What is it about animals that enthrall, delight, terrify, inspire, comfort, and intrigue us? Some of the earliest forms of art, stunning prehistoric cave paintings and bas relief sculptures estimated to be at least 30,000 years old, are dominated by representations of animals. Our ancient relationship with animals - wild and domesticated, real and imagined, extinct and extant - is the inspiration for Wild Things.
As you view the sixty-eight pieces selected for this exhibit (located outdoors in the garden as well as in the Main Gallery), consider the emotions that animals arouse. How do the representations here affect your emotions? What is it about animals that enthrall, delight, terrify, inspire, comfort, and intrigue you ?
Many of the works in this show are for sale. A downloadable Price List is available
Wild Things Exhibit Programs
Daily Activities: enjoy these hands-on activities inspired by the exhibit
----Walk on the Wild Side - channel your inner beast and create a graphic print of the wild thing within you!
----Creature Collage - help complete a mural by desinging your own fantasy animal and placing it in a landscape.
Scheduled Activities:
----WILD Things Program - Sunday, June 28, 10am-5pm
----WILD Things Summer Safari - June 1 - August 30
----WILD Things Pet Day - Sunday, August 23, 10am-5pm
This exhibit invites guests to use their sense of touch to explore the texture and shape of art. Seventeen artists have contributed more than forty-five works, including bronze, wood, marble, glass, brick, and ceramic, to this unconventional exhibit. Close your eyes and feel the smooth marble, the pebbly bronze, the gritty clay, the rough wood, and the satiny glass. What does your sense of touch communicate to you about the art? What do you feel? Texture, temperature, shape? Break the rules, touch the art, and use your sense of touch to experience art in a new and enriching way. Guests with sight impairments may find distinct delight in being allowed this intimate experience.
TOUCH! is anchored by twenty-one extraordinary bronze shields by Andrew Baxter. Widely sought after for his restoration work, Baxter is also a talented artist who creates mesmerizing bronze works using luminous patinas and repetitive shapes. With raised nodules, squiggly lines, hatch marks, and geometric forms, Baxter creates a rich world of sensory delights. Other artists in the exhibit include sculptor Lee Aks, well-known artist Brenda Belfield, wood carver John A. Schaffner, and Perry Carsley, a contributing artist to the National World War II Memorial. Two emerging artists of note in TOUCH! are Amanda Willis and James Thomas Robertson.
This winter Annmarie Garden is teaming up with the National Capital Art Glass Guild to exhibit spectacular glass works for the holiday season. Lasting from late November through the middle of February, this exhibit will complement the new walk-through Garden in Lights special event.
Free admission for children!
Join DC artist, Joyce Wellman, as she leads visitors in a collaborative mural project inspired by the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Learn about Dr. King's life and work, and make a collage about his impact on your personal world. Final collage will be arranged in a multimedia installation at Annmarie Garden and other southern Maryland sites.
Also in the gallery, explore Forty Blossoms from the Bouquet, featuring portraits of forty of our area's most prominent African-American women by local artist, Delphine Siggers-Williams. Forty Blossoms will be on display from January 16- February 28.
Some Assembly Required: a participatory art exhibit
This participatory art exhibit explores the seven basic elements of art - line, color, shape, form, value, texture, and space - by inviting visitors to help create four on-site installations and two make and take projects. These works of art will grow and change every day as visitors contribute new elements. Whether you are a confident artist, or a hesitant dabbler, you are invited to participate. It is participation that is sought, not perfection. The ultimate goal is to create art shaped by our diverse community. Help us create something wonderful! Repeat visits are encouraged!
Olga Hirshhorn Recollects: an intimate view at a private collection
Annmarie Garden introduces an extraordinary exhibit of modern art, including works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Joan Miro. Made up of works on loan from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, this exhibition surveys a large donation made by Mrs. Hirshhorn to the Corcoran. Many of the works were created specifically for Mrs. Hirshhorn and her husband, the late Joseph H. Hirshhorn, founder of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC. The show provides an intimate look at the friendships the Hirshhorns enjoyed with some of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.
On loan from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
re.action: art that will move you!
Viewing art becomes a highly interactive experience in Re.action, an exploration of the language of movement in art. Juried by Mark Ward, Deputy Director of the Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Re.action includes works that literally move as well as pieces that suggest movement visually. Discover the various media and techniques contemporary artists use to examine the role of movement in their artwork; push a button, turn a crank, spin a pedestal, or experience the optical illusions that seem to wave and pulse as the work is closely examined.
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