Upcoming
Award Winners VIII
July 9, 2008 – October 26, 2008
This exhibition features the talent of the current Individual Artist Fellows of the Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA). These artists: painters, photographers, writers, musicians and craft artisans, have the honor of winning the DDOA’s annual distinguished fellowship prizes. The fellows are chosen by a committee from hundreds of entrees. In a partnership with the DDOA, the staff of the Biggs Museum invites the Award Winners to the only group exhibition honoring their combined accomplishment. The Award Winners exhibition will feature the media of all winning artists. In conjunction with this exhibition The Biggs Museum is pleased to hold the 2008 Summer Art Series: a series of workshops led by a selection of the 2008 fellows. Please see upcoming events for information on these workshops.
The Biggs Museum of American Art would like to congratulate the 2008 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellows.
Visual Arts
Alida Fish
Robert Bickey
Nancy Breslin
Lori Crawford
Karin Snoots
Chad States
Andrew Wapinski
Literature
Piotr Florczyk
Marry Kennedy
Annette Opalczynski
C. Delia Scarpitti
Music
Mark Hagerty
Media Arts
Paul Hiuchan
Forgotten Dreams:
The Paintings of Edward Grant
November 5, 2008 - February 22, 2009
The first retrospective of this artist’s work and his incredibly long and distinguished life within the region, both as a prolific painter as well as a successful graphic artist
for one of Wilmington’s best-known companies. Edward Grant’s artistic career spanned an astounding seven decades. While so many of his contemporaries moved to the ideal rural setting of the Delmarva Peninsula, Grant grew up, was trained, and practiced his craft within the region. His dedication to the development of the local art scene gave him, in our opinion, a unique perspective on the spaces, customs, and values he observed throughout his entire life. His earliest works exhibit the social realism of the late 20s and 30s, while his war-period works experimented with the contemporary trends of Cubism and Abstraction. He also was a successful graphic artist for one of Wilmington’s best-known and most successful companies, as well as a prolific painter. His later works, after 1968, are among his most highly regarded for their distinctive interpretations of life on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Grant’s artistic associations throughout the Delmarva Peninsula were extremely wide; he learned from some of Delaware’s greatest artists, was active in nearly every major arts organization within the state before 1970, was at the center of the Delaware arts communities, and was a life-long art instructor to hundreds of students. Forgotten Dreams will encompass an exhibition of works from the Biggs Museum, the artist’s own collection, and private collections throughout the region, accompanied by the first-ever retrospective publication of this important Delaware artist, which will review Grant’s large body of work in relation to his biography and significant historic moments that impacted the populations of the Delmarva Peninsula.
Biggs Shot II
March 4 - June 28, 2009
The second juried photography competition of artists living and working in the Greater Delmarva Peninsula. The competition is open to all photographers-both amateur and professional. This exhibition will offer visitors a wide view of local talent as well as local artistic perspectives – a showcase on the ways local photographers view this region. The competition is open to artists working in film, digital, and video formats.