Maryland Citizens for the Arts

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MCA (Maryland Citizens for the Arts) represents Maryland artists and arts organizations of all disciplines. Its principle mission is to promote adequate funding for the Maryland State Arts Council and to advocate for the arts at the state and federal levels.


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“ What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose? This is a quotation from Willa Cather’s novel The Song of the Lark. It’s a beautiful thought the protagonist (Thea Kronborg, an opera singer) has while looking at some old pottery shards.