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Glenstone celebrates its 20th anniversary

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Thursday, April 9, 2026 - "sentinel"bronze sculpture by Simone Lee, 2020-2021, on display inside Glenstone Art Museum.

Now in its 20th year, is this modern art mecca spread over more than 200 acres in the Potomac hills a hidden gem? yes. But that’s by design. Glenstone opened as a gallery in Glen Road on September 30, 2006. This was the beginning of an exhibition of founders Mitch and Emily Way Lares’ private … Read more

Artist blends black history into steel sculptures

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Melvin Edwards and his sculpture in 1963 "fragment dimension".

Leslie King-Hammond first met Melvin Edwards when he was a visiting artist at the Maryland Institute College of Art. The young graduate school director was immediately attracted to him. Although few other artists she knew had spent time studying their craft in Africa, Edwards had apprenticed with a sculptor in Nigeria. His abstract steel sculptures … Read more