September 2014

Event: First Friday: Ain’t I a Woman: Lori Crawford and The Sista’sn
Date: Friday, September 5
Time: 5 – 7 p.m.
Price: Free, All Ages
Description: Lori Crawford, Associate Professor of Art at Delaware State University, will present works from The Sista’s series on the Biggs Museum’s third floor. Crawford’s series of digital drawings challenges notions of traditional female beauty. Prints of her figural works will be juxtaposed against the museum’s own collection of 19th-century academic artists and early Impressionist painters within the permanent collection galleries 20 and 21.

Event: Biggs Kids: Foliage Friends
Date: Saturday, September 6
Time: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. (drop in anytime)
Price: Free, Children Ages 5-10
Description: As summer draws to a close the trees will turn beautiful fall colors and drop their leaves. We will create some of our favorite animals using leaves of various shapes, sizes and colors.

Title: Members Event - Growing the American Silver Market: Philadelphia Silversmiths at Work
Date: Sunday, September 7
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Fee: Free for Museum Members
Description: Catherine Hollan will discuss how the market for American-made silver grew and why Philadelphia was an especially fertile marketplace in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From the smallest spoons with a variety of bowl-back designs to specialty items such as card cases and presentation vases, Philadelphia silversmiths competed to make their place in the market. Using a variety of business models, they developed clients near and far and became a wholesale resource for other silversmiths.

Catherine Hollan is president of the American Silver Guild, a special interest group that meets in the Northern Virginia area. She curated the Alexandria silver exhibition at The Lyceum and published the book and catalogue In the Neatest Manner, Three Centuries of Alexandria Silver. Her monumental Virginia Silversmiths~Their Lives and Marks 1607-1860 established Virginia's active business and artisan history in the greater picture of American silversmithing. Her most recent book is Philadelphia Silversmiths and Related Artisans to 1861. She lives in McLean in northern Virginia. Please RSVP to Beccy Cooper at [email protected] or (302) 674-2111 x 101. Light refreshments will be served.

Event: Mini-Masters: Foliage Friends
Date: Wednesday, September 10
Time: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. (drop in anytime)
Price: Free, Children Ages 3-5
Description: As summer draws to a close the trees will turn beautiful fall colors and drop their leaves. We will create some of our favorite animals using leaves of various shapes, sizes and colors.

Event: Award Winners XIV Exhibition Opening Reception and Artist Award Presentation
Date: Saturday, September 20
Time: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Price: Free, All Ages
Description: Join us in celebrating the works of the 2014 Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA) Individual Artist fellows. In a partnership with the DDOA, the staff of the Biggs Museum invites each year’s Award Winners to the only group exhibition honoring their combined accomplishments. Meet the artists and enjoy readings by Emerging Literary Fellows: Maribeth Fischer, Jane Miller, Dennis Lawson; Established Literary Fellows: Viet Dinh and Mary-Margaret Pauer; and performances by Emerging Dance Fellow, Michele Xiques and Established Musical Fellow, Joseph “Butch” Zito.

Event: Delaware Sampler Identification Days
Date: Sunday, September 21
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Biggs Museum, 406 Federal Street, Dover, DE
Price: Free
Description: Please bring your samplers to one of the two fall sampler identification days to be photographed and documented for the Sampler Archive Project, a national online sampler database. If you have more than two samplers, please make an appointment by contacting Ryan Grover at [email protected]. Sponsored by the Sampler Consortium and the Sampler Archive Project.

Event: Painting "The Loper Method" with Thomas Del Porte
Date: Saturday, September 27 and Saturday, October 4
Time: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Price: $50 not-yet members / $40 members (for both sessions)
Description: Workshop instructor Thomas Del Porte, oil painter and former student of Edward Loper Sr., will begin by discussing and demonstrating some of the techniques he uses to create his paintings. In keeping with some of the themes from Del Porte's current work, participants will paint a still life using "The Loper Method" No experience required. Participants are encouraged to bring brushes, paints, and a small canvas. Please contact the staff for a full list of supplies. Also, please bring a brown bag lunch.

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