcounty.org

AACPL

Sat 4/13 - Riviera Beach - Build a Fairy/Gnome House - Use natural and recycled materials to build a fairy or gnome house for your garden.

Annapolis Makerspace

Tues - CAD/CAM and CNC with Autodesk Fusion 360

NEW! WEDNESDAYs are official Woodworking night - If you want to get into woodworking or want to pick someone’s brain on a project you’re working on, drop by on Mondays to meet other local woodworkers.

Thurs - Electronics Night

4/6 - Annapolis Book Festival - In it’s 17th year, the Book Festival has become one of the premier community events in the region! Every year, more than 3k people attend this free community festival that celebrates the written word!

Going on now through May 17th - Quiet Waters Park - Creative Odyssey - featuring three location artists from the Caring Collection Inc, showing off their wood turnings, photography and stained glass.

Various dates in April, now through April 21st - Londontown Gardens is hosting Escape London Town: Ferguson Tavern! - The year is 1763, you wake to find yourself locked in the tavern with your things missing. Your ship leaves in one hour. Can you make it out in time? This unique escape room puts you not just in a puzzle to solve, but back in time!

Chesapeake Maritime Museum - St Michaels

Exhibition optioning Sat 4/6 - Beach Finds of the Chesapeake - Explores a sampling of the different types of finds discovered by those who seek to preserve the history of the region by collecting fragments of the past. From shark’s teeth and 20 million year old fossils to Victorian doll parks, to modern plastic toys and marine debris. The bay holds history, treatures and trash alike to be discovered by beachcombers.

4/6-4/7 - 8th Annual Eastern Shore Seaglass Festival - returns with a larger waterfront location at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. Featuring over 70 artisans exhibiting and selling coasting and sea glass related jewelry, home decor, art and more. Including live museum, food and libations.

Wed 4/10 - Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum - Bronze Casting Workshop - Learn about bronze and aluminum casting, creating wood, foam or wax molds, working with sand and furnace and pouring molten metal. Also learn about lost wax or investment casting and more traditional green sand techniques.

Kinder Farm Park - Millersville

Sun 4/7 - Watch Chesapeake Forge Blacksmith Guild members work on forging metal, a trade that is over 100 years old but still alive today.

Mon 4/8 - Chesapeake Forge Blacksmith Guild Meeting - the CFBG meets every Monday night. Members learn and practice new techniques as they work on their projects.

Wed 4/10 - Sawmill Workshop - Weather permitting, Kinder Farm Park’s own Sawmill Club will be running logs through the mill!

Local by Design

Sat 4/6 - Rustic Signs w/Cricket Studio - Jode from Cricket Studio shows you how to paint, stain and stencil your own wood sign

Sun 4/7 - Fused Glass Seahorse or Mermaid Class - Create your own seahorse or mermaid hanging ornament!

Maryland Hall

Sat 4/6 - Sip and Carve with Anita Hagan - One time block carving and printing workshop

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Tonight - Ladies Night
Tues 4/9 - Preschool book club - The Tale of Peter Rabbit

AACPL

Tomorrow 4.5 - Discoveries: Library at the Mall - Grow & Learn - Join the library for a storytime to find out how plants grow and plant a seed of your own! For ages 3 - 5.

Sat 4/6 - Deale - Accessible STEAM: WiggleBots - Make a creature that movies using a battery and motor that vibrates. This program helps children expore STEAM using accessible design, especially good for those with visual disabilities.

Sat 4/6 - Severn - Little Robots Story Time - Using Cubetto, a friendly wooden robot, your child will learn the basics of computer programming through screen-free, hands-on play

Tues 4/9 - Deale - Earth Day STEM Storytime

Tues 4/9 - DIY 3D Puffy Paint - Create puffy paint with ingredients found in your pantry!

Wed 4/10 - SoCoGrow - featuring Homestead Gardens’ Heather Wheatley, discussing sustainable growing techniques in Franche. Learn how planting for the long-term will help nurture birds and other wildlife for years to come!

Pongos Learning Lab/Coder Kids Club - Crofton

Tonight - Thursday night Robotics Club
Tomorrow - Friday night Gamer club
Sat/Sun - Adults only game night
Mon - Monday night LEGO Club
Tues - Tuesday night Coder Kids Club
Wed - Wednesday night YouTube Stars & Animators Club

Patuxent Lapidary Guild

Sat 4/6 - Beginning Fold forming or Fold Form Cuff - First time students will make 6 projects of sample styles, earrings and a bracelet with copper by hammering and forming. Some silversmithing experience is helpful but not required.   EVENT CANCELLED

Annapolis Makerspace

Tues - 4/9 - So Sew! - Our monthly sewing workshop!

Sun 3/31 - Maryland Day was March 25th but you can still Maryland Day: Experience It! With Historic Annapolis - Enjoy a guided tour of the William Paca House for just $1 and explore Mr Paca’s 2 acre garden.

Maryland Hall

Sat/Sun 3/30-3/31 - BIG INK - large scale woodblock print show, Maryland Hall - Eact artist features has carved a large scale woodblock from 2ft x 4ft up to almost 4ft x 8ft to make a print with.

Sun 3/31 - Free ArtFest - Maryland Hall - A day of creativity featuring art demonstrations, music recitals, dance performances, exhibitions, hands on activities and children’s crafts.. Capped off with a concert performed by the Naval Academy Band! The free open house showcases the arts at Maryland Hall like no other single day, attracting over 1,000 people of all ages!

