Brandywine River Museum of Art presents 2 new exhibits for summer
CHADDS FORD » “Gatecrashers: The Rise of the SelfTaught Artist” will be on view at the Brandywine River Museum of Art from Tuesday, May 28, until Monday, Sept. 5, and “Dawoud Bey: Night Coming Tenderly, Black,” is on view, now through Wednesday, Aug. 31.
“Gatecrashers” celebrates two dozen early-20th century painters who fundamentally changed the art world. These artists, all without formal training, diversified the field across lines of race, ethnicity, class, gender and ability. Featuring more than 60 works, this exhibition examines how self-taught artists “crashed the gates” of the elite art world after World War I and the remarkable ways in which they reshaped the notion of who could be called an artist in the United States.
“Gatecrashers” is organized by the High Museum of Art and curated by Katherine Jentleson, the High’s Curator of Folk and SelfTaught Art. The exhibition includes works by renowned painters such as Horace Pippin, Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses and John Kane, as well as by artists who are lesser known now but were recognized in their day, including Morris Hirshfield, Josephine Joy, Lawrence Lebduska, Patrick Sullivan and 17 others.
On view in the Brandywine’s newly renovated Strawbridge Family Gallery, “Dawoud Bey: Night Coming Tenderly Black,” features a selection of 10 photographs from Bey’s critically acclaimed series from 2017 that imagines the flight of enslaved African-American fugitives in the midnineteenth century traveling along the last part of an Underground Railroad network. The exhibition has particular resonance for the Brandywine region, given the many local sites that were active stations of the Underground Railroad network.
Brandywine River Museum of Art is at 1 Hoffman’s Mill Road, Chadds Ford. The Brandywine River Museum of Art features an outstanding collection of American art housed in a 19th-century mill building with a dramatic steel and glass addition overlooking the banks of the Brandywine. Admission is $18 for adults, $15 for seniors ages 65 and over, $6 for students and children ages 6 and up; free for children 5 and younger and Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art members.
Current hours of operation and other information can be found at http://www. brandywine.org or by calling 610-388-2700. The museum is one of the two programs of the Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art.
PA Association of Nurse Anesthetists awards Crozer Nurse Anesthesia program director
At the 2022 Pennsylvania Association of Nurse Anesthetists Spring Symposium, Jodie Szlachta, PhD, CRNA, director of the Crozer-Chester Medical Venter/Villanova University Nurse Anesthesia Program, received the PANA Advocate of the
Year Award.
PANA’s mission is to advocate for patient safety, access to quality care, and the profession of Nurse Anesthesia. The PANA Advocate of the Year award was created to recognize a certified registered nurse anesthetist or student registered nurse anesthetist that exemplifies the use of advocacy or grassroots efforts to advance the nurse anesthesia profession. The award was presented to Szlachta who, due to her legislative and regulatory work, was recognized as an advocate for the CRNAs and patients in Pennsylvania.
The award recognized Szlachta’s more than a decade of work on the PANA Board and her appointment to the Pennsylvania State Health Policy Board by Gov. Wolf. She served as the president of PANA in 2018, during which time she provided testimony to the state House Professional Licensure Committee to promote the practice of nurse anesthesia in the state. She maintains clinical practice at Crozer Health.
The Crozer-Chester Medical Center/Villanova University Nurse Anesthesia Program is a 36-month full-time Doctor of Nursing Practice program that is approved by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs. Graduates receive a Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree in Nurse Anesthesia from Villanova University’s M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing.
Jorge Alvarez, a Doctor of Nursing Practice student in the Crozer-Chester Medical Center/Villanova University Nurse Anesthesia Program, was awarded PANA
Student of the Year Award. He was nominated by Lisa Buchanan, Chief Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist at Virtua/ Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center.
Alvarez’s DNP project is video-based learning and hands-on simulation to increase knowledge and confidence in ultrasoundguided peripheral IV catheter placement for anesthesia clinicians.
UDHS Class of 1970 celebrates 50th-plus Reunion
The Upper Darby Class of 1970 reunion committee will hold its 50th-plus reunion, which is being rescheduled from 2020. The milestone event will finally take place, 6- 11 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at Waynesborough Country Club, 440 Darby Paoli Road, Paoli. Hotels in the area include the Desmond Hotel in Malvern, Courtyard by Marriott in Malvern and The Hyatt in King of Prussia. Reunion attendees can go to www.udhs.1970 for information about group rates at these hotels.
Information on attending the reunion can be found at http://www. udhs.1970. Classmates can update their information, post pictures and look for old friends on the site. Class members should check that their mailing address and email address are current so that information for upcoming events will reach them. An invitation for the reunion will be mailed Sept. 1. Members of the class are asked to look over the Missing Classmates List. If they know someone on the list, they are asked to notify them about the website and the reunion. More information is also available on the “Upper Darby High School Class of 1070” Facebook page.
Award-winning blues guitarist returns to Jamey’s House of Music
Award-winning national blues artist and 2022 Blues Music Award nominee Gabe Stillman and his band will bring their renowned style of “Hard Stompin’ Blues” back to Jamey’s House of Music in Lansdowne, 8 p.m. Friday, June 3.
The band is currently touring in support of Stillman’s newest record, “Just Say The Word,” which was released worldwide by the VizzTone Label Group in 2021. The album debuted in the top ten of the Billboard Blues Charts and has connected with radio, industry reviews, and the strong enthusiasm of Stillman’s growing fan base.
According to Jamey’s House of Music, The Gabe Stillman Band is a blues machine that runs at full tilt for every performance, gaining notoriety and fans wherever they perform. While their sound is unmistakably rooted in the blues, the band draws from the deep well of all American roots music. Stillman formed his band in 2015, shortly after graduating from Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Since landing in the final eight of the 35th Annual International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tenn., and being further honored as the recipient of the esteemed Gibson Guitar Award, Stillman and his band have been focused on expanding their footprint on a national and international level.
Tickets for this performance are $25 in advance online and $30 at the door on the night of the show. For more details about Stillman, this concert, and upcoming performances, visit http:// www.gabestillman.com.