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- [Feel the Rhythm: Battle of the Bands Brings HBCU Pride and Pageantry to The Biggs](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/battle-of-the-bands-press-release/) - Keith Duncan: Battle of the Bands, The HBCU Marching Band Series is organized by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (Logo) Generous support provided by Art Bridges. Dover, DE – This fall, the Biggs Museum of American Art will pulse with rhythm, energy, and cultural pride as it presents Keith Duncan: Battle of the Bands,
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- [Biggs Museum Receives AARP Community Challenge Grant to Expand Public Art and Senior Programming in Downtown Dover](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/biggs-museum-receives-aarp-community-challenge-grant-to-expand-public-art-and-senior-programming-in-downtown-dover/) - This project was made possible for the community due to the generous support of AARP. Biggs Museum of American Art has been awarded a prestigious AARP Community Challenge Flagship Grant to support Kinetic Wonders: Paul Daniel, an innovative public art installation designed to enhance downtown Dover’s historic green space. The grant will fund the extension
- [Unlocking the Potential of Appreciated Stock and Qualified Charitable Distributions ](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/unlocking-the-potential-of-appreciated-stock-and-qualified-charitable-distributions/) - Tax Benefits of Philanthropy: Part One of a Series Unlocking the Potential of Appreciated Stock and Qualified Charitable Distributions The Biggs Museum of American Art thrives because of the generosity of its supporters. Many of our patrons are passionate about giving back—and just as importantly, about giving smart. That’s why we’re launching a new series:
- [We’re Nominated! Cast Your Vote for the Biggs](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/were-nominated-cast-your-vote-for-the-biggs/) - Thank You for Nominating Us – Now Help Us Bring Home the Win! We are thrilled to share that the Biggs Museum of American Art has been nominated for multiple awards in not one, but two major community contests this year—Stars of Delaware (presented by Daily State News) and First State Favorites – Central Delaware
- [AWARD WINNERS XXV: CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF HONORING DELAWARE INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/award-winners-xxv-celebrating-25-years-of-honoring-delaware-individual-artists/) - AWARD WINNERS XXV: CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF HONORING DELAWARE INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS with the Delaware Division of the Arts The Biggs Museum of American Art proudly presents Award Winners XXV, a milestone exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of showcasing the Delaware Division of the Arts’ Individual Artist Fellowship recipients. The exhibition opens May 15 and runs
- [School Field Trips](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/school-field-trips/) - BACK TO TOURSSCHOOL FIELD TRIPS SCHOOL TOUR6+FAMILIES Booking available Monday through Friday Guided Tour – 1 hour Guided Tours – $1 per participant Self-Guided Tour – 2 hours Self-Guided Tours – Free Request a Field TripExplore the Wonders of Our Permanent Collection with Guided or Self-Guided School Tours Discover the rich tapestry of art at
- [Adult Group Tours](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/adult-group-tours/) - BACK TO TOURSADULT GROUP TOURS GUIDED TOURFree cancellation 1 hour PRICING Enjoy special group rates for parties of 15 or more, and explore our exhibits with the following pricing: General Admissions $10.00 $8.00 Group Rate Seniors (60+) $8.00 $6.00 Group Rate Reservations Secure your spot for in-person or virtual docent or curator-led tours. Guided tours
- [Call for Mural Artist](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/call-for-mural-artist/) - Biggs Museum of American Art is seeking a talented and creative mural artist to design and execute a temporary indoor mural that will transform our space and engage our community. This project offers a unique opportunity to showcase your artistic vision in a high-traffic public setting. Project Details: Location: Biggs Museum of American Art, 406
- [Dover Federal Credit Union Sponsors Free Admission at the Biggs Museum of American Art](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/dover-federal-credit-union-sponsors-free-admission-at-the-biggs-museum-of-american-art/) - DOVER, DELAWARE – The Biggs Museum of American Art and Dover Federal Credit Union are excited to announce a community-focused partnership that brings free admission to the museum. This collaboration highlights both organizations’ shared commitment to serving Kent County residents and fostering connections within the community. “Art is a powerful way to bring people together,”
- [College & University Tours](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/college-university-tours/) - BACK TO TOURSCOLLEGE & UNIVERSITY TOURS GUIDED TOURFree cancellation 1 hour Reservations To reserve your spot and elevate your art experience, call us at 302-760-5304. Let The Biggs be your gateway to a captivating journey through the world of artistry and culture. Embark on a Captivating Exploration of Art with Our College & University Tours
- [Creative Fundraiser: Duct Taped Treasures Auction](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/ducttapedtreasuresauction/) - Who Needs a Banana When You Have These Duct-Taped Masterpieces? [Dover, DE] — Move over, $6.2 million banana! The Biggs Museum of American Art is wrapping up its fundraising season with humor, creativity, and the unexpected allure of duct tape. Introducing “Duct-Taped Treasures”, a quirky auction designed to spark conversations and rally support for the
- [Paint Dover: Plein Air Painting Competition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/paintdover2024/) - Starting tomorrow, October 8, artists will take to the streets of Dover with their easels and brushes in hand to participate in the annual Paint Dover event. Hosted by the Downtown Dover Partnership, this exciting three-day “en plein air” painting competition challenges artists to capture the beauty of Dover’s landscapes, architecture, and iconic scenes out
- [New Outdoor Exhibition: Kinetic Sculptures](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/new-outdoor-exhibition-kinetic-sculptures-by-paul-daniel/) - The Biggs Museum of American Art is thrilled to unveil its latest outdoor exhibition, featuring five stunning kinetic sculptures by Baltimore-based artist Paul Daniel. These mesmerizing sculptures are not only a visual delight but an engaging experience that invites viewers to connect with the natural elements in new ways. Previously on view in Lewes, these
- [Biggs Museum Unveils Bold Exhibition Blending Samurai, Hip-Hop, and Myth - "Rozeal.:Want Not"](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/biggs-museum-unveils-bold-exhibition-blending-samurai-hip-hop-and-myth-rozeal-want-not/) - Dover, DE – The Biggs Museum of American Art proudly unveils “Rozeal.: Want Not (Rescue from the Otherwise Obscene, Salvation from the Wicked)”, a powerful exhibition running from October 3, 2024, through March 2, 2025. Known for her unique fusion of Japanese woodblock printing techniques with American hip-hop and voguing cultures, Rozeal.’s art creates an
- [Top 11 Events at The Biggs This October](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/top-11-events-at-the-biggs-this-october/) - October at The Biggs Museum is packed with incredible events you won’t want to miss! From captivating exhibitions to creative family fun, there’s something for everyone. Here’s a look at the exciting activities happening this month. Opening Reception: Rozeal: Want Not (Rescue from the Otherwise Obscene, Salvation from the Wicked) Thursday, October 3 | 6
- [Hassan Najjar Named Executive Director of the Biggs Museum of American Art](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/hassan-najjar-named-executive-director-of-the-biggs-museum-of-american-art/) - Hassan Najjar Appointed Executive Director of the Biggs Museum of American Art Ushering in a New Era of Growth and Innovation Dover, DE—The Biggs Museum of American Art is proud to announce the appointment of Hassan Najjar as its new Executive Director. With a distinguished career in the arts and museum management, Najjar’s leadership marks
- [Board Leadership Updates June 2024](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/board-leadership-updates-june-2024/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Biggs Museum of American Art Announces Election of Three New Members to Board of Trustees Former DSU President Will Lead Biggs Board Dover, DE — The Biggs Museum of American Art is thrilled to announce the appointment of Dr. Wilma Mishoe as the new President of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Mishoe
- [Dover's Biggs Museum of American Art: 2024 Blue Star Museum offering Free Admission & Free Membership to Military Families](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/dovers-biggs-museum-of-american-art-2024-blue-star-museum-offering-free-admission-free-membership-to-military-families/) - BIGGS MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART IS A 2024 BLUE STAR MUSEUM The Biggs to offer free admission to military personnel and their families this summer and beyond The Biggs Museum of America Art announced it will join museums nationwide in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to currently serving U.S.
- [Circle of Truth Exhibition Opening](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/circle-of-truth-exhibition-opening/) - Exploring the Essence of Truth: Circle of Truth Exhibition Opens at the Biggs Museum of American Art Dover, DE – The Biggs Museum of American Art announces the opening of an evocative exhibition titled Circle of Truth I 49 Paintings Ending with Ed Ruscha, curated by Laura Hipke and Shane Guffogg. This unique project delves
- [OCTOBER 3, 2024 - MARCH, 2 2025](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/november-15-2024-march-2-2025/) - Rozeal: I Shall Not Want The Biggs will close out the year with a blockbuster exhibition by renowned artists Rozeal. Titled I Shall Not Want, Rozeal's contemporary paintings blend traditional ukiyo-e print techniques with Japanese folklore, geisha, kabuki, and samurai imagery, infused with hip-hop references and African-American culture.
- [Rebecca Raubacher Exhibition Opening](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/rebecca-raubacher-exhibition-opening/) - Exhibition of New Works Opens at The Biggs Rebecca Raubacher: Horses & Other Creatures Dover, DE – Biggs Museum of American Art announced today an upcoming exhibition of new work by Delaware artist Rebecca Raubacher. Rebecca Raubacher Horses & Other Creatures opens March 14 and features Raubacher’s talent for capturing creatures in motion. Her signature
- [Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/grant-from-the-national-endowment-for-the-arts/) - Biggs Museum of American Art to Receive $10,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts Dover, DE—Biggs Museum of American Art is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Challenge America award of $10,000. This grant will support the development and facilitation of Spanish language
- [Sandra K James Named Deputy Director](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/sandra-k-james-named-deputy-director/) - Dover, DE (October 19, 2023) – The Biggs Museum of American Art announces today that Sandra K. James has been appointed Deputy Director, Head of Philanthropy and External Relations. “We are delighted that Sandra will step into the role of Deputy Director,” said Executive Director, Michael Dudich. “An esteemed colleague, Sandra has demonstrated outstanding leadership
- [Citywide Black History Month Celebration at the Biggs](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/citywide-black-history-month-celebration-at-the-biggs/) - In a spirited homage to the impactful 1971 documentary, “Five,” produced by Delawarean Dom Albi, The Biggs Museum of American Art proudly announces a month-long celebration, showcasing the brilliance of five Black Artists from the Biggs Collection. The focal point of this celebration is the streaming of the 30-minute film “Five,” a poignant creation by
- [Wyeth Exhibit Extension By Popular Demand](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/wyeth-exhibit-extension-by-popular-demand/) - The Biggs Announces Exciting Annual Exhibition Line-up and Wyeth Exhibit Extension By Popular Demand. Dover, DE – The Biggs Museum of American Art is thrilled to share a year of diverse, inspiring, and thought-provoking exhibitions with the community in the hopes of making art feel available and accessible to all through the showcase of both
- [Public tours](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/public-tours/) - BACK TO TOURSPUBLIC TOURS GUIDED TOUR6+FAMILIES Walk-ins welcome 45 minutes Reservations No Reservations Needed Explore Artistry Unveiled: Join Free Public Tours Every First Saturday! Unlock the world of art with The Biggs during our exclusive Biggs Weekend! On the first Saturday of each month at 2 PM, immerse yourself in a 45-minute guided tour led
- [Mobile Tours (YouTube Walking Tours)](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/mobile-tours-youtube-walking-tours/) - BACK TO TOURSMOBILE TOURS (YOUTUBE WALKING TOURS) GUIDED TOUR6+FAMILIES On-Demand Exploration 45 minutes Watch NowExperience Art on the Go with Our Mobile Tours Introducing Mobile Tours by The Biggs – a dynamic way to engage with art wherever you are. Our mobile tours bring the world of creativity to your fingertips, providing a personalized and
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- [NOVEMBER 2, 2023 - FEBRUARY 11, 2024](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/november-2-2023-february-11-2024/) - The Wyeths: Three Generations Works From the Bank of America Collection This exhibition brings together more than seventy works of art by three generations of artists. Paintings, drawings, and illustrations created by N.C. Wyeth, his son Andrew, his daughter Henriette, and his grandson Jamie return home to Delaware at the Biggs for the first time
- [MARCH 14, 2024 - JULY 7, 2024](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/march-14-july-7-2024/) - Rebecca Raubacher: Horses & Other Creatures Featuring the awe-inspiring new works by Delaware artist Rebecca Raubacher, with a focus on animals, this exhibition showcases how Raubacher’s signature large scale pieces capture the essence and beauty of these majestic creatures of land, sea, and air.
- [JULY 25, 2024 - SEPTEMBER 22, 2024](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/july-25-september-22-2024/) - Circle of Truth Circle of Truth is the visual equivalent of the childhood game where a message whispered in the ear of a first person, then relayed to a second person, a third, and so on until the original message becomes so mangled by its reinterpretation that by the time it arrives at its final understanding
- [JANUARY 11, 2024 - MARCH 24, 2024](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/january-11-2024-march-24-2024/) - Art Works for All: Celebration of Creativity Presented in partnership with Art Works for All (AWA), this community-focused exhibit, highlights the creative achievements of children and adults with disabilities. Art Works for All (AWA) is an organization committed to providing educational opportunities through the arts, and their exhibit at The Biggs showcases the remarkable artwork
- [APRIL 18, 2024 - JULY 28, 2024](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/april-18-2024-july-28-2024/) - Award Winners XXIV: Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship Recipients In April, the museum will present Award Winners XXIV, an annual exhibition shining a light on the visual, performing, and literary arts fellowship recipients for 2024, curated by the Delaware Division of the Arts. 2024 marks the 24th year that The Biggs has partnered with
- [Visions of Dignity](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/visions-of-dignity/) - SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 – OCTOBER 15, 2010 The Biggs Museum of American Art is partnering, once again, with the Delaware State Governor's Advisory Council on Hispanic Affairs (GACHA) to present the exhibition Visions of Dignity, a celebration of Hispanic artists working in the Mid-Atlantic region. The exhibit features the varied artistic points of view from
- [Behind the Blue Doors: Famous Creations from the Rehoboth Art League](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/behind-the-blue-doors-famous-creations-from-the-rehoboth-art-league/) - November 5, 2010 - February 20, 2011 Behind the Blue Doors: Famous Works from the Rehoboth Art League Collection is the first critical examination of the rarely-seen permanent collection of the Rehoboth Art League (RAL). Founded in the early 1930s, the RAL quickly became a regional hot bed of artistic production and has collected hundreds
- [Art and Poetry](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/art-and-poetry/) - APRIL 1, 2011 – MAY 1, 2011 To commemorate National Poetry Month, the Biggs Museum of American Art will host a public reading of some of the region's most influential poets on Friday, April 1. Each writer has composed an original poem inspired from collections on view within The Biggs' galleries. Printed versions of the
- [Expressions of Time: Photographing a Solution](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/expressions-of-time-photographing-a-solution/) - APRIL 18, 2008 – JUNE 1, 2008 This exhibition features over two-dozen works of art by nine photographers that describes their interpretations of the passage of time. The participating photographers are members of Art Lane PCG, a small group of area photographers who improve their professional skills by critiquing each other's work. Their work displayed
- [Award Winners XII](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/award-winners-xii/) - JULY 6, 2012 - OCTOBER 21, 2012 For twelve 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
- [Delaware Watercolor Society](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/delaware-watercolor-society-3/) - JULY 3, 2015 - SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 Admission: $5 (Free for Members, Children Under 12, and on Sundays) The Biggs Museum will host a juried member's exhibition of the Delaware Watercolor Society. As many as 50 watercolors will be featured within the Museum's galleries, many will be for sale. The Delaware Watercolor Society (DWS) aims to
- [William D. White: Vision and Voice Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/william-d-white-vision-and-voice-exhibition/) - MARCH 6, 2015 - JUNE 21, 2015 William D. White: Vision and Voice is the first major exhibition and exhibition catalogue of this unique and important regional artist. This exhibition reintroduces the work of Wilmington, Delaware illustrator, muralist and painter William D. White (1896-1971). This artist's varied and significant career spans some of the country's
- [Delaware By Hand: Masters 2015](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/delaware-by-hand-masters-2015/) - APRIL 3, 2015 - JUNE 14, 2015 Every three years, the Biggs Museum hosts a juried competition of their Delaware By Hand artist membership in order to select individual artists that are deemed masters of their craft. The 2015 winning members, as well as their finest submissions, are selected by Brandi P. Clark, Executive Director
- [Glass Transformed](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/glass-transformed/) - SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 - OCTOBER 28, 2012 Glass Transformed is the first museum presentation within the State of Delaware of the photographic work of Celia Pearson. Based in Annapolis, the artist has traveled as far as Italy to photograph unique sea glass collections. Spanning from still life to abstract studies, the exhibit is presented in
- [Award Winners XV](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/award-winners-xv/) - JULY 3, 2015 - SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 Free Admission Each year, through a partnership with the Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA), the Biggs Museum hosts the works of Delaware's award winning Individual Artist Fellows, honoring their combined accomplishments. The Fellows are recommended by out of state jurors and receive Delaware State Arts Council approval.
