Meet ChaCha Hudson, owner of The SEWcial Café. Learn more about The SEWcial Café, a creative coworking space for female fashion designers and crafters encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation, and our plans to open a new location in Wilmington, DE. Bring out your inner "sewist"! (SEWER + ARTIST). Add this stop to your Art Loop! Light refreshments and The SEWcial Café fashion vendors onsite!

ChaCha N. Hudson is an international fashion designer, philanthropist, motivator, and educator with over 19 years of sewing experience. She currently teaches fashion courses in the University of Delaware’s Fashion & Apparel Studies department as well as advanced fashion courses in the Continuing Education department at Moore College of Art & Design.

"Eye Shadow" — a BebeRoss Coker Brainchild — is an exploration of themes from a woman's perspective. This group show has become a CCAC tradition, and places women as changemakers throughout the universe including education, science, health, religious, business and political spaces. At the end of the day, when a woman asks herself if she good enough, the spirit answers with a resounding Yes! A new dimension of "Eye Shadow" delves into the "adultification" of black girls. Join us for the opening reception for a provocative discussion. Receptions on March 6 and April 3 from 5:30- 7:30 pm.

TABITA ARES Tabita Ares is a Delaware native with a deep love for the arts and her community. Her art captures her love of both.

JUANITA AYCOX Painting is nothing more than colors, shapes, and textures on a flat surface, vibrating in a poetic way. However, no matter how abstract it is, the visual contrast involves nothing more than texture, matter, shape, and space. Abstract art uses the visual language of shape, form, color, and lines to create a composition. Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in the making of an image. In my paintings, all the above are used. In addition, I use shellac, tissue paper, markers, and acrylic paint to create mixed-media pieces.

Juanita currently resides in New Castle, Delaware. She grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and attended Howard University in Washington DC, graduating with a BFA in Art Education. She then pursued a career in education, teaching for over 25 years until she retired. Since retirement, she has enjoyed painting for family members and those that request her work. Painting, Juanita says, allows her to relax and express herself. This is her first full art exhibition.

EBONY H. FLAG Ebony H. Flag showed an interest in the arts from an early age by seeking to emulate the creative abilities of her parents. A graduate of the Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, Ebony focuses on illustration, graphic design and poetry. Ebony’s passions do not end at the tip of a pen or paintbrush; she exhibits the same level of commitment in wanting to see others’ lives made better. Influenced by her interactions as an educator, youth counselor and community builder, her rhythmic writings are as vivid and captivating as the illustrations she creates.

ALISHA JONES Alisha Jones developed a love of art as a toddler and eventually shifted her focus to photography to capture precious moments. There’s something about a camera that brings out her creativity. She figured out early on that photography allows her to visually escape, tell stories and in some instances bring social justice issues to light. Alisha is also passionate about graphic design as well as dedicated to her creative lifestyle by thinking outside of the box and using it to influence other aspects of her life. “Growing up, I always had aspirations of being an artist. I can even remember getting my first camera and trying to snap a picture of everything around me,” said Jones who is self-taught. As a photographer, one of the most valuable lessons she’s learned is finding beauty in all things. She considers herself a living testimony of turning a dream into a reality and encourages other to never give up on themselves or their goals.

DCAD Student Gallery Club presents Growth; an exhibition showcasing the development of students attending the Delaware College of Art and Design. The DCAD Student Gallery Club functions as a curatorial team for the students of the the school to exhibit work through out the semester."

When you pause and take a very close look at the world around you, you may see some things that you've never noticed before. I rather enjoy looking at food in this way--those often-ignored intricacies and unique details from a macro perspective. Have you ever considered the multiple shades of a single strawberry seed, the cleft of a coffee bean or the grimace of a gummy bear? The addition of the "people" figures to the image invites the viewer to discover a new perspective of the tiny worlds that exist around them.

"I hope you find these images fun and amusing and that they bring a smile to your face! I certainly had a lot of fun making them! Macro photography continues to thrill me, and I can't wait to capture my next tiny world!"Rose has previously shown her work in Media, PA and currently has several pieces (including a commissioned piece) on display in retail venues in Cape May County, NJ. Light refreshments & beverages.

Geraldo is showing his brand newest realistic artwork of self-portraits in Public Transport and many others. Nathan Smith is showing his new work called ''Art of Nathan.'' Those works will be on exhibit until March 27.

Art Language and the Power of Contemporary Abstract Painting Is the latest exhibit by Monique Rollins, which is on exhibit from February 21 - March 19. Rollins creates visual experiences that place the viewer in enduring habitats with astonishing consistency. On display at the Toni & Stuart B. Young Gallery at DCAD, Rollins rolls out nine works comprising five new oil paintings, two new acrylic and paper collages, and two charcoal drawings. The large-scale works belie the radical intimacy of her work. At 6:15pm, there will be a Curator’s Talk with Kathrine Page.

Born in Wilmington, DE, Monique Rollins received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, in 2002. In 2006, she earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting, a Master of Science in Theory and Criticism, and Art History degree specializing in Venetian Renaissance, and a Museum Studies Certification from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Rollins’ paintings have been exhibited internationally for over a decade. In 2018, she had solo exhibitions at Metroquadro Gallery in Turin, Italy; the Dante Alighieri Society in Venice, Italy; and earlier in the year, The Delaware Contemporary Museum traveled her exhibition, Eastern Poesia, to the Zhu Naizheng Research Center for Art in Beijing, China, and also the American Center in Beijing, China.

