Annmarie After Hours Reception, Friday, April 5, 2013, 6-9pm
As a complement to the studio portion of The Living Gallery program, an exhibit of works by the Living Gallery artists will open April 5, 2013, and run through May 19, 2013, in the Main Gallery at Annmarie. Guests are invited to attend the Annmarie After Hours Reception for the exhibition and sale on Friday, April 5, 2013, 6-9pm. The exhibit and sale will include works created during The Living Gallery, as well as works created in the artists private studios. The Living Gallery Exhibition & Sale is your opportunity to return to Annmarie to see the artists completed works and to purchase a work of art that you observed being created.
Members of the Color & Lights Society will host a spring show and sale featuring paintings, sculpture, watercolors, and more.
Annmarie After Hours Reception - Friday, March 15, 5-8pm
Annmarie's Main Gallery will be transformed into artist studio space from January 18 through March 24, 2013, during The Living Gallery. More than 20 artists, including painters, sculptors, ceramicists, and others, will set up their studios and work in the gallery. Guests are invited to observe the artistic process, and if desired, talk with the artists about their work. Questions about any aspect of the artistic process - techniques, tools, materials, subject, and inspiration – are highly encouraged.
As a complement to the studio portion of The Living Gallery program, an exhibit of works by the Living Gallery artists will open April 5 and run through May 19, 2013, in the Main Gallery at Annmarie. Guests are invited to attend the Annmarie After Hours Reception for the exhibition and sale on Friday, April 5, from 6-9pm. The exhibit and sale will include works created during The Living Gallery, as well as works created in the artists private studios. The Living Gallery Exhibition & Sale is your opportunity to return to Annmarie to see the artists completed works and to purchase a work of art that you observed being created.
Chesapeake Foodways Talk & Demonstration by Michael Twitty - Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, 1-3pm FREE!
About the Castelli Exhibit:
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.
October 19, 2012 - January 13, 2013
Annmarie After Hours Opening - Friday, October 19, 2012, 6-9pm
This exhibit is going over the top with works of art that shine, sparkle, twinkle, shimmer, flicker, flash, and glitter. In celebration of the holiday season, the jurors have selected artists that know how to bring on the glitz!
Daniel Knox Angela Cazel Jahn Jamie Glaser
JURORS:
Carrie Patterson, Department Chair, Dept. of Art & Art History, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Sally Otis, Coordinator, Videoconference Education Program, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Juror's Statement
So much of our world is drab from concrete streets and sidewalks, dire news reports and the grit of everyday living. Perhaps this is why our eye is immediately drawn to something that sparkles, that sets itself apart from the ordinary. Glitz can become an indulgence, a chance to be glamorous and revel in the attention the spotlight brings. Glitz doesn't take itself too seriously and yet, can be transformative forcing a second glance and making us reconsider something as common as an evergreen tree dressed up with ornaments and lights. The artists in this exhibition all bedazzle our eyes with pop and punch, creating objects that make us think about what attracts and what repels our senses.
Juror's Awards presented to:
Sheryl Paulson
James Dupree
Angela Cazel Jahn
Candy Cummings
The 5th Annual Ornament Show & Sale
November 17, 2012 - January 1, 2013
Open Most Days & Open late on Garden In Lights evenings
Presented by the Annmarie Gift Shop, the Ornament Show & Sale is a juried show that features hand-crafted ornaments by 20 regional artists. This is the perfect place to find unique and affordable gift 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!
September 21 – October 19, 2012 - EXTENDED TO November 5, 2012! (installation phase)
Hidden Midden: a community eco-art project
Guests are welcome to observe the artist as she builds the installation or
visit the artLAB anyday between 1-4pm to create your own mini-midden!
Developed & Installed by Kaitlin Kylie Pomerantz
With assistance from John Broderick Heron
Join visiting artist Kaitlin Pomerantz, as she creates an eco-sculpture inspired by oyster middens - the giant piles of oyster shells created as a result of the domestic activity of pre-colonial Native American communities. Kaitlin’s eco-sculpture will explore the destruction of oyster middens during the 20th century for construction projects and the cultural and environmental impact of their loss.
About the artists:
Kaitlin Kylie Pomerantz is an artist, writer, teacher and environmentalist. Her drawings, paintings and site specific sculptures explore the intersections between nature and culture and draw from the history of still life painting. She lives and works in Philadelphia and New York City. She co-manages a small oyster farm and commercial oyster nursery with her father in Greenport, Long Island. She holds a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of Chicago, and a post-baccalaureate certificate in fine arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. To learn more visit alonelyhunter.tumblr.com and kaitlinpomerantz.com.
