Delaware State Employees Art Exhibition

Mar 2, 2015 - Mar 14, 2015

The Delaware Division of the Arts and the National Arts Program® present the 4th Annual Delaware State Employee Art Exhibition. This program is designed to give Delaware state employees and their families, at any skill level, a unique opportunity to exhibit their artwork and to compete for cash prizes. The exhibit is judged by professional artists and visual art professionals in Amateur,...

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Jamie Wyeth - Paintings From Six Decades

Mar 2, 2015 - Mar 7, 2015

Somerville Manning Gallery presents a solo exhibition of works by Jamie Wyeth concurrent with the artist’s major retrospective on view at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, PA.  The gallery’s exhibition, offering classic examples of the artist’s work, will feature paintings spanning Wyeth’s career, from the 1960s through today.  Many newly completed paintings will be shown...

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Hippo Haven Opens This Summer at Adventure Aquarium!

Mar 2, 2015 - May 29, 2015

This event occurs daily, every 1 day(s).

This summer, Camden’s largest residents, Adventure Aquarium’s hippopotamuses Button and Genny, invite you to join them in their exciting new home, Hippo Haven. As the only aquarium in the world with hippos on exhibit, Hippo Haven offers guests the unique opportunity to come nose-to-nose with one of earth’s largest land mammals both above and under water. Enter the newly reimagined Hippo...

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A Colorful Folk: Pennsylvania Germans & The Art of Everyday Lives

Mar 2, 2015 - Jan 1, 2016

This comprehensive exhibition explores the unique world of the Pennsylvania Germans and their colorful folk art, including decorated manuscripts (fraktur), textiles, furniture, metalwork and pottery. Embellished with hearts, flowers, birds and other traditional motifs, these objects reveal a love of color, design, and whimsy. Most are functional, but others were made “just for nice”...

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Dinosaurs of the Deep Invade Adventure Aquarium

Mar 2, 2015 - Jul 5, 2015

This event occurs daily, every 1 day(s).

Prehistoric marine reptiles that ruled the primeval seas more than 100 million years ago are taking over Adventure Aquarium on the Camden Waterfront for a limited-time exhibit starting January 16. Five thousand square feet of large-scale skeletons, ancient fossils and more than 20 life-size replicas will be on display to teach guests about the most intriguing sea monsters that ever existed –...

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Winter Weekday Guided Tours

Mar 2, 2015 - Mar 13, 2015

Visitors may take a two-hour guided tour of Hagley’s 235-acre site. Stops include Eleutherian Mills, the first du Pont family home built in America; the First Office of the DuPont Company; a restored nineteenth-century machine shop;  and restored workers’ community. Visitors may walk through the Powder Yard or browse exhibitions in the Visitor Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Use Hagley’s...

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OSCAR WILDE’S SALOMÉ: ILLUSTRATING DEATH AND DESIRE

Mar 2, 2015 - May 10, 2015

Oscar Wilde’s Salomé: Illustrating Death and Desire will feature artists’ interpretations of this controversial play throughout the ages. The play was banned from production in London in 1893 and was not performed until three years later in Paris. Despite this controversy, the play’s publication, which included illustrations by the symbolist artist Aubrey Beardsley (1894), received...

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Smoking Cessation Program

Mar 2, 2015 - May 16, 2015

This event occurs weekly, on Monday.

 NANTICOKE PHYSICIAN NETWORK TO HOST SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM Are you ready to be a quitter? Nanticoke Physician Network is hosting Freedom from Smoking®, a free, seven week program providing support and guidance to quit smoking. Freedom from Smoking® is the premier smoking cessation program from the American Lung Association.  This program offers strategies to improve your lifestyle...

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