"Both Ronald Longsdorf and Stephen Ruszkowski utilize the art-making process as a vehicle through which they can revisit moments from the past or construct situations not able to be realized, " said Winslow. "Through his built and altered sculptures, Longsdorf analyzes the intricacies of personal relationships, imbuing domestic furniture with complex emotions. Ruszkowski approaches the past as a historian, researching northern Delaware architecture and landscape as source imagery for his paintings. 'Building the past' explores this shared sense of nostalgia - that longing to recall."

Longsdorf lives and works in Wilmington, Del. where he creates autobiographical sculptures, which explore a sense of self, place and human interaction. He has exhibited in many parts of the United States as well as in Berlin. Longsdorf has attended residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Art Farm in Nebraska, and Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, N.C. In 2009, he received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts. He will be a guest juror and have a solo show at Gettysburg College in March. Longsdorf earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Delaware and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pennsylvania State University. "My work questions the methods and actions of communication, interaction and existence associated with domestic spaces and personal relationships," said Longsdorf. "I personify inanimate objects to shift the context to the body, acting as a character, to create situations exploring mental and physical distance of personal relationships."

Ruszkowski also resides and works in Wilmington, Del., and his art is heavily informed by his extensive research of the state's historic architecture. He has been the exhibition designer and preparator at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts since 2005, and previously worked at several museums in the region. Ruszkowski, who received an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts in 2009, has exhibited in Delaware, Philadelphia, Virginia and York, Pa. He graduated from the University of Delaware with Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting. "These works are rooted in my interest in historical architecture and maps," said Ruszkowski. "My ideas are realized through the process of making a painting that is both vivid and distant, as if being seen through a haze. For me, the paintings act as a connection to the past, a way to recreate another time."

An independent curator and art historian, Winslow has presented shows at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Maryland Art Place, and Towson University Art Gallery. She has also assisted with exhibits for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Winslow holds a Master of Arts degree in art history from Purchase College and a Bachelor of Arts from Mary Washington College. She lives in Wilmington, Del. and, in addition to being the curator for New Wilmington Art Association, is the assistant curator at the Delaware Art Museum.

Durkan's work has appeared in numerous exhibits in Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia. Her art has been recognized and reviewed by several media outlets, including Fox45 TV in Baltimore, "Bmore Art," and "Art Talk" magazine. She has also taught sculpture, drawing and blacksmithing. "My sculptures evolve simultaneously with my drawing process, in order to allow new possibilities to reflect and present themselves," said Durkan. "I am interested in the obsessive inner nature of the human condition and my gut need to build things. This starts with tiny sculptures made out of leftover and found materials. Gluing, sewing and binding, I fuse together information through a range of contrasting, even contradictory materials that results in each sculpture's own unique voice. My drawings are created in a similar process to the sculptures; from large scale to an intimate scale and back. There is a cyclical process that feeds back in on itself."

Admission is free to The Gallery in the Milburn Stone Theatre, located at One Seahawk Drive. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday or by special appointment. It is also open during events in the Milburn Stone Theatre. For more information, call 410-287-1023. Tickets for "The Love Letter Project, Part 3," which are $15 for adults, $12 for students and seniors, and $10 for children 12 and younger, can be purchased by phone at 410-287-1037, at the Milburn Stone Theatre box office, or online at http://www.milburnstone.org. The box office is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday.

"A Celebration of Song and Dance" will also showcase the talents of three local acts, which will entertain the audience during the intermission: Impacting Your World Christian Center BLAZE Dancers, Cecil College student dancer David Hardison, and The Piner Family Gospel Singers. There will be a free-will offering at intermission, with all proceeds benefiting the Eva M. Muse Scholarship. Muse, who was committed to the community, sponsored yearly women's awards, supported children's activities, and was a lifetime member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; performing various functions such as serving on its Executive Committee, chairing the Educational Committee, and being treasurer.

Tickets, which are $15 for adults, $12 for students and seniors, and $10 for children 12 and younger and groups of 10 or more, can be purchased by phone at 410-287-1037, online at www.milburnstone.org, or at the box office. The box office, located at One Seahawk Drive at Cecil College in North East, Md., is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday.

The Morgan State University Choir sang under the baton of Robert Shaw, conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's and joined by Jessye Norman and others, in Carnegie Hall's 100th birthday tribute to Marian Anderson in 1997. A major milestone occurred in the 1996-1997 season with the sounds of the choir's "Silver Anniversary" concert being broadcast into households throughout the state of Maryland. The concert won three Emmy Awards for Maryland Public Television, which continues to air this hallmark performance during select sections of membership drives.

During the 1999-2000 season, the choir was featured with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in a commissioned work for the millennium, "All Rise," by Wynton Marsalis. The choir reprised "All Rise" in Prague, Czech Republic in October 2000 and also recorded it with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and in Paris. The choir performed "African Portraits" with the Baltimore Symphony at a December 2003 gala concert for the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture. In its May 2004 issue, "Reader's Digest" named the Morgan State University Choir "Best College Choir in the U.S." in its list of "America's 100 Best."

In February 2005, at the personal invitation of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the choir performed for the State Department during its annual African American History Month celebration. The choir traveled to Prague in the summer of 2007 for two concerts with maestro Paul Freeman and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. In November 2006, the ensemble participated in a concert celebrating the bicentennial celebration and reopening of the Basilica of the Assumption - the first cathedral in America. The choir sang at the Kennedy Center for a living jazz legends concert in 2007 and performed with legendary jazz performers Nancy Wilson, Billy Taylor, Regina Carter, Jon Faddis, and T.S. Monk. The choir traveled to Ghana in August 2007 to help the country celebrate its 50th year of independence.

Last summer, the choir sang in Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia, at the invitation of the U.S. ambassador to that country, and in South Africa at an international choral festival. One of the highlights of the tour was singing "Happy Birthday" to Nelson Mandela on his 90th birthday celebration on South African national television.