14. TAKE IN THE ARTS: NEW EXHIBITIONS COMING IN 2024...
Every year, new and exciting exhibitions are brought to local attractions and museums throughout Greater Wilmington. Here are a few highlights coming this year to the Brandywine Museum of Art, Delaware Art Museum, The Delaware Contemporary and Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library that you just can’t miss:
Andrew Wyeth was fascinated by the fragile rhythms and intimate dramas of plant life. This exhibit uses 40 watercolors and drawings — most of which have never been exhibited before — to explore that fascination.
This exhibition examines the representation of Black women over the past two centuries and makes Black women’s presence visible in American art history. Selected artists include Edmonia Lewis, Elizabeth Catlett, Alma Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Mickalene Thomas, and LaToya Ruby Frazier. There Is a Woman in Every Color provides an opportunity to place art by Black women in conversation with one another, showcasing their exploration of personhood, issues of identity, and resistance to classification.
Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled
March 16 – June 9, 2024
Brandywine Museum of Art
This exhibit traces some of the more disconcerting imagery created by artist Jamie Wyeth. While Wyeth is known primarily for coastal views, farmscapes, darker and more otherworldly imagery is a persistent theme of his work. Examine strange landscapes and curious characters as you open your mind to an unsettled mood.
What if an individual piece of a mosaic was as much a work of art as the finished whole? What if we traded art as we do baseball cards? Tesserae presents images that can stand on their own or be combined; they can also be bought and traded. In the process, the artist invites you to ask questions about the nature of art, its commodification and its meaning.
Transformations features more than 30 nationally recognized artists whose work draws inspiration from the historic collections at Winterthur. Discover how the old influences the new — forging connections across communities, transforming our perspectives about history, and commenting on our lives today. Most of the artists in Transformations took part in the Maker–Creator Research Fellowship program, which invites creative professionals to immerse themselves in Winterthur’s collections.
This retrospective of Frank Stewart’s photography centers on his sensitive and spontaneous approach to portraying world cultures and Black life in many forms — including music, art, travel, food, and dance.
Jazz Age Illustration
Oct. 5, 2024 – Jan. 26, 2025
Delaware Art Museum
This is the first major exhibition to survey the art of popular illustration in the United States between 1919 and 1942. This ambitious project draws from the museum’s expansive illustration collection, with selective loans, to explore the mass visual culture that emerged at the end of the First World War — a period characterized by cultural vibrancy and dramatic social change. The museum plans to celebrate the exhibition’s opening with a Jazz Age Gala in the fall of 2024.
Wharton Esherick is best known as the father of the Studio Furniture Movement, which centers around the production of one-of-a-kind furniture objects designed and built by craftspeople. The Crafted World includes selections from Esherick’s rarely loaned collection of objects, usually housed at the Wharton Esherick Museum in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
