Nearly 200 artists, arts and community-based organizations, and supporters gathered at the biennial Arts Summit held on Monday, October 30 at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino. Speakers included First Lady Tracey Quillen Carney, Lt. Governor Bethany Hall-Long, and Secretary of State, Jeffrey Bullock. View some of our video clips from the day's artistic performances above.
The Arts Summit, held every two years, brings together Delaware’s arts community to connect, learn, and get inspired. The speakers and sessions illuminated ways to create value and increase the impact of the arts to purposefully enhance well-being, understanding, learning, and creativity for all.
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Established Professional, Visual Arts: Sculpture
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Chad States’ recent installations use music, lights, video, and sculptural objects to create theatrical spaces where the viewer becomes an active participant. The work often explores issues of intimacy, sexuality, and community. States is planning to exhibit his work in Delaware in 2018.
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Emerging Professional, Visual Arts: Painting
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Terrance Vann’s work features characters and symbols painted in a distinctive style inspired by street art and surrealism that he calls “Afro-surrealism.” His current work focuses on the human experience of development and awareness, specifically as seen in the inner city. Vann will exhibit his work in the Mezzanine Gallery in March 2018.
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2017 Reception and Award Ceremony
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The Biggs Museum of American Art and CAMP Rehoboth worked in partnership to exhibit
Award Winners
in southern Delaware this year. Sixteen artists who received Fellowships from the Delaware Division of the Arts have work represented at CAMP Rehoboth. Visitors can expect to see visual arts from jewelry to paintings to photography, read excerpts from the writers, listen to musical selections, and watch dance. The show is on view through November 28, 2017.
The public is invited to the free reception on November 11 from 1-3 p.m. at CAMP Rehoboth to celebrate the collective accomplishments of this year’s Fellows. Several artists are scheduled to perform and read from their work during the event.
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Owing to Circumstances (detail),
mixed media, 2017
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Owing to Circumstances
will be on view in the Mezzanine Gallery from November 3-22, 2017. An opening reception to meet the artist will be held on Friday, November 3 from 5-7 p.m. Borders received a
2017 Emerging Fellowship in Sculpture.
Borders designed this installation specifically for the Mezzanine Gallery after multiple visits and meetings with staff. The exhibition was inspired by her own family’s immigration story and the stories from a previous installation in which Borders asked visitors to sit and write in a notebook about their family’s history and why they came to the United States. The artist transcribed these responses in the handwriting of each author into drawings that will be suspended from the ceiling in the Gallery. Visitors will have the opportunity to add their own family’s history to her notebook. With this work, Borders hopes to “stimulate conversations about where we have come from, our current places in this country, and in this world.”
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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.
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Re-Entry: A Performance Tribute to Veterans
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Re-Entry
is a project directed and choreographed by A. T. Moffett, the recipient of a 2017 Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship in Dance: Choreography. The free performance on November 10 at 7 p.m. at the baby Grand is the culmination of an interdisciplinary, arts-based research project involving veterans, dancers, educators, historians, therapists, and several art organizations.
The performance features original choreography and music, poetry, and oral history.
Moffett hopes “that both participants and audience members will gain a deeper understanding of the veteran experience and how we might better support those who serve in the re-entry process."
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Calling All Teen Artists & Writers
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Join the next generation of great American artists and writers by submitting your work to the 2018 Scholastic Awards. Since 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have recognized the vision, ingenuity, and talent of our nation’s youth, and provided opportunities for creative teens to be celebrated. The Delaware Art & Writing Region will recognize students with Honorable Mentions, Silver Key, Gold Key or American Visions & Voices (Best in Region).
Register now
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2018 Application for Solo/Group Exhibitions at the Hudson Contemporary
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The gallery can accommodate two- and three-dimensional works. Art from any discipline is welcome. Applications are due November 10, 2017 and will be reviewed by the Gallery Committee by November 15.
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Delaware Art Museum Needs your Help!
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The Delaware Art Museum is conducting a baseline survey around some of our program content planned for 2018. They could use your help collecting feedback from the communities you serve. Please take this brief 14-question survey and share with your contacts. The Museum will share the study's findings once completed.
Help now
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Artist Grant: USArtists International
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USArtists International supports performances by U.S. artists at important cultural festivals and arts marketplaces around the globe. Committed to the presence of U.S. based artists on world stages, USArtists International provides grants to ensembles and individual performers in dance, music and theatre invited to perform at significant international festivals and performing arts markets.
Apply by
December 1, 2017 for projects taking place between March 15, 2018 and March 14, 2019. Certification Sheets and letters of invitation due by December 8, 2017.
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Artist Residency: rolling deadline, submitted at least 6 weeks prior to start of scheduled residency
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The
Delaware Division of the Arts is an agency of the State of Delaware. Together with its advisory body, the Delaware State Arts Council, the Division administers grants and programs that support arts programming, educate the public, increase awareness of the arts, and integrate the arts into all facets of Delaware life. Funding for Division programs is provided by annual appropriations from the Delaware General Assembly and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. For more information about the Delaware Division of the Arts, visit
arts.delaware.gov or call
302-577-8278.
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Banner Image: 2017 Delaware Arts Summit held at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino
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