Current Gallery Shows
- Date:Apr 5 2024 - Sep 2 2024Gallery:Sculpture Garden
15th Annual Fairies in the Garden Outdoor Exhibit
April 5 - September 2, 2024
*Special note about the display of the houses: it takes our garden gnomes just over a week to place all the creations out in the garden, so if you visit between April 5-12, you will find some around the Arts Buiding and some in the woods.Come explore this charming outdoor exhibit of more than 180 handmade houses scattered throughout the trails and woods of the garden. Made by wonderfully creative artists from the community (and beyond), this exhibit features works in all media.
Annmarie After Hours Opening Reception - Friday, April 5, 5-7pm
Join us for an outdoor family-friendly opening of our most magicalicious exhibit. All the houses will be displayed around the outside of the Arts Building. This is a great opportunity to see them all before they are scattered throughout the sculpture garden! Reservations are not required, just come. There will be a food truck, cash bar, and live music. Admission: free for members; $5 for adults, $3 for kids, free for age 2 & under.
Save the date! Fairy & Gnome Home Festival - Sunday, April 21, 11am-4pm.
Tickets on sale now! - Date:Apr 1 2024 - May 27 2024Gallery:Main Gallery & Sculpture Garden
About Artists in Action 2024
Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center is pleased to announce the return of Artists in Action! From April1 - May 27, 2024, Annmarie’s Main Gallery will be transformed into temporary artist studios, providing a serene retreat and workspace for artists to create. The 30-acre park, patios, and pavilions will also host plein air painters and outdoor installation artists.
Artist Schedule
APRIL 1-7
Janice Horoschak Jewelry Nottingham, MD View Workshop
Margaret Panebianco Mixed Media Beltsville, MD
Louise Wigglesworth Painting Solomons, MD
Mary Turpin Fiber Riverdale Park, MDAPRIL 8-14
Margo Bauman Fiber Mechanicsville, MD
Suzanne Shelden Painting Pr. Frederick, MD View Workshop
Elaine Davy Strong Painting Huntingtown, MD
Sharon Stapf Mixed Media Hollywood, MD (outside April 8, 10, 12 only)APRIL 15-21
Carolyn Huff Wood California, MD
Linda Craven Painting Pt. Republic, MD View Workshop
Dana Rivera Mixed Media Washington DC
Sandrine Daubord Mixed Media Hollywood, MDAPRIL 22-25
Brenda Foehrkolb Screen Painting Chestertown, MD
Sandrine Daubord Mixed Media Hollywood, MD
Ruby Bassford Mixed Media Mechanicsville, MD
Sanzi Kermes Printmaking/Mixed Baltimore, MD View Workshop
APRIL 25-28
Sanzi Kermes Printmaking/mixed Baltimore, MD (outside only)
Shani Shih Painting/ Mixed Washington DC (outside only)APRIL 29- MAY 2
Bipasha Hayat Mixed Media Levittown, NY
Sanzi Kermes Printmaking/Mixed Baltimore, MD
Sieva Smith Mixed Media California, MD (outside May 2-5)MAY 6-11
Rachael Bohlander Mixed Media Washington DC
Felicia Reed Fiber Upper Marlboro, MD
Carrie Lee Fiber Lusby, MD View Workshop
Kathryn Mecca Painting Solomons, MD
Julia Forrest Photography Brooklyn, NY
Margo Bauman Mixed media Mechanicsville, MD (May 11 only)MAY 13-16
Lenore Solmo Sculpture Brooklyn, NY (outside 5/17)
Carrie Lee Fiber Lusby, MD
Julia Gaff Fiber Solomons, MD
Marissa Canino Painting Forest Hill, MD (outside 5/17-19) View Workshop
Margo Bauman Mixed Media Mechanicsville, MDMAY 20-27
Olivia Knier Fiber Tonawanda, NY
Lonnie Harkins Scratchboard Lusby, MD View Workshop
Pamela Callen Painting Lusby, MD
Kathryn Mecca Painting Solomons, MD
Rachel Gibson Mixed Media Marion, VA View Workshop
Jalen Patten Drawing/Painting Clinton, MD (outside May 21-24 only)
Laura Grothaus Mixed media Baltimore, MD (outside May 24-17 only)
& Rosalie Geck
We still have space! Looking to apply? CLICK HERE
- Date:Mar 4 2024 - Jan 6 2025Gallery:Nature Nook
On Display March 2024 - January 2025
This exhibit features a large diversity of plant and animal lifecycles with a focus on life stages. See live critters in different stages of life: tadpoles, caterpillars, aquatic insects and other visiting wildlife. Make giant lifecycle floor puzzles, play games, and investigate hands-on models and specimens. Learn about salamanders and their life cycles including our featured fauna, the newt. Meet Frida, the axolotl who will never have an adult stage where she leaves the water like spotted salamanders.