- [Small Tapestry International 4: Honoring Tradition, Inspiring Innovation](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/small-tapestry-international-4-honoring-tradition-inspiring-innovation/) - OCTOBER 2, 2015 - NOVEMBER 22, 2015 The American Tapestry Alliance was established in 1982 to unite tapestry weavers and designers in order to promote an awareness and appreciation of contemporary hand-woven tapestries from around the world. This organization promotes speakers, hosts instructors, produces publications, disseminates information and creates juried exhibitions of the finest textiles
- [DEMCO, Inc.](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/demco-inc/) - OCTOBER 2, 2015 - NOVEMBER 15, 2015 The Biggs Museum is celebrating its new partnership with The Delaware Multicultural and Civic Organization (DEMCO, Inc.), with an exhibition, entitled DEMCO, Inc., of student and staff artworks created during their after-school program in downtown Dover. This exhibition will be on view from October 2 - November 15, 2015
- [Youth Art Month: Sculptures of Ourselves](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/youth-art-month-sculptures-of-ourselves/) - MARCH 4, 2016 - MARCH 24, 2016 The Biggs Museum has challenged art educators from across the state to teach their K-12 students about the art form of self-portraiture by creating outdoor sculptures of themselves using found and recycled materials. This submitted works will be on view outside, in front of the museum's main entrance.
- [Exhibition: Harmony Weavers Guild](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/exhibition-harmony-weavers-guild/) - MARCH 4, 2016 - APRIL 24, 2016 This bi-annual members' exhibition of the pre-eminent regional weaving association features masterworks of fiber art. The Harmony Weavers Guild emphasizes fellowship, enthusiasm and especially education in weaving for its members. This feature exhibition will be accented with examples of looms and educational programs.
- [New Discoveries: Michael Robear](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/new-discoveries-michael-robear/) - NOVEMBER 6, 2015 - FEBRUARY 14, 2016 Often, the Biggs Museum's staff has the good fortune to discover talented artists within this community who have not received enough critical attention. Michael Robear is undeniably one of those artists. Robear began in childhood depicting wildlife and Mid-Atlantic landscapes. From his home in nearby Cecil County, Maryland,
- [Illuminating the Word, The Saint John's Bible](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/illuminating-the-word-the-saint-johns-bible/) - DECEMBER 4, 2015 - APRIL 24, 2016 The Biggs Museum of American Art is exceptionally proud to be a rare American host of Illuminating the Word, The Saint John's Bible. This international exhibition features 70 pages of The Saint John's Bible, the first monumental hand-illuminated bible to be commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in over
- [Barbara Warden365: Elements in Time](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/barbara-warden365-elements-in-time/) - MAY 6, 2016 - JULY 24, 2016 In her first one-person exhibition at the Biggs Museum, artist Barbara Warden features the finest examples of her year-long exercise of creating one drawing a day. Leaving all to chance, the artist starts her abstract compositions from a single gesture across the page that begins a unique experience
- [Maurice Sendak: The Memorial Exhibition - 50 Years, Works, Reasons](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/maurice-sendak-the-memorial-exhibition-50-years-works-reasons/) - JULY 30, 2016 - SEPTEMBER 11, 2016 The Biggs Museum is proud to partner with the Dover Public Library to feature the work and biography of one of America's most beloved children's authors and illustrators, Maurice Sendak. Know principally for his publication and now a major motion picture, Where the Wild Things Are, this exhibition
- [Delaware By Hand Juried Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/delaware-by-hand-juried-exhibition-2/) - JUNE 3, 2016 - SEPTEMBER 25, 2016 Every three years, the Biggs Museum hosts a huge competition of the finest photographers from across the Mid-Atlantic States. This year's contest will be judged by the museum's new Director, Charles Guerin. The winners will be featured in a group exhibition with the best of show receiving a
- [Award Winners XVI](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/award-winners-xvi/) - AUGUST 5, 2016 - OCTOBER 23, 2016 The annual Award Winners exhibition features the talent of the 2016 Individual Artist Fellows of the Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA). Each year, the winning Fellows are chosen by the Delaware State Arts Council from over a hundred visual, literary and performing art competitors. The Fellows are
- [George Lorio: Recent Works](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/george-lorio-recent-works/) - OCTOBER 7, 2016 - JANUARY 22, 2017 In conjunction with the Biggs Museum's exhibition entitled Clark Fox: Icon Chains, the museum has asked local sculptor and outspoken art professor at Delaware State University, George Lorio, to exhibit his some of his recent and politically charged artworks. Using playful found objects and children's toys, George brings
- [Clark Fox: Icon Chains](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/clark-fox-icon-chains/) - JANUARY 1, 2017 - FEBRUARY 5, 2017 Known throughout the contemporary art circles of New York, Washington DC and Los Angeles, Clark Fox has been critiquing modern culture with stories of iconic characters, such as George Washington, Chef from the animated South Park and The Planters Company Mr. Peanut, for over forty years. The exhibition
- [Junior Docent Exhibit](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/junior-docent-exhibit/) - JUNE 2, 2017 - JUNE 30, 2017 Throughout the year, students from schools and afterschool programs throughout the state participate in our Junior Docent Program. These students view and study works of art from our collection and then provide tours of the museum to their peers and families. By the conclusion of the school year,
- [Biggs Picture 2017](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/biggs-picture-2017/) - JUNE 2, 2017 - JULY 23, 2017 Once every three years, the Biggs Museum hosts this juried, regional competition. Artists from throughout the Mid-Atlantic states are invited to compete within this unique exhibition featuring a wide variety of landscape concepts in any artistic medium: photography, sculpture, painting, video, installation, etc. The works will be available
- [Ansel Adams: Early Works](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/ansel-adams-early-works/) - MAY 5, 2017 - JULY 30, 2017 This exhibition presents the work of iconic American photographer, Ansel Adams. His work can be viewed as the end of an arc of American art concerned with capturing the "sublime" in the unspoiled Western landscape: a tradition that includes several painters on view within the Biggs Museum including
- [What Inspired You?: Works by Members of the Delaware Art Education Association](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/what-inspired-you-works-by-members-of-the-delaware-art-education-association/) - AUGUST 4, 2017 - SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 Almost all artists have a vivid memory of what inspired them to pursue the arts. Through a partnership with the Delaware Art Education Association, the Biggs and DAEA have challenged Delaware art educators to create and submit works of art that explore what inspired them to become artists
- [Biggs In Bloom](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/biggs-in-bloom/) - AUGUST 4, 2017 - SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 This year's Biggs in Bloom showcase of artist floral designs influenced by highlights of the Biggs Museum's permanent collection will be spread out over several installations to build momentum towards the grander presentation in September 2018 celebrating the museum's 25-year anniversary. Keep up with all the displays of
- [DDOA Award Winners XVII](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/ddoa-award-winners-xvii/) - AUGUST 4, 2017 - OCTOBER 22, 2017 The annual Award Winners exhibition features the talent of the Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA) Individual Artist Fellows. The Fellows are recommended by out-of-state jurors based on the high quality of their artwork and receive Delaware State Arts Council approval. Each year, the Biggs Museum invites the
- [Christo & Jeanne-Claude: The Tom Golden Collection](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/christo-jeanne-claude-the-tom-golden-collection/) - AUGUST 4, 2017 - OCTOBER 22, 2017 This exhibition chronicles the career of husband and wife artistic team, Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The exhibition is a large display of the artists' portfolios; original drawings and sculptures developed to record the major large scale environmental installations and international projects undertaken by Christo and Jeanne-Claude for more than
- [Biggs Exhibition at the Winterthur Antique Show](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/biggs-exhibition-at-the-winterthur-antique-show/) - NOVEMBER 10, 2017 - NOVEMBER 12, 2017 The Biggs Museum is honored to provide the showcase exhibition of the Delaware Antique Show at the Chase Center in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. This exhibition celebrates the museum's upcoming 25-year anniversary by featuring 25 recent additions to the museum's permanent collection that epitomize its continued strengths and new
- [Delaware Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/delaware-watercolor-society-juried-exhibition/) - NOVEMBER 3, 2017 - JANUARY 21, 2018 In partnership with the Delaware Watercolor Society (DWS), the Biggs Museum will again exhibit watercolor paintings by this group's best and brightest in a juried competition. Over fifty works will be featured within the Biggs Museum, many will be for sale. The DWS aims to promote and encourage
- [Delaware By Hand Juried Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/delaware-by-hand-juried-exhibition/) - NOVEMBER 3, 2017 - JANUARY 21, 2018 Every three years, the Biggs Museum hosts a juried competition of its Delaware By Hand artist membership in order to select individual artists that are deemed masters of their craft.
- [My Countries, My Composers: Aina Nergaard-Nammack](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/my-countries-my-composers-aina-nergaard-nammack/) - FEBRUARY 2, 2018 - MARCH 25, 2018 This is the museum's first one-woman show of the artist Aina Nergaard-Nammack. The exhibition, entitled My Countries, My Composers, explores the artist's interpretation of musical scores of key classical music composers of the three countries where she has lived: first Spain, then Norway and now the United States.
- [Performances: the Brandywine Photo Collective](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/performances-the-brandywine-photo-collective/) - FEBRUARY 2, 2018 - APRIL 22, 2018 The iconic photographer Ansel Adams described that every photograph is a "performance" in which light exposure, composition, color and any number of other tiny details can be arranged by the artist to create an original expression. In Performances, nine artist members of the Brandywine Photo Collective will interpret
- [African American History Live](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/african-american-history-live/) - FEBRUARY 2, 2018 - APRIL 29, 2018 The Biggs Museum will present its first group exhibition of works created by African American artists of Greater Dover and Kent County. Entitled African American History Live, the exhibition is a focal point of the Dover Citywide Black History Celebration taking place in several locations throughout the city
- [Milton Downing: Moral Assembly](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/milton-downing-moral-assembly/) - JUNE 1, 2018 - JULY 22, 2018 Milton Downing insists he is not an activist, but perhaps a moralist. This assemblage artist gathers pieces of discarded clothing and other found objects into painted compositions that reveal a wide range of human experiences. His subjects, regardless of their backgrounds, are elevated through an expressive use of
- [Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA) Award Winners XVIII](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/delaware-division-of-the-arts-ddoa-award-winners-xviii/) - JUNE 1, 2018 - JULY 22, 2018 For the past 18 years, the Biggs Museum of American Art has hosted the DDOA Award Winners exhibition. This annual group show features artworks, literature and performances of the Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA) Individual Artist Fellows-among the state's most prestigious honors for artists. The winning Fellows
- [Delaware Discoveries: Girlhood Embroidery, 1750-1850](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/delaware-discoveries-girlhood-embroidery-1750-1850/) - MAY 19, 2018 - JULY 22, 2018 The Biggs Museum will honor the upcoming publication of Delaware Discoveries: Girlhood Embroidery, 1750-1850, the definitive study of Delaware girlhood samplers of the 18th and 19th centuries, with an exhibition of historic needlework. The exhibition will feature approximately 80 antique samplers and other forms of embroidery from all three
- [Delaware Watercolor Society: Spring Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/delaware-watercolor-society-spring-exhibition/) - MAY 6, 2011 - MAY 29, 2011 The Biggs Museum will host the Delaware Watercolor Society largest exhibition in 2011, the juried members exhibition. As many as 50 watercolors will be featured within the Museum's galleries, many will be for sale. The Delaware Watercolor Society (DWS) aims to promote and encourage mutually shared interests in
- [Campus Community School: Junior Docent Art Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/campus-community-school-junior-docent-art-exhibition/) - MAY 6, 2011 - MAY 29, 2011 Junior Docents from Dover's Campus Community School will be featured as the final celebration of this year's program. The Junior Docent program, which was developed to conform to Delaware Visual and Performing Arts standards, allows the Biggs Museum to support art education by collaborating with local educators and
- [Delaware Silver](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/delaware-silver/) - MARCH 5, 2008 - JUNE 29, 2008 FeaturingThe Col. Kenneth P. & Regina I. Brown Collectionand loan exhibitionMasters in Our Midst March 5 - June 29, 2008 The Biggs Museum is proud to celebrate Delaware Silver featuring the permanent installation of the Col. Kenneth P. & Regina I. Brown Collection in the State's first Delaware
- [Greetings from Delaware](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/greetings-from-delaware/) - SEPTEMBER 20, 2008 - OCTOBER 19, 2008 Greetings from Delaware and Other Artist Communities, features over 250 hand-made greeting cards, the majority of the Jann Haynes Gilmore and B. Joyce Puckett collection, by both regional and national professional artists. The exhibition will be filled with artful greetings manufactured and sent by artists such as, Rockwell
- [From Four Studios: First State Modernism](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/from-four-studios-first-state-modernism/) - SEPTEMBER 20, 2008 - OCTOBER 19, 2008 From Four Studios: First State Modernism is the first major exhibition of the State's Modernist art collection. The show presents key examples of works by four seminal figures in early 20th - century painting of Delaware: Jack Lewis (b. 1912), Howard Schroeder (1910-1995), Orville Peets (1881-1968) and Ethel
- [Abraham Lincoln: The WSFS Bank Collection of Frank Schoonover Illustrations](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/abraham-lincoln-the-wsfs-bank-collection-of-frank-schoonover-illustrations/) - MARCH 31, 2015 - MAY 3, 2015 For over 50 years, WSFS, the oldest bank and trust company headquartered in Delaware, have been the stewards of a fine collection of paintings and drawings by prized Wilmington illustrator, Frank E. Schoonover (1877-1972). Many of the works in this collection were originally owned by Helen L. Card
- [March for the Arts](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/march-for-the-arts/) - MARCH 6, 2015 - MARCH 29, 2015 In support of Youth Art Month, the Museum will host an exhibition of artwork created by Delaware art educators and their students. Schools from across the state have submitted a series of works in a variety of media.
