Members of the Color & Light Society will host a spring show and sale featuring paintings, sculpture, watercolors, and more!
Annmarie After Hours Reception - Friday, March 20, 2015, 6-9pm
Artist In Action: Temporary Studio Program
Meet - Observe – Create
A few months each year, Annmarie’s spectacular Main Gallery is transformed from exhibition space into artist studios, allowing visitors the opportunity to appreciate the artistic process as well as the product. From January 17 through March 3, twenty-one artists from across the region will set up temporary studios in the Murray Arts Building at Annmarie. It is our goal to expose visitors to the working process of artists - from concept to finished product. Guests of all ages are invited to meet, observe, and work with the artists! Each artist has developed a hands-on project appropriate for guests of all ages.
Tour the gallery to observe the artists at work, and then join in the creative process as you use their materials, tools, and techniques!
Artist Schedule
Artist Name |
Dates |
Location |
Medium |
| Carol Waite | January 17 - 25 | Fredericksburg, VA | Sumi-e |
| Kathleen Willingham | January 17 - 23 | Bealeton, VA | Mixed Media |
| Michael Weaver | January 17 - 23 | Philadelphia, PA | Fiber |
| Mickey Kunkle | January 25 - 31 | Solomons, MD | Polymer Clay |
| Holly Cook | January 25 - February 7 | Lusby, MD | Jewelry |
| Jimmy Cintron | January 25 - 31 | Solomons, MD | Jewelry |
| Jen Poteet | January 26 - 31 | Sunderland, MD | Water Color, Mixed Media |
| Diana Manchak | February 1 - 8 | Ft. Washington, MD | Ceramics |
| Erica Daley | February 1 - 8 | Lexington Park, MD | Textile, Fiber |
| Rob Tomasso | February 8 - 15 | Denton, MD | Mixed Media |
| Ann Crain | February 9 - 15 | St. Leonard, MD | Mixed Media |
| Ann Preston | February 9 - 15 | Hollywood, MD | Watercolor |
| Mary Blumberg | February 9 - 15 | Solomons, MD | Watercolor |
| Devin Mack | February 13 - 22 | Towson, MD | Wire Sculpture |
| Liz Printz | February 16 - March 3 | Lusby, MD | Jewelry |
| Suzanne Shelden | February 16 - 22 | Prince Frederick, MD | Acrylic |
| Carole Thieme | February 23 - March 3 | Solomons, MD | Acrylic |
| Pamela Callen | February 22 - March 3 | Ridge, MD | Paint |
| Alice Momm | February 24 - March 3 | New York City, NY | Mixed Media |
HeartFelt: A Give & Take
Winter Public Art Project - kicks off MLK Weekend!
(admission is free during MLK Weekend)
Stop by Annmarie Garden and create a beautifully adorned heart on our clothesline display. Use one of our prompts to create a heart with a positive message, or start from scratch and use your own creative ideas to embellish your work. Choose from the varied supplies to make your creation—felts, yarns, glues, glitters, buttons, beads, threads and more. This is a Give & Take project: make a heart to leave for others, then take a finished heart created by a stranger to keep as a reminder that good, kind people are all around us.
Stop by often to see how the display changes as hearts are created and traded among our guests.
Annmarie After Hours Reception - Friday, May 23, 6-9pm
Woolie Gallery Talk - Sunday, August 3, 2-4pm; FREE
Join us for an informal tour and talk with Don Berezoski, owner of this beautiful collection, and a woolie expert. Reservations not required; free.
About the woolie collection: a woolie is a hand-stitched portrait of a ship created by British seamen between the 1830s and 1880s. Long hours at sea, coupled with the on-the-job knowledge of sewing, gave sailors the time and talent to create these exceptional works of art. This unusual collection is on loan from Donald Berezoski.
Annmarie After Hours Opening Reception - Friday, October 17, 6-9pm
Gallery Book Talk with Jennifer Cognard-Black - Sunday, November 16, 2014, 1-3pm FREE!
