Exhibit

At Maryland Hall "Connections" and "Landy Hales: Layered Posters" are on view through Friday, Dec. 7, at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, 801 Chase St. in Annapolis. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. Information: 410-263-5544 or marylandhall.org . 'Just in Time for the Holidays' An exhibit of works by plein-air painters that reflect the quiet, snow-covered environment of the holiday season runs through Dec. 31 at Benfield Gallery, 485 Jumpers Hole Road in Pasadena.

'Grains of Sand' An exhibition of digital collages, watercolor paintings and calligraphy by Joan Machinchick is on view through June 30 in the Willow and the Garden galleries at Quiet Waters Park, 600 Quiet Waters Park Road in Annapolis. A reception will be held from 2 p.m to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 19. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekends; closed Tuesdays. The park charges a daily entry fee of $6 per car. Information: 410-222-1777 or friendsofquietwaterspark.org.

There is so much constant movement in our world that it takes an artist to translate some of that motion into a lasting image. In the aptly titled exhibit "Motion" at the Artists' Gallery in Columbia, painters Rana Geralis and Nancy Lee Davis encourage you to linger and look at the animals, people and cars that ordinarily don't slow down for inspection. This pairing of two artists is at its most concentrated in the side-by-side installation of two very small works that amount to portraits of individual animals: Columbia resident Geralis has a watercolor, "Paint Pony," and Clarksville resident Davis has an oil painting, "Cow Eating.

An exhibit at the Johns Hopkins Evergreen House that was thrown into doubt this week is back on, but without two artworks at the crux of a dispute between the artist and the curator. The two large pieces in question — one depicting a cross, the other a mosaic of the word "Jew" — were offered as part of an outdoor exhibit by Fells Point artist Loring Cornish called "In Each Other's Shoes," to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington.

For the past 158 years, art historians thought that the painter Richard Caton Woodville, the James Dean of his generation, had completed just 19 paintings before he died of a morphine overdose in 1855 at age 30. Now, we know that there were 20. Joy Heyrman, deputy director of development for the Walters Art Museum, recently learned about what very well may be first oil painting that the artist ever created. It's an 1844 portrait of a childhood friend, the surgeon and investigator Stedman R. Tilghman.

Cars are a defining aspect of the American landscape in John Petro's exhibit "Parked Outside the Door" at the Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton House. Although people are rarely seen in these color photographs, cars appear in almost every shot. A typical photo features a single car parked near a single house, as if to emphasize that ours is a mobile culture. Indeed, there's even a shot depicting a red truck parked next to a mobile home in Cloverlick, W.Va. Ironically, though, Petro often takes photos of junked old cars that aren't going anywhere.

If there were a dress code for visitors to the current exhibit in Howard Community College's Rouse Company Foundation Gallery, it would stipulate that people must wear blue jeans when going to see Julie van Hemert's "Peopled Jeans. " That's because the artist uses blue jean material for her wall-hanging fabric art. Van Hemert does not significantly alter or transform this material. Instead, she typically clusters a few pants legs together in order to suggest that several close friends are, er, hanging out together.

Art exhibit The Chesapeake Wood Turners exhibit, sponsored by Montpelier Mansion, is on view through Tuesday, April 30, at the National Wildlife Visitor Center, 10901 Scarlet Tanager Loop, Laurel. Exhibit hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily. Free admission. Information: 301-377-7817. Bluegrass music Savage Bluegrass plays at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, at Sam and Elsie's Bar and Restaurant in Laurel. No cover charge. Information: 301-317-7796. Saturday night movies Monthly movie screenings designed for family viewing will be shown at 6 p.m. at the North Laurel Community Center, 9411 Whiskey Bottom Road.