- [Carson Zullinger: The Line of Beauty](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/carson-zullinger-the-line-of-beauty/) - NOVEMBER 7, 2014 - FEBRUARY 15, 2015 Delaware native, Carson Zullinger, has been exhibiting his figural and landscape fine-art photographs for forty years. Zullinger often subordinates his dynamic and thoroughly modern compositions to emphasize traditionally held forms of beauty. The Line of Beauty helps to trace his accomplishments in the arts while debuting new works
- [You Are the United States](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/you-are-the-united-states/) - DECEMBER 5, 2014 - JANUARY 11, 2015 Emile Klein, a classically trained portrait painter from the San Francisco Bay area, recently biked across the country to record America from his perspective. Throughout his journey, Emile stopped at the homes of various short-term sponsor families. In exchange for hosting the artist, he would paint the host's
- [Ain't I a Woman: Lori Crawford and The Sista's](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/aint-i-a-woman-lori-crawford-and-the-sistas/) - SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 - OCTOBER 26, 2014 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
- [Award Winners XIV](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/award-winners-xiv/) - AUGUST 1, 2014 - OCTOBER 19, 2014 For fourteen years, the Biggs Museum has partnered with the Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA) to showcase the artistic talents of Delaware in an annual exhibition. The exhibition features the talent of the current Individual Artist Fellows of the DDOA. Delaware artists: painters, photographers, sculptors, writers, musicians
- [R³ Factory Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/r³-factory-exhibition/) - MAY 17, 2014 - JULY 20, 2014 With support from Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, the Biggs Museum is proud to present a series of educational programs that provide valuable information as well as art-related experiences that focus on the importance of recycling. From May 17 through July 20, the Child HELP
- [Biggs Picture Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/biggs-picture-exhibition/) - MAY 17, 2014 - JULY 20, 2014 The Biggs Museum of American art is proud to again host the third installment of The Biggs Picture, a landscape competition. This exhibition will present art works from all media; such as, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, craft, and video; of competition winners that most successfully interpret the theme
- [The Biggs Picture: the 2011 Landscape Competition and Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/the-biggs-picture-the-2011-landscape-competition-and-exhibition/) - MARCH 4, 2011 - JUNE 19, 2011 The Biggs Picture exhibition features paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, craft, video and any artistic medium by regional landscape artists. This juried competition asks artist contestants to interpret the theme of "Landscape." Chosen works successfully interpret the theme of "Landscape" with the finest examples of their media and fit
- [Award Winners XI:Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/award-winners-xiexhibition/) - JULY 1, 2011 - OCTOBER 23, 2011 We Are All Poets by Colette C. Gaiter The Biggs Museum of American Art will open the summer 2011 exhibition: Award Winners XI on Friday, July 1 with a First Look pARTY from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Museum. Be one of the
- [Delaware By Hand: Masterworks 2011](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/delaware-by-hand-masterworks-2011/) - NOVEMBER 4, 2011 - FEBRUARY 26, 2012 Every two years, Delaware By Hand (DBH) hosts a membership-wide juried competition in order to select individual artists that are deemed masters of their craft. The 2011 artists were selected by Bryan Young; Curator of Easton, Maryland's Academy Art Museum; and Sally Hansen, retired owner and director of
- [Loving Traditions: The Ann Marcus Valentines Card Collection](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/loving-traditions-the-ann-marcus-valentines-card-collection/) - FEBRUARY 3, 2011 - MARCH 25, 2011 Valentines cards have been popularly printed, mailed and received in Europe and America since the 1800s. Printing innovations of the Industrial Revolution and the professionalization of the U.S. postal service ushered in a large number of card manufacturers. The design of early Valentines cards drew from popular art
- [As the Poet Paints: E. Jean Lanyon](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/as-the-poet-paints-e-jean-lanyon/) - APRIL 6, 2011 - MAY 23, 2011 As the Poet Paints features the literary and visual artworks of the 1979-2001 Delaware Poet Laureate E. Jean Lanyon:"As a Fine Artist I paint what I cannot write, and I write what I cannot paint."The dual nature of this artist's personal expression will take form in a comprehensive
- [Jewels of the Generations: The Legacy of Loockerman and Bradford Family of Dover](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/jewels-of-the-generations-the-legacy-of-loockerman-and-bradford-family-of-dover/) - MARCH 2, 2011 - JUNE 24, 2011 When Dover merchant, Vincent Loockerman, died in 1785 he was probably Dover's single largest land owner and unrivaled collector of Delaware and Philadelphia-made furniture of the 18th century. For the last 200 years, Vincent's descendants have lived with the riches of the past while adding treasures from their
- [Arts Connect-ED: Campus Community School Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/arts-connect-ed-campus-community-school-exhibition/) - MARCH 27, 2012 - JUNE 24, 2012 Celebrate youth talent in the arts by being the first to look at the installment of local school children's artwork. The featured pieces were created by students of Campus Community School of Dover, DE. Within the exhibition there will be a focus on artwork inspired by Biggs Museum
- [Picturing WWI: The American Illustration Collection of the Delaware National Guard](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/picturing-wwi-the-american-illustration-collection-of-the-delaware-national-guard/) - MAY 4, 2012 - JUNE 24, 2012 In a time before televisions or even the widespread use of radio, Americans received their news and entertainment from popular magazines and illustrations. Among Delaware's most famous illustrators of the early 20th century, Frank E. Schoonover (1877-1972) and Gayle Porter Hoskins (1887-1962) painted hundreds of images during their
- [Biggs Shot 2012](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/biggs-shot-2012/) - NOVEMBER 2, 2012 - FEBRUARY 17, 2013 Biggs Shot 2012 will feature submissions to the third juried photography competition of artists living and working in the Greater Delmarva Peninsula. The competition, hosted by the Biggs Museum and juried by Sarah Stolfa, Director of the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, is open to all photographers-both amateur and
- [A Moment in Time: Artist Exchange](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/a-moment-in-time-artist-exchange/) - JANUARY 4, 2013 - FEBRUARY 24, 2013 In conjunction with the museum's signature Biggs Shot photographyc ompetition, the museum has invited a local artist association to create works based on the photographic notion of capturing a "moment in time." Artists who specialize in such varied media as ceramics, abstract painting, watercolors, printmaking and textiles will
- [The Projectionist](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/the-projectionist/) - MARCH 1, 2013 - JUNE 23, 2013 The Projectionist is a documentary, book and multi-media exhibition that explores one man's lifelong fascination with the golden ago of film and, in particular, the grand movie palace. The exhibition features a fully operational 1920s style movie theater that was created in the basement of Middletown native, Gordon
- [The Legacy of Currier & Ives: Shaping the American Spirit](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/the-legacy-of-currier-ives-shaping-the-american-spirit/) - JULY 4, 2013 - OCTOBER 27, 2013 When Nathanial Currier, a young businessman in New York City, published a lithograph in 1835 showing Planters Hotel in New Orleans after a fire, it ushered in a new era of pictorial journalism. The print established the firm which was to achieve its greatest fame as "Currier &
- [Award Winners XIII](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/award-winners-xiii/) - AUGUST 2, 2013 - OCTOBER 13, 2013 For thirteen 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
- [Delaware Watercolor Society](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/delaware-watercolor-society-2/) - SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 - OCTOBER 27, 2013 The Biggs Museum will host a juried member's exhibition of the Delaware Watercolor Society. As many as 50 watercolors will be featured within the Museum's galleries, many will be for sale. The Delaware Watercolor Society (DWS) aims to promote and encourage mutually shared interests in watercolor media among
- [Celebration of Creativity](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/celebration-of-creativity/) - NOVEMBER 1, 2013 - DECEMBER 31, 2013 VSA of Delaware provides children and adults with disabilities opportunities to achieve in the performing and visual arts. VSA of Delaware is a unique organization within the state with a sole mission devoted to enhancing the capabilities, confidence and quality of life for individuals with disabilities by providing
- [Refining the Region: the Landscapes of Bayard T. Berndt](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/refining-the-region-the-landscapes-of-bayard-t-berndt/) - NOVEMBER 1, 2013 - FEBRUARY 23, 2014 Bayard Taylor Berndt was a 20th century Brandywine Valley artist who studied under such recognizable figures as Frank Schoonover, N.C. Wyeth and Gayle Hoskins. Refining the Region: the Landscapes of Bayard T. Berndt is an exhibition of paintings produced over the course of a sixty-year career. American and
- [Young at Art](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/young-at-art/) - SEPTEMBER 20, 2008 - OCTOBER 19, 2008 In partnership with the Child HELP Foundation, the Biggs Museum is proud to host Young at Art, an exhibition featuring artwork created by children in Delaware who are supported by the Child HELP Foundation and VSA Arts of Delaware. Child HELP Foundation is a nonprofit charitable community organization
- [Award Winners VII](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/award-winners-vii/) - JULY 9, 2008 - OCTOBER 26, 2008 For seven years the Biggs Museum has offered its galleries for the presentation of some of Delaware's finest visual artists, craftspeople, writers and musicians with the Award Winners series of exhibitions. The summer celebration offers a home each year for a new group of winners of the prestigious
- [Award Winners VIII](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/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
- [Forgotten Dreams:The Paintings of Edward Grant](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/forgotten-dreamsthe-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
- [On a Smaller Scale: Dollhouses](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/on-a-smaller-scale-dollhouses/) - NOVEMBER 5, 2008 - FEBRUARY 22, 2009 Open November 5, 2008 - February 22, 2009 On a Smaller Scale features the recent acquisition of three exceptional dollhouses from the now closed Delaware Toy and Miniature Museum (DTMM), created by Dover resident, Barbara Merrell. These homes were commended by DTMM for their high degree of naturalistic
- [Biggs Shot 2009](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/biggs-shot-2009/) - MARCH 4, 2009 - JUNE 28, 2009 Biggs Shot 2009 is the second juried photography competition and exhibition featuring the work of new and emerging photographers, working and/or living in the Mid-Atlantic region. The inaugural Biggs Shot competition in 2005 attracted over 130 applicants within the region. Sally Packard and Dinah Reath, owner of the
- [Wish for the World](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/wish-for-the-world/) - AUGUST 8, 2009 - AUGUST 31, 2009 As we look around our world today, filled with conflicts, environment destruction and human suffering, we all wish for a more peaceful, healthier and happier world. Every member of the community is invited to participate in the Wish for the World exhibition, by visiting the Museum and interpreting
- [The Sculpture of Light: Volterra, Italy in Delaware](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/the-sculpture-of-light-volterra-italy-in-delaware/) - APRIL 4, 2009 - JUNE 21, 2009 In a partnership with the Appoquinimink School District and the Volterra, Italy delegation, the Museum is pleased to present The Sculpture of Light: Volterra, Italy in Delaware: an exhibition celebrating the international artist-in-residency program with the Appoquinimink School District as well as the continuing, rich Volterran tradition of
- [Ellen's Wacky Chair Contest](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/ellens-wacky-chair-contest/) - AUGUST 5, 2009 - AUGUST 31, 2009 Open August 5, 2009 - August 31, 2009 The Biggs Museum is proud to serve as a partner alongside the Delaware State Fair, the Boys & Girls Club, WMDT and the Ellen Degeneres Show in the 2009 Ellen's Wacky Chair Contest. In July 2009, local artists partnered with
- [Award Winners](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/award-winners/) - JULY 3, 2009 - OCTOBER 25, 2009 Open July 3, 2009 – October 25, 2009 Award Winners 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
- [Fusion: American Classics Meet Latin American Art](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/fusion-american-classics-meet-latin-american-art/) - SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 - NOVEMBER 15, 2009 In a partnership with the Governor's Advisory Council on Hispanic Affairs (GACHA), the Biggs Museum will exhibit the works of contemporary Hispanic artists living or working in the State of Delaware and the Mid-Atlantic Region. This exhibition will commemorate the declaration of the Hispanic Heritage Month Proclamation at
- [Arts ConnectEd](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/arts-connected/) - NOVEMBER 6, 2009 - FEBRUARY 21, 2010 Arts ConnectEd features the young talent of students in Delaware schools. The exhibition consists of four month-long installations, each featuring the artwork of a different school in the state of Delaware. Arts ConnectEd reflects the quality and diversity of art education in Delaware schools. The Biggs Museum is
- [Blue Water/Still Water: American Society of Marine Artists](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/blue-water-still-water-american-society-of-marine-artists/) - MARCH 5, 2010 - JUNE 20, 2010 Open March 5, 2010 - June 20, 2010 "Artists have always found inspiration in the aquatic:from the vastness of the open ocean,where clear water rolls on in deep cobalt waves,to the stillness of shallow watershedslit by the song of bullfrogs and Painted Buntings. As members of the American
- [Award Winners X and Reunion](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/award-winners-x-and-reunion/) - JULY 2, 2010 – 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
- [The Wyeths: Three Generations](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/the-wyeths-three-generations/) - NOVEMBER 2, 2023 - FEBRUARY 11, 2024 Works From the Bank of America Collection This exhibition brings together more than seventy works of art by three generations of artists. Paintings, drawings, and illustrations created by N.C. Wyeth, his son Andrew, his daughter Henriette, and his grandson Jamie return home to Delaware at the Biggs for
- [Front Row Center: Icons of Rock, Blues, and Soul](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/front-row-center-icons-of-rock-blues-and-soul/) - MARCH 17, 2023 - JUNE 19, 2023 The iconic photographs of Larry Hulst capture the freewheeling energy of live music and the enduring visual spectacle of rock’s greatest performers. From Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix to David Bowie and Lauryn Hill, Front Row Center: Icons of Rock, Blues and Soul brings together over 70 images
- [Mary Putman: Art is About Us](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/mary-putman-art-is-about-us/) - FEBRUARY 16, 2023 - MARCH 26, 2023 For the Delaware-based painter Mary Putman, art is—and has always been—about us. Putman’s focus on the landscape over the course of her prolific career has allowed her to probe this simple yet powerful statement. Her paintings explore the vast and complicated interconnections between the land and its occupants.
- [Art Deco Glass from the David Huchthausen Collection](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/art-deco-glass-from-the-david-huchthausen-collection/) - NOVEMBER 5, 2022 - FEBRUARY 20, 2023 Clean lines, geometric shapes and bright colors characterize this exhibition of more than 100 early 20th century works by iconic Art Deco Studios such as René Lalique, Daum Frères, Steuben Glass Works, and many others. Assembled through the keen and practiced eye of renowned contemporary glass artist David Huchthausen,
- [Award Winners: XX](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/award-winners-xx/) - JUNE 5, 2020 - JULY 23, 2020 Award Winners: XX - the 20th anniversary exhibition of the Biggs Museum's annual presentation of visual, performing and literary arts fellowship winners of the Delaware Division of the Arts. The Biggs Museum's exhibition will combine this year's fellowship winners with a selection of new works by notable past
- [Stephen Althouse: Relics](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/stephen-althouse-relics/) - MAY 14, 2020 – JULY 14, 2020 After receiving a Fulbright Grant to participate in an artist-in-residency program in Belgium, sculptor and photographer Stephen Althouse began exhibiting his uniquely constructed photographs in museums and galleries internationally. Featuring enormous images captured between 2003 and 2017, this exhibition elevates and transforms antique tools and decorative arts into
- [Lessons: an Exhibition by Billy Colbert](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/lessons-an-exhibition-by-billy-colbert/) - FEBRUARY 7, 2020 – MARCH 29, 2020 The Biggs Museum has partnered with University of Delaware Professor of Africana Studies Tiffany Barber to curate an exhibition of recent works by Billy Colbert of the Delaware State University Fine Art Department in conjunction with Dover’s Citywide Black History Celebration. Colbert’s works are drawn from the theme
- [Ripped From the Headlines: Photojournalism in Delaware](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/ripped-from-the-headlines-photojournalism-in-delaware/) - NOVEMBER 1, 2019 - JANUARY 19, 2020 News publishers are among the nation's oldest and most revered image makers. The art of photojournalism, especially in local newspapers, is under appreciated in American art museums even though they tell the stories that unify communities. The Biggs Museum is proud to partner with nearly every major news
- [Lenape Tribe of Delaware Healing Arts Mural](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/lenape-tribe-of-delaware-healing-arts-mural/) - NOVEMBER 1, 2019 - JANUARY 19, 2020 A mural-arts project highlighting the Past, Present and Future of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware. This public art project was created through a partnership between Cheyney University professor and painter Marietta Dantonio-Madsen, Cheyney art students and the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware.
- [Biggs Body: A Juried Competition of Figural Art](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/biggs-body-a-juried-competition-of-figural-art/) - SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 - NOVEMBER 17, 2019 The Biggs Museum is proud to introduce a new juried competition and exhibition concept of art forms featuring human and animal figures. This exhibition showcases 60 exceptional artworks selected from nearly 400 competition submissions in all visual art media including, but not limited to: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography,
- [Monumental: Michael Izrael Galmer, Silversmith](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/monumental-michael-izrael-galmer-silversmith/) - APRIL 6, 2018 - MAY 20, 2018 The Biggs Museum of American Art is grateful to highlight its 25th Anniversary Celebration with an exhibition on the famed American silversmith, Michael Izrael Galmer. Born to a Jewish family in Soviet Russia, he immigrated with his wife Galina to New York in 1981. Galmer combined his advanced
- [Rebecca Raubacher: Drawings and Paintings](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/rebecca-raubacher-drawings-and-paintings/) - AUGUST 2, 2019 - OCTOBER 20, 2019 Rebecca Raubacher's depictions of human and animal figures emerge over time from a few simple marks layered onto a piece of paper. Without any specific person in mind, she carefully, but almost hypnotically, builds her faces and bodies with cross-hatched lines of a wide range of artistic media.