About the Exhibit:
Ever since prehistoric artists created spectacular hunting scenes on the walls of caves, cuisine and culture have met in art. We have an undeniable sensory connection to food - we love its taste, form, color, texture, aroma and sound (think sizzling bacon or pouring coffee). And we love to explore its many cultural differences. Food can be more than sustenance; food can be a passion, an entertaining and delicious escape, a comfort, or an obsession. Food is vital to our lives and is certainly at the heart of every celebration. Food is the subject of endless books, news reports, scientific studies, social media posts, and conversations. We are deeply interested in its sustainability, production, processing, distribution, scarcity, quantity, quality, composition, and price. This show features artists who explore these and other food-related issues, from the profound to the ridiculous. This is a rich and varied exhibit that honors the complexity of our relationship with food.
Laura Shull Ellisa DiRenzo John A. Schaffner
Juror Awards:
"Cake" by Laura Shull won the Creme de la Creme Award
"Big Burger" by Ellisa DiRenzo won an Amuse-bouche Award
"Love Donuts," by John A Schaffner won an Amuse-bouche Award
Exhibit Juror:
Robbie Davis, Project Director, Museum on Main Street, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Juror's Statement:
Food is more important than we sometimes think. Not only does it sustain us physically, but it also fulfills us emotionally. It is an important element of our cultural expression. Food is an active character in many of our personal memories of friends, family, home, comfort, or the trip of a lifetime in another country. It’s the warm feelings of sharing food with others, the joy of cooking, enjoying the tastes and smells of special occasions, and reveling in cultural traditions, both new and familiar, that attract us to food.
For Feast Your Eyes: the art of food, artists submitted works inspired by food. Some artists drew on the color, shape, and texture of foods to develop their works. Others were inspired by our cultural connections to food. The works selected for the exhibition represent a wide range of techniques and media. These works capture the vibrant colors and varying shapes of foodstuffs and, in many cases, comment on our relationships with food and its relevance in popular culture.
Food is one of those special cultural elements that we love to share. As you explore these works, think about your own experiences with food and, like the artists featured in this exhibition, consider what your personal food memories would inspire you to create.
The 7th Annual Ornament Show & Sale
Show Dates: November 15, 2014 - January 3, 2015
admission to the show area is free from 10:00am-5:00pm
(please note that Garden In Lights admission fees apply after 5:00pm beginning Dec. 5)
Guests will find a wide variety of handmade and fair trade ornaments in this lovely show. Enjoy free admission to the show area during regular daytime visiting hours.
ARTmazing
August 2 - October 31, 2014
Get lost at Annmarie! Guests of all ages will enjoy exploring one of the temporary mazes in the sculpture garden!
5th Annual Fairies in the Garden
A magical fairy house and gnome home exhibit
Annmarie After Hours Reception - FAMILY FRIENDLY - Friday, April 11, 2014, 6-9pm
Enjoy a magicalious exhibit of more than 50 handmade fairy and gnome homes scattered through the sculpture garden. Visit the Arts Building to borrow a costume (or purchase one in the Gift Shop), grab a guide, and start your journey!
Annmarie After Hours Opening Reception - Friday, June 20, 6-9pm
Art Blooms Gala Reception - Friday, July 18, 7-10pm - ticketed affair
Art Blooms Exhibit - Sat & Sun, July 19 & 20, 10am-5pm both days - FREE
This exhibit is concerned with the discoveries that artists make at the seaside. How do the sounds, tides, colors, and textures inspire artistic expression? How does the sea affect the content, mood, and execution of works of art? How do artists incorporate these experiences - and even the objects they find at the beach - into their art? Works of art that explore these and other complementary issues, will be included in the show with a goal of creating a rich and textured exploration of our relationship to the seaside.
BeachComber Exhibit Jurors:
A. Mark Haddon, Education Director, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Jenny Walton, Adjunct Faculty, Communication, Arts and Humanities, College of Southern Maryland
BeachComber Exhibit - Award Winners:
Marie Bergstedt, Kate
Ann Carin, Bay Cull No. 1
Jess Drake, Desert Coral 1 & Desert Coral 2
J. Luray Schaffner, Gatherings
Marydorsey Wanless, Beach Pinhole #2
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. 2014 will mark the fifth 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 19, 10:30am - Noon
As part of the Art Blooms Exhibit, guests are invited to drop in on Saturday, July 19 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!
Art Blooms 2013 Photo Gallery of Arrangements
Sunday,May4th,2025
Friday,May23rd,2025
Monday,May26th,2025
Saturday,Jun7th,2025
Friday,Jun13th,2025
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