Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center

Green Too: art with the earth in mind

Date:

Jul 16 2010 - Oct 8 2010

Gallery:

Mezzanine Gallery

Annmarie After Hours - Opening Reception - July 16, 6-9pm

GREEN TOO, a complementary component of GREEN, showcases small to large scale installations that confront ecological issues on a local, regional, national, and/or global level. The exhibition creates an experience that physically immerses the audience in environmental issues.

Did you know that five million people die every year from water-related diseases? This question and other related environmental issues are examined in this compelling exhibit that includes small to large scale installations. The works confront ecological issues on a local, regional, national, and global level creating an experience that physically immerses the audience in environmental issues.

GREEN TOO: Installations with the Earth in Mind features eight artists from across the U.S, as well as the Washington DC metro area, and Southern Maryland. Christine Destrempes’ work, 13,699, was created to raise awareness of the number of people who die every day from water-related diseases. Five million people die every year from unsafe water. Clear plastic, recycled water bottle caps are used to symbolize these deaths. The choice of using plastic bottle caps calls attention to social and environmental issues surrounding bottled water.

Did you know that one third of the world’s reefs are “bleached”- that is, dead or dying due to human intervention? Mary Ellen Croteau’s work, Oceans Unraveled, is a crocheted replica of a coral reef. The crocheted parts contain more and more plastic bags as the coral loses color, until the final bleached section is crocheted entirely from plastic bags.

Contributing Artists:
Krisanne Baker
Oreen Cohen
Mary Ellen Croteau with Aviva Alter & Mary Buczyk
Christine Destrempes
Beverly Jackson
William Malatesta
von Schmidt
Julie Whitney Barnes

Contributing Artist(s):

Krisanne Baker, Oreen Cohen, Mary Ellen Croteau with Aviva Alter & Mary Buczyk, Christine Destrempes, Beverly Jackson, William Malatesta von Schmidt, Julie Whitney Barnes

GREEN: art with the earth in mind

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Date:

Jun 12 2010 - Aug 28 2010

Gallery:

Main Gallery

Jurors:
Ms. Bryna M. Freyer, Curator of Collections, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
Dr. Margaret A. Palmer, Director, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

GREEN showcases works of art that confront ecological issues on a local, regional, national, and/or global level. The exhibition presents a collection that reveals the complex nature of environmental issues and generates a productive dialogue about the natural world. The exhibition contains visually stunning and philosophically compelling creations that educate, enlighten, and inspire stewardship of the earth.

Contributing Artist(s):

Tara W. Bonner, Barbara Boward, Melissa Buesing, Ryan Burns, Everitt Clark, Jim Coates, Mary Ellen Croteau, Richard Elaver, paul Ford, Stephen Godfrey, Abbey Griffin, Susan Hogan, Chavawn Kelley, Joel LeVasseur, Lisa Lindgren, Yuko Oda, Sri Prabha, Jacqueline Schlossman, Suzanne Shelden, Katherine Singh, Merrill Steiger, Gerardo Valerio-Trigueros, Kevin Veara, Alice M. Yutzy

Sailor Made: the art of the woolie

Date:

Oct 25 2008 - Jul 5 2010

A woolie is a hand-stitched portrait of a ship created by British seamen between the 1830s and 1880s. Long hours at sea, coupled with the on-the-job knowledge of sewing, gave sailors the time and talent to create these exceptional works of art. This unusual collection is on loan from Donald Berezoski.

The Nature of Pastel

Date:

Apr 10 2010 - Jun 20 2010

Gallery:

Mezzanine Gallery

The Nature of Pastel
April 10 - June 20, 2011
Mezzanine Gallery

Explore the richness and subtleties of the pastel medium and enjoy artwork by the Signature Members of the Maryland Pastel Society.

Annmarie After Hours - Opening Reception - April 10, 6-9pm

Constructed Place

Date:

Mar 20 2010 - May 8 2010

Juror: Megan Rook-Koepsel, Graduate Assistant Coordinator, Stamp Gallery, Adele H. Stamp Student Union Center for Campus Like, University of Maryland, College Park.

Click here to view EXHIBIT CATALOG

Annmarie After Hours - Opening Reception - March 20, 6-9pm
Juror's Talk: Sunday, April 25, 2pm

Best of Show Award: Meaghan Harrison for her mixed media performance Trust.

Interact and immerse yourself in the created spaces, built places, and imagined environments designed and sculpted by members of the Washington Sculptors Group. The exhibit includes indoor and outdoor works that explore the contemporary relationships between viewer and artwork while also connecting with the present sculpture and environment at Annmarie.

