Brandywine Art Guide: 101 artists at Baker Gallery

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By Joe Naujokas

More than just funding artists, galleries, and exhibitions, art patrons create community, share their favorite artists with others, and support up-and-coming artists. Art collections take on their own life, combining themes and subjects and mediums in unexpected ways. The new exhibition at the Baker Gallery at West Chester University, 101 Artists: Selections from the Fred Danziger Collection of Contemporary Art, takes a unique approach to…

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Brandywine Art Guide: Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled

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Jamie Wyeth gets animated talking to reporters about the art in his new exhibit Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled at the Brandywine River Museum of Art. (Photo by Rich Schwartzman)

As you walk into Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled, the new exhibition opening March 17 at the Brandywine Museum of Art, you are greeted by an entirely unexpected experience. An automaton, a hidden music box spreading sinister tinkling tones, a taxidermic animal of indeterminate origin sitting on a vintage flotation device, all accompanied by a projection that highlights the automaton in full motion, in all its grotesque…

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Brandywine Art Guide: The Historical Perspective of Adrian Martinez

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Studio of Adrian Martinez

When talking to a painter about a series of historical paintings, you may expect to be discussing ancient history. However, a conversation with local artist Adrian Martinez winds through unexpected perspectives. For the past two decades, Martinez has been working on a series of paintings depicting historic events that occurred in the Brandywine Valley. It started with scenes from the 1700s, when the first Quakers…

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Brandywine Art Guide: Seasons of Color at Church Street Gallery

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Autumn Fields by Elise Phillips

Galleries are more than just walls decorated with art. They are community spaces that create shared experiences for artists, art lovers, collectors, and curators. Cultivating that environment has been an intentional part of owning a gallery for Carol Giblin and John Suplee, the owners of Church Street Gallery in West Chester. Suplee is a familiar face of the Brandywine Vallery art scene, but Giblin is…

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Brandywine Art Guide: March arts & events

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Elise Phillips is having a solo show at Church Street Gallery beginning March 1.

March is charging in like a lion this year, with a First Friday full of openings and art events throughout the Brandywine Valley. From retrospectives to archives, local scenes to far-off landscapes, explore every facet of the human experience through artistic perspectives. • Church Street Gallery brings popular local artist Elise Philips in for a Solo Show from March 1 to 23. An opening cocktail…

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Brandywine Art Guide: The Maine Event II

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Monhegan Island Garden by Elise Phillips

The connections between the Brandywine Valley and Maine are well-known and centuries deep. It has been only strengthened by recent partnerships, such as the creation of the Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center in 2022, which is housed in two staffed research centers at the Brandywine Museum of Art in Chadds Ford and the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. But those connections exist for…

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Brandywine Art Guide: Camps & classes

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Chester County Art Association

Summer may seem far away, but now is the time to sign up for camp. Whether you have a young artist looking to spend all summer creating their masterpiece or someone looking to learn a new skill over break, there are options throughout the Brandywine Valley. Don’t forget to sign up soon. • Celebrate Art Across America at the Summer Art Camp at Wayne Art…

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Brandywine Art Guide: February arts & events

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Spring is Coming by Victor Mordasov at Square Pear Gallery

Love and color are in the cards for galleries, museums, and creative spaces throughout the Brandywine Valley in February. From landscapes of Maine to spring scenes, sharing knowledge, and sending a message, there are fantastic experiences for art lovers all month long! 2024 marks 25 years since the Kuerner Farm became part of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art. They are celebrating with a…

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Brandywine Art Guide: The soul of art & music

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Artwork by Dane Tilghman

Is there any more perfect pairing than art and music? Spending time looking at beautiful, evocative artworks while being treated to live accompaniment from talented musicians is a treat for the senses. In The Soul of Art and Music, a new exhibition is opening at the Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center on Feb. 1, artist Dane Tilghman and musician Bryan Parr come together to celebrate…

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Brandywine Art Guide: Bridging generations

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What to Say by Brandon McNeill in a collaborative endeavor with Xander Keith Hearns

While the world outside is monochromatic — finally, after much too long a stretch of no snow in the Brandywine Valley — the Corner Art Collective is working on bringing a riot of color to their bright white walls. Their new exhibition, aptly titled “THE BIG SHOW,” brings together local artists with large-scale artworks that bridge generations, genres, and styles. The Corner Art Collective was…

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Brandywine Art Guide: Solo Series at Abington Art Center

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Dine by Summer Yates

Presenting artists and artworks in relation to each other is one of the many magics of galleries. Whether it is comprised of single pieces from dozens of artists or collections of a few, bringing various mediums, styles, forms, and viewpoints together in one physical location allows for interesting juxtapositions and interpretations. At the Abington Art Center, the Winter 2024 Solo Series features four artists, Mia…

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