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The Arts Summit brings together Delaware’s arts community to connect, learn, and get inspired. The speakers and sessions will illuminate ways to create value and increase the impact of the arts to purposefully enhance well-being, understanding, learning, and creativity for all.

Keynote Speaker

Liz Lerman

Liz Lerman

Hiking the Horizontal Trans-Disciplinary Practices for Tackling Questions Big and Small

What roles can art have in fields as diverse as faith, aging, particle physics, war-time medicine, and human rights law? What happens to our various fields of study and action when we collaborate across disciplines and domains? How does sharing these ideas sustain inquiry, innovation, and the emergence of new knowledge? In this talk, MacArthur Fellow, choreographer, performer, writer, and educator Liz Lerman will tackle these questions, as she has over decades of dance-making about urgent real-life issues.

Workshop Leaders

Carol E. Barnett

 

Kelly Barsdate

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Sheri Wilensky Burke

Randi Korn

Chris McLeod

Jennie Smith-Peers

Artist Bios

Fearless Improv

Delaware Choral Society

 

2017 Arts Summit keynote speakers and workshop leaders are sponsored, in part, by the Delaware Department of State. The Department of State strives to improve public access to arts and history and improve the quality and increase the use of historic, recreational and cultural assets that make Delaware an attractive place to live, work and visit.