- [Delaware Art Educators Association Exhibition in the Child HELP Gallery](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/delaware-art-educators-association-exhibition-in-the-child-help-gallery/) - SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 - OCTOBER 20, 2019 Featuring artworks created by members of the Delaware Art Educators Association-an affiliate of the National Association serving art teachers across the country.
- [Spirit Revealed: New Works by Aaron Paskins](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/spirit-revealed-new-works-by-aaron-paskins/) - MAY 3, 2019 - JULY 21, 2019 Aaron Paskins is a Dover sculptor who has been building a national and local reputation for imaginative, inspiring African figures and imagery using unexpected materials. The essence of Paskins' sculptures capture the complexity of various indigenous tribes, executed with imagination and a touch of fantasy.
- [ArtLane: Visualizing the Museum](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/artlane-visualizing-the-museum/) - MAY 3, 2019 - JULY 21, 2019 The Biggs invited the artist critique group exhibition club, ArtLane, to study the museum as a subject of their photographic art works and to each create a distinct series of images that reflect their own artistic points of view. Featured artists include: Elisabeth Bard, Pat Field, Karl Leck,
- [Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA) Award Winners XIX](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/delaware-division-of-the-arts-ddoa-award-winners-xix/) - JUNE 7, 2019 - JULY 21, 2019 Each year, the Biggs Museum of American Art hosts the winning artists of Delaware's most prestigious fellowship competition in one group exhibition. The Delaware State Arts Council, in cooperation with the Delaware Division of the Arts, selects these fellowship winners from a pool of hundreds of literary, visual
- [Caesar Rodney School District Art Show](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/caesar-rodney-school-district-art-show/) - MAY 4, 2019 - MAY 31, 2019 This annual exhibition celebrates the success of student artists in the Caesar Rodney School District. Open to all age levels, skill sets, and media, this show is an exemplary display of the diversity of perspective, experience, and personalities found in the Caesar Rodney community.
- [Rooted, Revived and Reinvented: Basketry in America](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/rooted-revived-and-reinvented-basketry-in-america/) - FEBRUARY 1, 2019 - APRIL 28, 2019 Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America chronicles a history of American basketry from its origins in Native American, immigrant, and slave communities to its presence within the contemporary fine art world. Baskets convey meaning through the artists' selection of materials; the techniques they use; and the colors, designs,
- [Traveling Africa: Citywide Black History Festival](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/traveling-africa-citywide-black-history-festival/) - FEBRUARY 1, 2019 - MARCH 24, 2019 As part of Dover's annual Citywide Black History Celebration, the Biggs Museum will examine the ways that Americans record and relate to Africa through tourism. This group exhibition includes travel photography of memorable moments on the continent, as well as the material culture that tourists in Kent County
- [From Nature: The Children's Book Illustrations of Nancy Carol Willis](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/from-nature-the-childrens-book-illustrations-of-nancy-carol-willis/) - OCTOBER 5, 2018 - JANUARY 27, 2019 Like John J. Audubon, Nancy Carol Willis demonstrates a deep feeling for nature based upon a lifetime of close observation, sketching, and painting. From October-January, the Schoonover Illustration Gallery will host 18 illustrations from three of Willis's award-winning natural science children's picture books. The books depict North American
- [An Artist's Education: William H. McDaniel](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/an-artists-education-william-h-mcdaniel/) - DECEMBER 6, 2018 - JANUARY 19, 2019 Delaware is known for producing a great number of successful artists. Exceptional art schools in the area have produced luminaries of American illustration and fine arts. William H. McDaniel demonstrated great promise attending the Wilmington Academy of Art in the late 1920s, but the Great Depression ended his
- [Biggs Shot 2018](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/biggs-shot-2018/) - DECEMBER 7, 2018 - JANUARY 27, 2019 The Biggs Museum of American Art presents Biggs Shot 2018, the fifth juried photography competition and exhibition featuring the work of professional and emerging photographers, working and/or living in the Mid-Atlantic region. The theme for Biggs Shot 2018 is open, and any photographic medium can be submitted for
- [Audubon, Then and Now](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/audubon-then-and-now/) - AUGUST 3, 2018 - NOVEMBER 25, 2018 In 1826 at the age of 41, encouraged by his wife, Audubon took his portfolio of 300+ works to England. Today, more than ever his work endures and segments of his work are right here at the Biggs in Dover. This exhibition examines the importance of the artist
- [Rembrandt Etchings: States, Fakes and Restrikes](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/rembrandt-etchings-states-fakes-and-restrikes/) - MAY 12, 2018 - JULY 8, 2018 Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-69) was one of the most influential printmakers in the history of art. But how can one be sure that a Rembrandt is truly or wholly by THE Rembrandt? This exhibition examines the problem of authenticating this artist' etchings. The exhibition includes first state
- [Tom Wilson: Super-Realist/Surrealist](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/tom-wilson-super-realist-surrealist/) - JULY 1, 2022 - OCTOBER 16, 2022 From international male supermodel to renowned artist: once-famous for his looks, Tom’s career morphed brilliantly into a body of work that indelibly graces the collections of many of Delaware’s prominent arts patrons in the Rehoboth/Lewes area. Today, 50 pieces on loan from these collectors were curated into a
- [Award Winners XXII](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/award-winners-xxii/) - JUNE 3, 2022 - JULY 23, 2022 Each year, the Biggs Museum of American Art, in partnership with the Delaware Division of the Arts, exhibits the work of the Division’s annual Individual Artist Fellows at the Award Winners exhibition. The Division recognizes artists throughout the state for their outstanding quality of work in the areas
- [Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Guild Hall Museum ](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/guild-hall-an-adventure-in-the-arts-selections-from-the-permanent-collection-of-the-guild-hall-museum/) - MARCH 4, 2022 - JUNE 18, 2022 Featuring 72 works from the permanent collection of Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, this exhibition notably includes artwork by Jackson Pollock, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Chuck Close. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and mixed media works will trace the progression
- [Visions & Voices: A juried exhibition of Mid-Atlantic African American Artists](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/visions-voices-a-juried-exhibition-of-mid-atlantic-african-american-artists/) - FEBRUARY 4, 2022 - MAY 21, 2022 After years of successfully hosting juried art competitions for photographers, landscape artists, and figural artists of the Mid-Atlantic Region, the Biggs Museum is proud to introduce a new juried exhibition highlighting the work of regional African American artists. This exhibition will present art from all visual art media
- [Children's Abstract Art Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/childrens-abstract-art-exhibition/) - MARCH 4, 2022 - MAY 7, 2022 Inspired by Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Guild Hall Museum, the Biggs Museum of American Art put out a call for abstract art created by artists in Pre - K through 12th grade. Nearly 100 submissions were received and
- [Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/frida-kahlo-through-the-lens-of-nickolas-muray/) - NOVEMBER 5, 2021 - FEBRUARY 12, 2022 In May 1931 the eminent photographer Nickolas Muray traveled to Mexico on vacation where he met Frida Kahlo, a woman he would never forget. The two started a romance that continued on and off for the next ten years and a friendship that lasted until her death in
- [Unmasking Culture: An Examination of the Ritual Masks of Mexico](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/unmasking-culture-an-examination-of-the-ritual-masks-of-mexico/) - NOVEMBER 5, 2021 - FEBRUARY 12, 2022 Unmasking Culture will accompany Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray to celebrate and enhance the understanding of the cultural heritage of Mexico for which Kahlo has become a global icon. This exhibition presents antique masks and figures used by Mexican indigenous people in their centuries-old religious
- [Mi Frida: Children’s Portrait Contest Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/mi-frida-childrens-portrait-contest-exhibition/) - NOVEMBER 5, 2021 - FEBRUARY 12, 2022 Frida Kahlo and portraits of her have become iconic in pop culture because of her unique sense of self. Kahlo’s Tehuana-inspired dress, elaborate hairstyles, and dignified unibrow are as recognizable as her paintings. The Biggs put out a call to young artists in grades K - 12 to
- [Contemporary Refresh](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/contemporary-refresh/) - NOVEMBER 5, 2021 - JANUARY 22, 2022 The Biggs Museum will create a fresh showcase of modern and contemporary artworks curated from its permanent collection in Galleries 23-25. This exhibition will feature paintings, prints, sculptures and more created by artists from the 1960s through practicing artists today.
- [Winslow Homer From Poetry to Fiction - The Engraved Works](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/winslow-homer-from-poetry-to-fiction-the-engraved-works/) - JULY 2, 2021 - OCTOBER 16, 2021 Winslow Homer (1836-1910) captured a cross section of American society that tells a story of triumph and tragedy in American history through his monochromatic engravings created during the pre-war years, the Civil War and the following decade. Featuring Homer’s early work that was produced in New York’s Hudson
- [Inventing Illustration: Illuminating Vintage Children's Literature & Other Stories](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/inventing-illustration-illuminating-vintage-childrens-literature-other-stories/) - JULY 2, 2021 - OCTOBER 16, 2021 Wilmington-based artist Frank E. Schoonover (1877-1972) created thousands of book illustrations throughout his career, including the cover art for such well-known stories as Swiss Family Robinson (1921), Gulliver’s Travels (1921) and Treasure Island (1921). This exhibition traces Schoonover’s design steps, beginning with preparatory photographs, drawings and sketches for
- [Award Winners XXI](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/award-winners-xxi/) - JUNE 4, 2021 - JULY 24, 2021 The Delaware Division of the Arts annually recognizes outstanding artists across the state in the areas of visual, literary and performing arts through their Individual Artist Fellowships. The Division awarded 25 Delaware artists with a prestigious Fellowship award this year. The Fellows’ work is exhibited among the Biggs’
- [Out of the Vault:  Modern and Contemporary Art ](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/out-of-the-vault-modern-and-contemporary-art/) - MARCH 5, 2021 - JUNE 19, 2021 Allow us to reintroduce ourselves. Witness an evolution of the Biggs through a reinstallation of the museum’s entire third-floor galleries to feature rarely exhibited paintings, photographs, sculpture and crafts from the Post WWI period to the contemporary arts of the present day. Much of this work has been
- [In Fresh Air: Impressionism and the Plein Air Movement](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/in-fresh-air-impressionism-and-the-plein-air-movement/) - MARCH 5, 2021 - JUNE 19, 2021 The artistic drive to leave the studio and to collect inspiration, impressions and ideas directly from nature is featured in this new exhibition. Drawn from works rarely seen at the Biggs Museum, the exhibition tracks the influence of plein air painting in the United States, particularly in Delaware,
- [Toni Frissell: In Italy with the Tuskegee Airmen ](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/toni-frissell-in-italy-with-the-tuskegee-airmen/) - JANUARY 8, 2021 - APRIL 24, 2021 The imminent fashion and society photographer, Toni Frissell (1907-88), held several official positions with the American Red Cross, the Women’s Army Corp and the US Air Force to document World War II. This exhibition highlights her images of the Tuskegee Airmen, the 332d Fighter Group, from the collection
- [Delaware Watercolor Society](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/delaware-watercolor-society/) - AUGUST 7, 2020 - SEPTEMBER 20, 2020 The Biggs welcomes back the winners of the juried competition of Delaware's premier membership of artists of the watercolor medium. This year's juror, Joel Popadics, is an esteemed watercolorist whose work has been collected widely and who teaches and exhibits internationally.
