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2018 Individual Artist Fellowship Applications Due August 1
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The Fiscal Year 2018 Individual Artist Fellowship Application deadline is August 1, 2017 by 4:30 p.m. This year’s Masters category is Dance, Jazz, or Music. The guidelines with links to the eGrant application and work sample preparation guide are available
here.
Please be sure to read the guidelines completely and note the requirements for file uploads. Audio and video file sizes have increased this year! Applicants should not include their names in work samples, artist statements, or file names to maintain anonymity.
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Webinar for New Applicants -
Now Available!
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Arts & Economic Prosperity 5
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Delaware’s arts and culture industry generates $149.9 million in annual economic activity by supporting 4,062 full-time equivalent jobs and generating $10.5 million in local and state government revenues, according to the latest Arts & Economic Prosperity 5.
Learn more
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The General Assembly approved the FY2018 operating budget on Sunday, July 2. While the Delaware Division of the Arts received a $70,000 reduction in funding for grants, this represents less of a decrease than some proposals that were considered during a challenging budgeting process. The Delaware Arts Alliance (DAA) continues to speak up on behalf of the arts and the role they play in enriching lives through education, downtown development, employment, and producing a positive return on investment. Learn how you can join the DAA, as they turn their focus to federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more
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Save the Date!
The 2017 Delaware Arts Summit will be held on Monday, October 30 at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino.
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Now Open - NextFab Wilmington
NextFab's third makerspace location is in the heart of the Creative District at 503 Tatnall St. The space opened back in June.
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Phillip Bannowsky, a poet and educator, is at work on “Jacobo the Turko”, a cycle of related poems that shift between persona poems, dramatic scenes, rap, job notices, found poems, Spenserian stanzas, government contracts, and flash fiction.
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Jennifer Borders is a visual artist who works primarily in sculpture installation. In her recent work, she seeks to engage people through emotion and memory and to interact with elements of the installation.
Read more
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Image: Douglas Lake II, 2016,
digital photograph, 20” x 30”
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Divisions Upon a Ground, an exhibition of photography by Elisabeth Bard, will be on view in the Mezzanine Gallery from July 7-28, 2017. The title, inspired by Renaissance music, refers to elaborations and enrichments on a simple theme.
In this body of work, Bard uses a technique that involves long exposures and movement to achieve flowing, ephemeral landscape images. She likens the process to painting with light on a sensor where rhythmic and dancing textures are created by the camera’s motion and long exposure. Bard sets up the composition in the camera on location and continues the “painting” in the development phase. Her goal is to capture images that provide the viewer an impression of time and space.
Plan your visit
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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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“Fundamental Not Ornamental 3” Summer Institute is right around the corner!
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Sponsored jointly by the Delaware Department of Education and the Division of the Arts, this statewide summer professional development opportunity convenes arts educators from schools, organizations, as well as, teaching artists for two days of engagement in how to implement the new national arts standards. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. RSVP is necessary for the food count. Please select your two-day session below.
Now in its third year,
“Fundamental Not Ornamental 3" participants will:
- Engage arts educators in development and teaching higher order thinking questioning techniques
- Collaborate to develop lessons based on the new standards
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New Castle County
Kathleen H. Wilbur Elementary School, 4050 Wrangle Hill Road, Bear, DE 19701
Wednesday & Thursday, July 12-13
8 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. both days
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Kent/Sussex Counties
Milford Central Academy, 1021 N. Walnut Street, Milford, DE 19963-1298
Wednesday & Thursday, July 19-20
8 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. both days
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10th Annual Lewes Creative Writers' Conference - Saturday, August 19
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Nationally and internationally known writers, including nature writer Lisa Couturier and poet Gerry LaFemina, will lead open sessions and small workshops in poetry, novel, short stories, flash fiction, memoir, and personal essay. Lunchtime Chats will include readings by 2017 Delaware Division of the Arts Fellows in Literature. The evening before the Conference on Friday, August 18 at 5 p.m., the library will host readings by workshop leaders. Free registration.
Register now
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Artist Opportunity: deadline 10/1/17, for activities happening between 11/15/17-2/15/18
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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