John Broderick Heron is a sculptor and builder who lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. His drawings, architectural models and sculptural works explore intersections between the built and natural worlds, utopian and dystopian futures and imagined, primitive pasts. His work has been shown at Fleischer-Ollman and Vox Populi, Philadelphia.
Exhibit Materials Generously Donated by:
Len & Karen Zuza, SMOCS (Southern Maryland Oyster Cultivation Society)
Matt Gambrill, Calvert Marinal
Calvert County Division of Solid Waster - Appeal Landfill
Pastor Faith Lewis & the congregation of Olivet Methodist Church
Morgan State University Estuarine Center, Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum
Tommy Zinn
Karl A. Bowen, Karl A. Bowen Tree Service
Stoney's Seafood House
DiGiovanni's Dock of the Bay Restaurant
Calypso Bay Raw Bar
Solomon's Snacks
The Oyster House, Philadelphia
NEW! Have you heard about the auction featuring fairy & gnome home? CLICK here for info!
Enjoy a magical tour of Annmarie as your search for more than 70 handmade fairy and gnome homes scattered throughout the garden. Visit the Arts Building to borrow a costume and then start your journey!
2nd Annual Fairy & Gnome Home Festival & Tour - Saturday, June 30, 2012, 9am-2pm
The 3rd Annual Fairies in the Garden is held in memory of Pat Giardina Carpenter, 1943-2012.
Home Tweet Home: art for the birds
February 14-August 31, 2012*
Downloadable birdhouse guide Downloadable coloring pages
Home Tweet Home features twenty birdhouses of various shapes, sizes, and materials. One favorite, Big Bird House, built by Richard Preston of Hollywood, Maryland, is a bright yellow and gray house that stands over three feet tall and two feet wide. Another creation is a gray rocket ship with a dainty bird wearing goggles perched on top ready to rocket to the stars. The well-known southern Maryland artist couple, John Schaffner and J. Luray Schaffner, has created a spectacular house that is composed of ten different painted houses bolted together in a lovely geometric shape. Other houses include a flowered gourd, an ode to the Tiki Bar, Rapunzel’s castle, a seashell and driftwood house, and a set of five houses painted by a local mom’s group. Like much of what Annmarie does, Home Tweet Home embraces and celebrates a wide variety of artistic expression, from professional artists to youthful enthusiast. It seem that everyone, even the birds, have a home at Annmarie. Home Tweet Home continues through August 31, 2012 (unless a bird takes up long-term residence).
*unless a bird takes up residence!
Art Blooms Gala Reception for Treasured - Friday, Juy 13, 6-9pm; tickets required
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.
Sasha Zhitneva Stephanie Garmey Riccardo Berlingeri
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
Juror's Statement:
Nothing ever stays the same. From the moment-to-moment passing of time to the larger changes fueled by advances in knowledge, technology, and ever shifting global dynamics, change sometimes feels like the only constant we can count on. Loss of various dimensions always accompanies change; loss on the personal level as memories of past generations fade over time, loss on a cultural level as traditional customs are replaced with the new trends; loss on the environmental level as species disappear and ecosystems collapse.
The impulse to make art is, at its core, a way to fix things (or feelings) in time, to preserve that which is important, to capture something before it vanishes and to reach out through time to touch those that will come later. In this way, the theme of this exhibition might describe all artworks. But loss in our age isn’t simply a matter of change over time. It is accelerated by an array of contemporary conditions. Our ever-increasing demands on limited natural resources threaten the existence of certain species and habitats, while the forces of globalization push indigenous societies too often into assimilation. Our own immersion in technology endangers our direct relationship with the natural world and obscures the forces of changes that new technology embodies.
The artworks in this exhibition address, if not protest, some of these contemporary conditions. It is certainly no surprise that one of the most common subjects in this show is the natural world whether it be about threatened wildlife or simply the celebration of an unmediated experience of a natural environment. Our depletion of natural resources is explored in a number of works through their use of recycled materials and their subjects of global concern (deforestation and climate change) their local manifestations in the ecosystem and resources of the Chesapeake Bay. The personal, linguistic and cultural dimensions of loss are also explored. Some artists capture an image as a way to visually retain what is precious while others physically retain by making their artworks from the very things they want to preserve. All of these artworks, whether through their playfully recasting of collecting traditions from the 19th and 20th century or through more confrontational images, ask of us to consider our place in an ever-changing world and how we can learn to dwell in it more ethically. The artworks in this show are a testament to the power of art to make us pause, think about what it is we treasure, and how we might collectively work to be better stewards.
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 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.
Tuesday,Nov11th,2025
Thursday,Nov27th,2025
Friday,Nov28th,2025
Saturday,Nov29th,2025
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