Art & Museums
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West Chester Story Slam Elicits Epic Emotions
Ten storytellers. Five minutes. Belly-rumbling comedy, soul-crushing sadness and exhilarating excitement. One after another after another. This epic emotional rollercoaster known as the West Chester Story Slam takes off at 8 p.m. on the second Tuesday of every month downtown at Side Bar & Restaurant, according to a feature in West Chester University’s The Quad.…
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Andrew Wyeth’s Passion for Tempera Explored in Museum Tours
According to Brandywine River Museum of Art tour guide, Jo Lurquin, Andrew Wyeth used the yolkes of extra-large, white Wawa eggs when mixing his paint, writes Kathleen Brady Shea for the Chadds Ford Live. The huge impact these eggs had on a number of the famous painter’s most significant works, came from Wyeth’s mastery of…
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Author and Illustrator Henry Cole Visits Students of Wissahickon Charter School
Instead of an April Fool, the first and second grade students of Wissahickon Charter School got a real treat with an entertaining and interactive discussion with award-winning children’s author and illustrator Henry Cole on April 1st. During his visit, Cole talked to the students about his children’s books and what it takes to write and…
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Chadds Ford Designer Amanda Phelan Turns Heads at New York Fashion Week
Young Chadds Ford fashion designer Amanda Phelan made a daring move to break the fashion mold one stunning stride after another during New York Fashion Week, and her quickly-rising brand of artistic fashion continues to turn heads in Chester County and beyond. “I want to create experiences for people that leave them tingling,” Phelan said…
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Chadds Ford Art Show Still Going Strong after 67 Years
Friday and Saturday will bring a real treat for all art lovers in Chester County as the 67th Annual Chadds Ford Art Show and Sale will be hosted by the Chadds Ford Elementary School on March 11th and 12th. The event gives artists from Chester County the opportunity to showcase the different forms of art…
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The Arts at DCCC Presents Linear/Nonlinear Exhibition
In a celebration of progressive art, the Linear/Nonlinear exhibition will be part of the Arts at Delaware County Community College‘s Spring Season, with all events free of charge and open to public. The exhibition which will run from March 2nd to April 8th is curated by Jay McClellan, and features the works of Mia Rosenthal,…
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Replica Coming to Downingtown in July
A replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial “The Wall That Heals,” is coming to Chester County in July, according to a staff report by Chadds Ford Live. The Hopewell United Methodist Church and East Brandywine Township are going to host the only Chester County venue on the national tour of the 250-foot, half-scale replica memorial and…
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The Art of Local Romantics Sets the Mood for Valentine’s Day in Chadds Ford
From “The Master’s Eye” to a woman of elegance, from a sun-lit country lane to a frigid “Sunset Ridge” and from a “Goddess Fountain” to “Venetian Balconies,” the artistic imagination of Chester County artists is setting the mood for Valentine’s Day with the new “Brandywine Romantics” exhibit featured at the Chadds Ford Gallery now through…
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Oxford Art Alliance Opens New Exhibit: “Architectural Sketches: Building an Idea”
Before Chester County buildings rise from their idyllic landscape, there is imagination and there is art. Friday night, the Oxford Art Alliance is “pulling back the curtain and showing what is not meant to be seen,” local architect Wayne Simpson said in Lele Galer’s preview of the art show in The Times of Chester County.…
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Longwood Gardens Has Grown the Western Hemisphere’s Largest Chrysanthemum and it’s Awesome
The creators of a must-see mum of immense dimensions are far from being silent about their behemoth bloom; the largest chrysanthemum ever grown outside the Asian continent is drawing global attention to the thousand-acre wood near Kennett Square. For two weeks in Chester County, a single 8-foot-tall, 12-foot-wide, record-setting chrysanthemum cultivated through 18 months of…
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In Muraled Malvern, Artistic Masterpieces Are Just Around the Corner
Malvern is scrapping the fees and formalities of modern art and literally bringing artwork to the people. Its newest gallery is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week — and for free. Half a dozen masterfully painted murals now grace the walls of public-facing buildings downtown, and the Malvern Community Arts Project has…
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Chester County Business Briefs
Business Briefs are short stories keeping you up to date with what’s happening around the county. Galera Therapeutics Raises $37 Million in Private Stock Sale Malvern based Galera Therapeutics, the biotech company developing new treatments for cancer patients has raised $37 million in a private stock sale. Existing investors New Enterprise Associates, Novartis Venture Fund,…
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Chester County Leadership — Michael Hall, Kennett Symphony’s Maestro
Coductors are, by definition, animated people. But watching Mr. Hall conduct the Kennett Symphony feels like you’re watching a man set more than just the tempo of the music. There’s something else going on. He moves silently in front of the symphony, thrashing at them with the baton one moment and leading them gently into…
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Chester County Datebook — October 12th
Here are the events scheduled for Monday and Tuesday in Chester County Datebook: Chester County Art Association’s N. C. Wyeth Founders Exhibition, an exhibit of 17 rarely viewed NC Wyeth paintings, in Allinson Gallery on N. Bradford Avenue in West Chester continues through the 18th. At 6:00 PM Monday evening, Victoria Wyeth will share the lore of her great grandfather…
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FBI Offers $20,000 For Any Tips Leading To Stolen Wyeth Paintings
Like the concern illustrated in N.C. Wyeth’s famous “Go, Dutton, and That Right Speedily” painting for the Robert Louis Stevenson novel “Black Swan,” the FBI has elevated the urgency behind finding that and another stolen Wyeth painting. Up to $20,000 has been posted as reward money for tips leading to the recovery of the stolen…
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Covered Bridge: Weekend Reading
We hope as you enjoy your weekend you’ll also find some time to kick back and survey some of the best writing from around the web. Check them out, but don’t forget to check out Hulafrog’s Weekend Guide to the best Chester County activities for families this weekend. “Death of A Young Black Journalist”, by Sarah…
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Photographer Goes To Kuerner Farm, Wyeth Studio To Capture The Colors Of Wyeth
The colorful wonders of Andrew Wyeth’s artistic environments have inspired a new kind of art, and photographer James Welling has captured the colors of Wyeth for a new exhibit starting Aug. 8 at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford. “Things Beyond Resemblance: James Welling Photographs” will explore the relationship between true color and its…
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Sarah Alderman Bursting The Coatesville Negativity Bubble
Friends certainly do let friends live in Coatesville, and a passionate 34-year-old writer and photographer is embarking on what she hopes is an epic effort to burst the bubble that persists about Coatesville being a place no one wants to live in. “I think the reputation is a bigger issue than any real issue,” fourth-generation…
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