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Watching Paint Dry

I can distinctly remember one of the most exciting days in art class my freshman year of high school was when we sat with a printed out piece of paper with a painting we liked on it and tried to paint what we saw.

I loved finding all of the little secret details and trying to capture them...

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A Membership with Benefits!

This past weekend I attended the special exhibit at the Frick Collection in New York titled Vermeer, Rembrandt and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting from the Mauritshui

Not only was the exhibition important because it came from the Netherlands, but also because...

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Christmas Is Here!

It’s Christmas time here at The Brandywine River Museum from now through January 5thand there are a number of fun family events.

On Wednesday, December 11th the museum hosted the annual Children’s Christmas Party. As the children and their families entered the museum on...

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Deck the Halls

I arrived at the Brandywine River Museum in late November to a whirlwind of action as over eighty volunteers and staff members were decorating the museum for Christmas.

I will admit then when I first arrived on the first floor lobby, I was so overwhelmed by all that was going...

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