Current Gallery Shows
- Date:Mar 4 2024 - Jan 6 2025Gallery:Nature Nook
On Display March 2024 - January 2025
This exhibit features a large diversity of plant and animal lifecycles with a focus on life stages. See live critters in different stages of life: tadpoles, caterpillars, aquatic insects and other visiting wildlife. Make giant lifecycle floor puzzles, play games, and investigate hands-on models and specimens. Learn about salamanders and their life cycles including our featured fauna, the newt. Meet Frida, the axolotl who will never have an adult stage where she leaves the water like spotted salamanders.
Explore the weird and wonderful world of metamorphosis in this exhibit.
Join us for a Family Nature Walk! SEE THE SCHEDULE
- Date:Mar 1 2024 - Mar 30 2024Gallery:Main Gallery
View the vivid watercolor work of well-loved southern Maryland artist and former Annmarie faculty member, Mary Blumberg. From brilliant floral scenes, to serene still lifes, to classic southern Maryland landscapes, Mary's work often amplified and celebrated the beauty in the world around us. Don't miss this chance to take one of her wonderful works home with you from this show and sale.Join us for an Annmarie After Hours reception on Saturday, March 2, from 5-7pm.
- Date:Feb 9 2024 - Apr 21 2024Gallery:Kay Daugherty Gallery
This exhibition inspires environmentally sustainable artmaking through found objects, creative reuse, and upcycled art. By repurposing by-products, waste materials, or unwanted objects and transforming them into something with more perceived and artistic value, artists explore environmental themes, engage in social commentary, implore a call to action, or infuse realism, emotion, or humor in their work.
The artwork in this show is eye-opening, engaging, thought-provoking, inspiring, poetic, and even sometimes playful and optimistic. This exhibit answers the question- How are contemporary artists engaging with objects in a world overrun with too much stuff?
About the Juror:Siobhan Starrs is a Senior Exhibition Developer at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History where she develops and manages permanent and temporary exhibitions and works on pan-Smithsonian initiatives. Siobhan led the Deep Time: Fossil Hall renovation and exhibition project along with many other climate and environmental science exhibitions over her 24-year tenure at the Museum engaging audiences in the wonders of the natural world and our place in it. She holds BAs in History and English from Virginia Tech and an MA in Museum Studies from George Washington University. Siobhan also volunteers as an interpreter and Bluebird Trail Coordinator at Gunston Hall Historic Site, and spends any moment of spare time discovering nearby nature in and around Washington, D.C.
Juror's Statement:
"As an exhibition developer at a natural history museum and a frequent art museum goer, I am an enthusiastic advocate for the power of creativity and all forms of creative expression. Art feeds my personal and professional hunger to discover new ways of being human on a changing planet. Art helps us appreciate diverse, new perspectives and with new eyes come new ways of seeing and being the world. I accepted the invitation to jury Metamorphosis: Recycled, Repurposed, Reimagined because art museums including the Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Art Center have been inspiring trailblazers in engaging diverse audiences to critically reflect, discuss, and respond to challenging contemporary issues including climate change and our relationship with the environment.
The depth of impressive submissions made selecting the artworks for Metamorphosis both a difficult and wonderful opportunity. Pieces reflected the broad, complex emotional landscape evoked when we consider our individual and communal relationships to the material world, the natural world, and the climate crisis. From humor and love to grief and anger, the materiality, execution, and vision of the final selected pieces best exemplified the Metamorphosis call to act – to see this current moment of change as an opportunity and an invitation to live lighter and more sustainably. Like the call and response of birds, the selected pieces powerfully document artists responses to the question – how can we live better in a world overrun with too much stuff? I am grateful for their reminder that nature and art remain a constant source of possibility and hope even in times of profound change."
-Siobhan Starrs
Exhibition Developer and Sustainability Champion
National Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian InstitutionAnnmarie After Hours Reception: Friday, February 9th, 5-7pm
JUROR AWARD WINNERS
Laura Quattrocchi
Hope Wreath #2
Scratched Lottery Tickets, Wire, Canvas
48"x 48"
2021Marty Koelsch
Conduit A/Corrected Oxbow
Rusted Steel Pipe, Charcoal, Pine Lumber
48" x 60" x 30"
2023Ernesto Ruiz Bry
Strong & Beautiful
Collage on Plywood
48" x 48"
2018Contributing Artist(s):Anne Bascove, John Bassett, Ruby Bassford, Jessica Bernstein, Ralph Blessing, Christopher Brown, Amy Browning-Dill, Lauren Cassidy, Anna Chan, Lisa Chin, Ceci Cole McInturff, Edie Dillon, Hyunsuk Erickson, Pauline Galiana, Maureen Garcia, Sandra Gibson, Pragati Godbole, Kimberly Harding, Beth Higgins, Dan Hildt, Kaitlyn Horpedahl, Judith Hugentobler, Alexis Irby, Jeremy Jones, Todd Jones, Katie Kameen, Sanzi Kermes, KHyal, Marty Koelsch, Gail Kotel, Lyubava Kroll, Nichole Leavy, Mike Libby, Joi Lowe, Dana Mano-Flank, Donnelly Marks, Gail Meyers, Deborah Miller, Debra Mixon-Holliday, Michaela Moran, Marcella Morgese, Kelly Murray, Jonathan Ottke, Phil Ouellette, Isabel Pardo, Allison Pasarew, Cindy Pease-Roe, Kristina Penhoet, Laura Quattrocchi, Kyle Ramseur, Luis Recoder, Citalin Rios, Agustin Rosa, Ernesto Ruiz Bry, Theda Sandiford, Carolyn Schlam, Yulia Shtern, Silvia Souza, Ann Standrod, Sarah Swift, Dorian Traynham, Elain Weiner-Reed, Winnie Van Der Rijn, Marc Zaref, Susan Zimmerman, Barbara Ziselberger