Painterly Polka Dots - Summer Public Art Project
2013 Summer Public Art Project
Collaborative Summer Project for All Ages
June 16 - August 25, 2013, 10am-4pm daily
Included with price of site admission
Stop by Annmarie Garden and make your mark on the ever-growing public art project, Painterly Polka Dots. Inspired by the colorfully painted satellite dishes installed on an apartment building in Germany, these circular canvases will decorate the fence along the soon-to-be Children’s Discovery Garden. Each dot contains a design inspired by Chesapeake plants and animals. Garden visitors are encouraged to paint or color segments of the designs. Visitors may contribute to this project daily through August 25th. FREE with admission.
Annmarie After Hours Reception - Friday, June 7, 6-9pm
Inspired by the ancient belief that all life if composed of four elements - earth, air, fire, and water - Elements in Balance features works that reveal how artists imagine and understand life on Earth. The exhibit includes indoor and outdoor work, small to large scale,
Jurors:
Rebecca Head Trautmann, Curatorial Researcher, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian
Andrew Baxter, President, Bronze et al, Richmond, Virginia
Adam Long Garrett Zopfi Duncan MacDiarmid
TEXT/MESSAGE: a teen art exhibit (2013)
Facebook Exhibition: January 22 - February 10, 2013
Gallery Exhibition: March 15 - July 28, 2013
Jordan Satow, text/message exhibit of 2010-11
TEXT/MESSAGE is a teen art exhibit that showcases the talent, creativity, and perspective of today's teen culture. Through visual artwork, creative writing, performing arts, the exhibit features works that communicate what it means to be a teen in the world today. All artwork includes a text or a message in the body of the work.
Annmarie After Hours Opening of TEXT/MESSAGE, Friday, March 15, 2013, 5-8pm
Jury Award Recipients:
Erin Rothback for Unknown Stranger, Leonardtown High School
Victoria Wold for Pumped UP Kicks, Calvert High School
St. Mary's Ryken Dance Ensemble for Text No Evil, St. Mary's Ryken High School
Merit Awards:
Meghan Webster for Just Listen, Great Mills High School
Erin Nordquist for I am, Patuxent High School
Samantha Scott for Broken Winged Bird, Great Mills High School
Jury Panel:
Nancy Proctor, PhD, Head of Mobile Strategies & Initiatives, Smithsonian Institution
Joe Ruff, PhD, Public Services Librarian, Calvert Library
Tim Scheirer, Exhibits Technician, Calvert Marine Museum
Ben Paskoff, Teen Representative & TEXT/MESSAGE 2010 award winner
Art Blooms is a weekend exhibit featuring the work of more than 30 floral designers from across the region. Each floral designer is assigned a work of art in the Main Gallery or the Mezzanine 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. 2013 will mark the fourth year for Art Blooms, an exhibit co-hosted by the Calvert Garden Club and Ann's Circle of Annmarie Garden.
Art Blooms 2013 Photo Gallery of Arrangements
NEW this year!
Floral Design Demonstration, Saturday, July 20, 10:30am-Noon - public welcome!
Art Blooms Gala Reception - Friday, July 19, 6-10pm (tickets required)
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!
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