The Chesapeake Bay town of Rock Hall, located in Kent County, MD is well known as a bay community with long ties to commercial fishing and more recently as a haven for boaters. But in a way it has also become an art town. Presently Main Street Rock Hall has invited photographers to display their photos showing the character of the town in storefront windows on Main Street. They call it Rock Hall Reflections.
I am one of the photographers (see photo above). The window displays will be in place until October 19, 2020. The photographs in my window display are available for purchase.
This is not the only art you can see on Rock Hall’s Main Street. A couple of years ago Main Street Rock Hall commissioned three murals. These murals can be found on the Main Street wall of Bayside Foods, the rear entrance to the Mainstay and on the rear of Java Rock.
Chestertown artist Ken Castelli’s mural at Bayside Foods mural depicting the lives and traditions of Chesapeake Bay watermen who continue to ply their trade and have played a significant role in shaping Rock Hall;
Wye River Upper School (in Centreville) Art Teacher Katie Lillard and Language Teacher Karen Gilbert, in consultation with Hagopian Arts on the back wall of the Mainstay to depict the natural resources of the Chesapeake Bay. Plants, fish and birds are the focus of the mural;
Kirk Seese of BB Murals, in collaboration with Jen Jasper of Cecil County behind Java Rock depicting the lives and traditions of Eastern Shore farmers.
In 2018 High School Senior Brianna Pierce and a few of her friends, as part of a Senior Project, created art work around a number of storm drains. A few of these can be seen on Main Street and other places.
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Hi! What a nice article. I think it would be best to mention the names of the artists who painted the murals. My husband, Ken Castelli painted the mural on Bayside Foods. I’m not sure of the other artists names, but I think if you contacted the Kent County Arts Council in Chestertown, they could tell you since they created the call for artists at the beginning of that mural project. Thanks!
I had the information on the artists that painted the murals and should have given them credit. My apology for not doing so. I’ve revised the post and added them.