Contributing Artist(s):

Sarah Allison, Jessica Braiterman, Anthony Comes, Bobby Donovan, Jim Gallucci, Tom Greaves, Meghan Harrison, Matt Hollis, Ron Longsdorf, Christine Sciulli, Patricia Segnan, Mike Shaffer, Foon Sham, Al Zaruba

Forty Blossoms from the Bouquet

Date:

Feb 1 2010 - Feb 28 2010

Celebrate African-American History Month at Annmarie with southern Maryland artist Delphine Siggers Williams' collection, Forty Blossoms from the Bouquet, a celebration of prominent African-American women in our community. Also on view, don't miss Delphine's newest series, Portraits of the Pastors and Brothers.

GLOW

Date:

Nov 24 2009 - Feb 14 2010

Let there be light! During the darkening months of the year, light artists will set the Arts Building aglow with their work.

GLOW Opening Reception - Sunday, December 6, 5-7pm

Just as plants need light for photosynthesis to occur, humanity has thrived and evolved as a result of our relationship with light. Our bodies and minds crave daylight to function properly; a shortage of it and we are affected physically and emotionally. Symbolically, light often represents the good, the spiritual, the mystic, the enlightened, and life itself. Artists have long been fascinated with capturing the qualities of light.

With the invention of artificial light, artists have increasingly turned from the mere illusion to the real application of light in their work. Incandescent, fluorescent, halogen, neon, LEDs and luminous substances have made their way into a growing body of artwork. Technological advances bring plasma screens, LCD displays, lasers, and multimedia projections to the forefront of this genre. These tools afford great possibilities for the artist to engage the viewer at a physical, emotional, and sometimes hyper-visual level. Through these new media, artists continue to explore the effects of light, not just on the human condition, but also on the visible world.

Contributing Artist(s):

Pat Alexander, , Linda Alterwitz, Jennifer Amber, Keith Ehman, Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong, Aaron Bowles, Melissa Burley, Sally Cumming, Patrick Donovan, Annette Gaspers, Thomas Givens, Phil Gleason, Stephen Godfrey, Rob Gonsalves, Melita Greenleaf, Shawn Farester, Andrew Farkas, Jerry Hovanec, Beverly Jackson, Jessica Jastrezebski, F. Lynn Johnson, Taehee Kim, Keith Lemley, Mimi Little, Williams Malatesta, Mark Naylor, Valerie Paulsgrove, Kathleen Ramich, C. Von Schmidt, Francis Sniffen, Bill Suword, Terry Ward, Debra Weisberg, Terri Yacovelli

Echo

Date:

Oct 3 2009 - Nov 8 2009

Opening Reception - Friday, October 2, 2009, 6-9pm

What happens when one element of art is duplicated in various forms? Echo answers that question with large installations, free standing works and dramatic exhibits. This exhibition highlights the subtleties and sophistication that can be achieved through the persistent exploration of a single subject, medium, or process. Nine returning artists represented in this show work in different mediums, resulting in artwork complimentary of each other through the use of repetitive elements.

Visitors are invited to explore complementary art activities that embody order, structure and chaos in the variation of pattern. Create patterns that vary in shape, size and contours or create a collage by building layers of shapes. Observe the work as it takes form overlapping and weaving, thus producing movement, rhythm and depth in dimension. On your next visit notice your artwork displayed. Take an opportunity to echo your thoughts, observations, and creativity with our unique art activities, as well stimulate conversation.

We are proud to feature these nine regional artists and their works during Echo:
Ray Bogle - ceramic; Heather Brammeier - painting, Sara Deane – painting, Scott Galczynski – painting, Jerry Hovanec - glass, Elizabeth Kendall - ceramics, John Schaffner - wood , Nancy Weisser- glass, Alice Yutzy- ceramic.

Contributing Artist(s):

Ray Bogle - ceramic; Heather Brammeier - painting, Sara Deane – painting, Scott Galczynski – painting, Jerry Hovanec - glass, Elizabeth Kendall - ceramics, John Schaffner - wood , Nancy Weisser- glass, Alice Yutzy- ceramic.

Proximity: Regional Discoveries

Date:

Jul 25 2009 - Oct 4 2009

EXHIBIT PROGRAM click here

Proximity Award Winners:
Christina Allen, Farmer's Cathedral
Scott Galczysnki, Color Field
Ed Rupard, Swims Through a Ring

This exhibit showcases artists working in the southern Maryland region—Calvert, Charles, St. Mary’s, Prince Georges, and Anne Arundel counties. Artists were asked to explore the theme, proximity, in an artwork created for the show. What does it mean to be an artist living and working in an area with changing tides, seasons, populations and rapid growth? Where do artists find sources of inspiration in this area?

