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Two local students recently got an extra bit of help for their college expenses, courtesy of the Muddy Creek Artists Guild. The announcement was made at last Thursday’s ArtQuest event at Southern High School in Harwood. Meet the four students at this weekend’s Muddy Creek Artist Guild show in Galesville. The winners of the $1,000 [...]

  From Anne Arundel County Public School spokesman Bob Mosier: Southern High School art teacher and department chairman Michael Bell has been named Anne Arundel County’s winner of the 2013 Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award by The Washington Post. Bell is one of 21 winners of the honor, awarded annually by the newspaper to outstanding [...]

The mighty triumvirate. As a form of leadership, it seems good on paper, but rarely lasts. Usually two go against the third and its all over. But at River Gallery in Galesville, three artists are proving that leadership by a trio can work out quite well. So well in fact, that this year the three [...]

Southern High School seems to churn out an extraordinary number of outstanding artists. Much of the credit goes to Art Department Chair Michael Bell, for discovering these creative young people. But somewhere in each successful student there has to be a nugget of talent for him to discover. Cat Allen with a couple of her [...]

Michael Bell has been a teacher at Southern High School in Harwood for 15 years. He went from a part-time teacher when he was first hired, to art department chair—his current position. An accomplished artist in his own right, he’s also done some pretty remarkable things during his tenure—especially when it comes to young artists [...]