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Painted Poetry at Delaware Art Museum
Delaware Art Museum celebrates its centennial and continues its tradition of highlighting the work of accomplished regional artists with the exhibit, "Painted Poetry: The Art of Mary Page Evans," a retrospective exhibition of approximately 50 paintings and drawings created by Evans between the 1960s and 2011. Influenced by French impressionists (Cezanne in particular), post-impressionists, abstract impressionists, dance, music, poetry, her vibrant pieces evoke her inspirations - poetry and nature - gardens in Delaware and France (Giverny - Claude Monet's garden), a mountain in the Shenandoah Valley, the Florida coast; sites she loves and returns to again and again. Evans has lived in Delaware for 5 decades, married to former Delaware Congressman Tom Evans. Her paintings and drawings are in public, private and corporate collections, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Delaware Art Museum, and the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University. "Painted Poetry" can be seen through July 15 at 2301 Kentmere Parkway, Wilmington, DE.

May 18 - 25

The 3rd Annual Schuylkill Banks Art Stroll, "Art in the Open Philadelphia," is this weekend through Sunday, May 20, a new public art event inviting visitors to outdoor studio spaces to walk among artists, observe their process of creation and craft and even make their own art at locations along the riverbank path from Fairmount Water Works to Bartram's Garden, Philadelphia.

The South 9th Street Italian Market Festival, called the oldest, largest open-air market in the United States, is Saturday, May 19 & Sunday, May 20, 10am-5pm, rain or shine, with live entertainment, Procession of Saints, family fun zone, and of course, food, along South 9th Street, from Fitzwater to Federal Streets, South Philadelphia.

Tuckerton Seaport hosts a Bluegrass and Barbecue Festival, this Sunday, May 20, 11am-5pm with crafts, vendors, food, family activities, demonstrations, decoy carvers, boat building, boat rides and more at Tuckerton Creek, 120 West Main Street, Tuckerton, NJ.

The 28th annual Celebration of Black Writing Festival takes place May 21 through June 2, with regional and national talent in the literary, visual and performing arts, featuring literary discussions, workshops, music showcases, film screenings and more along with activities for the whole family at various locations around Philadelphia.

Wilma Theater concludes its season with the Tony Award winning epic "Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches," by Tony Kushner, directed by Blanka Zizka, opening Wednesday, May 23 through July 1, 265 South Broad Street, Philadelphia.

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