Detail of Paulo Machado’s Thirteen Sick Snails
Delaware Art Educators Association Exhibition in the Child HELP Gallery
September 6 – October 20, 2019
Featuring artworks created by members of the Delaware Art Educators Association-an affiliate of the National Association serving art teachers across the country.
Emma Plowman’s Moment Becomes Memory
Ripped From the Headlines: Photojournalism in Delaware
November 1, 2019 – January 19, 2020
News publishers are among the nation’s oldest and most revered image makers. The art of photojournalism, especially in local newspapers, is under appreciated in American art museums even though they tell the stories that unify communities. The Biggs Museum is proud to partner with nearly every major news and magazine platform within Delaware to select highlights in local photojournalism form the past 20 years in one group exhibition. In addition, select photos will also be on view from some of Delaware’s premier photojournalists like Gary Emeigh and Kevin Fleming.
Detail of Lenape Tribe of Delaware Healing Arts Mural
Lenape Tribe of Delaware Healing Arts Mural
November 1, 2019 – January 19, 2020
A mural-arts project highlighting the Past, Present and Future of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware. This public art project was created through a partnership between Cheyney University professor and painter Marietta Dantonio-Madsen, Cheyney art students and the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware.
Rebecca Raubacher: Drawings & Paintings
August 2 – October 20, 2019
Rebecca Raubacher’s depictions of human and animal figures emerge over time from a few simple marks layered onto a piece of paper. Without any specific person in mind, she carefully, but almost hypnotically, builds her faces and bodies with cross-hatched lines of a wide range of artistic media. At times, her characters reveal themselves fully formed from within a simple line drawing. At other times, and often much after she started a specific composition, complex personalities appear through veiled skins of layered drawings and paint to demonstrate psychological tensions and universal narratives.
Practically born with a pencil in her hand, Raubacher’s career in art began early with gallery representation in New York but her local celebrity grew as a Kent County gallery owner and advocate of regional talent. She then ran a successful design business developing products with her unique horse portraits for racing fans across the country. Relocating to Lewes, the artist has reinvested herself in painting full-time developing an enormous body of work that radiates the joy of her good fortune and personal accomplishments.
Drawings and Paintings is the first one-woman show of this artist at the Biggs Museum of American Art and is first and foremost a love letter to Raubacher’s unique drawing style. The exhibition and catalog then trace the evolution of the artist’s artistic technique with a deep dive into her recent work.
Biggs Body: A Juried Competition of Figural Art
September 6 – November 17, 2019
The Biggs Museum is proud to introduce a new juried competition and exhibition concept of art forms featuring human and animal figures. This exhibition showcases 60 exceptional artworks selected from nearly 400 competition submissions in all visual art media including, but not limited to: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, craft, fiber, installation and video. Selected artists from throughout the Mid-Atlantic region most successfully interpreted, evoked and responded to the body.
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