September 27, 2025, in Crisfield, MD, during the Crisfield Heritage Festival The Chesapeake Challenge is a decades-old tradition that includes competition in several categories of decoy making. Decoys can be mailed in or registered that morning, starting at 8 AM. The Contemporary Antique bird is a BRANT for 2025 and a BLACK DUCK for 2026…. Read more »
**CLASS IS SOLD OUT** —– E-mail gvieira@wardfdn.org to be added to the wait list. Glass eyes do not need to be your only option in the creative process, join Tommy Stewart and learn how to use a high speed grinder to carve out the eyes and bill of a lesser yellowlegs bust. You will come… Read more »
Location: Waterfowl Festival Building, 40 S. Harrison St, Easton, MD Join us, the Ward Foundation, the Waterfowl Festival, and Maryland State Arts Council, for an evening of short films from the Maryland State Arts Councils Folklife Apprenticeship program and try your hand at a tradition by painting a bufflehead silhouette with Master Carver and National… Read more »