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August 2024
Ice Cream, Art & Drama
Ice Cream Social 11 AM-3 PM Beat the heat with something sweet! $10 for a handmade ceramic bowl filled with your choice of ice cream and toppings to help Clay by the Bay Ceramics Guild raise money for improvements to our pottery studio. Kids' Art Show and Market 10 AM-3 PM Explore and celebrate the work of our next generation of artists! All work was created in our Summer Art Camps. Student vendors also will be selling their work! Artisan…
Find out more »Jim Quick & Coastline
Over 25 years in the making, Jim Quick and Coastline, like their namesake the Atlantic Coastline Railroad, have been traveling the "tracks" of the southeast, and connecting with the hearts of loyal "Coastline Crazies." Pulling from the threads of Soul, Blues, R&B, and Americana, Jim Quick and Coastline weave together their own genre of music known as Swamp Soul.
Find out more »Afternoon Tea & Fashion Show
Join the Mathews Historical Museum for an afternoon of tea and fashion! In conjunction with the VA250 American Revolution activities in Mathews, the Mathews Museum will host Martha Washington and Abigail Adams as they “spill the tea.” Enjoy unlimited amounts of hot tea served with cream and sweeteners, accompanied by numerous types of savories and sweets. Fashions are by “Ladies Victorian,” who will present “Our Founding Mothers and What They Wore,” period clothing that both Martha Washington and Abigail Adams…
Find out more »September 2024
Magical Musical Gala
This year's Gala and Art Auction is a tribute to the power of music in our lives and its impact on creativity and imagination. The theme is the Magical Musical Gala, and the event will be held Saturday evening, September 28 at the historic estate of Auburn, currently owned by Claude and Lynn Hornsby and once the vacation home of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Starting at 5:00 pm, there will be a special reception in Auburn's boxwood garden for…
Find out more »October 2024
Mathews Chapel’s Fall Musical
Join Mathews Chapel UMC for its Fall Musical! Talents present include: Hunter Owens, JA Faulkner, Tyrone Hudgins, Richard Calais, Mary Kathryn Diggs, Lynda Greve and the Ebenezer Men's Choir! Refreshments will be served immediately after the performances in the Fellowship Hall.
Find out more »November 2024
Program by Colonial Williamsburg Textile Curator
Curator of Textiles and Historic at Dress Colonial Williamsburg Foundation to Speak Neal Hurst, Curator of Textiles and Historic Dress at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation will be guest speaker. "I produce the highest quality 17th - 19th Century men's clothing. I provide clothing to not only re-enactors but to museums and living history sites,“ says Hurst, "and I have spent over 15 years studying and recreating 17th, 18th, and 19th century clothing for interpreters, reenactors, and museums.” Hurst received his Bachelor of Art…
Find out more »Mathews Music Department’s Dinner & A Show
Join the Mathews Music Department for Dinner and A Show, in the Thomas Hunter/ MES Cafeteria. Tickets are $10 per adult, and $5 for children 5-12. Children under 5 eat free! Purchase tickets from a music student, or from the Mathews High front office, or by emailing [email protected]!
Find out more »A Turkish Feast: A Progressive Dinner
Please join the Bay School on November 13 for a Progressive Dinner Party celebrating Turkish cuisine. The festivities begin at 5:30 with appetizers and Yeni Raki Cocktails at The Bay School. You will have first chance to shop the Holiday Pop-Up Shop while you sip and mingle. At 6:00, we will walk to The White Dog Bistro to savor a four-course authentic Turkish dinner with the entree of your choice. Your dinner includes two glasses of Turkish wine. A cash…
Find out more »December 2024
Bay School Holiday Pop-Up Market
Join the Bay School from November 13th - December 31st for their Holiday Pop-Up Market! Vendors booths will be set up inside the Bay School with some of the most popular artisans, and regularly freshened up with new inventory throughout the season!
Find out more »Empty Bowls
Purchase a beautiful hand-made pottery bowl from Bay School artists, and have your choice of delicious soups, bread and cookies- all for just $20! All of the proceeds go to Hands Across Mathews.
Find out more »Made in Mathews Open Studio Tour
The Made In Mathews Open Studio Tour offers the opportunity to visit and interact with an accomplished and varied group of working artists and artisans, each practicing thier chosen craft amongst the beautiful rivers and bays of historic Mathews County, Virginia. Our member artists and artisans benefit from a remarkably diverse range of skills, mediums, backgrounds that are as unique as the people who call Mathews County their home. Collectively they produce a staggering array of fine art, textiles, traditional…
Find out more »Antique Southern Quilts Collection Showcase
A special quilting exhibit, “Threads of Our History: Quilts of Mathews Virginia,” will debut at the Mathews Museum, October 5 and will be on exhibit through the end of December. These quilts are from a private collection of an old Mathews family, going back over a century. Mathews is a small, rural southern county sitting on the Chesapeake Bay. The quilts reflect their utilitarian use, in a geographic area that was fairly isolated until the 1950s. The quilts honor a southern tradition of quilting when…
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