Labor Day Porch Play!
SEPTEMBER 3 – 6 2021 Bringing Live Music to your Neighborhood! [Please feel free to tip your performers] Schedule (subject to change): *** OLD PARISH HOUSE, 4711 Knox Road, Friday Sept 3, 6- 7:30 pm The Bele Bele Rhythm Collective is an intergenerational group of women from the DMV area who have come together to form a […]
CPAE music groups to restart in September 2021!
College Park Arts Exchange is happy to announce the return of our performing arts groups this fall! CPAE will continue to follow authorities as the pandemic unfolds. College Park Chorale The Chorale is a fun community choir of about 50 adults. We perform a wide variety of choral music at two concerts per year, […]
College Park Porch Fourth!
2021 College Park Porch Fourth! Live Music on Porches around College Park, July 2 – 5 As the world begins to open up, CPAE will continue offering safe, distanced live music performances in outdoor settings. Schedule (subject to change): [Please feel free to tip your performers] *** COLLEGE PARK ESTATES 7401 Radcliffe Drive, […]
Cicada Swarm Art Storm!
CICADA SWARM ART STORM! College Park Arts Exchange is hoping that you will want to celebrate the 17 yr. Cicada with the art of your choice! If you write a song, poem, play, or short story about cicadas, please share with us! If you make a painting, drawing, sculpture, piece of jewelry or fiber art […]
Memorial Day Porch Play
Memorial Day Porch Play! Together! Live!! May 28 – 31 As the world begins to open up, CPAE will continue offering safe, distanced live music performances in outdoor settings. Note that Saturday will feature Plein Air Painting with Racquel Keller at Riversdale House Museum, registration required (info@cpae.org). Rescheduled for next Saturday, June 5. […]
Spring Porch Fling!
Spring Porch Fling! Last year’s outdoor performances were a highlight during a difficult year. Spring is here! and as the world begins to open up, CPAE will continue offering safe, distanced live performances in outdoor settings. Sign up now to host an artist on your porch, during the weekend of April 16, 17, 18. Or, […]
Black History Month: Soul Line Dancing
In the clip featured below, Karen Stewart teaches “My Dream 2021,” a line dance she created for Black History Month. Karen is a talented dancer and choreographer who is currently leading Soul Line Dancing for College Park Arts Exchange every Friday morning from 10 -11 am on Zoom. Email info@cpae.org for a link! Karen […]
Wishes for the New Year
Join CPAE in making Wish Objects for the New Year For many years, my family has had a creative tradition to start off the New Year by making wish objects. Way back in the 1990s, Ruth Blackwell Rogers painted a 220-foot scroll painting (now known as a “crankie”) as her interpretation of the Hopi […]
St. Martin’s Day Lantern Festival
St. Martin’s Day Lantern Festival. For many years, College Park Arts Exchange has sponsored a St. Martin’s Day Lantern Festival as a beloved annual tradition. Volunteer and CPAE board member Birgit Meade has led this craft from her home country of Germany, with traditional songs on her harmonica and lots of German cookies for a […]
November art project: Make a God’s Eye!
November 2020 virtual arts drop-in: God’s Eye Craft One of my favorite fall crafts is the God’s Eye. It is an extremely simple craft, and all you need are two sticks and some yarn. It is a great time of year to go outside and find a nice, smooth, straight stick and break it into […]