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Sun 3/31 - Techniques Workshop: Silkscreening for pottery

AACPL

Today 3/28 - Deale - Coding Club - Teaching kids how to program using the Scratch programming language to create video games, animations and interactive stories

Today 3/28 - Crofton - Women in STEM continues featuring more women presenting accounts of how STEM have impacted their lives

Wed 4/3 - Pollution Solutions for the Chesapeake: Your Landscape Matters - Alison Milligan, a master watershed steward, will discuss the impact of stormwater on our communities and explore how your actions and native plant selections can reduce pollution in the bay.

Also don’t miss their Storytime Goes STEM, Maker Mondays, STEAM Tuesdays, Chess Club as well as various Build & Play with Legos and Minecraft days.

Annapolis Makerspace

Tues - Monthly Fusion 360 3D Design workshop with Russ

Today through Sunday (3/21-3/24) -7th Annual Annapolis Film Festival. Every year it seems to get bigger and bigger. This year it features 70+ films on a variety of subjects. One, in particular, that caught my eye was “General Magic”, a film about the Silicon Valley company that developed many of the precursors to the technology we use every day. Without the work of General Magic, we may not have the smartphones we all enjoy today. That’s playing at St Johns’ Key Auditorium on Saturday, but check out all the other great films including "The Public", the film starring Emilio Estevez, Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater about rebellious librarians turning the Cincinnati Public Library into an impromptu homeless shelter during one of the most brutal cold snaps in Cincinnati history as well as "Villains", a dark comedy starring Kyra Sedgwick, Jeffrey Donovan and Bill Skarsgard.

Tomorrow through Sunday - Hunt Valley - Unpub 9 - Unpublished Games Festival

Registration is open for Project STEAM MD Summer Camp 2019 in Owings Mills for students in 1st through 5th grades. Camp activities include Minecraft, Traditional and Digital Art, Computer Science, Game Design, 3D Printing, Day Trips, Sculpture, Swimming, and more

Local by Design

Sat 3/23 - Annapolis Mall - Zentangle - Discover an easy to learn drawing technique that inspires creativity and develops mindfulness. Combine simple repetitive drawing strokes into “tangles” to create beautiful, personalized patterns.

Art Farm - Annapolis

Tonight - 3/21 - Foundations of Photography Workshop

Tues 3/26 - First night of a 4 week Adult Drawing Class

Clay Bakers - Annapolis

Wed - 3/27 - Technique Workshop - Silkscreens Applied to Pottery

AACPL

Today - Crofton - Women in STEM - continues in this series showcasing women from all walks of life presenting accounts of how STEM has impacted their lives.

Wed - Discoveries: The Library at the Mall - Challenge the STEM Midshipmen in STEM strategy games and activities to hone your critical thinking and hands on skills.

Annapolis Makerspace

Tues - Monthly general meeting/open house - A great time to come out and check out the shop and meet some of our members.

Sat 3/16 - Brain Awareness Day at the Medical Museum in Silver Spring - Explore the exciting world of neuroscience with brain scientists, researchers, clinicians and museum educators and enjoy interactive demonstrations and exhibits about the brain.

Sat 3/16 - Arduino Day 2019 - Arduinos are a type of microcontroller.. Like a mini-computer, but it only runs one program. Come on out on Thursday nights for our electronics night and we can show you what Arduinos and other similar boards can do!

Tues/Wed (3/19-3/20) - Oregon Ridge Nature Center - Amphibian Walk - Join a naturalist in the wetlands of Oregon ridge to listen for the calls of frogs and toads. Learn what each sounds like, why they call and where they live and also learn about FrogWatchUSA’s monitor effort.

Now through April 22 at Annmarie Sculpture Garden in Solomons - Annmarie’s Salon des Refuses: A Last Chance Show and Sale - Modeled after the Parisian Salon of 1862, this is an ‘exhibition of rejects’ that includes works that have previously been turned down by a gallery or show, or just haven’t sold.

Local by Design

Today 3/14 - Beginner’s Watercolor Class - Raye of Light Studio will be teaching the bsaic techniques of watercolor painting painting simple botanical lemons

Wed 3/20 - Watering Can Decorative Painting Class - Get into the Spring spirit and discover simple paint strokes to create your own cherry blossom watering can

Art Farm - Annapolis

Tonight 3/14 - MAKE IT: Macrame Wall Hanging - In this workshop, you’ll follow along step by step and learn three basic macrame knot techniques to make your own macrame wall hanging designed just for this workshop.

AACPL

Today - Maryland City at Russett - Virtual Reality Adventures - Teens - Exploring virtual reality games

Today - Crofton - Women in STEM - The library’s mission is “Educate, Enrich, Inspire”. This series showcases women from all walks of life presenting accounts of how STEM has impacted their lives

Tues - Deale - Coding w/Ozobots - Meet the ozobot and learn some new coding skills! For elementary school students and teens

Wed - Odenton - Create in 3D - Anne Arundel Community College presents a variety of ways 3D printing is used. Explore Odenton Library’s new Creation Station as well! There’s limited seating and registration is required. Part of the Adulting 101 series for teens.

Tomorrow - Annapolis - LEGO Challenge
Sat - Eastport Annapolis Neck - Build & Play
Sat - Odenton - Build & Play

Annapolis Makerspace

Fri/Tomorrow - Game On! - Analog gaming night!

Sat - Spring Fling and Open House! - Noon to 4pm (afternoon) come out and meet our members and check out the shop. See and hear about some of the projects people have worked on and what they love about Annapolis Makerspace!

Mon - Fundraiser at BGR! - Mention Annapolis Makerspace when you stop by BGR their tasty burgers and milkshakes and we’ll get 20% of your tab then drop by Annapolis Makerspace for our woodworking night and open house!

Tues - Monthly CAD/CAM and CNC - If you’re interested in CNC routing like