Delaware Art Museum Experience a spectacular concert celebrating The Feminine Mystique with Pyxis Piano Quartet! Thursday, January 10, 2019* 7:30 pm Curator Talk | 8 pm Concert With a selection of music composed by women, Pyxis Piano Quartet honors the art of Barbara Bodichon, whose works are currently on exhibit. An ardent women’s rights campaigner […]
Continue ReadingWilmington, DE – E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) generously fulfilled their $1 million dollar pledge made to the Delaware Art Museum late last year. This gift, which honors the Delaware-based company’s priorities and corporate giving philosophy to invest in its communities, underwrites the Museum’s Free Sundays program. As funding for the arts […]
Continue ReadingPresented by the Delaware Art Museum Council, the Holiday House Tour returns for its 31st year on Saturday, December 8, 2018. Beginning at 10:00 a.m. and ending at 4:00 p.m., the self-guided tour features six spectacular homes, decorated for the holidays, and especially chosen for the theme “Celebrating Timeless Classics.” The Museum Council enlisted Dewson […]
Continue ReadingWilmington, DE – Delaware Art Museum 2019 Exhibition Schedule The Lopers on Film February 23-May 12, 2019 Gallery 9 Edward Loper, Sr. is one of Delaware’s most celebrated artists, having lived his entire life in the state and taught generations of local artists. His son, Loper, Jr., was equally prolific, taught at the Christina Cultural […]
Continue ReadingAt the Juried Craft Exhibition Members Preview, the Delaware Art Museum will celebrate its most recent large-scale sculpture acquisition in the Copeland Sculpture Garden–Chakaia Booker’s 2008 One Way. Made of recycled tires and stainless steel, the work of art was recently part of Booker’s solo exhibition in Chicago’s Boeing Galleries at Millennium Park. Chakaia Booker […]
Continue ReadingThe National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in May 2018 announced that three Delaware organization will receive $729,100 in federal grants. The Delaware Division of the Arts will receive a Partnership (State & Regional) grant in the amount of $689,100 to support activities associated with carrying out its NEA-approved State strategic plan. “Representing 17% of […]
Continue ReadingThe second annual Wilmington Writers Conference at the Delaware Art Museum is on Saturday July 21, 2018. Using the Museum’s exhibitions on Wilmington 1968 and the civil rights movement, this full-day conference will include a keynote presentation and craft talk by poet and educator Yolanda Wisher, nine other sessions taught by area writers, a lunchtime […]
Continue ReadingFrom May 19-August 5, 2018, eleven nationally-recognized artists from the Mid-Atlantic region are featured in the Delaware Art Museum’s latest installment of the Outlooks Exhibition Series, Impermanence: Mystery, Transformation, Light. In this exhibition, impermanence-passing briefly into and out of existence-is an essential tenet of Buddhism revealed through dynamic abstract and realistic drawings. From their unique […]
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Step Afrika! The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence A high energy step, tap and modern dance experience FRIDAY, APRIL 13 | 8 PM LOCATION: THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE Founded in 1994, Step Afrika! is the world’s first professional company dedicated to stepping – where dancers create extraordinary performances using their bodies as instruments. Step Afrika! […]
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“Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating,” wrote British critic and artist John Ruskin. Nearly one hundred years later, Brandywine Valley artist Andrew Wyeth advised artists to simply, “hold a mirror up to nature. Don’t overdo it, don’t underdo it.” Even though Ruskin came of age during the Industrial Revolution, […]
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