- [Stairway to Heaven: Life and Death in the Visions of Salvador Dalí Illustrations for Les Chants de Maldoror and The Divine Comedy](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/stairway-to-heaven-life-and-death-in-the-visions-of-salvador-dali-illustrations-for-les-chants-de-maldoror-and-the-divine-comedy/) - DECEMBER 4, 2020 - FEBRUARY 20, 2021 Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is among the most recognized and eccentric artists of the 20th century. He layered the surreal imagery of his “paranoiac-critical method” onto hundreds of artworks, including paintings, theatrical designs, films, architecture, sculptures, jewelry and fine art prints, such as those featured in Life and Death
- [Jack Lewis: Delaware's Hidden Gem](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/jack-lewis-delawares-hidden-gem/) - AUGUST 7, 2020 - NOVEMBER 22, 2020 The Biggs Museum is proud to feature the work of our "Ultimate Hidden Gem" artists, Jack Lewis. This exhibition highlights rarely seen views across the Delmarva Peninsula from the collections of the Biggs Museum, the Rehoboth Art League and the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs. Since
- [Award Winners Reunion](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/award-winners-reunion/) - JUNE 5, 2020 - AUGUST 29, 2020 Even though the Biggs Museum's annual Award Winners exhibition, featuring each year's fellowship winners of the Delaware Division of the Arts, has moved to CAMP Rehoboth for the rest of the summer, past recipients of this award are still on view within the museum through August. This is the
- [Elite 8: Fan-Favorites ](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/elite-8-fan-favorites/) - JUNE 5, 2020 - JULY 23, 2020 In the spirit of the NCAA March Madness Tournament, the Biggs hosted the Interactive BMAA March Madness Tournament, where we let the public vote on 64 rarely seen artworks packed away in the Biggs Museum's object storage, the Elite 8 features the top winners of the museum's first

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- [Featured Object](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/featured-object/) - FEATURED OBJECT To celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary, we invited members of our community to each select an object in our permanent collection and explain why they thought it was significant—either for Delaware’s history or our contemporary moment. We will share their responses throughout 2026. These also will appear on wall labels as part of
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- [Educate & Learn - Tours](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/educate-learn-tours/) - GUIDED TOURS SCHOOL TOUR6+FAMILIESSchool Field Trips Explore the wonders of our permanent collection with guided or self-guided school tours. Workshops are available as an add-on. FREE – $7 1 hour – 3 hours ReserveGUIDED TOURAdult Group Tours Embark on a captivating journey with our adult group tours, where art comes to life, and history unfolds
- [Beyond the BIGGS](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/beyond-the-biggs/) - BEYOND THE BIGGS EXPLORE AREA ATTRACTIONS WHILE IN DOVERFirst State Heritage Park The Biggs is a proud site in Delaware’s first urban park without boundaries, First State Heritage Park, which explores the stories of remarkable Delawareans and innovative governance in the First State. Interpreters wearing Revolutionary garb lead visitors on walking tours, seasonal lantern-lit programs,
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- [Artwork](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/artwork/) - Adopt-an-Artwork is an educational partnership with schools, teachers and their students to investigate works of art as objects at the center of learning experiences. In its sixth year, Adopt an Artwork has welcomed teachers and students from all over the state in Pre-K through high school. The Biggs Museum collaborates with educators to make the
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- [Period of Contemporary Art](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/period-of-contemporary-art/) - PERIOD OF AMERICAN MODERNISMPERMANENT COLLECTIONPeriod of Contemporary Art The stylistically varied art of the past few decades is one of the fastest growing areas in the Biggs permanent collection. Delaware’s contemporary art scene is fueled by local centers of art education such as the University of Delaware, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts, Delaware College
- [Period of American Modernism](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/period-of-american-modernism/) - PERIOD OF THE AMERICAN ART COLONIESPERIOD OF CONTEMPORARY ARTPeriod of American Modernism For much of the 20th century, American art followed two distinct, often overlapping courses: abstraction and realism. New artistic ideas from Europe on perspective, color and subject were increasingly influencing many artists. These experimental artists simplified and exaggerated their increasingly personalized interpretations of
- [Period of the American Art Colonies](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/period-of-the-american-art-colonies/) - PERIOD OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATIONPERIOD OF AMERICAN MODERNISMPeriod of the American Art Colonies American painters of the late 1800s and early 1900s returned from their studies in Europe to establish professional careers throughout the United States. These highly trained artists established art colonies that mirrored their experiences in Europe, where retreats at such places as Barbizon
- [Period of American Illustration](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/period-of-american-illustration/) - AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISMPERIOD OF THE AMERICAN ART COLONIESPeriod of American Illustration Before publishers could reproduce photographs in books and magazines, artists painted the pictures that accompanied literary text. Publishers recreated the paintings as prints—usually engravings or lithographs—and reproduced them within popular stories. In this time before television and radio, published illustrations were extremely influential and popular
- [American Impressionism](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/american-impressionism/) - AMERICAN GILDED AGEPERIOD OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATIONAmerican Impressionism In the late 1800s, European academic artists began experimenting with recording specific effects of light and atmosphere, inspired in part by the perspectives and subject matter found in Japanese woodblock prints. Painting outdoors, or en plein air, gave their work a fresh, immediate appearance with unblended brush strokes
- [American Gilded Age](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/american-gilded-age/) - PERIOD HIGHLIGHT: GENRE AND HISTORY PAINTINGSAMERICAN IMPRESSIONISMAmerican Gilded Age After the Civil War, fast-growing industries such as railroads, gunpowder and steel presented tremendous opportunity for wealth in Delaware and the Mid-Atlantic. Families of American industrialists (largely white) patterned themselves on European aristocracy in education, architecture and art collecting. They filled Beaux-Arts mansions with European and
- [Period Highlight: Art of The Civil War](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/period-highlight-art-of-the-civil-war/) - HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL AND LANDSCAPE ARTAMERICAN GILDED AGEPeriod Highlight: Art of the Civil War Slavery was part of Delaware’s history from its beginnings as a European colony through its transition to the First State. Before and during the Civil War, Black slavery was legal in Delaware. Yet, the state joined the Union to fight against
- [Hudson River School And Landscape Art](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/hudson-river-school-and-landscape-art/) - GREEK REVIVAL PERIODPERIOD HIGHLIGHT: GENRE AND HISTORY PAINTINGSHudson River School and Landscape Art As the United States acquired more territory in the 19th century, increasing numbers of Americans moved west. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s descriptions of an untamed and largely unsettled American wilderness became a popular source of artistic expression across the country. Artists
- [Greek Revival Period](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/greek-revival-period/) - AMERICAN EMPIRE PERIODHUDSON RIVER SCHOOL AND LANDSCAPE ARTGreek Revival Period Early America was fascinated by the aesthetics of ancient and classical Greece for two main reasons: the young country was fueled by a growing understanding of democratic ideals, and the 1820s saw Greece battling its popular revolution for independence from the Ottoman Empire, which captured
- [American Empire Period](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/american-empire-period/) - FOLK AND SELF-TAUGHT ARTGREEK REVIVAL PERIODAmerican Empire Period During the War of 1812, America’s enemy, England, was also at war with Napoleonic France. America’s political sympathies with Napoleon fueled an interest in French fashion modeled on the archeology of Imperial Rome. Many Americans demonstrated their own political outlook by purchasing the highly decorative Napoleonic, or
- [Period Highlight: American Folk Art](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/period-highlight-american-folk-art/) - AMERICAN FEDERAL PERIODAMERICAN EMPIRE PERIODFolk and Self-Taught Art Delaware folk artists contributed considerably to the flourishing of vernacular arts that began in the 1790s. Folk painting frequently emphasizes decorative patterns, color and material details—such as clothing and jewelry—at the expense of anatomical accuracy and fashionable notions of beauty. While most portrait painters of this period
- [American Federal Period](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/american-federal-period/) - PERIOD HIGHLIGHT: THE JANVIERS OF DELAWAREFOLK AND SELF-TAUGHT ARTAmerican Federal Period Between 1775 and 1787, the new United States of America went through an unprecedented period of military and political turmoil, between the Revolutionary War beginning in 1775, the signing of the Declaration of Independence the next year, and the ratification of the Constitution in
- [Colonial Settlement and Global Trade](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/colonial-settlement-and-global-trade/) - PERMANENT COLLECTIONAMERICAN BAROQUE PERIODColonial Settlement and Global Trade Before the appearance of Europeans in the so-called New World, Delaware and the surrounding region were the ancestral homelands of Indigenous people such as the Lenape and Nanticoke. In the 17th century, European settlers arrived from Sweden, Holland and Britain, looking for goods to trade and lands
- [American Baroque Period](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/american-baroque-period/) - COLONIAL SETTLEMENT AND GLOBAL TRADEAMERICAN ROCOCO PERIODAmerican Baroque Period American furniture in the early to mid-1700s was typically characterized by graceful curves (such as S-shaped cabriole legs) and limited surface ornament. In later periods, the style has been known as “Queen Anne” (named for the British monarch who reigned 1702-1714) and “American Baroque.” British subjects
- [American Rococo Period](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/american-rococo-period/) - AMERICAN BAROQUE PERIODPERIOD HIGHLIGHT: THE JANVIERS OF DELAWAREAmerican Rococo Period Rococo was an international style that originated in France and emphasized designs based on nature, such as plants and shells. The style was most often applied to the visual arts, such as prints and paintings, furniture and interior design. English cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale (ca. 1718–1779)
- [Period Highlight: The Janviers of Delaware](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/period-highlight-the-janviers-of-delaware/) - AMERICAN ROCOCO PERIODAMERICAN FEDERAL PERIODPeriod Highlight: The Janviers of Delaware The Janvier family of cabinetmakers descended from a French Huguenot immigrant joiner named Thomas Janvier (1664–ca. 1729), who historical records indicate settled in New Castle, Delaware, in the early 1700s. Very little recorded reference can be found on the Janvier family until Thomas’s grandson, John
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- [Past Exhibitions](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/past-exhibitions/) - APRIL 18, 2024 – JULY 28, 2024Award Winners XXIV: Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship Recipients In April, the museum will present Award Winners XXIV, an annual exhibition shining a light on the visual, performing, and[...]Read More JANUARY 11, 2024 – MARCH 24, 2024Art Works for All: Celebration of Creativity Presented in partnership with Art
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- [Collections](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/collections/) - PERMANENT COLLECTIONCOLLECTION BY TIME PERIODTake A Stroll Through the Biggs! Sewell C. Biggs (1914–2003), a University of Delaware graduate, world traveler and collector of fine and decorative art from the Delaware Valley, founded the Biggs Museum of American Art in 1993. He filled the museum with the pieces he had collected over the years, arranging
- [Colonial Settlement and Global Trade ( Wihtout Map )](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/colonial-settlement-and-global-trade-2-2/) - PERMANENT COLLECTIONAMERICAN BAROQUE PERIODColonial Settlement and Global Trade Before the appearance of Europeans in the so-called New World, Delaware and the surrounding region were the ancestral homelands of Indigenous people such as the Lenape and Nanticoke. In the 17th century, European settlers arrived from Sweden, Holland and Britain, looking for goods to trade and lands
- [Accessibility & Museum Policies](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/accessibility-museum-policies/) - Accessibility The Biggs Museum is fully wheel chair accessible. Elevators are located on all floors of the museum building. There are also handicapped parking spaces available in the museum parking lot. Restrooms for visitor use are located on the first floor. Museum Policies Thank you for your help in maintaining a safe environment for visitors
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- [About the Biggs](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/about-the-biggs/) - Welcome to the Biggs Museum of American Art, a vibrant and accredited cultural haven in Dover, Delaware. Established in 1993 by visionary collector Sewell C. Biggs, our museum has garnered national recognition for its exceptional collections spanning American decorative arts of Delaware and the Mid-Atlantic, with a comprehensive array of American art from the 1700s
- [Accessibility and Museum Policies](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/accessibility-and-museum-policies/) - MUSEUM POLICIES MUSEUM POLICIES IMAGE RIGHTS AND REPRODUCTION POLICYPHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO No flash photography is permitted in galleries. Copyright issues and other regulations prevent us from granting permission. FOOD & BEVERAGES The consumption and possession of all food and beverages are not permitted in the galleries. CARE OF ARTWORK Special care must be taken to
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## Events

- [The Art of Elizabeth Catlett: from the Collection of Samella Lewis](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/the-art-of-elizabeth-catlett-from-the-collection-of-samella-lewis/) - 3rd Floor The Art of Elizabeth Catlett: from the Collection of Samella Lewis February 12 – June 22, 2026 Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), a sculptor and printmaker, is widely considered one of the most important African American artists of the 20th century. Her work blended art and social consciousness and confronted the most disturbing injustices against
- [Adopt-An-Artwork: Student Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/adopt-an-artwork-student-exhibition/) - 1st Floor Adopt An Artwork February 12 - May 10, 2026 Adopt-An-Artwork: Student Exhibition is a culminating exhibition that highlights the creative and critical thinking of students from across Delaware who participated in the Biggs Museum of American Art’s Adopt-An-Artwork program during the 2025–2026 school year. This year, 1,572 students took part in the program,
- [Art Works For All: Celebration of Creativity](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/art-works-for-all-celebration-of-creativity-2/) - 1st Floor Art Works For All: Celebration of Creativity February 12 – April 12, 2026 Art Works for All is a mission-driven exhibition that celebrates creativity, access, and inclusion through the visual arts. The mission of Art Works for All is to enhance the capabilities, confidence, and quality of life for children and adults with
- [The Joy of Pastel: Maryland Pastel Society Signature Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/the-joy-of-pastel-maryland-pastel-society-signature-exhibition/) - 1st Floor, Founder's Gallery The Joy of Pastel: Maryland Pastel Society Signature Exhibition January 29 - May 10, 2026 The Joy of Pastel is a vibrant and refined exhibition featuring works by Signature Members of the Maryland Pastel Society, artists who have been formally recognized for achieving excellence in the use of soft pastel and
- [Reflections: 25 Objects for 250 Years of Delaware History](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/reflections-25-objects-for-250-years-of-delaware-history/) - 2nd Floor, Interspersed with the Permanent Collection Reflections: 25 Objects for 250 Years of Delaware History January 2, 2026 – January 3, 2027 During 2026, we celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary—reflecting on our shared history as well as our aspirations for future generations. This exhibition is drawn from the museum’s permanent collection and curated entirely by
- [Kinetic Wonders: Sculptures by Paul Daniel](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/kinetic-wonders-sculptures-by-paul-daniel/) - OCTOBER 30, 2024 - NOVEMBER 2, 2025 Discover the captivating artistry of Paul Daniel in this outdoor exhibition featuring five dynamic kinetic sculptures on the grounds of the Biggs Museum. These mesmerizing works of art come alive with motion, responding to the natural elements around them. Each piece showcases Daniel’s masterful blend of engineering and
- [Awash in Color: Recent Work from the Delaware Watercolor Society](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/awash-in-color-recent-work-from-the-delaware-watercolor-society/) - This juried exhibition showcases outstanding works created by members of the Delaware Watercolor Society within the past five years. Featuring a diverse range of subjects, styles, and techniques, the exhibition highlights the versatility and expressive power of watercolor as an artistic medium. Visitors are invited to experience the creativity and talent of regional artists whose
- [AWARD WINNERS XXV: Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellows](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/award-winners-xxv-delaware-division-of-the-arts-individual-artist-fellows/) - AWARD WINNERS XXV Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellows MAY 15 – SEPTEMBER 14, 2025 The Biggs Museum of American Art is proud to present Award Winners XXV, a group exhibition celebrating the recipients of the 2025 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships. These prestigious awards recognize Delaware-based artists for their
- [Echoes of the Storm: a DSU Collaborative Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/echoes-of-the-storm/) - This fall, the Biggs Museum of American Art will spotlight Delaware State University (DSU) and its celebrated marching band as part of a museum-wide celebration of HBCU culture, anchored by the exhibition Keith Duncan: Battle of the Bands, The HBCU Marching Bands Series. On view from September 4, 2025 through January 25, 2026, Battle of
- [THE PRINTS OF ROCKWELL KENT:  Selections from the Ralf C. Nemec Collection](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/the-prints-of-rockwell-kent-selections-from-the-ralf-nemec-collection/) - THE PRINTS OF ROCKWELL KENT: Selections from the Ralf C. Nemec Collection MARCH 20 - AUGUST 10, 2025 Artist and activist Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was a household name. Best-known for his iconic images of the earth’s harsh and frozen extremities, Kent often explored the relationship between humans and nature. As an author, he published thrilling
- [ Special One-Object Exhibition: Musical Molinology](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/musical-molinology/) - Special One-Object Exhibition: Musical Molinology MAY 1 - AUGUST 10, 2025 📍 On view all summer in the Biggs Museum Atrium Experience the magic of movement and music with Musical Molinology, a captivating kinetic sculpture that combines craftsmanship, engineering, and artistic expression. Inspired by the study of molinology—the science of mills and mechanical devices powered
- [Keith Duncan: Battle of the Bands - The HBCU Marching Bands Series ](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/keith-duncan-battle-of-the-bands-the-hbcu-marching-bands-series/) - Exhibition Featured on the 3rd Floor Battle of the Bands, Keith Duncan’s most recent body of work, celebrates the vibrant tradition of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) marching bands. This exhibition features large-scale fabric paintings of fifteen Southern HBCU bands, along with human-scale fabric paintings and smaller works on paper depicting each band’s drum
- [Comic Couture: Beyond the Panels](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/comic-couture_beyond-the-panels/) - Comic Couture: Beyond the Panels Curated by The Bridge Art Gallery JUNE 12 - JUNE 29, 2025 Bold, brilliant, and bursting with style—Comic Couture pushes the boundaries of comic-inspired art. This high-concept exhibition fuses pop culture with elevated aesthetics, showcasing works that reinterpret iconic comic elements like speech bubbles, panels, and heroes through the lens
- [ART WORKS FOR ALL - CELEBRATION OF CREATIVITY](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/artworks-for-all-celebration-of-creativity-2025/) - ART WORKS FOR ALL - CELEBRATION OF CREATIVITY February 15 – April 6, 2025 Join us for Celebration of Creativity, an inspiring exhibition showcasing the incredible talents and diverse perspectives of artists with disabilities. This vibrant display highlights the transformative power of the arts to enrich lives, build confidence, and foster a sense of community.