Thirty artists have contributed their artwork to Proximity. Many of the pieces are inspired by the southern Maryland landscape—the land, the waterways, the architecture, and the sweeping changes the area has seen. Lexington Park artist, Christina Allen, uses the area’s rich agricultural history of tobacco farming to address the rapid deterioration and depletion of local tobacco barns. “They showcase the area and the juxtaposition of rural, suburban, and new urban residents and some of the consequences,” she writes.

For Ed Rupard of Chesapeake Beach, the natural habitat of the area provides him with both the media and the subject for his work. Rupard’s use of driftwood and found metal hardware results in graceful and poetic free-standing sculptures reminiscent of Chesapeake wildlife and shorelines.

Other artists look to their personal ties to area for their inspiration. Anne Arundel artist, Colleen Sabo uses her professional experience as a raptor specialist, working with permanently injured birds of prey, to inform her artwork. “I am responsible for the care of thirteen raptors, including owls, hawks, falcons, and vultures. I derive the greatest pleasure from painting these birds that I know so well. I paint them from memory, not photographs, and I always portray them as if they were free of their injuries and flying wild.”

Other artists represented in the show include Brenda Belfield, Denise Breitburg, Ann Crain, Candy Cummings, Scott Galczynski, Abbey Griffin, Sarah Houde, Lorrain Humphreys, Gary Jameson, Joan Koss-Chioino, Kennedi Milan, Rex Miller, Megan Richard, M. Jane Rowe, John A. Schaffner, J. Luray Schaffner, Clarence Schumaker, Suzanne Sheldon, Nancy S. Shippen, Sylvia Stone, Leitha Stone, Pat Barry Troiani, Karen Vaughn, Peggy Walters, Victoria Wenderlich, Carl Wood, and Gerry Wood.

Contributing Artist(s):

Christine Allen, Brenda Belfield, Denise Breitburg, Ann Crain, Candy Cummings, Scott Galczynski, Abbey Griffin, Sarah Houde, Lorrain Humphreys, Gary Jameson, Joan Koss-Chioino, Kennedi Milan, Rex Miller, Megan Richard, M. Jane Rowe, Ed Rupard, Colleen Sabo, John A. Schaffner, J. Luray Schaffner, Clarence Schumaker, Suzanne Sheldon, Nancy S. Shippen, Sylvia Stone, Leitha Stone, Pat Barry Troiani, Karen Vaughn, Peggy Walters, Victoria Wenderlich, Carl Wood, and Gerry Wood.

WILD Things

Date:

May 31 2009 - Aug 30 2009

What is it about animals that enthrall, delight, terrify, inspire, comfort, and intrigue us? Some of the earliest forms of art, stunning prehistoric cave paintings and bas relief sculptures estimated to be at least 30,000 years old, are dominated by representations of animals. Our ancient relationship with animals - wild and domesticated, real and imagined, extinct and extant - is the inspiration for Wild Things.

As you view the sixty-eight pieces selected for this exhibit (located outdoors in the garden as well as in the Main Gallery), consider the emotions that animals arouse. How do the representations here affect your emotions? What is it about animals that enthrall, delight, terrify, inspire, comfort, and intrigue you ?

Many of the works in this show are for sale. A downloadable Price List is available

Wild Things Exhibit Programs

Daily Activities: enjoy these hands-on activities inspired by the exhibit
----Walk on the Wild Side - channel your inner beast and create a graphic print of the wild thing within you!
----Creature Collage - help complete a mural by desinging your own fantasy animal and placing it in a landscape.

Scheduled Activities:
----WILD Things Program - Sunday, June 28, 10am-5pm
----WILD Things Summer Safari - June 1 - August 30
----WILD Things Pet Day - Sunday, August 23, 10am-5pm

Contributing Artist(s):

Elizabeth Albert, Bob Allen, Robin Arnold, Julia Whitney Barnes, Lesley P. Bender, mari jaye blanchard, Julie Cardillo, Gordon Changler, Irina Charny, Jeanette Chupack, Eric Conrad, Alison Crocetta & Casey Doyle, Teresa Cunliff in collaboration with Gary R. Weisberg & Greg Lemon, Marisa Dipaola, James Ehlers, BiJian Fan, Nicholas Fonseca, Fred Freeman, Mary L. Gillis, Stephen J. Godfrey, Victoria Goro-Rapoport, Amanda Grondin, Darrne Jones, Joshua Kaplan, KARRYL, Judith G. Klausner, Patsy Lindamood, Mimi Little, Ann Lovett, Jeremy Lund, Stephen Mead, Leslie Miller, Julia Millies, Bill Moore, joy nagy, Paul Rhymer, James T. Robertson, M. Jane Rowe, von Schmidt, Kim Shaklee, Ashley Snizek, Julia Stratton, Chine, Michael Thorpe, Jerry Venditti, Michelle Waters, May Wilson, Kim Winberry, Breck Young