Delaware Art Museum’s 2020 slate of exhibitions is set.
Heather Coyle is the chief curator at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington.
She notes that the recently released exhibition schedule is set to launch very soon, “The year actually will start off with the shows that we are opening this fall. Angela Fraleigh “Sound the Deep Waters,” which is an exhibition that we have commissioned work from an artist based on some things in our collection - particularly, female artists and female subjects in our collection.”
Coyle says Fraleigh’s exhibition opens October 5, 2019 and runs through April 2020.
She says there are numerous other exhibitions coming to the Delaware Art Museum, including Posing Beauty in African American Culture, "Which opens October 19, 2019 and runs through January 26 , 2020, and is about 100 photo-based work - many by African American artists of African American subject matters.”
And later, in 2020, Coyle says the schedule includes Layered Abstraction: by Margo Allman and Helen Mason. That celebrates the careers of Allman and Mason - who explore the infinite possibilities of abstraction.
There are three other exhibitions during 2020:
Julio daCunha: Modernizing Myths
February 29 – May 10, 2020
The Columbian born daCunha came to First State in 1956 to teach at the University of Delaware. While at UD, daCunha served as department chair from 1966 to 1969 and taught until his retirement in 1994.
Fantasy and the Medieval Past
September 26, 2020 – January 31, 2021
Drawing from the work of contemporary illustrators Tony DiTerlizzi, Leo and Diane Dillon, and Ian Schoenherr, as well as historical works from the Museum’s Howard Pyle collection, this exhibition takes a look at the fantasy medieval realms of some of our beloved young adult reads. contemporary America’s changing understanding of gender equality, cultural identity, disability, and difference.
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection
October 17, 2020 – January 10, 2021
This exhibition features more than 60 objects, spanning over 30 years of Tiffany’s prolific career. It showcases Tiffany’s innovative work in leaded and blown glass, including examples of his windows, lamps, and vases.
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