Annmarie After Hours Opening - Friday, March 18, 2016, 6-9pm
This exhibit assembles a vibrant and diverse selection of works that reflect the best of contemporary fiber and textile art, from works that embrace innovative materials, forms, and processes, to those that celebrate the history of this art form. Juried by internationally recognized expert, Renate Maile-Moskowitz, THREADS will thrill guests with its colors, textures, and designs.
Juror: Renate Maile-Moskowitz, International Fiberart Pedagogue, Historian, Consultant, Artist
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. 2016 will mark the 7th year for Art Blooms, an exhibit co-hosted by the Calvert Garden Club and Ann's Circle of Annmarie Garden. Admission is FREE!
Floral Design Demonstration, Saturday, July 16, 10:30am - Noon
As part of the Art Blooms Exhibit, guests are invited to drop in on Saturday, July 16 from 10:30am to Noon, and learn about the creative process of floral interpretation. Designers from the Calvert Garden Club will share their design secrets during this causal drop-in demonstration. After the demo, guests are invited to tour Art Blooms Exhibit and take a walk in the garden. Reservations not required; FREE!
Artist In Action 2016
Gallery Show & Sale – March 18-April 17, 2016
Annmarie After Hours Opening - Friday, March 18, 2016, 6-9pm
A gallery show & sale featuring works by the participating 2016 Artists In Action will take place March 18-April 17, 2016.
Annmarie After Hours Opening - Friday, March 18, 2016
Members of the Color & Light Society host a spring show and sale featuring paintings, sculpture, watercolors, and more.
The Art of John A. Schaffner & J. Luray Schaffner
This dynamic Southern Maryland artistic couple hosts a show in the Mezzanine Gallery.
This exhibit has been extended to March 6, 2016!
From January 14-March 2, 2016, Annmarie’s spectacular Main Gallery will be transformed into temporary artist studios, providing a serene retreat and experimental space for artists to develop new works, display and sell their work, network with other artists, and share their creative process with visitors.
A Gallery Show & Sale featuring the work of the Artists In Action will take place March 18-April 17, 2016.
Interested in applying to Artist In Action? CLICK HERE
Artist In Action Schedule
| ARTSIST | DATES | MEDIUM |
| Jackie Clark, New York, NY | Jan.14 – 28 | paint |
| Derek Haffar, Brooklyn, NY | Jan.14 – 20 | sculpture |
| Bev Bley, Fredericksburg, VA | Jan.16 – 23 | mixed media paint |
| Carol Waite, Fredericksburg, VA | Jan.16 – 23 | sumi-e |
| Candace Law, Berkley, MI | Jan.29 – Feb.7 | encaustic mixed media |
| Devin Mack, Towson, MD | Jan.29 – Feb.7 | wire sculpture |
| Laura Laird, Pasadena, MD | Feb.1 – 7 | collage |
| Tricia Hall, St. Leonard, MD | Feb.1 – 7 | jewelry |
| Mary Blumberg, Solomons, MD | Feb.7 – 13 | watercolor paint |
| Ann Preston, Hollywood, MD | Feb.8 – 14 | acrylic paint |
| Iris Hall-Willey, California, MD | Feb.8 – 14 | paint |
| Suzanne Shelden, Prince Frederick, MD | Feb.8 – 14 | acrylic paint |
| Rob Brownlee-Tomasso, Denton, MD | Feb.14 – 21 | mixed media paint |
| Diana Manchak, Ft. Washington, MD | Feb.15 – 21 | ceramic |
| Jimmy Cintron, Solomons, MD | Feb.15 – 21 | jewelry |
| Mickey Kunkle, Solomons, MD | Feb.15 –21 | polymer clay |
| Ann Crain, St. Leonard, MD | Feb.22 –28 | mixed media paint |
| Jen Poteet, Sunderland, MD | Feb.22 – 28 | mixed media paint |
| Brandy Lellou, Alexandria, VA | Feb. 22-28 | mixed media |
| Kristy Kun, Portland, OR | Feb.22 – 28 | fiber |
Annmarie After Hours - Opening Reception - Friday, October 23, 2015, 6-9pm
Exhibit Juror: Mary Savig, Curator of Manuscripts, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
For many artists, the words of writer Wendell Berry ring true - “if you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.” A sense of place can be an essential element in artists’ creative life, and frequently informs their subject matter, materials, style, approach, studio location, and more. Whether it be ones childhood “primal landscape,” full of memories of home and family, or the pull of a dramatic landscape, or a connection to a particular place based on historical and cultural events, geography calls to the imagination. As the world shifts to a focus on the virtual, how has this impacted artists’ work? Has it resulted in a weakening of a sense of place, or has the meaning of place simply adjusted to this new reality? This exhibit invites artists to explore this issue from either or both sides, and to celebrate what place means to them. What informs your work? A physical location or a virtual world? Do you know “where you are?”
