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2 Great Instructors, 3 Great Days in The Brandywine Valley

9/8/2021

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When my art pal Staci Swider called from South Carolina to say, "let's teach something fun together!" the wheels in my head started spinning. We've both been playing with patterns in our work and we both have connections in Delaware/Pennsylvania. We both love mixed media and we both are fascinated with textiles. And we both laugh a lot when we're together!

Thus was born a RuleBreaker Art Retreat to the beautiful Brandywine Valley. I'm all pumped up to show off my new hometown of Wilmington, DE and to collaborate with two of my new favorite museums. 

Pattern, Paint and Paper!
Our workshop begins in the studios and galleries of the Delaware Art Museum. We will get a   special curator-led tour of the newly installed Pre-Raphaelite collection, taking inspiration from Arts and Crafts design motifs.
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"Mary Magdalene" by British painter Frederick Sandys, c. 1859, at The Delaware Art Museum
Day two inspiration features a unique "behind the scenes" tour of world-famous Winterthur Museum, the former home and collection of Henry Francis du Pont. We will pay special attention to historic wallpaper, porcelain and fabric designs that we will use in making our own relief stamps for collage paper.
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An incredible "Tree of Life" bedspread and curtains in the Cecil Bedroom on the 7th floor of Winterthur Museum
Between VIP tours, Staci and I will lead students in mixed media mischief! Studios will be open for working all day so we can make some lucious layered compositions. It's going to be such a creative & wonderful weekend - I hope you will join me, November 5-7 in Wilmington!

​More information and registration form HERE. 
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Sea of Stories

9/2/2021

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"Swishy Fish" 2021, monotype and collage, 8" x 10"
I've been ocean obsessed lately. After a stir-crazy covid year, my sweetie and I decided to learn to scuba dive!! I just finished my open water certification in Key Largo but I've been picturing the crazy creatures all year. Pelicans, sanderlings, turtles and every kind of fish! They are all telling stories in my studio these days.

As I was dreaming of tropical reefs, my artist friend Caroline Chen started a series of oil paintings based on Wuthering Heights. Now there's a story for you!
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To complete the synchronicity, another studio artist friend shared a book with us that we had never heard of -  Salmon Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories. As we both read through it, this passage caught our creative eyes...
  
“Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns. It was not dead, but alive.”
  
Thus was born our Sea of Stories exhibit. Come see it!

Sea of Stories is on view September 3-26, 2021 at The Delaware Contemporary.
You are invited to an opening reception on Friday, Sept. 10 from 5-8 pm.
For more information about the exhibit and event, click here.

To view work from the show online, click here. Please email me at mail@carolinecbrown.com if you are interested in purchasing work from the exhibit. 
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