The Delaware Division of the Arts will have a new exhibit Friday that will highlight kitsch art in Mexico City. The organization’s mezzanine gallery will present 2024 Emerging Artist Fellow Julieta Zavala’s exhibition, “Mercado Kitsch México” from Sept. 6 to Sept. 27. It will include vibrant and eclecticart inspired by the rich visual and cultural heritage of kitsch art, a …
You may know Barry Schlecker as the guy who breathed life back into the Brandywine Festival of the Arts and the Rockwood Ice Cream Festival. But many people know him and his significant other, Ginger Weiss, as art lovers who focus on regional art and outsider art from across the country, with many pieces made by people who have …
Two young painters and a sculptor have been selected to participate in a new Delaware Division of the Arts career development program. Stephanie Boateng, a painter in New Castle County; Guy Miller, a sculptor in Kent County; and Hannah Whiddon, a painter in Sussex County, will receive two two years of sustained career support in the Artist Career Development program. …
An exhibit from the Tate Museum in London will travel to the Delaware Art Museum in October 2023. It’s a major get for the Wilmington institution, which will be the exhibit’s only stop in the United States. The Tate show “The Rossettis” will focus on the family of British Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and will feature several …
Sungmin Bobyak expected that painting a ladybug mural on a utility box near the Trolley Square fountain plaza would be a solitary experience. It wasn’t. Drivers honked and yelled compliments out of their windows as they drove by. People who were walking by stopped to talk, some thanking her profusely for creating the public artwork. “I thought I would go …
