The Season of Giving is Upon Us

Happy Fall!

As we approach the holidays, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for your support of the museum, not only this year but over the last 30 years! It is through your generosity that we are able to provide quality exhibitions, programs and community events at no to low cost, helping make the arts accessible to all and nurturing a creative culture for future generations.

Next week we’ll be kicking off our winter appeal. We’ve been offered the opportunity for a match of up to $10,000 in funds raised. Please consider making a donation on Giving Tuesday next week (November 28) to help stretch your gift farther and allow us to give back to the community in new and exciting ways.  

With the launch of the holiday season, we have two upcoming special programs that we’d like to invite you to celebrate with us.

African American Christmas
A Weekend of Joy, Creativity & Community
Presented by the Dover (DE) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated

On our next Biggs Weekend, December 1,2 & 3, we’ll be partnering with the Dover Chapter of The Links, Incorporated to bring a special presentation of African American Christmas. If you don’t know The Links, they are one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations of extraordinary professional women of African descent who are committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry. In addition to the standard Biggs Weekend festivities: free admission, engaging craft making opportunities and free tours, this three day event will showcase a special display of African American representation in traditional Christmas characters in a festive display throughout the museum and an opportunity to meet and take pictures with Santa.

Friday, December 1

- 4 - 4:30 PM - Holiday Story Time - Reading of "The Night Before Christmas," & other winter classics

Saturday, December 2

- 11 - 2 PM - Family Craft Time – Make luminaries with staff of the Biggs

- 2 - 3 PM - Guided Tour - Enjoy tour of the holiday artwork at the Museum

- 2 - 5 PM - Santa Time - Create and capture memories with Santa Claus

- 4 - 4:30 PM - Holiday Story Time - Reading of "The Night Before Christmas," & other winter classics

Sunday, December 3

- 11 - 2 PM - Family Craft Time – Make luminaries with staff of the Biggs

- 4 - 4:30 PM - Holiday Story Time - Reading of "The Night Before Christmas," & other winter classics

Wyeth Foundation: Cultivating Wonder:
Holiday Traditions and the Wyeth Legacy

Wednesday, December 13

6:30-7:30 PM

William L. Coleman, PhD is Wyeth Foundation Curator and Director of the Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center at the Brandywine Museum of Art, with additional oversight of Wyeth Foundation collections and exhibitions at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine.

The diverse talents of the Wyeth dynasty span more than a century of creativity and a wide array of subjects, styles, and settings. Despite this, there are some important threads that unite their work, one of which is particularly apt to consider at this time of year: the particular emphasis on the magic and mystery of the end-of-year holidays. Taking their example from the charismatic and sometimes terrifying figure of patriarch N.C. Wyeth, Halloween and Christmas crystallized a distinctive culture of wonder that lasted all the year round as a fundamental component of a home environment uniquely suited to making original minds for art, music, and industry. This lecture will share artworks and anecdotes connecting to the Wyeths’ imaginative practices around the holidays and explore how these traditions contributed to an abiding capacity for wonderment that was fundamental to their success.

Pricing:

$20 for Non-members / $10 for Members

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