The 8th Annual Ornament Show & Sale
November 14, 2015 - January 2, 2016
Open Most Days & Open late on Garden In Lights evenings
Admission to the show area is free until 5:00pm; after 5:00pm, Garden In Lights admission fee applies
Presented by the Annmarie Gift Shop, the Ornament Show & Sale is a juried show that features hand-crafted ornaments by regional artists. This is the perfect place to find unique and affordable gifts 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!
Information for Artists
The Gift Shop at Annmarie Garden invites artists and craftspeople to apply to the Annual Ornament Show & Sale to take place during the holiday season. Artists and craftspeople working in any medium are invited to apply - fine arts, folk art, and craft media, toys, etc. Individuals as well as groups may apply to share a tree and sell their creations. The beautiful Main Gallery of the Arts Building at Annmarie Sculpture Garden will be the setting for the show. All sales will run through the Gift Shop, so artists need not be on site every day. Applications are reviewed on a first come, first served basis. Artists will be notified of acceptance into the show within one week of application submission. Modest booth fees apply.
Annual deadline to apply is October 1.
Annmarie After Hours - Opening Reception - Friday, August 7, 6-9pm (adults only)
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
An artist texturing paintings with earth, and an artist creating sculptures with clay. These processes are being employed both to create connections with nature and to express universal conditions common in life’s journey. A painter and sculptor playing dirty – it’s an obvious synergy.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Rob Brownlee-Tomasso, Painter
Bio
Taking inspiration from architecture, history, and nature, as well as depicting highly stylized conceptual characters, Rob Brownlee-Tomasso creates texture studies done in mixed media. Often on irregularly shaped canvases and sometimes as multiple canvas installations, the acrylic medium or gesso is applied with a mixture of sand, earth, or other materials to achieve a coarse surface. It is common for earth to be taken from a specific location that is the subject matter of that particular work. Rob Brownlee-Tomasso has pursued art since childhood. At age ten he attended The Barn Studio of Art in Millville, NJ, majored in fine art in high school, and earned a BA in design from Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. He has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Maryland and Virginia, and his work resides in several private collections
Alice Yutzy, Sculptor
Artist Statement:
CLAY… I love its smell, its sensuous plasticity. The creative process is governed by an intuitive form-based focus using the tactile manipulative quality of clay to express symbolic meaning within each piece. The sculptures are described as nonobjective biomorphic forms. The variety of themes expressed are based upon an acknowledgement and expression of many universal human conditions common in life’s journey. My hope is that these pieces will convey a sense of peace and tranquility to the viewer, resulting in a uniquely personal experience for each person.
Bio
Alice M. Yutzy, born on October 7, 1948 in Baltimore, MD spent her formative years living in Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia. From an early age Alice had an avid interest in art with drawing as one of her favorite pastimes. Graduating from the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.A. in art education Alice taught art in the public school system for 39 years. The last 24 of those years Alice was very fortunate to teach what she loved: ceramics and sculpture at the high school level. Alice earned her MFA in studio art with a concentration in ceramics at Towson University in 2007. Alice lives with her husband Dee on 6 ½ wooded acres in rural southern Maryland. Their grown children, Brianna and Woody, have both chosen careers in education. An avid nature and animal lover, Alice enjoys her two cats and riding her lovely new horse Chippy. Although her primary chosen media is clay, she has also worked in plaster, wood, stone, mixed-media, cast cement and lightweight concrete. Currently Alice works as a part time professor at the College of Southern Maryland teaching introductory ceramics and ceramic sculpture. Alice continues to evolve, allowing her artwork to be an expression of her inner self.
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In conjunction with the Cardboard Day of Play, held Sunday, October 4, 2015.
This exhibit was open to all ages and abilities. Each work of art had to be at least 75% cardboard.
To learn more, click here.
Award winners:
Adult:
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