Current Gallery Shows
- Date:Mar 6 2021 - Aug 22 2021Gallery:Sculpture Garden
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.Contributing Artist(s):Elizabeth Ashe, Larry Ringgold, Rick Clement, Ed Rupard, Chuck Von Schmidt, Jay Williams, Tom Yates - Date:Mar 1 2021 - May 31 2021Gallery:Nature Nook
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.
- Date:Feb 19 2021 - Sep 26 2021Gallery:Kay Daugherty Mezzanine Gallery
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.
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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.
Joan BoudreauCurator, Graphic Arts CollectionDivision of Work & IndustryNational Museum of American HistorySmithsonian Institution
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at the artists' processes and inspiration below!Contributing Artist(s):E. Ainsley, Julie Anderson, Nancy Arbuthnot, Jay Arpin, Veronica Barker-Barzel, Brandin Baron, Diana Behl, Brytton Bjorngaard, Leslie Blackmon, Charles Boone, Caroline Coolidge Brown, David Brown, Ingrid Butterer, Valerie Carrigan, Indira Cesarine, Locus Xiaotong Chen, Charles Clary, Sandi Daniel, Katherine DeLamater, Kristine DeNinno, Tracey Donnelly Franklin, Alyson Eshelman, Margaret Fletcher, Timothy Frerichs, Emily Fussner, Hazel Glass, Misty Granade, Mark Harris, Sachie Hayashi, Megan Heeres, Annmarie Holler, Richard Hricko, Hannah Hunter, Imar Hutchins, Sun Young Kang, Kristina King, Lauren Koch, Brooke Lambert, Judith + Rolfe, Jun Lee, Chuqiao Li, Valentine Louafi, Valerie Lucas, Sherri Madison, Miranda Maher, Anne Marble, Claire Marcus, Christina Massey, Sarah Matthews, Julie Maynard, Elizabeth McAlpin, Patrick McLane, Sonya Michel, Laurel Moorhead, Barb Mowery, Steven Munoz, Karen Musgrave, Linda Nichols, Kimberly Obee, Sue O'Donnell, Eleanor Olson, Dana O'Malley, Erin Prischmann Webb, Rachel Proctor, Regina Bernadette Quinn, Sharon Robinson, Brooke Sauer, Aseel Swalha, Gretchen Schermerhorn, Jennifer Scheuer, Adi Segal, Amy Smith, Sophie Smith, Jacquelyn Strycker, Mary Teichman, Nevada Tribble, Theo Trotter, Rhonda Urdang, Megan Whitten, Liz Strong Wilson, Angela Wolak, Ted Wray