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Join us for a magical summer in the garden! Enjoy a safe, outdoor, engaging experience during Annmarie’s Enchanted Summer at the Garden! We’ve taken all the best parts of our popular Fairy & Gnome Home Festival and transformed it into an amped-up, low-touch/no-touch, multimedia, daily, outdoor experience of frolicking fairy fun. Grab your bug spray, pack a picnic blanket or chairs, and spend your summer with us!

Come explore this charming exhibit of more than 75 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.

We will start with an online show on our website and social media accounts, and then move to a physical gallery show once the public gathering restrictions have been lifted. Please note this means the artwork delivery dates and the gallery show dates may change as we progress through this crisis. If your work is accepted, we will keep you informed of any changes. Current details are listed below. Bloom & Grow is a lush, colorful, and wide-ranging celebration of floral and botanical art. From biblical depictions of the Garden of Eden, to the plein air art of the Impressionists, to the bold stylized motifs in pop culture, depictions of flowers are plentiful throughout art history and visual culture. Bloom & Grow will feature works that continue these traditions, as well as works that push beyond to explore the symbolic, the emotional, the environmental, and the personal connections we have with flowers, plants, and all things that grow outdoors.

We don't have to miss the beauty of Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center this spring! We've created a peaceful video tour of the garden just for you! Enjoy the art as well as the first buds of spring leaves and blossoms now appearing.

Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center in Solomons, Maryland, is pleased to present a powerful new exhibit exploring images and experiences of woman in art, as creators, innovators, consumers, and subject matter. She: An Expression of Womanhood will run through September 27, 2020 in the Kay Daugherty Gallery. The juried exhibit features over 80 works from local and national artists. Themes. Images, and experiences are expressed in a variety of mediums, including, painting and drawing, fiber, assemblage, and sculpture.

ACLT has come up with an event that we think participants will really enjoy while supporting local agri-tourism businesses and ACLT at the same time! For this event, we are partnering with local breweries and wineries to bring you our “Passport to Preservation“. From August 1st to September 7th, visit participating breweries and wineries (not all in one day!), enjoy exclusive discounts, and get your passport stamped for chances to win great prizes!

For preschoolers ages 3 – 5, with an adult. This program focuses on one of the museum's three themes. Join us for story time and a take away craft, available while supplies last. Sessions are 15-20 minutes. Capacity limited to 10 people per session.

Enjoy a leisurely hour on the river with a relaxing sightseeing cruise. You will sail the busy Solomons inner harbor, see Solomons Island and the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, pass underneath the Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge and turn back at Pt. Patience and the Naval Recreation Center. Departures are from the Calvert Marine Museum dock. All cruises are weather permitting. Space is available on a first-come, first-served basis and tickets will be available online and if seats are still available at the Admissions Desk. Maximum capacity is 20 persons. Accommodations will be made for individuals with disabilities with reasonable notice. No strollers allowed. All passengers must wear a mask for this one hour cruise.

We invite you to join us as we paddle up the beautiful Parkers Creek, one of the most cared for and protected creeks on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. The creek is surrounded by the Parkers Creek Preserve, over 3,200 acres of wildlands and natural forests. ACLT provides friendly, expert guides to make your trip fun, informative and safe! We also offer you the option to use our canoes (2 person) or you are welcome to bring your own canoe/kayak. Just let us know. Registration is required.

Speaker: Francis Lukezic, Conservator, Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab. Always ready for an adventure, Francis spent the summer of 2018 in southwest Alaska as site conservator and lab manager at the Nunalleq Archaeological Excavation, which is the subject of this talk. Nunalleq is a pre-contact Yup'ik site located in southwest Alaska, on the coast of the Bering Sea, and produced over 60,000 artifacts over 10 years of seasonal excavations. The presentation highlights the Yup'ik village of Quinhagak's collaboration with archaeologists and conservators to save thousands of artifacts from the Nunalleq site before they eroded out of the tundra and washed into the Bering Sea and to create the Nunalleq Culture and Archaeology Center, the home for all the artifacts.