Calendar of Events: May - September 2008

All events and programs held at the Biggs Museum;
located at 406 Federal Street, Dover, DE 19901.
 

May 2008
Event: Biggs Kids (Silver Hallmarking)
Date: Saturday, May 3
Time: 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Price: Free, Children Ages 5-10 
Description: Children will learn about the history of silver and the importance of silver hallmarks and engravings.  Each child will create their own signature hallmark to use on future art projects.   

Event: Family Tea at the Biggs Museum
Date: Saturday, May 10
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Price: $8 Adults/ $5 Children of All Ages  
Description: An afternoon of tea, cookies and finger sandwiches for the entire family! A tea party is a fun opportunity for children to dress up in fancy clothes, pour and sip tea and practice good table manners.  Each child is invited to bring along their favorite stuffed animal.  Space is limited.

Event: “Blue hens and scissor hooks: Comparing Silver in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania,” with Jennifer Goldsborough
Date: Saturday, May 10
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Price: $10 Members/ $8 Not-yet Members
Description: Jennifer Goldsborough, co-author of the Biggs Museum’s 2002 Collection Catalogue, to offer “Blue hens and scissor hooks: Comparing Silver in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania,” a comparative analysis between silver made in the Mid-Atlantic.

Event: Biggs Museum Gala: An Affair with the Arts
Date: Saturday, May 17
Time: 6:00 – 11:00p.m.
Price: $100 Individual/ $1,000 Table of 8 Persons
Description: This fundraising event celebrates and raises money for all that is new and exciting in the museum including its galleries, exhibitions and programming. Enjoy an evening in a tent with open bar, hors d’oeuvres, dinner, dancing and silent auction in celebration of the arts.

June 2008
Event: Biggs Kids “Blue Photographs”: Cyanotypes with Nancy Breslin
Date: Saturday, June 7
Time: 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Price: Free, Children Ages 5-10 
Description: Children will learn about antique photographic processes including cyanotypes.  After exploring Legislative Mall to find botanical specimens, the children will work with a special paper and sunlight to create photographic blueprints or cyanotypes. 

Event: Summer Art Series: Poetry with Piotr Florczyk
Date: Wednesday, June 11
Time: 4:00-7:00 p.m.
Price: $15.00
Description: 2008 Delaware Artist Fellowship recipient Piotr Florczyk will lead a poetry workshop focusing on learning the craft and traditions of poetry from others poets, many of whom hail from cultures other than our own. Participants are asked to bring a poem they have written to revise. Their revisions will be made by the result of close reading, analyzing, and exploring the fundamentals of poetry. In addition, there will be an open forum on the publishing industry, as well as the various facts and myths about poetry and poets, with particular emphasis on the writing community and its place within one's writing life.
Required: A notebook, a fast-writing pen and 13 copies of an original poem

Event: Summer Art Series: “Hands on Art History” with Lori Crawford
Date: Wednesday, June 25
Time: 4:00-7:00 p.m.
Price: $20.00, All materials to be supplied by the museum.
Description: 2008 Delaware Artist Fellowship recipient Lori Crawford will lead a workshop demonstrating her methods of conveying her messages of prejudice and cultural legacies through digital imagery and paper bags. Participants in this workshop will experiment with some of the many ways to manipulate paper objects into art.
Recommended: Please wear old clothing to this workshop.

July 2008
Event: Biggs Kids “Clay Sea Creatures”
Date: Saturday, July 5
Time: 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Price: Free, Children Ages 5-10 
Description: Children will explore and discover creatures of the sea through various books and a short video.  After discovering their favorite creature the children will create our own clay “sea monsters”.

Event: Award Winners VIII Opening Reception
Date: Wednesday July 9
Time: 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Price: $10 Members/ $12 Not-yet Members
Description: Catered, opening reception: open to general public

Event: Summer Art Series: “Silk Painting for the Absolute Beginner and Beyond” with Elizabeth Collard
Date: Saturday, July 12
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Price: $30
Description: Elizabeth Collard will lead a mini-workshop to learn the basic skills of silk paintings. Participants will create a beautiful silk scarf and one small wall hanging using vibrant silk dyes, and special techniques. This workshop is for individuals 16 years old or above. No experience required. 
Recommended: Please wear old clothing and bring a brown bag lunch.

Event: Children’s Summer Art Series: Session I
Date: Tuesday, July 15 – Friday, July 18
Time: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. 
Price: $95 per child, includes all art supplies and snacks
Description: Exciting programs and craft activities are scheduled for this weeklong session at the museum. Each participant will create two crafts, one to take home and another to keep at the museum to be displayed in the Summer Art Series Exhibition.

