Delaware’s Individual Artist Fellowships recognize artists for their outstanding quality of work and provide monetary awards. Individual Artist Fellows are publicly acknowledged and benefit from the additional exposure to their work. Fellows are required to showcase their work in a public exhibition or performance, so we’ve set up a special section on DelawareScene.com for you to experience their work.
This year, the Division received work samples from 132 Delaware choreographers, composers, musicians, writers, folk and visual artists were reviewed by out-of-state arts professionals, considering demonstrated creativity and skill in their art form. The 25 selected fellows reside throughout Delaware including Dover, Georgetown, Hockessin, Lewes, Magnolia, Middletown, Newark, Smyrna, Townsend and Wilmington.
Each year, the Biggs Museum of American Art, in partnership with the Delaware Division of the Arts, exhibits the work of Delaware’s Artist Fellows at the Award Winners exhibition.
June 3 – July 23, 2022
Reception & Award Ceremony: June 3, 2022
5- 8 p.m. Award Ceremony starts promptly at 6:30 p.m.
August 1 – September 5, 2022
Reception: August 5, 2022 from 6 – 8 p.m.
October 7 – November 4, 2022*
Reception: October 7, 2022 from 6-8 p.m.
FY 2023 Individual Artist Fellowship applications will open in late Spring and be due Monday, August 1, 2022 by 11:59 p.m. *Dates may be subject to change
Lincoln
Literature: Poetry
“A few months ago, I heard someone say, ‘You have to know your why.’ And it seems I have found mine: keep learning, keep writing, pay it forward.”
Newark
Literature: Creative Nonfiction
“Although I write to please myself, in doing so I write for those out in the world who feel alone in their histories. My work is about how to forgive, how to heal, and thus belong.”
Georgetown
Visual Arts: Crafts
“I’m continuously excited about how a specific medium which is traditionally used in one genre can be expanded to a successful level in another.”
Townsend
Music: Contemporary Performance
“As a child, I was captivated with the poetry of Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss and the inherent ‘music’ that exists in their words.”
Wilmington
Literature: Playwriting
“All of my work seeks to give voice to the raw, dark truths of systematically disavowed characters and the personal and generational trauma that shapes them.”
Newark
Literature: Poetry
“That’s what’s great about poetry and art in general: there’s always more to learn, your craft is always evolving.”
Middletown
Visual Arts: Sculpture
“My love for the harmony of nature and the essence of wild birds in their natural habitat is revealed through abstract sculpture and oil painting.”
Wilmington
Jazz: Performance
“My prayer is to always use my gifts to shine an ever-bright light over the atmosphere and diffuse darkness.”
Newark
Visual Arts: Photography
“I have expanded the concept beyond the traditional [photographic] print. I am no longer limited by ‘what the object is.’”
Hockessin
Music: Solo Recital
“The arts have so much to do with sharing and storytelling. Listening and empathizing with the experiences of others is so critical to the creative flow of any artist.”
Wilmington
Visual Arts: Painting
“Through some magical process, the inevitable distortion from the act of observation makes its way to the truth.”
Wilmington
Literature: Creative Nonfiction
“As soon as I started writing, backwards was the only direction I could look.”
Magnolia
Visual Arts: Painting
“I feel I’m sharing a piece of my soul with another with my art, and it’s been the greatest gift I can offer.”
Wilmington
Literature: Fiction
“My characters are people who are either put in, pulled in, or drawn towards circumstances or situations in which they’ve very little to no control but ultimately have to figure out.”
Smyrna
Literature: Playwriting
“Theatre is a collaborative art, and a play truly lives when the director, actors, designers, crew and audience engage with the script.”
Wilmington
Visual Arts: Crafts
“I am drawn to the foolish, the eccentric, the extreme, to those characters who remind us, as Robert Burns did, that we might not see ourselves as others see us.”
Lewes
Literature: Poetry
“Poetry is so inclusive. I never know what might trigger the next poem.”
Wilmington
Visual Arts: Works on Paper
“I love painting, but with drawing . . . I fall in and get lost in the sheer joy of it.”
Dover
Folk Art: Visual Arts
“My work embodies those around me. I use my art to preserve and express the Laotian/Cambodian American narrative.”
Wilmington
Visual Arts: Photography
“I aim to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary, finding and sharing beauty in things we might walk past every day.”
The Division offers fellowships in the artistic disciplines of choreography, folk art, jazz, literature, media arts, music, and visual arts. Artists’ work samples are reviewed by nationally recognized out-of-state arts professionals, considering both demonstrated creativity and skill in the art form.
The awards—$3,000 for Emerging Artists, $6,000 for Established Professionals, and $10,000 for Masters—allow artists to pursue advanced training, purchase equipment and materials, or fulfill
other needs that will help advance their careers.
The highest honor—the Masters Fellow—is reserved for those who meet rigorous criteria. Only one Masters Fellow can be awarded each year. Disciplines rotate every three years.
During the fellowship year, recipients are required to showcase their work in a public exhibit or performance in Delaware
For more details about the Individual Artist Fellowship program, please visit our Grants for Artists page.
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