The Community Gallery at DCH offers a unique opportunity for area art galleries and artists to exhibit work with horticultural or environmental themes.

The Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and during evening and weekend events, except on holidays. Evening open houses are held in conjunction with the Wilmington Art Commission's Art Loop, held the first Friday of the month*.

2010

August
Michele Madeksza
Opening: August 6, 2010. 5:30 to 8:00 P.M.

Michele's paintings explore a wide range of subjects including still lives, people, buildings, nature, flowers and scenes from daily life. Her works radiate with color and can be described as impressionistic realism. Her goal is to create paintings that displays qualities of liveliness, fluidity, drama, and strength.

September
Doris Davis Glacken
Opening: September 9, 2010. 5:30 to 8:00 P.M.

September marks the return of Doris Davis-Glackin, NWS to the Delaware Center for Horticulture Gallery. Vibrant color and strong design are hallmarks of this award winning artist's work. She will be exhibiting florals drawn from her garden, Mount Cuba, and Longwood Gardens. Mazaing insect "friends of the garden" will also be a part of the exhibit.

October
Joan Messick Frain
Opening: October 1, 2010. 5:30 to 8:00 P.M.

Joan, a well known local artist and instructor will be exhibiting original botanical illustrations in watercolor. These "plant portraits" depict the color, structure, and growth habit of each subject with complete scientific accuracy. Images range from native wildflowers to exotic orchids. All have been painted using live specimens.

November
University of Delaware Art Department
Opening: November 5, 2010. 5:30 to 8:00 P.M.

Also in November
Ikebana Exhibit

Midori Tanumune, Somu level teacher with the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, and her students will display colorful works of Ikebana floral art ranging from basic arrangements to free style creations. This floral art form depicts the arranger's stylized vision of nature using sculptural elements of line, space and mass. All manner of flora, fresh as well as dried, may be combined with unconventional materials in Sogetsu arrangements making for very unique and varied compositions.

December
Barbara Tinsman
Opening: December 3, 2010. 5:30 to 8:00 P.M.

Art quilts inspired by the beauty, the mundane, and the grandeur of the world around us.  An ever changing light of the seasons encourage the viewer to speculate on the consequence of the action or scene portrayed.    

*Art Loops not held January.