{"id":13871,"date":"2013-02-15T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=13871"},"modified":"2013-02-14T15:23:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T20:23:48","slug":"family-workshop-to-focus-on-horace-pippin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=13871","title":{"rendered":"Family workshop to focus on Horace Pippin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brandywine River Museum to host story-reading, book-signing and art activities<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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A book by Chester County author Jen Bryant will be the focus of a workshop at the Brandywine River Museum.<\/p><\/div>\n

The fascinating and challenging life of West Chester artist Horace Pippin will be the focus of a family workshop, author\u2019s talk and book-signing at The Brandywine River Museum on Sunday, Feb. 24, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

Children will have an opportunity to listen to A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin<\/i>, a new children\u2019s book written by Chester County author Jen Bryant and illustrated by Caldecott Honor-winner Melissa Sweet. After the story, visitors can see Pippin\u2019s paintings in the gallery and make pictures with the color red.<\/p>\n

At 1 p.m., Bryant will discuss researching and writing the book, followed by a book-signing. Museum admission is free until noon on Sundays through Nov. 24, with the exception of Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n

The museum, located on U.S. 1 in Chadds Ford, is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, visit http:\/\/www.brandywinemuseum.org<\/a>
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Brandywine River Museum to host story-reading, book-signing and art activities The fascinating and challenging life of West Chester artist Horace Pippin will be the focus of a family workshop, author\u2019s talk and book-signing at The Brandywine River Museum on Sunday, Feb. 24, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Children will have an opportunity to listen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,287],"tags":[2667,180,39,2738,2737],"class_list":["post-13871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-arts","tag-a-splash-of-red-the-life-and-art-of-horace-pippin","tag-brandywine-river-museum","tag-chadds-ford","tag-melissa-sweet","tag-west-chester-artist-horace-pippin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}