The Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington celebrates female beauty this weekend.
Picturing Beauty: Celebrating Real Women takes place Sunday, Nov. 17 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The event complements two current Museum exhibitions focusing on gender and identity: Posing Beauty in African American Culture - an exhibition by Dr. Deborah Willis and Sound the Deep Waters by Angela Fraleigh.
Fraleigh will be part of a panel discussion with Willis at 2 p.m.
“I imagine what we’ll be talking about is our own relationship in terms of - like with visual imagery throughout history. Looking at the ways beauty has been portrayed; the kinds of superficial connotations attached to that, but also the inherent power dynamics that play that kind of rest below the surface - those ideas,” said Fraleigh.
And she says she will have a message for the more than 200 local women and girls expected to attend, “What I hope to do in my work is to create this underlying message that there is a strong lineage of incredibly powerful, brave and heroic female characters throughout our history. They may not be always champions but their presence - just rarely seen.”
Picturing Beauty is a free event but online registration is required for some activities.