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 Holiday arts and culture events abound in Delaware, including Nutcrackers, holiday art markets, holiday themed shows, concerts, films, and more. Visit the "Holiday Happenings" section of
DelawareScene.com
or download the
What's On
mobile application to get the latest updates.
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Tourism, Arts & Downtown Development
 Delmarva towns are working together to market their unique offerings on a collaborative marketing website called
Eat. Drink. Buy Art on Delmarva
. This website was developed by TADD - Tourism, Arts, Downtown Development - a network of 18 communities on Maryland's Eastern Shore and in Delaware. Participating Delaware towns are Dover, Middletown, Milford, Milton, Newark, and Rehoboth Beach. The website lists artists, art venues, restaurants, and events in these communities so that visitors can plan their trips to the area. There is also a new mobile app, a newsletter, and a radio show featuring artists, Delmarva Almanac, on WSCL and WSDL.
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Featured Delaware State Arts Council Member
Five new members were appointed to the Delaware State Arts Council this fall. We introduce them to you one per month in Arts E-News.
 Mary Ann Miller, a development specialist with Delaware Futures, was exposed to the arts as an adolescent, spurring her lifelong passion for the arts. With a degree in sociology and a minor in art, Miller served as proprietor of Charisma Gallery, a successful fine art gallery in Englewood NJ. She introduced an annual elementary school calendar contest for Fair Housing, which is still in existence and promoted by HUD, with a trip to Washington, DC to meet the President, as a prize to the winning students. Later Miller became executive director of the Art Center of Northern NJ, a fine art school focused on painting and drawing, photography, watercolor, and stone and wood sculpture.
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Meet the 2015 Artist Fellows
This month we introduce the last of Delaware's 2015 Individual Artist Fellows. If you missed any of them, please visit our
website
.
 Robert M. Bickey
Established Professional
Visual Arts: Sculpture
Wilmington
Sculptor Robert M. Bickey's work has been shown widely from Massachusetts to North Carolina. He is preparing for a solo show at the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym in 2016 and will be featured in the Division's Mezzanine Gallery in December 2015. Bickey is an arts instructor with experience teaching design, drawing, and sculpture.
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 December
The Delaware Division of the Arts Mezzanine Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Robert M. Bickey, a 2015 Artist Fellow in Sculpture, during the month of December. Bent will be on view from December 4, 2015 - January 22, 2016, with an opening reception on Friday, December 4 from 5-7 p.m.
Bickey will create a special installation of his work for the Mezzanine Gallery. Bickey's sculptures have been designed to ask questions of the audience about art and beauty, time and place, and what society deems as precious. He explains, "My work exploits the known and conditioned aspects of personal experience placed into a new and unfamiliar framework that functions as a way to explore and navigate our relationship to the art and, on a good day, the world around us."
November
The Mezzanine Gallery, open weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., is located in the Carvel State Office Building, 820 N. French Street, Wilmington.
Sign up
here
to receive Mezzanine Gallery email invitations for upcoming exhibits. The Gallery schedule of upcoming artists through August 2016 is available on our
website
.
Image: Robert M. Bickey, Gumball Mechanism (detail), 2015, steel, toys, glitter, light, vinyl,
5' x 3.5' x 2'
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New Grant Opportunity for Schools - TranspARTation Grants
The Delaware Division of the Arts is now accepting applications for TranspARTation Grants - a program developed to assist schools with transportation costs to attend arts and cultural events throughout the state. Schools may request funding to cover travel expenses to include buses, fuel, parking, and tolls associated with the trip. Applications are reviewed in the order they are received until all available funds have been awarded.
Click
here
for program guidelines and application form.
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2015 Delaware Arts Summit
Workshops, speakers, performances, and more than 200 participants filled a busy and engaging day at Dover Downs on October 26 for the 2015 Delaware Arts Summit. More photos of the event can be found on our
Flickr page
. Materials from workshop presenters can be found here, and videos of selected presentations will be coming soon on our YouTube Channel.
Here's what the media had to say:
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2015 Delaware Arts Summit
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Governor Jack A. Markell
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Opportunities (selected)
For more opportunities including grants, residencies, auditions, calls for artists, and jobs in the arts, visit the Division's website.
Upcoming Grant Deadlines
Ongoing Division Grant Deadlines
Calls for Artists
Professional Development Opportunities
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DelawareScene.com
Your source for arts and culture in Delaware. Browse by date, region, art form, free, family-friendly or special events. Event pages provide a description of the activity, dates/times, directions and links.
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What's On Mobile App
Go mobile with the What's On app, powered by Delaware Scene.com.
Search for "Delaware Whats On" in the App Store or Google Play, or visit apps.delaware.gov
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