"Creating with Light and Color" Family Workshop and a Performance by The Academy of International Ballet on Sunday, October 4
Families can use light and color to create art during a special workshop on Sunday, October 4 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Brandywine River Museum of Art.*
Families will explore the process of photography by printing a collage of natural materials on special Sunprint paper and go out into the landscape to make a suncatcher that reflects the changing colors of fall.
At noon, dancers from the Academy of International Ballet will perform a variety of classical and contemporary works, as well as excerpts from the Nutcracker Ballet, under the artistic direction of Denis Gronostayskiy and Anastasia Babayeva. The Academy of International Ballet, located in Media, Pennsylvania, offers training in classical ballet to a wide spectrum of students in the finest traditions of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, using their time-honored Russian-based Vaganova ballet method.
The "Creating with Light and Color" workshop is inspired by the museum's current exhibitions of works by artist James Welling. The exhibition Things Beyond Resemblance: James Welling Photographs presents a selection of 50 photographs from a five-year series centered on the life and work of the painter Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), exploring the influence of one artist upon another across time and media. Brandywine also presents Gradients, Welling's first site-specific sculpture installation, at nine locations throughout the Brandywine River Museum of Art's 200-acre campus in Chadds Ford. Both exhibitions are on view through November 15.
About the Brandywine River Museum of Art
The Brandywine River Museum of Art features an outstanding collection of American art housed in a 19th-century mill building with a dramatic steel and glass addition overlooking the banks of the Brandywine. Admission is $15 for adults, $10 for seniors ages 65 and over, $6 for students and children ages 6; free for children 5 and younger and Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art members. For more information, call 610.388.2700 or visit brandywinemuseum.org.
*Museum admission is free on Sunday mornings from 9:30 a.m. to noon through November 24, 2015.