Now accepting 2020 Artist Applications
60 artists will be accepted for the event. Apply by July 10, 2020
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Click HERE for COVID-19 Artist Grants and Resources
Virtual Gallery Opening App
This year our event will be virtual in place of our physical Opening Reception. We will launch the Plein Air Brandywine Valley Virtual Gallery App on September 25th for our sponsors, patrons, and the public at large. This exciting new app was developed specifically for CBH and PABV which allows us to exhibit and offer artists’ works for sale in a new, simple to use and engaging way.
2020 Plein Air Brandywine Valley Sponsorship Opportunities
2019 Event Sponsors
DIAMOND
- Jerome I. Marcus, MD
PLATINUM
- Janet C. Hohnholt
- William and Katharine Gahagan
GOLD
- Ellison M. Carey
SILVER
- June Buck
- "In Memory of James R. Buck"
- Mary and Jim Culley
- Patricia Lowe
- A. Roy Smith
- James J. McLaughlin
BRONZE
- Joe and Bernie Polinski
- Jay and Martha Tschantz
- John Lilley and Bob Lohrmann
- Brooke Mitchell and Scott Best
- Nancy Ellis, State Farm
- Karen D. Poore, ChFC
- Alexandra Ergon
- The Honorable Christina D. Sappey and Mr. Jonathan Sappey
Plein Air Brandywine Valley Schedule of Events
Tuesday, Sept. 01, 2020 – Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020
Artists paint within and around the Brandywine Valley including incredible landscapes, gardens, churches, architecture, and riverways among others. Artists are required to work only in allotted time frames. Work completed outside of those time frames will not be considered for judging. Also, all work is to be done outside in natural lighting. Please see the complete rules and regulations for artists.
Friday, Sept. 25
Judging for the Plein Air Brandywine Valley will be done virtually and announced during the Virtual Gallery Opening starting at 6pm.
Saturday, Sept. 26 - Sunday, Sept. 27
Virtual Gallery Exhibition and Sale continues Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am - 4:00pm.
From the rising sunlight reaching across the woodland streams in Pennsylvania to the late afternoon light stretching over the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming, the ever-changing beauty of our fragile home is my inspiration. Describing the landscape or the character in a loved one's face is an immeasurable privilege. With my paintings I hope to prompt a nostalgic memory or inspire another to pause and appreciate the beauty that surrounds us. After having had a rewarding career as a soloist in the opera in Germany I returned to America and enrolled in art classes and workshops with several esteemed artists. I now live in a rural area in Pennsylvania where I am surrounded by a lifetime of incentive to get my paints out.