Event: Children’s Summer Art Series: Session II
Date: Tuesday, July 22 – Friday, July 25
Time: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. 
Price: $95 per child, includes all art supplies and snacks
Description: Exciting programs and craft activities are scheduled for this weeklong session at the museum. Each participant will create two crafts, one to take home and another to keep at the museum to be displayed in the Summer Art Series Exhibition.

Event: Summer Art Series: "Wild Horses: Freeing the Writer Within" with C. Delia Scarpitti
Date: Saturday, July 26
Time: 12:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Price: $15
Description: 2008 Delaware Artist Fellowship recipient C. Delia Scarpitti will lead this writing workshop. Serving as a roadmap for the writing journey, participants will learn to examine the mind through dynamic writing exercises. Some of the exercises include recording personal histories, gaining ideas for "unblocking" a creative drought and finding your natural writing preference.
Required: A notebook and a fast-writing pen
Recommended Text: A copy of Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

Event: Children’s Summer Art Series: Session III
Date: Tuesday, July 29 – Friday, August 1
Time: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. 
Price: $95 per child, includes all art supplies and snacks
Description: Exciting programs and craft activities are scheduled for this weeklong session at the museum. Each participant will create two crafts, one to take home and another to keep at the museum to be displayed in the Summer Art Series Exhibition.

Event: Summer Art Series: “Silk Painting for the Absolute Beginner and Beyond” with Elizabeth Collard
Date: Wednesday, July 30
Time: 2:30-7:00 p.m.
Price: $30
Description: Elizabeth Collard will lead a mini-workshop to learn the basic skills of silk paintings. Participants will create a beautiful silk scarf and one small wall hanging using vibrant silk dyes, and special techniques. This workshop is for individuals 16 years old or above. No experience required. 
Recommended: Please wear old clothing and bring a brown bag lunch.

August 2008
Event: Children’s Summer Art Series: Farewell Reception
Date: Friday, August 1
Time: 4:00-6:00 p.m. 
Price: Free to the public
Description: A farewell reception honoring the participants of the 2008 Children’s Summer Art Series. Family and friends of the participants are invited for light refreshments and an opportunity to view the crafts created during each of the three sessions in July.

Event: Biggs Kids: “Meet the Author” with Mary Kennedy
Date: Saturday, August 2
Time: 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Price: Free, Children Ages 5-10 
Description: The perfect chance to ask a real live author what the "writer’s life" is all about!  2008 Delaware Artist Fellowship recipient Mary Kennedy, a multi-published author, will lead a fun, interactive workshop with games and prizes. Mary Kennedy is a multi-published author and a clinical psychologist in private practice on the east coast. She writes young adult novels, middle grade fiction and mysteries. She has sold 37 novels, and has made the Waldenbooks, BookScan and Publishers Weekly best-seller lists.

Event: Summer Art Series: “Breaking all the Rules” with Mary Kennedy
Date: Saturday, August 2
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Price: $15 
Description: 2008 Delaware Artist Fellowship recipient Mary Kennedy, a multi-published author, will give participants a look at the "rules" of the publishing world, and how to be wildly successful while breaking them.

September 2008
Event: Biggs Kids: Animation Workshop with Pahl Hluchan
Date: Saturday, September 6
Time: 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Price: Free, Children Ages 5-10
Description: 2008 Delaware Artist Fellowship recipient Pahl Hluchan will lead this children’s workshop on the basic principles of animation. Children will create animations of objects and drawings for a zoetrope, a 19th century animation device that will be used to explain the optics of animation. Toys will be animated with the stop-motion technique of taking multiple pictures.
Recommended: Children should bring a toy of their choice to be the “star” of their animation.

Event: Martini Tasting
Date: Friday, September 12
Time: 5:30p.m. - 7:30p.m.
Price: $35 Members/ $40 Not-yet Members
Description: This popular event offers a unique opportunity to sample a variety of martinis while enjoying the treasures of the collection.

Event: Summer Art Series: Poetry Workshop for Beginners with Annette Opalczynski
Date: Saturday, September 13
Time: 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Price: $15 
Description: 2008 Delaware Artist Fellowship recipient Annette Opalczynski will lead this workshop on the basics of poetry and techniques for staying active when the “trail goes cold” while writing.  Participants are invited to bring copies of his/her original poem for discussion.   
Required: A notebook, fast-writing pen and 9 copies of a poem

Event: Summer Art Series: Classical Portrait Painting in Oil with Neilson Carlin
Date: Saturday, September 20
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Price: $50
Description: Flesh - that mysterious substance which has seduced artists for centuries. Portrait painter Neilson Carlin will lead participants in this workshop, exploring the intricacies of this elusive material in the form of the portrait. Discussions will include drawing tips, application of the color wheel as well as palette preparation, and the instructor will give live demonstrations to “flesh out” the concepts.
Required: Please bring oil paints, brushes, canvas and easel
Recommended: Please wear old clothing and bring a brown bag lunch