Ocean Gallery
art gallery
The Ocean Gallery is an art gallery on the Ocean City Boardwalk in Worcester County, Maryland. The gallery was founded by Joe Kro-Art in 1972. He had moved to Ocean City in 1964. The gallery is owned by Joe Kro-Art along with his wife Adele and daughter Laura. At the age of eight, Kro-Art attended a scholarship program at Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2013, the gallery was featured in a Russian film, Turbo, directed by Anna Efranova. Kro-Art was featured in a documentary in 2020.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ocean Gallery” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.