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The Olney Art Association (OAA) located in Olney, Maryland, USA, and founded in 1974, is a professional, learning, creative community of visual fine artists whose expertise ranges in a variety of media, such as oil painting, watercolor, acrylics, pastel, colored pencil, pen and ink, printmaking, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, digital art, and photography.


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The Olney Art Association encourages artists and aspiring artists to study, practice, and exhibit their original works as much as possible. OAA provides different venues within Montgomery County, MD, USA, for exhibiting, and also encourages artists to enter shows individually outside of our area.

Anyone 18 years of age or older able to attend meetings and/or participate in our exhibitions may apply for membership.

OAA holds bi-monthly general membership meetings, exhibits work created by all members throughout the year at the Olney Public Library, generates a bi-monthly newsletter, and sponsors an annual, member, juried show.