Get ready for some great holiday shopping! The Main Gallery will have a wide selection of handmade works perfect for everyone on your list. You'll find a wide selection of affordable one-of-a-kind items made with love! All artwork will be on display in conjunction with our annual holiday Ornament Show & Sale.
Presented by the Annmarie Gift Shop, the Ornament Show & Sale is a juried show that features hand-crafted ornaments by more than 25 regional artists. This is the perfect place to find unique and affordable gifts for friends and family. The ornaments are beautifully hung on trees displayed in the Main Gallery of the Arts Building. Visitors shop off the trees and take their purchases to the Gift Shop. The show kicks off before Thanksgiving and runs through early January. During Garden In Lights, the show is open late! 
December 1-12, 2021, 5:00-8:45 pm each night
(closed Dec 6 & 7)
*Included with light show ticket; advance timed-entry tickets required
*Masks required in the Arts Building for all guests over the age of 2.
Admission to train display is included with light show ticket. Please note that light show requires an advance timed-entry ticket. TICKETS HERE
Guests of all ages will delight in this beautiful train display brought to us by our friend George Leah, Jr. It's a charming exhibit that will spark memories of Christmases past and delight those new to model trains. George will be operating an "O" scale train display featuring trains from the 1950s through today, meandering through a miniature landscape.
NEW THIS YEAR! George has expanded the display to 25'x10' to include a winter village, an animal park, a magical frozen lake, princesses, and a spaceship Earth section. George will be available to talk with and ask questions.
Masks are required inside the Arts Building for all guests over the age of 2.
ABOUT Annmarie Garden In Lights:
Join us for Annmarie Garden In Lights, a magical holiday light show that takes visitors on a beautiful walk through the glittering woods. As you stroll the protected path, you will be surrounded by spectacular light experiences and magical "light sculptures" depicting sea creatures, wintry wonderlands, princesses, superheroes, and much more. Don't forget to ask for a "Holiday I Spy" program.
Enjoy Holiday Shopping in the Arts Building; food and drink will be available for purchase.
November 26, 2021 - January 1, 2021
5:00-9:00pm nightly
(CLOSED Dec. 6, 7, 24, 25)
No smoking. No vaping.
No pets except on Pet Night (Jan. 1).
For detailed schedule, visit www.annmariegarden.org.
On Paper: Printmaking, Book Arts & Beyond
February 19 - September 26, 2021
The Kay Daugherty Gallery at Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center will feature On Paper: Printmaking, Book Arts & Beyond. Selected work will highlight the expanse of printmaking and book arts as an artistic discipline. Techniques such as relief printing, etching, lithography, paper making, book binding, letterpress, collage and papercut will be explored. All works should showcase the unique process and craftsmanship that goes into each handmande paper, print, or collage.
VIEW THE ARTWORK TOUR THE GALLERY SHOW
Juror’s Statement
Paper has been made and used to produce creative works since the eighth century BCE. With early roots in Eastern cultures and associations with handwriting, image-making, and printing it has an impressive and important past and a strong call from its public for a thriving future.
Along with paper made for every day uses, paper made for fine art writing, drawing, and printing has seen a revival in recent decades and continues to offer a wide variety of creative surfaces and building blocks for art works.
Artists introduced to different paper textures will have different creative reactions, some practical, some inspirational. Works on paper by artists represented in this display offer a myriad of creative thought and manipulation, from a drawing on a sheet of paper to a compendium of colored papers in books.
Artists create wonder and introspective magic during typical times, but during the last months, ripe with social unrest and a pandemic, our comfort levels have been exhausted. In order to make sense of the world many artists feel the need to escape outside, mainstream tensions by creating. The artistic works give us contemplative views of comfort, pain, joy, strength, pride, resilience, and hope.
My experience with works on paper has been as a “keeper” of some forty thousand drawings, progressive proofs, and prints in the Graphic Arts Collection of the National Museum of American History. The mission of the unit has been to collect, retain, and explain printing and printmaking processes. This mission has enabled me to work with, and better understand, the countless creative approaches to works on paper, through time and internationally. Interestingly the collection, established in 1886, was created initially and primarily as a teaching collection with much of the then much smaller group of holdings remaining on display in a “permanent” exhibit. As part of our mission, we assisted and continue to assist our public with information about the technologies of printing and printmaking.
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK
at the artists' processes and inspiration below!
12th Annual Fairies in the Garden Outdoor Exhibit
April 2 - September 6, 2021
Come explore this charming outdoor exhibit of more than 100 handmade houses scattered throughout the trails and woods of the garden. Made by wonderfully creative artists from the community (and beyond), this exhibit features works in all media.
Annmarie After Hours Opening Reception - Friday, April 2, 5-7pm
Join us for an outdoor opening of our most magicalicious exhibit. All the houses will be displayed around the outside of the Arts Building. This is a great opportunity to see them all before they are scattered throughout the sculpture garden! Reservations are not required, just come. There will be a food truck, cash bar, and live music. Admission is free for members; for non-members, we use a "pay what you can" admission system with a suggested donation of $5/person. Masks required.
Save the date! Fairy & Gnome Home Festival - Sunday, April 18, 11am-4pm.
Tickets go on sale soon!
SHINE: catching the light
Shine: Catching the Light will exhibit artwork where light is a prominent element in the piece. Whether light is used to define shape and space, convey drama and emotion, as a metaphor or symbol, or as an artistic medium itself, this exhibition will explore the myriad ways artists consider light in their practice. What does it mean to shine? Or to “be the light?” How can light reveal an attitude, a person’s character, express a transformative experience, or a reflect on social issues and current events? How can artwork physically catch the light and shine? Join us in the Main Gallery this summer, as we explore the vast ways that light is utilized in works of art.
I'm an educator at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian where I focus on broadening participation in the STEM community through informal learning opportunities. I contribute to NASA and NSF funded curricula and programming centered around our MicroObservatory Robotic Telescopes. Through many of these projects I engage learners in exploring the universe through light gathered by telescopes, and in using their creativity to process astronomical data in ways that bring personal meaning to the night sky. I'm honored to jury SHINE: Catching the Light, and look forward to discovering the many ways in which submitting artists chose to use light to make meaning of the world around us.
Creatures In the Garden: Real, Imagined & Otherworldly
We've invited a few artists to install creatures - both real and imaginary - amongst the woods, trails, and trees of the sculpture garden. Take a stroll and explore these new additions.
Art Blooms Floral Design Exhibit - 12th Anniversary!
Friday: 10:00am-7:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am-5:00pm
Sunday: 10:00am-5:00pm
Annmarie After Hours Opening Reception - Friday, July 9, 5-7pm
Art Blooms is a three-day exhibit featuring the work of more than 35 floral designers from across the region. Each floral designer is assigned a work of art in the Main Gallery or the Kay Daugherty Gallery and asked to create an arrangement inspired by that work of art. The results are surprising, beautiful, and provocative - and not to be missed. 2021 will mark the 12th year for Art Blooms, an exhibit co-hosted by the Calvert Garden Club and Ann's Circle of Annmarie Garden.
Masks are required to tour the galleries.
Tales of Tails
March 2021- May 2021
Discover the diversity of tails and their usefulness in nature. From mammals, to insects, to reptiles, and more, this fun children’s exhibit highlights stories about these critters and their impressive posterior parts.
As part of our annual Artist In Action program, works by the participating artists will be displayed in the Main Gallery. To purchase a work, please inquire at the Front Desk.
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