The Delaware Division of the Arts is investing nearly $3 million in over 100 arts and community organizations serving Delawareans statewide.
“We’ve actually been relatively stable in funding for the past, I’d say five years, since about 2014. We got an increase in 2014 as part of an economic development initiative to help support jobs in the arts,” said
Delaware Division of the Arts director Paul Weagraff.
Weagraff says thousands of jobs in the arts throughout Delaware are supported by the funding and many cities and towns throughout the First State will benefit from this first round of grant money for Fiscal Year 2019.
“Ranging from the Grand Opera House and the Delaware Art Museum and Winterthur in northern Delaware, to the Rehoboth Art League, the Freeman Stage in Selbyville….southern Delaware, the Biggs Museum in Dover; these are all larger, professionally-run arts organizations,” said Weagraff.
The Delaware Division of the Arts awards grants throughout the year. They include Arts Access grants, Artist Residencies and Individual Artist Fellowships.
Full grant descriptions are available here. And a complete list of grants for first round of FY2019 can be found here.
Delaware Public Media' s arts coverage is made possible, in part, by support from theDelaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
