Current exhibitions
July 2 – October 24, 2010
For ten years, the Biggs Museum has partnered with the Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA) to showcase the artistic talents of Delaware in an annual summer exhibition. The annual Award Winners exhibition features the talent of the current Individual Artist Fellows of the Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA). Delaware artists: painters, photographers, sculptors, 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 each year’s Award Winners to the only group exhibition honoring their combined accomplishment.
In celebration of the ten anniversary of the annual Award Winners exhibition, the Biggs Museum has invited all of the past individual fellowship recipients to participate in a reunion exhibition of their works. Over thirty artists featured in the Award Winners exhibition in the past ten years will participate in the reunion exhibition alongside the 2010 individual fellows and share their recent work with the public.
The annual Award Winners exhibition is one of the most important annual projects at the Biggs Museum in carrying out its mission to celebrate artistic diversity, provide public educational access to Delaware’s fine-arts community, and to bring more awareness of both the museum and art to the community. Award Winners traces the evolution of the local art scene in Delaware and is presented to the public with hopes of encouraging conversation, comparison, debate and reflection of the diverse nature of work being created in Delaware.
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In celebration of the ten anniversary of the annual Award Winners exhibition, the Biggs Museum has invited all of the past individual fellowship recipients to participate in a reunion exhibition of their works. Over thirty artists featured in the Award Winners exhibition in the past ten years will participate in the reunion exhibition alongside the 2010 individual fellows and share their recent work with the public.
The annual Award Winners exhibition is one of the most important annual projects at the Biggs Museum in carrying out its mission to celebrate artistic diversity, provide public educational access to Delaware’s fine-arts community, and to bring more awareness of both the museum and art to the community. Award Winners traces the evolution of the local art scene in Delaware and is presented to the public with hopes of encouraging conversation, comparison, debate and reflection of the diverse nature of work being created in Delaware.
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Upcoming Events
The Biggs Museum is hosting a new outdoor movie program this summer! Biggs Summer Movies on the Lawn will present five classic summer blockbuster films outdoors on the lawn in front of the Museum. All ages are invited to bring lawn chairs and a picnic dinner and enjoy a free movie with friends and family. The Biggs Summer Movies on the Lawn program introduces a new, unique, free and family-friendly program to the Kent County community to be held annually at the Museum during June, July and August. The Biggs Summer Movies on the Lawn program will present a movie every Tuesday evening beginning at 8:30 p.m. on July 13 until August 10. In case of inclement weather, the film will be shown on Tuesday, August 17 and will not interrupt or affect the remaining summer schedule. Pre-registration is not required for the Biggs Summer Movies on the Lawn. The Biggs Museum will show the following films during the inaugural movies program.
Tuesday, July 20: Hook
Tuesday, July 27: Wizard of Oz
Tuesday, August 3: Shrek
Tuesday, August 10: Raiders of the Lost Art
Tuesday, August 17: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
The Biggs Museum is proud to have Nemours Health and Prevention Services as a sponsor of the Biggs Summer Movies on the Lawn program.
First Friday: History of Delaware at the Biggs Museum
Friday, September 3
Time: 2 - 4:30 p.m.
Price: Free, all ages
Time: 2 - 4:30 p.m.
Price: Free, all ages
Take our new self-guided History of Delaware tour through the museum’s permanent galleries. Staff will be available to answer questions.
Biggs Kids: Woodland Vases
Saturday, September 4
Time: 2 -3 p.m.
Price: Free, Children Ages 5-10
Time: 2 -3 p.m.
Price: Free, Children Ages 5-10
What child can resist picking up sticks during a walk through the woods? Put that gathering impulse to good use, save them for making a woodsy vase at the Biggs Museum. Bring 10 sticks (1/4” diameter) collected by your child to decorate a woodland vase.
Click here to pre-register.
Click here to pre-register.
Art À La Carte: Decorating Painting Using Acrylic with Gavin Standish
Thursday, September 9
Time: 6 – 8 p.m.
Price: $18 Members/ $20 Not-yet Members
Time: 6 – 8 p.m.
Price: $18 Members/ $20 Not-yet Members
Enjoy an evening with local artist Gavin Standish and learn how to paint a simple landscape using acrylic paint on canvas. Gavin will give instruction on finding a suitable subject and creating a preliminary drawing will be provided along with painting techniques and critiquing. Bring your own basket dinner and beverage to this workshop. Wine is welcome! Gavin Standish is an artist with an avid interest in American History and the decorative arts. In the past thirty years, she has studied all over the United States with numerous master painters in an effort to continue to develop her painting technique and grow as an artist. She mainly focuses on early American styles like the Pennsylvania Dutch and early Tole panting. Both these styles feature stroke work and are often antiqued to give them an aged look. Gavin has been teaching decorative painting using a step-by-step method for more than thirty years.
Click here to pre-register Members | Not-yet Members
Click here to pre-register Members | Not-yet Members
Tuesday, July 20: Hook
Tuesday, July 27: Wizard of Oz
Tuesday, August 3: Shrek
Tuesday, August 10: Raiders of the Lost Art
Tuesday, August 17: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
The Biggs Museum is proud to have Nemours Health and Prevention Services as a sponsor of the Biggs Summer Movies on the Lawn program.