The Delaware Division of the Arts continues to showcase its 2023 Individual Artist Fellows.
The fellows are featured in the Award Winners XXIII exhibition. That opens August 10th at CAMP Rehoboth Community Center in Rehoboth Beach, while continuing its run at Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover.
Folk singer Mike Miller is among those highlighted. Miller, originally from Washington D.C., traveled quite a bit in his formative years before settling in Delaware. His work as a culturist, and the communities he shared, greatly influence his core values.
“So I was lucky enough to work with a lot of Lakota people, who would often have a foot in both worlds, right? They’d be working in what we call the mainstream, right, which is the economically-driven culture we all share, but many of them also had a foot in the traditional world, with traditional drums, traditional singing, traditional gatherings.”
Also among the artists highlighted is Charlese Phillips and her mixed media approach with fiber-and-painted works.
Charlese says that mixing different media complicates the creative process.
“I think the most painstaking part of my process is where I actually cut my portraits out of the canvas, with an Exacto knife and I’m like, holding my breath and I’m taking my time. I’m like, ‘I got one shot at this so I have to make it right.’”
The Award Winners XXIII exhibit runs at CAMP Rehoboth Community Center in Rehoboth Beach through September 8th and at the Biggs until September 24th. It will visit Cab Calloway School for the Arts in Wilmington in October and November.
