The Delaware Division of Arts has announced a $3 million distribution of grants to 115 community art organizations. They range from $1,300 to Wilmington Wintergrass Inc., which is an annual bluegrass festival, to $246,000 to the Delaware Art Museum. The museum will use the funding to support its exhibits, including the upcoming Pre-Raphaelite show “A Marriage of Arts & Crafts: …
Division of the Arts announces 2022 fellowship winners
A Kim Klabe work hangs in the Biggs Museum of American Art during the 2021 exhibition of state fellowship winners. A former Delaware poet laureate is among the winners of this year’s Delaware Division of the Arts fellowship winners. JoAnn Balingit, who was poet laureate from 2008-2015, won a $6,000 established professional award that she will use to help …
36 arts groups, 13 artists get chunk of Rescue Plan cash
The Grand was one of three arts groups to get $45,000 in American Rescue Plan money. The Delaware Division of the Arts has given 36 arts organizations and 13 artists grants from its $753,000 in American Rescue Plan Art money designed to secure jobs and support artists and nonprofit arts organizations. The grants ranged from $900 for an …
Delaware Arts Alliance head chosen to direct state arts division
Jessica Ball, the executive director of the Delaware Arts Alliance will become the new director of the Delaware Division of the Arts. Secretary of State Jeff Bullock announced Friday that she will take the office Nov. 29, 2021. Jessica Ball The Division of the Arts is actively involved in many aspects of arts, from small groups such as …