ON BEING AMERICAN/JAZZ: RYAN COHAN’S “THE RIVER,” Ellen Priest Ellen Priest's grand expression of jazz visually interprets what music does sonically. The River is an hour-long jazz suite composed in 2013 by Chicago pianist and composer Ryan Cohan. This album came about after Cohan and his jazz quartet toured East Africa in 2008.

GATHERED LIGHT, Graham Dougherty & Ruth Ansel Graham Dougherty:” We give shape to our rooms; then rooms give shape to our lives. We pass through rooms unseeing; walls, floors, ceilings, doorways become unnoticed, accepted, ordinary. It is light which transforms a commonplace enclosure into a metaphor of remembered or desired sensations. In these paintings the architectural elements become an abstracted structure of a remembered moment. Both rational thought and remembered sensations are unified."

Ruth Ansel: “Painting for me is sensation. It is visual. The eyes perceive the colors and tones. It is a felt experience. I can feel the thickness or thinness of the paint and the tug on the brush as the paint is released to the surface of the panel. I can hear the particles of pigment as I grind them into a paste on the palette and I can hear the almost imperceptible beat as the brush connects with the panel to deliver the load."

5 - 8 | The Art Cart

5 - 8 PM | 100 Million Gallons drop-in activity with studio artist, Caroline Coolidge Brown in the E. Avery Draper Gallery

Live jazz music by Tom Palmer, Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Delaware

Food Trucks: Koi on the Go and V-Trap Kitchen

Iron Hill Brewery will serve beer tastings on the second floor of the artist studios

Rebecca Mott-Lynn is an artist from Southern Delaware who creates amazing unique jewelry out of vintage and found elements. Join us for this show of her repurposed one of a kind jewelry.

Carol Mangano- Local & Regional Places, Both Inside & Out. Painting a still life composition in front of the Chadds Ford Historical Society's Springhouse engages in plein air style. Setting up a table on location depicting artifacts from John Chads House was the subject matter on a winter day.

Vignettes set on the café table in the Brandywine Art Museum included the glistening view of the Brandywine Creek. Painting vast farmlands, back-forty views, historic homesteads, and water ways also capture the essences of farmers’ markets, Longwood Gardens, and seasonal gems.

Exhibit on display until March 30, 2020. To schedule a private tour of the Studios, where Howard Pyle painted, wrote, and taught from 1881-1911, call 302-656-7397.

Lynne Robinson creates brilliantly colored designs with alcohol-ink." Alcohol-ink is a fascinating medium to work in – affording a myriad of possibilities created by inking tiles, metals, or non-porous paper. What starts out as a blank space ends up somewhere totally different than was originally planned – such is the nature of how the inks blend and dry and create their own world."

Her show features over 75 framed ink works, handmade notecards, inked necklaces – All for sale.

Living in the Newark – Elkton area since 1969, Lynne attended the University of Delaware, taught in Delaware public schools, and volunteered locally since retiring in 1997. A chance rescue of a 112-pound golden retriever named Boo in 2003 changed Lynne’s life and sent it on a course toward pet therapy. Now, founder and executive director of the pet-therapy organization, PAWS for People, Lynne is a believer of the profound and positive impact a visit from a pet can have on anyone – not only those physically, emotionally, or psychologically in need. Overseeing PAWS 650+ therapy teams, 13 employees, and 190 partnering sites where PAWS’ teams visit keeps Lynne out of trouble – most of the time. When she discovered the magic and vibrancy of alcohol inks during a class given at the Newark Arts Alliance, she quickly turned her spare time from emails to inking, inking, inking! She shares her love of alcohol ink through art festivals, demonstrations, and teaching classes.

Danny presents the best of his recent photos and prayers through end of March. Every week since 2007 (well, most weeks), Danny has emailed his latest image and text to a few hundred fans. The presentation format for this exhibit at The Buzz is new for him: archival prints with engraved text using a laser etching device. Complimentary Refreshments; w/Mead by Liquid Alchemy.

Danny Schweers has been making photographs since 1969. He is currently on the board of the Chris White Gallery, and is a photography instructor at the DE Art Museum and Mt. Cuba Center. He is a member of the Brandywine Photo Collective (former chair), the Texas Photographic Society (past president), and the Phila. Photo Arts Center. He served briefly as managing editor of Image: A Journal of Art and Religion. He began his Photo Prayer project while working at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Wilm., DE. Learn more at DannySchweers.com.

Artists of differing mediums work together to create a piece of art. Visit the unveiling on March 6th to see their creative collaborations. Light refreshments and tastings available.

Offerings from many local and regional artists including Kathy Ruck, Marty Barnes, Shirley Rigby, Catherine Bosk, Betsy Greer, Max Savaiko, Mario Lenin, Leslie Hubbard, Caroline Chen, Sarah Baptist & More. Art available in different mediums and sizes. We offer something for everyone! Light refreshments offered.

Three artists working in oil with different results - from subtle still life to interiors, and vivid landscapes using palette knife application. Enjoy a wine and cheese reception and meet the artists.