- [Rozeal.: Want Not (Rescue from the Otherwise Obscene, Salvation from the Wicked)](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/rozeal-want-not/) - OCTOBER 3, 2024 - MARCH 2, 2025 The Biggs will close out the year with a blockbuster exhibition by renowned artist Rozeal. Titled Rozeal.: Want Not (Rescue from the Otherwise Obscene, Salvation from the Wicked), Rozeal's contemporary paintings blend traditional ukiyo-e print techniques with Japanese folklore, geisha, kabuki, and samurai imagery, infused with hip-hop references
- [ADOPT-AN-ARTWORK: STUDENT EXHIBITION](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/adopt-an-artwork-student-exhibition-2025/) - ADOPT-AN-ARTWORK: STUDENT EXHIBITION March 13 – May 4, 2025 Celebrate the creativity and talent of young artists from across Delaware at the Adopt-an-Artwork Student Exhibition! This annual showcase features artwork by students from preschool through high school, each inspired by pieces in the Biggs Museum’s collection. As part of the Adopt-an-Artwork program, classrooms "adopt" a
- [Circle of Truth](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/circle-of-truth/) - JULY 25, 2024 - SEPTEMBER 22, 2024 Circle of Truth is the visual equivalent of the childhood game of Telephone, where a message is whispered in the ear of the first person, then relayed from that person to the second, the second to the third, and so on. Along the way, the original message becomes
- [Award Winners XXIV: Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship Recipients](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/award-winners-xxiv-delaware-division-of-the-arts-fellowship-recipients/) - APRIL 18, 2024 - JULY 28, 2024 Award Winners XXIV, is an annual exhibition shining a light on the visual, performing, and literary arts fellowship recipients for 2024, curated by the Delaware Division of the Arts. 2024 marks the 24th year that The Biggs has partnered with DDOA to host this incredible exhibition supporting Delaware’s
- [Rebecca Raubacher: Horses & Other Creatures](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/rebecca-raubacher-horses-other-creatures/) - MARCH 14, 2024 - JULY 7, 2024 Delaware artist Rebecca Raubacher has a talent for capturing creatures in motion. Featuring recent work, this exhibition showcases her signature larger-than-life horses. These pieces have rich surfaces, layering torn and collaged paper, paint, charcoal, pastel, marker, and metallic elements. The exhibition also includes animals from farther afield, including
- [Art Works for All: Celebration of Creativity](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/art-works-for-all-celebration-of-creativity/) - JANUARY 11, 2024 - MARCH 24, 2024 Presented in partnership with Art Works for All (AWA), this community-focused exhibit, highlights the creative achievements of children and adults with disabilities. Art Works for All (AWA) is an organization committed to providing educational opportunities through the arts, and their exhibit at The Biggs showcases the remarkable artwork
- [Open - March 6](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/february-27/) - Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- [The Wyeths: Three Generations](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/the-wyeths-three-generations/) - Works From the Bank of AmericNCWyeth_Eight-Bellsa Collection This exhibition brings together more than seventy works of art by three generations of artists. Paintings, drawings, and illustrations created by N.C. Wyeth, his son Andrew, his daughter Henriette, and his grandson Jamie return home to Delaware at the Biggs for the first time since entering the Bank
- [Award Winners XIV](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/award-winners-xiv/) - AUGUST 1, 2014 - OCTOBER 19, 2014 For fourteen years, the Biggs Museum has partnered with the Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA) to showcase the artistic talents of Delaware in an annual exhibition. The exhibition features the talent of the current Individual Artist Fellows of the DDOA. Delaware artists: painters, photographers, sculptors, writers, musicians
- [Mi Frida: Children’s Portrait Contest Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/mi-frida-childrens-portrait-contest-exhibition/) - NOVEMBER 5, 2021 - FEBRUARY 12, 2022 Frida Kahlo and portraits of her have become iconic in pop culture because of her unique sense of self. Kahlo’s Tehuana-inspired dress, elaborate hairstyles, and dignified unibrow are as recognizable as her paintings. The Biggs put out a call to young artists in grades K - 12 to
- [Unmasking Culture: An Examination of the Ritual Masks of Mexico](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/unmasking-culture-an-examination-of-the-ritual-masks-of-mexico/) - NOVEMBER 5, 2021 - FEBRUARY 12, 2022 Unmasking Culture will accompany Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray to celebrate and enhance the understanding of the cultural heritage of Mexico for which Kahlo has become a global icon. This exhibition presents antique masks and figures used by Mexican indigenous people in their centuries-old religious
- [Winslow Homer From Poetry to Fiction - The Engraved Works](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/winslow-homer-from-poetry-to-fiction-the-engraved-works/) - JULY 2, 2021 - OCTOBER 16, 2021 Winslow Homer (1836-1910) captured a cross section of American society that tells a story of triumph and tragedy in American history through his monochromatic engravings created during the pre-war years, the Civil War and the following decade. Featuring Homer’s early work that was produced in New York’s Hudson
- [Contemporary Refresh](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/contemporary-refresh/) - NOVEMBER 5, 2021 - JANUARY 22, 2022 The Biggs Museum will create a fresh showcase of modern and contemporary artworks curated from its permanent collection in Galleries 23-25. This exhibition will feature paintings, prints, sculptures and more created by artists from the 1960s through practicing artists today.
- [Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/frida-kahlo-through-the-lens-of-nickolas-muray/) - NOVEMBER 5, 2021 - FEBRUARY 12, 2022 In May 1931 the eminent photographer Nickolas Muray traveled to Mexico on vacation where he met Frida Kahlo, a woman he would never forget. The two started a romance that continued on and off for the next ten years and a friendship that lasted until her death in
- [Children's Abstract Art Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/childrens-abstract-art-exhibition/) - MARCH 4, 2022 - MAY 7, 2022 Inspired by Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Guild Hall Museum, the Biggs Museum of American Art put out a call for abstract art created by artists in Pre - K through 12th grade. Nearly 100 submissions were received and
- [Visions & Voices: A juried exhibition of Mid-Atlantic African American Artists](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/visions-voices-a-juried-exhibition-of-mid-atlantic-african-american-artists/) - FEBRUARY 4, 2022 - MAY 21, 2022 After years of successfully hosting juried art competitions for photographers, landscape artists, and figural artists of the Mid-Atlantic Region, the Biggs Museum is proud to introduce a new juried exhibition highlighting the work of regional African American artists. This exhibition will present art from all visual art media
- [Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Guild Hall Museum ](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/guild-hall-an-adventure-in-the-arts-selections-from-the-permanent-collection-of-the-guild-hall-museum/) - MARCH 4, 2022 - JUNE 18, 2022 Featuring 72 works from the permanent collection of Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, this exhibition notably includes artwork by Jackson Pollock, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Chuck Close. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and mixed media works will trace the progression
- [Award Winners XXII](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/award-winners-xxii/) - JUNE 3, 2022 - JULY 23, 2022 Each year, the Biggs Museum of American Art, in partnership with the Delaware Division of the Arts, exhibits the work of the Division’s annual Individual Artist Fellows at the Award Winners exhibition. The Division recognizes artists throughout the state for their outstanding quality of work in the areas
- [Tom Wilson: Super-Realist/Surrealist](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/tom-wilson-super-realist-surrealist/) - JULY 1, 2022 - OCTOBER 16, 2022 From international male supermodel to renowned artist: once-famous for his looks, Tom’s career morphed brilliantly into a body of work that indelibly graces the collections of many of Delaware’s prominent arts patrons in the Rehoboth/Lewes area. Today, 50 pieces on loan from these collectors were curated into a
- [Out of the Vault:  Modern and Contemporary Art ](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/out-of-the-vault-modern-and-contemporary-art/) - MARCH 5, 2021 - JUNE 19, 2021 Allow us to reintroduce ourselves. Witness an evolution of the Biggs through a reinstallation of the museum’s entire third-floor galleries to feature rarely exhibited paintings, photographs, sculpture and crafts from the Post WWI period to the contemporary arts of the present day. Much of this work has been
- [Award Winners XXI](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/award-winners-xxi/) - JUNE 4, 2021 - JULY 24, 2021 The Delaware Division of the Arts annually recognizes outstanding artists across the state in the areas of visual, literary and performing arts through their Individual Artist Fellowships. The Division awarded 25 Delaware artists with a prestigious Fellowship award this year. The Fellows’ work is exhibited among the Biggs’
- [Inventing Illustration: Illuminating Vintage Children's Literature & Other Stories](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/inventing-illustration-illuminating-vintage-childrens-literature-other-stories/) - JULY 2, 2021 - OCTOBER 16, 2021 Wilmington-based artist Frank E. Schoonover (1877-1972) created thousands of book illustrations throughout his career, including the cover art for such well-known stories as Swiss Family Robinson (1921), Gulliver’s Travels (1921) and Treasure Island (1921). This exhibition traces Schoonover’s design steps, beginning with preparatory photographs, drawings and sketches for
- [Elite 8: Fan-Favorites ](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/elite-8-fan-favorites/) - JUNE 5, 2020 - JULY 23, 2020 In the spirit of the NCAA March Madness Tournament, the Biggs hosted the Interactive BMAA March Madness Tournament, where we let the public vote on 64 rarely seen artworks packed away in the Biggs Museum's object storage, the Elite 8 features the top winners of the museum's first
- [Award Winners Reunion](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/award-winners-reunion/) - JUNE 5, 2020 - AUGUST 29, 2020 Even though the Biggs Museum's annual Award Winners exhibition, featuring each year's fellowship winners of the Delaware Division of the Arts, has moved to CAMP Rehoboth for the rest of the summer, past recipients of this award are still on view within the museum through August. This is the
- [Toni Frissell: In Italy with the Tuskegee Airmen ](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/toni-frissell-in-italy-with-the-tuskegee-airmen/) - JANUARY 8, 2021 - APRIL 24, 2021 The imminent fashion and society photographer, Toni Frissell (1907-88), held several official positions with the American Red Cross, the Women’s Army Corp and the US Air Force to document World War II. This exhibition highlights her images of the Tuskegee Airmen, the 332d Fighter Group, from the collection
- [Delaware Watercolor Society](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/delaware-watercolor-society-3/) - AUGUST 7, 2020 - SEPTEMBER 20, 2020 The Biggs welcomes back the winners of the juried competition of Delaware's premier membership of artists of the watercolor medium. This year's juror, Joel Popadics, is an esteemed watercolorist whose work has been collected widely and who teaches and exhibits internationally.
- [Jack Lewis: Delaware's Hidden Gem](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/jack-lewis-delawares-hidden-gem/) - AUGUST 7, 2020 - NOVEMBER 22, 2020 The Biggs Museum is proud to feature the work of our "Ultimate Hidden Gem" artists, Jack Lewis. This exhibition highlights rarely seen views across the Delmarva Peninsula from the collections of the Biggs Museum, the Rehoboth Art League and the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs. Since
- [Stairway to Heaven: Life and Death in the Visions of Salvador Dalí Illustrations for Les Chants de Maldoror and The Divine Comedy](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/stairway-to-heaven-life-and-death-in-the-visions-of-salvador-dali-illustrations-for-les-chants-de-maldoror-and-the-divine-comedy/) - DECEMBER 4, 2020 - FEBRUARY 20, 2021 Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is among the most recognized and eccentric artists of the 20th century. He layered the surreal imagery of his “paranoiac-critical method” onto hundreds of artworks, including paintings, theatrical designs, films, architecture, sculptures, jewelry and fine art prints, such as those featured in Life and Death
- [In Fresh Air: Impressionism and the Plein Air Movement](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/in-fresh-air-impressionism-and-the-plein-air-movement/) - MARCH 5, 2021 - JUNE 19, 2021 The artistic drive to leave the studio and to collect inspiration, impressions and ideas directly from nature is featured in this new exhibition. Drawn from works rarely seen at the Biggs Museum, the exhibition tracks the influence of plein air painting in the United States, particularly in Delaware,
- [Spirit Revealed: New Works by Aaron Paskins](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/spirit-revealed-new-works-by-aaron-paskins/) - MAY 3, 2019 - JULY 21, 2019 Aaron Paskins is a Dover sculptor who has been building a national and local reputation for imaginative, inspiring African figures and imagery using unexpected materials. The essence of Paskins' sculptures capture the complexity of various indigenous tribes, executed with imagination and a touch of fantasy.
- [Delaware Art Educators Association Exhibition in the Child HELP Gallery](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/delaware-art-educators-association-exhibition-in-the-child-help-gallery/) - SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 - OCTOBER 20, 2019 Featuring artworks created by members of the Delaware Art Educators Association-an affiliate of the National Association serving art teachers across the country.
- [Rebecca Raubacher: Drawings and Paintings](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/rebecca-raubacher-drawings-and-paintings/) - AUGUST 2, 2019 - OCTOBER 20, 2019 Rebecca Raubacher's depictions of human and animal figures emerge over time from a few simple marks layered onto a piece of paper. Without any specific person in mind, she carefully, but almost hypnotically, builds her faces and bodies with cross-hatched lines of a wide range of artistic media.
- [Biggs Body: A Juried Competition of Figural Art](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/biggs-body-a-juried-competition-of-figural-art/) - SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 - NOVEMBER 17, 2019 The Biggs Museum is proud to introduce a new juried competition and exhibition concept of art forms featuring human and animal figures. This exhibition showcases 60 exceptional artworks selected from nearly 400 competition submissions in all visual art media including, but not limited to: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography,
- [Lenape Tribe of Delaware Healing Arts Mural](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/lenape-tribe-of-delaware-healing-arts-mural/) - NOVEMBER 1, 2019 - JANUARY 19, 2020 A mural-arts project highlighting the Past, Present and Future of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware. This public art project was created through a partnership between Cheyney University professor and painter Marietta Dantonio-Madsen, Cheyney art students and the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware.
- [Monumental: Michael Izrael Galmer, Silversmith](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/monumental-michael-izrael-galmer-silversmith/) - APRIL 6, 2018 - MAY 20, 2018 The Biggs Museum of American Art is grateful to highlight its 25th Anniversary Celebration with an exhibition on the famed American silversmith, Michael Izrael Galmer. Born to a Jewish family in Soviet Russia, he immigrated with his wife Galina to New York in 1981. Galmer combined his advanced
- [Ripped From the Headlines: Photojournalism in Delaware](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/ripped-from-the-headlines-photojournalism-in-delaware/) - NOVEMBER 1, 2019 - JANUARY 19, 2020 News publishers are among the nation's oldest and most revered image makers. The art of photojournalism, especially in local newspapers, is under appreciated in American art museums even though they tell the stories that unify communities. The Biggs Museum is proud to partner with nearly every major news
- [Rembrandt Etchings: States, Fakes and Restrikes](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/rembrandt-etchings-states-fakes-and-restrikes/) - MAY 12, 2018 - JULY 8, 2018 Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-69) was one of the most influential printmakers in the history of art. But how can one be sure that a Rembrandt is truly or wholly by THE Rembrandt? This exhibition examines the problem of authenticating this artist' etchings. The exhibition includes first state
- [Lessons: an Exhibition by Billy Colbert](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/lessons-an-exhibition-by-billy-colbert/)
- [Audubon, Then and Now](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/audubon-then-and-now/) - AUGUST 3, 2018 - NOVEMBER 25, 2018 In 1826 at the age of 41, encouraged by his wife, Audubon took his portfolio of 300+ works to England. Today, more than ever his work endures and segments of his work are right here at the Biggs in Dover. This exhibition examines the importance of the artist
- [Stephen Althouse: Relics](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/stephen-althouse-relics/)
- [Biggs Shot 2018](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/biggs-shot-2018/) - DECEMBER 7, 2018 - JANUARY 27, 2019 The Biggs Museum of American Art presents Biggs Shot 2018, the fifth juried photography competition and exhibition featuring the work of professional and emerging photographers, working and/or living in the Mid-Atlantic region. The theme for Biggs Shot 2018 is open, and any photographic medium can be submitted for
- [Award Winners: XX](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/award-winners-xx/) - JUNE 5, 2020 - JULY 23, 2020 Award Winners: XX - the 20th anniversary exhibition of the Biggs Museum's annual presentation of visual, performing and literary arts fellowship winners of the Delaware Division of the Arts. The Biggs Museum's exhibition will combine this year's fellowship winners with a selection of new works by notable past
- [An Artist's Education: William H. McDaniel](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/an-artists-education-william-h-mcdaniel/) - DECEMBER 6, 2018 - JANUARY 19, 2019 Delaware is known for producing a great number of successful artists. Exceptional art schools in the area have produced luminaries of American illustration and fine arts. William H. McDaniel demonstrated great promise attending the Wilmington Academy of Art in the late 1920s, but the Great Depression ended his
- [From Nature: The Children's Book Illustrations of Nancy Carol Willis](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/from-nature-the-childrens-book-illustrations-of-nancy-carol-willis/) - OCTOBER 5, 2018 - JANUARY 27, 2019 Like John J. Audubon, Nancy Carol Willis demonstrates a deep feeling for nature based upon a lifetime of close observation, sketching, and painting. From October-January, the Schoonover Illustration Gallery will host 18 illustrations from three of Willis's award-winning natural science children's picture books. The books depict North American
- [Traveling Africa: Citywide Black History Festival](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/traveling-africa-citywide-black-history-festival/) - FEBRUARY 1, 2019 - MARCH 24, 2019 As part of Dover's annual Citywide Black History Celebration, the Biggs Museum will examine the ways that Americans record and relate to Africa through tourism. This group exhibition includes travel photography of memorable moments on the continent, as well as the material culture that tourists in Kent County
- [Rooted, Revived and Reinvented: Basketry in America](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/rooted-revived-and-reinvented-basketry-in-america/) - FEBRUARY 1, 2019 - APRIL 28, 2019 Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America chronicles a history of American basketry from its origins in Native American, immigrant, and slave communities to its presence within the contemporary fine art world. Baskets convey meaning through the artists' selection of materials; the techniques they use; and the colors, designs,
- [Caesar Rodney School District Art Show](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/caesar-rodney-school-district-art-show/) - MAY 4, 2019 - MAY 31, 2019 This annual exhibition celebrates the success of student artists in the Caesar Rodney School District. Open to all age levels, skill sets, and media, this show is an exemplary display of the diversity of perspective, experience, and personalities found in the Caesar Rodney community.
