2023 Delaware Arts Summit

Our Creative Collective
Reflection, Renewal, and Rejuvenation are goals for this year’s Arts Summit as we move beyond the challenges of the past several years. The Summit will provide time, sessions, and experiences designed to make us stronger individually and as organizations by promoting mindfulness, stress reduction, better internal and external communications, and methods to manage uncertainty. Let’s come together to unify and strengthen our creative collective, because the stronger we are, the greater our impact!
About The Summit
Do you work in arts administration or arts programming? Are you an artist, arts patron, or arts educator? Do you volunteer at an arts organization? If you’re interested in the arts, then you belong at the Delaware Arts Summit!
The Arts Summit brings Delaware’s arts community together for a day of speakers, workshops, performances, and networking opportunities, and timely conversations about the future of the arts.
Event Details
October 8-9, 2023
Hyatt Place Dewey Beach
1301 Coastal Hwy
Dewey Beach, DE 19971
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Accommodations
There are two hotels available for guests looking to stay on Sunday or Monday evenings.
The Hyatt Place Dewey Beach
1301 Coastal Hwy, Dewey Beach, DE 19971
Sunday (10/8): $159/night
Monday (10/9): $129/night
The cut-off date to book rooms is September 15th, 2023. After that date, the group rate is not guaranteed.
Book online here(Opens in a new window.) or by calling 1-855-556-1297 and ask for the Delaware Division of the Arts rate (the group code is G-DDAR)
The Gold Leaf Hotel of Dewey Beach
1400 Coastal Hwy, Dewey Beach, DE 19971
Sunday (10/8): $149/night
Monday (10/9): $79/night
The cut-off date to book rooms is September 8th, 2023. After that date, the group rate is not guaranteed.
Book by calling 302-226-1100 and ask for the Delaware Division of the Arts rate.
Parking
Parking can be found immediately under or next to the Hyatt Dewey Place. Attendees may also park in the parking lot of the restaurant next door.
Who should attend?
Anyone working in, or interested in, the arts should attend! This includes artists; organization staff, board and volunteers; community leaders; program planners, educators; local and state officials; and arts patrons.
Cancellations
Your registration fee will be refunded if you notify the Delaware Division of the Arts in writing of your cancellation. Notice must be received by 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 3, 2025. Send your cancellation request to Dana Wise, Delaware Division of the Arts by e-mail: Dana.wise@delaware.gov.
Sponsors
The Arts Summit is produced and sponsored by the Delaware Department of State and the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency committed to cultivating and supporting the arts in Delaware. This event is also made possible, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
Photo/Video Policy
I hereby grant the State of Delaware, Department of State, Delaware Division of the Arts (collectively the “Division”) the complete and irrevocable right and permission to use photographs, pictures, portraits, images, or likeness (“photographs”), my first name and/or video or audio recordings (“recordings”), including any reproduction, of me on the Division website and other websites, the Internet and in publications, promotional flyers, educational materials, derivative works, or for any other similar purpose determined by the Division without any compensation to me or my heirs, assigns, personal representatives, beneficiaries or family.
I understand and agree that such photographs, first name and/or recordings of me may be placed on the Internet and in publications. I also understand and agree that I may be identified by first name in printed, Internet or broadcast information that might accompany the photographs and/or recordings of me. I waive the right to approve any final product prepared or used by the Division, the State of Delaware or the Department of State. I agree that all such portraits, pictures, photographs, video and audio recordings, and any reproductions thereof, and all plates, negatives, recording tape and digital files are and shall remain the property of the Division.
I hereby release, acquit and forever discharge the State of Delaware, Department of State, the Division of the Arts and their current, former, and future trustees, agents, officers, directors and employees of the above-named entities from any and all claims, demands, rights, promises, damages and liabilities arising out of or in connection with, directly or indirectly, the use or distribution of said photographs, first name and/or recordings, including but not limited to any claims for invasion of privacy, appropriation of likeness or defamation. I agree that this form remains in effect until revoked by me or parent or guardian in writing to the Division.
I hereby represent that I am eighteen (18) years old or more and competent to contract in my own name or, if I am less than eighteen (18) years old, that my parent or guardian has signed this form below. This form is binding on me and my heirs, assigns, personal representatives, beneficiaries or family
Event Schedule: Monday October 9
8:45 am
Registration and Breakfast
9:30 am
Welcome Remarks
9:50 am
Performance by TAHIRA with Darnell Miller
10:30 – 11:45 am
Concurrent Workshops
- The Art of Stress Transformation, Dori Kelner
- Relationship Building as Praxis; one conversation at a time, Rebecca Mwase
- How to Tell Arts Stories that Resonate Widely, Patricia Rivera
- Managing Uncertainty, Benjamin Wagner
11:45 – 12:45 pm
Lunch, Remarks
- Lt. Governor Bethany Hall-Long
- Secretary of State Jeff Bullock
Performance by IVA with Geoff Bennington
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Keynote Address: The Village Potter
by Roberto Lugo
1:45 – 3:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- The Art of Stress Transformation, Dori Kelner
- Relationship Building as Praxis; one conversation at a time, Rebecca Mwase
- How to Tell Arts Stories that Resonate Widely, Patricia Rivera
- Managing Uncertainty, Benjamin Wagner
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Networking Reception: Mix and mingle on the outside patio overlook the bay.
