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2025 Jurors Award - Karen Norman, “Livorno”, 2025 OAA Juried Exhibition at The Meeting House Gallery, Columbia, MD
Our Mission
The Olney Art Association (OAA) located in Olney, Maryland, USA, and founded in 1974, is a professional, learning, creative community of visual fine artists whose expertise ranges in a variety of media, such as oil painting, watercolor, acrylics, pastel, colored pencil, pen and ink, printmaking, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, digital art and photography.
OAA Membership Benefits
Olney Art Association has been active for more than 50 years. OAA holds membership meetings on the second Monday evening of January, March, May, July, September and November. Read a brief history of OAA written for OAA’s 40th Anniversary in 2014.
Our meeting location is now The beachKraft Gallery, 18200 Georgia Avenue, Olney, MD, just north of Rte 108. It’s on the 2nd floor of a small mall next door to the Verizon store. If the parking lot is full you can park in the Verizon lot or in the parking lots of the professional offices just north of The beachKraft Gallery’s building,
The membership meetings are informative and include art demonstrations by well-known artists and other presentations aimed at giving the members a wide spectrum of new ideas and motivation for their own work. Among the members of OAA are art teachers, some of whom instruct and hold workshops within Montgomery County. These visual fine artists have a wide range of interests including oil painting, watercolor, acrylics, pastels, printmaking, sculpture, pottery, photography and digital art. We also invite members to demonstrate new methods of making art.
OAA sponsors an annual juried show at various venues and a semi-annual show at Sandy Spring Museum and/or Brookside Gardens.
Members may show one image in the Member Gallery on our website and may also show images of works exhibited in our shows on our website.
OAA cooperates with other art, business and government organizations to provide members opportunities to exhibit at local offices, businesses and public spaces.
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