Explore the weird and wonderful world of metamorphosis in this exhibit.
Join us for a Family Nature Walk! SEE THE SCHEDULE
- Date:Feb 9 2024 - Apr 21 2024Gallery:Kay Daugherty Gallery
This exhibition inspires environmentally sustainable artmaking through found objects, creative reuse, and upcycled art. By repurposing by-products, waste materials, or unwanted objects and transforming them into something with more perceived and artistic value, artists explore environmental themes, engage in social commentary, implore a call to action, or infuse realism, emotion, or humor in their work.
The artwork in this show is eye-opening, engaging, thought-provoking, inspiring, poetic, and even sometimes playful and optimistic. This exhibit answers the question- How are contemporary artists engaging with objects in a world overrun with too much stuff?
About the Juror:
Siobhan Starrs is a Senior Exhibition Developer at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History where she develops and manages permanent and temporary exhibitions and works on pan-Smithsonian initiatives. Siobhan led the Deep Time: Fossil Hall renovation and exhibition project along with many other climate and environmental science exhibitions over her 24-year tenure at the Museum engaging audiences in the wonders of the natural world and our place in it. She holds BAs in History and English from Virginia Tech and an MA in Museum Studies from George Washington University. Siobhan also volunteers as an interpreter and Bluebird Trail Coordinator at Gunston Hall Historic Site, and spends any moment of spare time discovering nearby nature in and around Washington, D.C.
Juror's Statement:
"As an exhibition developer at a natural history museum and a frequent art museum goer, I am an enthusiastic advocate for the power of creativity and all forms of creative expression. Art feeds my personal and professional hunger to discover new ways of being human on a changing planet. Art helps us appreciate diverse, new perspectives and with new eyes come new ways of seeing and being the world. I accepted the invitation to jury Metamorphosis: Recycled, Repurposed, Reimagined because art museums including the Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Art Center have been inspiring trailblazers in engaging diverse audiences to critically reflect, discuss, and respond to challenging contemporary issues including climate change and our relationship with the environment.
The depth of impressive submissions made selecting the artworks for Metamorphosis both a difficult and wonderful opportunity. Pieces reflected the broad, complex emotional landscape evoked when we consider our individual and communal relationships to the material world, the natural world, and the climate crisis. From humor and love to grief and anger, the materiality, execution, and vision of the final selected pieces best exemplified the Metamorphosis call to act – to see this current moment of change as an opportunity and an invitation to live lighter and more sustainably. Like the call and response of birds, the selected pieces powerfully document artists responses to the question – how can we live better in a world overrun with too much stuff? I am grateful for their reminder that nature and art remain a constant source of possibility and hope even in times of profound change."
-Siobhan Starrs
Exhibition Developer and Sustainability Champion
National Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian InstitutionAnnmarie After Hours Reception: Friday, February 9th, 5-7pm
JUROR AWARD WINNERS
Laura Quattrocchi
Hope Wreath #2
Scratched Lottery Tickets, Wire, Canvas
48"x 48"
2021Marty Koelsch
Conduit A/Corrected Oxbow
Rusted Steel Pipe, Charcoal, Pine Lumber
48" x 60" x 30"
2023Ernesto Ruiz Bry
Strong & Beautiful
Collage on Plywood
48" x 48"
2018Contributing Artist(s):Anne Bascove, John Bassett, Ruby Bassford, Jessica Bernstein, Ralph Blessing, Christopher Brown, Amy Browning-Dill, Lauren Cassidy, Anna Chan, Lisa Chin, Ceci Cole McInturff, Edie Dillon, Hyunsuk Erickson, Pauline Galiana, Maureen Garcia, Sandra Gibson, Pragati Godbole, Kimberly Harding, Beth Higgins, Dan Hildt, Kaitlyn Horpedahl, Judith Hugentobler, Alexis Irby, Jeremy Jones, Todd Jones, Katie Kameen, Sanzi Kermes, KHyal, Marty Koelsch, Gail Kotel, Lyubava Kroll, Nichole Leavy, Mike Libby, Joi Lowe, Dana Mano-Flank, Donnelly Marks, Gail Meyers, Deborah Miller, Debra Mixon-Holliday, Michaela Moran, Marcella Morgese, Kelly Murray, Jonathan Ottke, Phil Ouellette, Isabel Pardo, Allison Pasarew, Cindy Pease-Roe, Kristina Penhoet, Laura Quattrocchi, Kyle Ramseur, Luis Recoder, Citalin Rios, Agustin Rosa, Ernesto Ruiz Bry, Theda Sandiford, Carolyn Schlam, Yulia Shtern, Silvia Souza, Ann Standrod, Sarah Swift, Dorian Traynham, Elain Weiner-Reed, Winnie Van Der Rijn, Marc Zaref, Susan Zimmerman, Barbara Ziselberger