Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center

JURORS:
Dr. Joshua A. Bell, Curator of Globalization, Department of Anthropology, 
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Instituion

Lisa Scheer, Professor of Art, Department of Art & Art History, St. Mary's College of Maryland

Treasured reveals the beauty and vulnerability of the endangered and the threatened.  From disappearing plant and animal species, to vanishing languages and cultures, to threatened ecosystems, the exhibit highlights the intricacies and fragility of precious and vanishing worlds.  

To apply to show, click on box

 

Art Blooms Gala Reception for Treasured - Friday, Juy 13, 6-9pm; tickets required

About Art Blooms Gala Reception
A special reception for Treasured, called Art Blooms Gala Reception, will take place on Friday, July 13, 6-10pm.  Art Blooms is a fund-raising event that we undertake with the Calvert Garden Club for which a floral designer is paired with a work of art from the exhibit.  The floral designers will create arrangements inspired by the works from the Treasured exhibit.  The opening reception will include wine, light hors de’oeuvres, and live music.  The sculpture garden will remain open with extended hours, taking full advantage of the exceptional venue. 

Annmarie After Hours Opening - Friday, August 17, 6-9pm

This exhibit features 23 paintings by renowned Chesapeake artist Marc Castelli, on loan from the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michael's, Maryland.  Seventeen of the paintings were donated to the Museum from the Diane Simison collection. The remaining images are from the artist’s personal collection.

Castelli paints in watercolor on paper, working from photographs that he takes himself. This allows him not only to get the proportions and details exactly right, but it allows him to capture action and attitude that painting from life would not permit. Castelli goes out at times in awful weather—cold, wind, rain, even snow—conditions in which no one could paint.  He then photographs the watermen's work in the full variety of conditions that they work in and takes those pictures back to paint in his home studio.

Diane Simison began collecting Castelli’s work in 2004. “Diane quite deliberately built this cohesive collection of Marc’s paintings of Chesapeake watermen because she was captivated by the aesthetic value,” commented CBMM Chief Curator Pete Lesher. "But she was also drawn in by Castelli’s approach and message: going out on the boats with the watermen to capture aspects of their work and the hardships they face. Her chosen location for retirement on Tilghman Island, with its large community of watermen, certainly must have played a role in attracting her to this subject matter.”

Looking for the Brass Ring / Vicious Virgin, 2006. [22 x 30] © Marc Castelli, The Simison Collection. Castelli has caught the powerful patent tongs lifting out of the Bay, pulling a mound of water behind them. Though the color of the sky marks this as a typically cold day for oystering, and despite the mechanical help from the dredge, Waterman Jimmy Kline is working so hard he’s shed his outer layer.