Course | The Soul Selects: Yoga & the Poetry of Emily Dickinson | In-Person
In this three-part yoga series, we’ll explore her life and work through movement, breath, and reflection. Each session will weave selected poems into a gentle and meditative yoga sequence, inviting you to embody Dickinson’s themes of solitude, transformation, and wonder. Attendance of Session 1 is not required to join upcoming sessions.
Course | Salvador Dalí’s Don Quixote de la Mancha with Julia Vázquez | In Person
In this course, we will look together at these lithographs to examine Dalí’s unique take on the misadventures of the knight errant Don Quixote and his faithful sidekick Sancho Panza, exploring such topics as the magical potential of madness and the transformative capacities of the imagination.
Course | Book Arts: Revolutionary Pamphlets and Zines | In-Person
In this hands-on class, you will learn to create dynamic booklets of your own, from the humble pamphlet to a single-sheet book to the French door zine. No prior zine-making experience is required.
Course | The Curators Toolkit: Up Close and Personal with the Collections of the Rosenbach, Stoneleigh, and du Pont Estates in the Brandywine River Valley | In-person
Do you love discovering fascinating stories from history? Have you ever wanted to get up close and personal with museum and library collection objects, including rare books, manuscripts, paintings, and decorative arts? If so, then let the Rosenbach become your laboratory for study.
Course | Jewish Liberty and the American Revolution with Paul Finkelman | In Person
Jewish activism before and during the American Revolution helped set the stage for the new United States’ Constitution. Paul Finkelman will discuss this important history of Jewish participation in the American Revolution.
Course | Restoration Shakespeare: Macbeth with Daniel Blank | In Person
We’ll examine how William Davenant’s departures from (and additions to) Shakespeare’s original text transformed the tragedy for new audiences—and what these changes reveal about the play’s afterlife.
Course | “Portrait of a Citizen: 250 Years of Stephen Girard in Philadelphia” with Alexander Ames | In Person
On the 250th anniversary of Girard’s arrival in Philadelphia, join the Rosenbach for an afternoon seminar focused on the Bass Otis portrait and the story of Girard’s decision to cast his lot with the young American republic.
Course | Book Arts: Intermediate Calligraphy and Bookmaking with Susan vonMedicus | In Person
In this two-part class (Sunday, September 7th and Sunday, September 14th), attendees will be immersed in the centuries-old traditions of calligraphy and bookbinding. Students will study lettering traditions from around the world, including the Uncial script found in the Book of Kells and other early Irish manuscripts, while exploring how calligraphy interacts with the book format and creating their own exciting compositions.
Course | Book Arts: Binding Community Cookbooks | In Person
In this hands-on bookmaking class, learn to craft your own card-keeper recipe book and exchange recipes (and the stories behind them) with your fellow attendees. You’ll leave with a feast’s worth of recipes to try and a whole new way to share the food that matters to you with the people who matter to you.
[SOLD OUT] Course | Book Arts: Revolutionary Pamphlets and Zines | In Person
In this hands-on class, you will learn to create dynamic booklets of your own, from the humble pamphlet to a single-sheet book to the French door zine. No prior zine-making experience is required.
[SOLD OUT] Course | Book Arts: Intro to Celtic Calligraphy | In Person
In this two-hour, immersive, hands-on workshop, distinguished local Irish American calligrapher and manuscript illuminator Susan Kelly vonMedicus will introduce you to Irish manuscript heritage and teach the Uncial script found in the Book of Kells and other early Irish manuscripts.
[ONE SEAT REMAINING] Course | Supreme Injustice: Slavery, The Constitution, and the U.S Supreme Court with Paul Finkelman | In Person
This engaging seminar, held in the Rosenbach’s historic house, will begin with a discussion of how slavery helped shape the Constitution, which ironically, was written in Pennsylvania–the first state in the nation and the first political jurisdiction in the Western World to take steps to end slavery.