- [Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA) Award Winners XIX](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/delaware-division-of-the-arts-ddoa-award-winners-xix/) - JUNE 7, 2019 - JULY 21, 2019 Each year, the Biggs Museum of American Art hosts the winning artists of Delaware's most prestigious fellowship competition in one group exhibition. The Delaware State Arts Council, in cooperation with the Delaware Division of the Arts, selects these fellowship winners from a pool of hundreds of literary, visual
- [ArtLane: Visualizing the Museum](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/artlane-visualizing-the-museum/) - MAY 3, 2019 - JULY 21, 2019 The Biggs invited the artist critique group exhibition club, ArtLane, to study the museum as a subject of their photographic art works and to each create a distinct series of images that reflect their own artistic points of view. Featured artists include: Elisabeth Bard, Pat Field, Karl Leck,
- [Performances: the Brandywine Photo Collective](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/performances-the-brandywine-photo-collective/) - FEBRUARY 2, 2018 - APRIL 22, 2018 The iconic photographer Ansel Adams described that every photograph is a "performance" in which light exposure, composition, color and any number of other tiny details can be arranged by the artist to create an original expression. In Performances, nine artist members of the Brandywine Photo Collective will interpret
- [African American History Live](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/african-american-history-live/) - FEBRUARY 2, 2018 - APRIL 29, 2018 The Biggs Museum will present its first group exhibition of works created by African American artists of Greater Dover and Kent County. Entitled African American History Live, the exhibition is a focal point of the Dover Citywide Black History Celebration taking place in several locations throughout the city
- [Milton Downing: Moral Assembly](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/milton-downing-moral-assembly/) - JUNE 1, 2018 - JULY 22, 2018 Milton Downing insists he is not an activist, but perhaps a moralist. This assemblage artist gathers pieces of discarded clothing and other found objects into painted compositions that reveal a wide range of human experiences. His subjects, regardless of their backgrounds, are elevated through an expressive use of
- [Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA) Award Winners XVIII](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/delaware-division-of-the-arts-ddoa-award-winners-xviii/) - JUNE 1, 2018 - JULY 22, 2018 For the past 18 years, the Biggs Museum of American Art has hosted the DDOA Award Winners exhibition. This annual group show features artworks, literature and performances of the Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA) Individual Artist Fellows-among the state's most prestigious honors for artists. The winning Fellows
- [Delaware Discoveries: Girlhood Embroidery, 1750-1850](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/delaware-discoveries-girlhood-embroidery-1750-1850/) - MAY 19, 2018 - JULY 22, 2018 The Biggs Museum will honor the upcoming publication of Delaware Discoveries: Girlhood Embroidery, 1750-1850, the definitive study of Delaware girlhood samplers of the 18th and 19th centuries, with an exhibition of historic needlework. The exhibition will feature approximately 80 antique samplers and other forms of embroidery from all three
- [Biggs Exhibition at the Winterthur Antique Show](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/biggs-exhibition-at-the-winterthur-antique-show/) - NOVEMBER 10, 2017 - NOVEMBER 12, 2017 The Biggs Museum is honored to provide the showcase exhibition of the Delaware Antique Show at the Chase Center in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. This exhibition celebrates the museum's upcoming 25-year anniversary by featuring 25 recent additions to the museum's permanent collection that epitomize its continued strengths and new
- [Delaware Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/delaware-watercolor-society-juried-exhibition/) - NOVEMBER 3, 2017 - JANUARY 21, 2018 In partnership with the Delaware Watercolor Society (DWS), the Biggs Museum will again exhibit watercolor paintings by this group's best and brightest in a juried competition. Over fifty works will be featured within the Biggs Museum, many will be for sale. The DWS aims to promote and encourage
- [Delaware By Hand Juried Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/delaware-by-hand-juried-exhibition-2/) - NOVEMBER 3, 2017 - JANUARY 21, 2018 Every three years, the Biggs Museum hosts a juried competition of its Delaware By Hand artist membership in order to select individual artists that are deemed masters of their craft.
- [My Countries, My Composers: Aina Nergaard-Nammack](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/my-countries-my-composers-aina-nergaard-nammack/) - FEBRUARY 2, 2018 - MARCH 25, 2018 This is the museum's first one-woman show of the artist Aina Nergaard-Nammack. The exhibition, entitled My Countries, My Composers, explores the artist's interpretation of musical scores of key classical music composers of the three countries where she has lived: first Spain, then Norway and now the United States.
- [Ain't I a Woman: Lori Crawford and The Sista's](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/aint-i-a-woman-lori-crawford-and-the-sistas/) - SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 - OCTOBER 26, 2014 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
- [Maurice Sendak: The Memorial Exhibition - 50 Years, Works, Reasons](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/maurice-sendak-the-memorial-exhibition-50-years-works-reasons/) - JULY 30, 2016 - SEPTEMBER 11, 2016 The Biggs Museum is proud to partner with the Dover Public Library to feature the work and biography of one of America's most beloved children's authors and illustrators, Maurice Sendak. Know principally for his publication and now a major motion picture, Where the Wild Things Are, this exhibition
- [You Are the United States](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/you-are-the-united-states/) - DECEMBER 5, 2014 - JANUARY 11, 2015 Emile Klein, a classically trained portrait painter from the San Francisco Bay area, recently biked across the country to record America from his perspective. Throughout his journey, Emile stopped at the homes of various short-term sponsor families. In exchange for hosting the artist, he would paint the host's
- [Delaware By Hand Juried Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/delaware-by-hand-juried-exhibition/) - JUNE 3, 2016 - SEPTEMBER 25, 2016 Every three years, the Biggs Museum hosts a huge competition of the finest photographers from across the Mid-Atlantic States. This year's contest will be judged by the museum's new Director, Charles Guerin. The winners will be featured in a group exhibition with the best of show receiving a
- [Carson Zullinger: The Line of Beauty](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/carson-zullinger-the-line-of-beauty/) - NOVEMBER 7, 2014 - FEBRUARY 15, 2015 Delaware native, Carson Zullinger, has been exhibiting his figural and landscape fine-art photographs for forty years. Zullinger often subordinates his dynamic and thoroughly modern compositions to emphasize traditionally held forms of beauty. The Line of Beauty helps to trace his accomplishments in the arts while debuting new works
- [Award Winners XVI](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/award-winners-xvi/) - AUGUST 5, 2016 - OCTOBER 23, 2016 The annual Award Winners exhibition features the talent of the 2016 Individual Artist Fellows of the Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA). Each year, the winning Fellows are chosen by the Delaware State Arts Council from over a hundred visual, literary and performing art competitors. The Fellows are
- [George Lorio: Recent Works](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/george-lorio-recent-works/) - OCTOBER 7, 2016 - JANUARY 22, 2017 In conjunction with the Biggs Museum's exhibition entitled Clark Fox: Icon Chains, the museum has asked local sculptor and outspoken art professor at Delaware State University, George Lorio, to exhibit his some of his recent and politically charged artworks. Using playful found objects and children's toys, George brings
- [March for the Arts](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/march-for-the-arts/) - MARCH 6, 2015 - MARCH 29, 2015 In support of Youth Art Month, the Museum will host an exhibition of artwork created by Delaware art educators and their students. Schools from across the state have submitted a series of works in a variety of media.
- [Abraham Lincoln: The WSFS Bank Collection of Frank Schoonover Illustrations](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/abraham-lincoln-the-wsfs-bank-collection-of-frank-schoonover-illustrations/) - MARCH 31, 2015 - MAY 3, 2015 For over 50 years, WSFS, the oldest bank and trust company headquartered in Delaware, have been the stewards of a fine collection of paintings and drawings by prized Wilmington illustrator, Frank E. Schoonover (1877-1972). Many of the works in this collection were originally owned by Helen L. Card
- [Clark Fox: Icon Chains](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/clark-fox-icon-chains/) - JANUARY 1, 2017 - FEBRUARY 5, 2017 Known throughout the contemporary art circles of New York, Washington DC and Los Angeles, Clark Fox has been critiquing modern culture with stories of iconic characters, such as George Washington, Chef from the animated South Park and The Planters Company Mr. Peanut, for over forty years. The exhibition
- [William D. White: Vision and Voice Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/william-d-white-vision-and-voice-exhibition/) - MARCH 6, 2015 - JUNE 21, 2015 William D. White: Vision and Voice is the first major exhibition and exhibition catalogue of this unique and important regional artist. This exhibition reintroduces the work of Wilmington, Delaware illustrator, muralist and painter William D. White (1896-1971). This artist's varied and significant career spans some of the country's
- [Junior Docent Exhibit](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/junior-docent-exhibit/) - JUNE 2, 2017 - JUNE 30, 2017 Throughout the year, students from schools and afterschool programs throughout the state participate in our Junior Docent Program. These students view and study works of art from our collection and then provide tours of the museum to their peers and families. By the conclusion of the school year,
- [Delaware By Hand: Masters 2015](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/delaware-by-hand-masters-2015/) - APRIL 3, 2015 - JUNE 14, 2015 Every three years, the Biggs Museum hosts a juried competition of their Delaware By Hand artist membership in order to select individual artists that are deemed masters of their craft. The 2015 winning members, as well as their finest submissions, are selected by Brandi P. Clark, Executive Director
- [Biggs Picture 2017](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/biggs-picture-2017/) - JUNE 2, 2017 - JULY 23, 2017 Once every three years, the Biggs Museum hosts this juried, regional competition. Artists from throughout the Mid-Atlantic states are invited to compete within this unique exhibition featuring a wide variety of landscape concepts in any artistic medium: photography, sculpture, painting, video, installation, etc. The works will be available
- [Delaware Watercolor Society](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/delaware-watercolor-society-2/) - JULY 3, 2015 - SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 Admission: $5 (Free for Members, Children Under 12, and on Sundays) The Biggs Museum will host a juried member's exhibition of the Delaware Watercolor Society. As many as 50 watercolors will be featured within the Museum's galleries, many will be for sale. The Delaware Watercolor Society (DWS) aims to
- [Ansel Adams: Early Works](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/ansel-adams-early-works/) - MAY 5, 2017 - JULY 30, 2017 This exhibition presents the work of iconic American photographer, Ansel Adams. His work can be viewed as the end of an arc of American art concerned with capturing the "sublime" in the unspoiled Western landscape: a tradition that includes several painters on view within the Biggs Museum including
- [Award Winners XV](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/award-winners-xv/) - JULY 3, 2015 - SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 Free Admission Each year, through a partnership with the Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA), the Biggs Museum hosts the works of Delaware's award winning Individual Artist Fellows, honoring their combined accomplishments. The Fellows are recommended by out of state jurors and receive Delaware State Arts Council approval.
- [What Inspired You?: Works by Members of the Delaware Art Education Association](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/what-inspired-you-works-by-members-of-the-delaware-art-education-association/) - AUGUST 4, 2017 - SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 Almost all artists have a vivid memory of what inspired them to pursue the arts. Through a partnership with the Delaware Art Education Association, the Biggs and DAEA have challenged Delaware art educators to create and submit works of art that explore what inspired them to become artists
- [Small Tapestry International 4: Honoring Tradition, Inspiring Innovation](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/small-tapestry-international-4-honoring-tradition-inspiring-innovation/) - OCTOBER 2, 2015 - NOVEMBER 22, 2015 The American Tapestry Alliance was established in 1982 to unite tapestry weavers and designers in order to promote an awareness and appreciation of contemporary hand-woven tapestries from around the world. This organization promotes speakers, hosts instructors, produces publications, disseminates information and creates juried exhibitions of the finest textiles
- [Biggs In Bloom](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/biggs-in-bloom/) - AUGUST 4, 2017 - SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 This year's Biggs in Bloom showcase of artist floral designs influenced by highlights of the Biggs Museum's permanent collection will be spread out over several installations to build momentum towards the grander presentation in September 2018 celebrating the museum's 25-year anniversary. Keep up with all the displays of
- [DEMCO, Inc.](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/demco-inc/) - OCTOBER 2, 2015 - NOVEMBER 15, 2015 The Biggs Museum is celebrating its new partnership with The Delaware Multicultural and Civic Organization (DEMCO, Inc.), with an exhibition, entitled DEMCO, Inc., of student and staff artworks created during their after-school program in downtown Dover. This exhibition will be on view from October 2 - November 15, 2015
- [DDOA Award Winners XVII](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/ddoa-award-winners-xvii/) - AUGUST 4, 2017 - OCTOBER 22, 2017 The annual Award Winners exhibition features the talent of the Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA) Individual Artist Fellows. The Fellows are recommended by out-of-state jurors based on the high quality of their artwork and receive Delaware State Arts Council approval. Each year, the Biggs Museum invites the
- [Youth Art Month: Sculptures of Ourselves](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/youth-art-month-sculptures-of-ourselves/) - MARCH 4, 2016 - MARCH 24, 2016 The Biggs Museum has challenged art educators from across the state to teach their K-12 students about the art form of self-portraiture by creating outdoor sculptures of themselves using found and recycled materials. This submitted works will be on view outside, in front of the museum's main entrance.
- [Christo & Jeanne-Claude: The Tom Golden Collection](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/christo-jeanne-claude-the-tom-golden-collection/) - AUGUST 4, 2017 - OCTOBER 22, 2017 This exhibition chronicles the career of husband and wife artistic team, Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The exhibition is a large display of the artists' portfolios; original drawings and sculptures developed to record the major large scale environmental installations and international projects undertaken by Christo and Jeanne-Claude for more than
- [Exhibition: Harmony Weavers Guild](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/exhibition-harmony-weavers-guild/) - MARCH 4, 2016 - APRIL 24, 2016 This bi-annual members' exhibition of the pre-eminent regional weaving association features masterworks of fiber art. The Harmony Weavers Guild emphasizes fellowship, enthusiasm and especially education in weaving for its members. This feature exhibition will be accented with examples of looms and educational programs.
