Exhibition Related, Free for Members Only

Citizen Artist Member Preview

The Delaware Art Museum invites you to celebrate an evening of art, music, community, artists and friends featuring three exhibitions. Take a walk through Citizen Artist, highlighting diverse artists workers in America from the 1930s Depression era programs of the New Deal to the CETA programs of the 1970s. Take in Photovoice in Orientation Hall documenting the experiences of refugees, immigrants, asylum seekers, and those closely connected to them through storytelling and photography, using the historic cyanotype process. Don’t miss Living Indigenous, created in partnership with the Nanticoke Indian Museum, showcasing the creative contributions of Indigenous artists living in and connected to the Delaware community. This is a free event for DelArt Members.

Top: Wilmington Parade (detail), 1976. Norma Diskau born 1942. Gelatin silver print, image: 6 5/8 × 10 inches, sheet: 10 7/8 × 14 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 2015. © Norma Diskau Calabro.

Organizers & Sponsors

Citizen Artist is supported by Delaware 250. This organization is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com. Photovoice is made possible through the generous support of the University of Delaware Wilmington Partnership Mini-Grant, the participants and staff of Jewish Family Services (JFS) Delaware, the Delaware Division of the Arts, the 2025 Paul J. Rickards, Jr. Teaching Innovation Grant, IT Academic Technology Services, and the Department of Art and Design at the University of Delaware. Special thanks to Jon Cox, Associate Professor of Art and Design and Polly Zavadivker, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Delaware; and Andy Bale, Lecturer in Art and Art History at Dickinson College.