Local artist, author at first Friday

(July 28, 2023) The Art League of Ocean City’s upcoming first Friday block party will feature the works of a local artists and author.

Joanne K. Guilfoil will be signing her latest book, “Chickens on Delmarva: 100 Years of Backyard Flocks, Farms and Friends,” and displaying her White Marlin Open paintings of bill fish and game fish at the event set from 5-7 p.m., at the gallery on 94th Street.

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Those who cannot attend the event, but would like to participate in a cleanup, are asked to check out the Adopt Your Beach/Street Program at: mdcoastalbays.org/adopt-your-beachregistration/, or ocsurfclub.org.

The release said Ocean City Public Works staff members do an outstanding job keeping the beaches and streets as clean as they can, but microplastics, debris caught on side streets, in sand dunes, and buried in sand is always a challenge. Participating in community cleanups helps keep our waterways and beaches clean.

For questions, email mcbp@mdcoastalbays.org.

Guilfoil will be on author’s row selling her books, which also include “Ocean City, Maryland ABC’s,” featuring the town’s landmark White Marlin sculpture.

She will tell stories from the chicken book as well, including tales of an illegal liquor stash in a Bethany chicken house, Perdue chicken in Baghdad, and Frank and Mitzi Perdue at the White House.

Guilfoil will also be in the Spotlight

Gallery, where her field-guide style gouache paintings of game fish — the same types caught during the White Marlin Open — will be on display.

Two artist friends will join her as well in the gallery.

Photographer Jim Motsko, the founder of the White Marlin Open, will display fish photographs, and artist Lisa Marie Penn will display fish-painted screens, a long-time Baltimore art-form.