2025 Delaware Arts Summit

There are hotel rooms available at a discounted rate for Sunday night, October 26 and Monday night, October 27, for anyone who would like to stay in Wilmington.

Special group rate is $259/night (available Sunday and Monday nights). Discount cut off is September 26, 2025.

Reservations can be made by:

• Visiting their online reservation portal here.
• Calling the Reservation Department at (302) 594-3125 or (800) 441-9019 and asking for the Delaware Division of the Arts, Arts Summit special group rate.

Complimentary parking is available at two parking garages located nearby. Parking passes must be picked up at the Arts Summit registration table in order to leave the garages without payment.

Brandywine Gateway Garage (3 blocks away) 1301 North King Street, Wilmington, DE 19801

Customs House Garage/Doubletree Hotel (4 blocks away) 700 King Street, Wilmington, DE 19801

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.

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 14, 2025. Send your cancellation request to Dana Wise, Delaware Division of the Arts by e-mail: Dana.wise@delaware.gov.

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.

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