- [New Discoveries: Michael Robear](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/new-discoveries-michael-robear/) - NOVEMBER 6, 2015 - FEBRUARY 14, 2016 Often, the Biggs Museum's staff has the good fortune to discover talented artists within this community who have not received enough critical attention. Michael Robear is undeniably one of those artists. Robear began in childhood depicting wildlife and Mid-Atlantic landscapes. From his home in nearby Cecil County, Maryland,
- [Biggs Picture Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/biggs-picture-exhibition/) - MAY 17, 2014 - JULY 20, 2014 The Biggs Museum of American art is proud to again host the third installment of The Biggs Picture, a landscape competition. This exhibition will present art works from all media; such as, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, craft, and video; of competition winners that most successfully interpret the theme
- [Illuminating the Word, The Saint John's Bible](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/illuminating-the-word-the-saint-johns-bible/) - DECEMBER 4, 2015 - APRIL 24, 2016 The Biggs Museum of American Art is exceptionally proud to be a rare American host of Illuminating the Word, The Saint John's Bible. This international exhibition features 70 pages of The Saint John's Bible, the first monumental hand-illuminated bible to be commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in over
- [R³ Factory Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/r³-factory-exhibition/) - MAY 17, 2014 - JULY 20, 2014 With support from Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, the Biggs Museum is proud to present a series of educational programs that provide valuable information as well as art-related experiences that focus on the importance of recycling. From May 17 through July 20, the Child HELP
- [Barbara Warden365: Elements in Time](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/barbara-warden365-elements-in-time/) - MAY 6, 2016 - JULY 24, 2016 In her first one-person exhibition at the Biggs Museum, artist Barbara Warden features the finest examples of her year-long exercise of creating one drawing a day. Leaving all to chance, the artist starts her abstract compositions from a single gesture across the page that begins a unique experience
- [As the Poet Paints: E. Jean Lanyon](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/as-the-poet-paints-e-jean-lanyon/) - APRIL 6, 2011 - MAY 23, 2011 As the Poet Paints features the literary and visual artworks of the 1979-2001 Delaware Poet Laureate E. Jean Lanyon:"As a Fine Artist I paint what I cannot write, and I write what I cannot paint."The dual nature of this artist's personal expression will take form in a comprehensive
- [Jewels of the Generations: The Legacy of Loockerman and Bradford Family of Dover](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/jewels-of-the-generations-the-legacy-of-loockerman-and-bradford-family-of-dover/) - MARCH 2, 2011 - JUNE 24, 2011 When Dover merchant, Vincent Loockerman, died in 1785 he was probably Dover's single largest land owner and unrivaled collector of Delaware and Philadelphia-made furniture of the 18th century. For the last 200 years, Vincent's descendants have lived with the riches of the past while adding treasures from their
- [Arts Connect-ED: Campus Community School Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/arts-connect-ed-campus-community-school-exhibition/) - MARCH 27, 2012 - JUNE 24, 2012 Celebrate youth talent in the arts by being the first to look at the installment of local school children's artwork. The featured pieces were created by students of Campus Community School of Dover, DE. Within the exhibition there will be a focus on artwork inspired by Biggs Museum
- [Picturing WWI: The American Illustration Collection of the Delaware National Guard](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/picturing-wwi-the-american-illustration-collection-of-the-delaware-national-guard/) - MAY 4, 2012 - JUNE 24, 2012 In a time before televisions or even the widespread use of radio, Americans received their news and entertainment from popular magazines and illustrations. Among Delaware's most famous illustrators of the early 20th century, Frank E. Schoonover (1877-1972) and Gayle Porter Hoskins (1887-1962) painted hundreds of images during their
- [Award Winners XII](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/award-winners-xii/) - JULY 6, 2012 - OCTOBER 21, 2012 For twelve 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
- [Biggs Shot 2012](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/biggs-shot-2012/) - NOVEMBER 2, 2012 - FEBRUARY 17, 2013 Biggs Shot 2012 will feature submissions to the third juried photography competition of artists living and working in the Greater Delmarva Peninsula. The competition, hosted by the Biggs Museum and juried by Sarah Stolfa, Director of the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, is open to all photographers-both amateur and
- [Glass Transformed](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/glass-transformed/) - SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 - OCTOBER 28, 2012 Glass Transformed is the first museum presentation within the State of Delaware of the photographic work of Celia Pearson. Based in Annapolis, the artist has traveled as far as Italy to photograph unique sea glass collections. Spanning from still life to abstract studies, the exhibit is presented in
- [A Moment in Time: Artist Exchange](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/a-moment-in-time-artist-exchange/) - JANUARY 4, 2013 - FEBRUARY 24, 2013 In conjunction with the museum's signature Biggs Shot photographyc ompetition, the museum has invited a local artist association to create works based on the photographic notion of capturing a "moment in time." Artists who specialize in such varied media as ceramics, abstract painting, watercolors, printmaking and textiles will
- [The Projectionist](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/the-projectionist/) - MARCH 1, 2013 - JUNE 23, 2013 The Projectionist is a documentary, book and multi-media exhibition that explores one man's lifelong fascination with the golden ago of film and, in particular, the grand movie palace. The exhibition features a fully operational 1920s style movie theater that was created in the basement of Middletown native, Gordon
- [The Legacy of Currier & Ives: Shaping the American Spirit](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/the-legacy-of-currier-ives-shaping-the-american-spirit/) - JULY 4, 2013 - OCTOBER 27, 2013 When Nathanial Currier, a young businessman in New York City, published a lithograph in 1835 showing Planters Hotel in New Orleans after a fire, it ushered in a new era of pictorial journalism. The print established the firm which was to achieve its greatest fame as "Currier &
- [Award Winners XIII](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/award-winners-xiii/) - AUGUST 2, 2013 - OCTOBER 13, 2013 For thirteen 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
- [Delaware Watercolor Society](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/delaware-watercolor-society/) - SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 - OCTOBER 27, 2013 The Biggs Museum will host a juried member's exhibition of the Delaware Watercolor Society. As many as 50 watercolors will be featured within the Museum's galleries, many will be for sale. The Delaware Watercolor Society (DWS) aims to promote and encourage mutually shared interests in watercolor media among
- [Celebration of Creativity](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/celebration-of-creativity/) - NOVEMBER 1, 2013 - DECEMBER 31, 2013 VSA of Delaware provides children and adults with disabilities opportunities to achieve in the performing and visual arts. VSA of Delaware is a unique organization within the state with a sole mission devoted to enhancing the capabilities, confidence and quality of life for individuals with disabilities by providing
- [Refining the Region: the Landscapes of Bayard T. Berndt](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/refining-the-region-the-landscapes-of-bayard-t-berndt/) - NOVEMBER 1, 2013 - FEBRUARY 23, 2014 Bayard Taylor Berndt was a 20th century Brandywine Valley artist who studied under such recognizable figures as Frank Schoonover, N.C. Wyeth and Gayle Hoskins. Refining the Region: the Landscapes of Bayard T. Berndt is an exhibition of paintings produced over the course of a sixty-year career. American and
- [Loving Traditions: The Ann Marcus Valentines Card Collection](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/loving-traditions-the-ann-marcus-valentines-card-collection/) - FEBRUARY 3, 2011 - MARCH 25, 2011 Valentines cards have been popularly printed, mailed and received in Europe and America since the 1800s. Printing innovations of the Industrial Revolution and the professionalization of the U.S. postal service ushered in a large number of card manufacturers. The design of early Valentines cards drew from popular art
- [Campus Community School: Junior Docent Art Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/campus-community-school-junior-docent-art-exhibition/) - MAY 6, 2011 - MAY 29, 2011 Junior Docents from Dover's Campus Community School will be featured as the final celebration of this year's program. The Junior Docent program, which was developed to conform to Delaware Visual and Performing Arts standards, allows the Biggs Museum to support art education by collaborating with local educators and
- [The Biggs Picture: the 2011 Landscape Competition and Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/the-biggs-picture-the-2011-landscape-competition-and-exhibition/) - MARCH 4, 2011 - JUNE 19, 2011 The Biggs Picture exhibition features paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, craft, video and any artistic medium by regional landscape artists. This juried competition asks artist contestants to interpret the theme of "Landscape." Chosen works successfully interpret the theme of "Landscape" with the finest examples of their media and fit
- [Award Winners XI:Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/award-winners-xiexhibition/) - JULY 1, 2011 - OCTOBER 23, 2011 We Are All Poets by Colette C. Gaiter The Biggs Museum of American Art will open the summer 2011 exhibition: Award Winners XI on Friday, July 1 with a First Look pARTY from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Museum. Be one of the
- [Delaware By Hand: Masterworks 2011](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/delaware-by-hand-masterworks-2011/) - NOVEMBER 4, 2011 - FEBRUARY 26, 2012 Every two years, Delaware By Hand (DBH) hosts a membership-wide juried competition in order to select individual artists that are deemed masters of their craft. The 2011 artists were selected by Bryan Young; Curator of Easton, Maryland's Academy Art Museum; and Sally Hansen, retired owner and director of
- [Delaware Watercolor Society: Spring Exhibition](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/delaware-watercolor-society-spring-exhibition/) - MAY 6, 2011 - MAY 29, 2011 The Biggs Museum will host the Delaware Watercolor Society largest exhibition in 2011, the juried members exhibition. As many as 50 watercolors will be featured within the Museum's galleries, many will be for sale. The Delaware Watercolor Society (DWS) aims to promote and encourage mutually shared interests in
- [Wish for the World](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/wish-for-the-world/) - AUGUST 8, 2009 - AUGUST 31, 2009 As we look around our world today, filled with conflicts, environment destruction and human suffering, we all wish for a more peaceful, healthier and happier world. Every member of the community is invited to participate in the Wish for the World exhibition, by visiting the Museum and interpreting
- [Ellen's Wacky Chair Contest](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/ellens-wacky-chair-contest/) - AUGUST 5, 2009 - AUGUST 31, 2009 Open August 5, 2009 - August 31, 2009 The Biggs Museum is proud to serve as a partner alongside the Delaware State Fair, the Boys & Girls Club, WMDT and the Ellen Degeneres Show in the 2009 Ellen's Wacky Chair Contest. In July 2009, local artists partnered with
- [Award Winners](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/award-winners/) - JULY 3, 2009 - OCTOBER 25, 2009 Open July 3, 2009 – October 25, 2009 Award Winners 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
- [Fusion: American Classics Meet Latin American Art](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/fusion-american-classics-meet-latin-american-art/) - SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 - NOVEMBER 15, 2009 In a partnership with the Governor's Advisory Council on Hispanic Affairs (GACHA), the Biggs Museum will exhibit the works of contemporary Hispanic artists living or working in the State of Delaware and the Mid-Atlantic Region. This exhibition will commemorate the declaration of the Hispanic Heritage Month Proclamation at
- [Arts ConnectEd](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/arts-connected/) - NOVEMBER 6, 2009 - FEBRUARY 21, 2010 Arts ConnectEd features the young talent of students in Delaware schools. The exhibition consists of four month-long installations, each featuring the artwork of a different school in the state of Delaware. Arts ConnectEd reflects the quality and diversity of art education in Delaware schools. The Biggs Museum is
- [Blue Water/Still Water: American Society of Marine Artists](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/blue-water-still-water-american-society-of-marine-artists/) - MARCH 5, 2010 - JUNE 20, 2010 Open March 5, 2010 - June 20, 2010 "Artists have always found inspiration in the aquatic:from the vastness of the open ocean,where clear water rolls on in deep cobalt waves,to the stillness of shallow watershedslit by the song of bullfrogs and Painted Buntings. As members of the American
- [Delaware Silver](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/delaware-silver/) - MARCH 5, 2008 - JUNE 29, 2008 FeaturingThe Col. Kenneth P. & Regina I. Brown Collectionand loan exhibitionMasters in Our Midst March 5 - June 29, 2008 The Biggs Museum is proud to celebrate Delaware Silver featuring the permanent installation of the Col. Kenneth P. & Regina I. Brown Collection in the State's first Delaware
- [Visions of Dignity](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/visions-of-dignity/) - SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 – OCTOBER 15, 2010 The Biggs Museum of American Art is partnering, once again, with the Delaware State Governor's Advisory Council on Hispanic Affairs (GACHA) to present the exhibition Visions of Dignity, a celebration of Hispanic artists working in the Mid-Atlantic region. The exhibit features the varied artistic points of view from
- [Greetings from Delaware](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/greetings-from-delaware/) - SEPTEMBER 20, 2008 - OCTOBER 19, 2008 Greetings from Delaware and Other Artist Communities, features over 250 hand-made greeting cards, the majority of the Jann Haynes Gilmore and B. Joyce Puckett collection, by both regional and national professional artists. The exhibition will be filled with artful greetings manufactured and sent by artists such as, Rockwell
- [Award Winners X and Reunion](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/award-winners-x-and-reunion/) - JULY 2, 2010 – 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
- [From Four Studios: First State Modernism](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/from-four-studios-first-state-modernism/) - SEPTEMBER 20, 2008 - OCTOBER 19, 2008 From Four Studios: First State Modernism is the first major exhibition of the State's Modernist art collection. The show presents key examples of works by four seminal figures in early 20th - century painting of Delaware: Jack Lewis (b. 1912), Howard Schroeder (1910-1995), Orville Peets (1881-1968) and Ethel
- [Behind the Blue Doors: Famous Creations from the Rehoboth Art League](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/behind-the-blue-doors-famous-creations-from-the-rehoboth-art-league/) - November 5, 2010 - February 20, 2011 Behind the Blue Doors: Famous Works from the Rehoboth Art League Collection is the first critical examination of the rarely-seen permanent collection of the Rehoboth Art League (RAL). Founded in the early 1930s, the RAL quickly became a regional hot bed of artistic production and has collected hundreds
- [Young at Art](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/young-at-art/) - SEPTEMBER 20, 2008 - OCTOBER 19, 2008 In partnership with the Child HELP Foundation, the Biggs Museum is proud to host Young at Art, an exhibition featuring artwork created by children in Delaware who are supported by the Child HELP Foundation and VSA Arts of Delaware. Child HELP Foundation is a nonprofit charitable community organization
- [Art and Poetry](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/art-and-poetry/) - APRIL 1, 2011 – MAY 1, 2011 To commemorate National Poetry Month, the Biggs Museum of American Art will host a public reading of some of the region's most influential poets on Friday, April 1. Each writer has composed an original poem inspired from collections on view within The Biggs' galleries. Printed versions of the
- [Award Winners VII](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/award-winners-vii/) - JULY 9, 2008 - OCTOBER 26, 2008 For seven years the Biggs Museum has offered its galleries for the presentation of some of Delaware's finest visual artists, craftspeople, writers and musicians with the Award Winners series of exhibitions. The summer celebration offers a home each year for a new group of winners of the prestigious
- [Award Winners VIII](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/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
- [Forgotten Dreams:The Paintings of Edward Grant](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/forgotten-dreamsthe-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
- [On a Smaller Scale: Dollhouses](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/on-a-smaller-scale-dollhouses/) - NOVEMBER 5, 2008 - FEBRUARY 22, 2009 Open November 5, 2008 - February 22, 2009 On a Smaller Scale features the recent acquisition of three exceptional dollhouses from the now closed Delaware Toy and Miniature Museum (DTMM), created by Dover resident, Barbara Merrell. These homes were commended by DTMM for their high degree of naturalistic
- [Biggs Shot 2009](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/biggs-shot-2009/) - MARCH 4, 2009 - JUNE 28, 2009 Biggs Shot 2009 is the second juried photography competition and exhibition featuring the work of new and emerging photographers, working and/or living in the Mid-Atlantic region. The inaugural Biggs Shot competition in 2005 attracted over 130 applicants within the region. Sally Packard and Dinah Reath, owner of the
- [The Sculpture of Light: Volterra, Italy in Delaware](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/the-sculpture-of-light-volterra-italy-in-delaware/) - APRIL 4, 2009 - JUNE 21, 2009 In a partnership with the Appoquinimink School District and the Volterra, Italy delegation, the Museum is pleased to present The Sculpture of Light: Volterra, Italy in Delaware: an exhibition celebrating the international artist-in-residency program with the Appoquinimink School District as well as the continuing, rich Volterran tradition of
- [Expressions of Time: Photographing a Solution](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/expressions-of-time-photographing-a-solution/) - APRIL 18, 2008 – JUNE 1, 2008 This exhibition features over two-dozen works of art by nine photographers that describes their interpretations of the passage of time. The participating photographers are members of Art Lane PCG, a small group of area photographers who improve their professional skills by critiquing each other's work. Their work displayed
- [Art Deco Glass from the David Huchthausen Collection](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/art-deco-glass-from-the-david-huchthausen-collection/) - NOVEMBER 5, 2022 - FEBRUARY 20, 2023 Clean lines, geometric shapes and bright colors characterize this exhibition of more than 100 early 20th century works by iconic Art Deco Studios such as René Lalique, Daum Frères, Steuben Glass Works, and many others. Assembled through the keen and practiced eye of renowned contemporary glass artist David Huchthausen,
- [Mary Putman: Art is About Us](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/mary-putman-art-is-about-us/) - FEBRUARY 16, 2023 - MARCH 26, 2023 For the Delaware-based painter Mary Putman, art is—and has always been—about us. Putman’s focus on the landscape over the course of her prolific career has allowed her to probe this simple yet powerful statement. Her paintings explore the vast and complicated interconnections between the land and its occupants.
- [Front Row Center: Icons of Rock, Blues, and Soul](https://www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/front-row-center-icons-of-rock-blues-and-soul/) - MARCH 17, 2023 - JUNE 19, 2023 The iconic photographs of Larry Hulst capture the freewheeling energy of live music and the enduring visual spectacle of rock’s greatest performers. From Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix to David Bowie and Lauryn Hill, Front Row Center: Icons of Rock, Blues and Soul brings together over 70 images

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