Antique & Flea Faire is Newest Festival at AMG
Mother’s Day Weekend Festival is Antique Fan’s Dream
The new Annmarie Antique & Flea Faire is a different kind of festival at Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Art Center, and it will bring more than 100 booths with antiques, collectibles, vintage items, jewelry, flea finds, and so much more to the garden on Mother’s Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 7 and 8, 2016, from 9 am to 3 pm each day.
This fabulous picker’s weekend will include demonstrations and talks about the hottest trends in upcycling and repurposing, including expert presentations from the Southern Maryland Pallet Co., Rustic Restorations, the Chesapeake Auction House, the Vintage Dames, and more. Everyone is invited to bring up to three small items for an appraisal fair from 10 am to 2 pm both days.
Teams will compete in the Flip & Flaunt Contest, showing off their best flip projects. The teams will shop for their flip items at the Faire and then have seven hours to turn the items into a masterpiece. The public will be able to watch the transformation and then the creations will be auctioned off at 2:40 pm Sunday, May 8. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the Annmarie artLAB. The contest winner will be the team whose flip item sells for the highest price.
All of the competitors will receive a gift for participating; the winning team gets a $250 cash award and other prizes. There is only space for six teams. To register, go to the Annmarie website listed above or call 410-326-4640.
Admission to the Faire is $3 per person; children 13 and younger are admitted free; Annmarie Garden members are free. There will be activities for all ages, so a family Mother’s Day outing is a perfect addition to the schedule.
In addition to the appraisal fair and Flip & Flaunt Contest, there will be a presentation at 11 am Saturday on How to Deconstruct a Pallet by Travis Wingfield of the Southern Maryland Pallet Co. At noon Saturday, see Your home! Your style! Designing a room using upcycled items presented by Lyndee Waldbauer of Rustic Restorations. At 1 pm, see a demonstration of how to create an American flag from a pallet. Saturday also includes ongoing demonstrations of antique wood-working tools, stenciled signs, weaving tire strips into doormats, furniture painting and transfer gel demonstration, and chalk and clay paints.
The same presentations will be available Sunday, including How to Deconstruct a Pallet at 11 am, creating an American flag at 11:30 am, and Your home! Your style! at noon. Also on Sunday, see The A to Z of Sports Cards, Coins and Political Memorabilia at 1 pm, presented by Gil Zalk, retired teacher and longtime collector; and everything you need to know about auctions at 2 pm, presented by Larry Forman of the Chesapeake Auction House.
All of the ongoing demonstrations also will be presented throughout the day on Sunday.
Annmarie Garden is on Dowell Road, just off of Route 2-4 in Solomons.
For more about Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Art Center, visit their Leader member page.
