If you have a free moment today, be sure to swing by the Charlestown Retirement Community for their 19th Annual Resident Visual Art Show & Sale. The show will include paintings, photographs, three-dimensional design, wood art and works on paper (charcoal, pastels, and collage). Jeff Getek, who helped promote the show, says, “Our residents are extremely talented, and many of them have been involved with art professionally through their careers.”

Take for example Cecilia Staub, who began teaching art in her home in 1960 (see her painting above). Still an active artist, Ms. Staub pursues her passion for art through her Catonsville-based family business, Staub Art Studio. According to Jeff, “Ms. Staub’s experience highlights the idea that the love of art is timeless and retirement is not an end to pursuing fresh interests, but a beginning.”

The exhibit will be open from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. today at the Charlestown Retirement Community Erickson Conference Center, located 719 Maiden Choice Lane in Catonsville. For more information, contact Jeff Getek at 410-456-9809.

(Images courtesy of Charlestown Retirement Community)