Artist Opportunities

ARTISTS' SUBMISSIONS AND EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES

For artist members, there are two opportunities each year for their works to be considered: the annual members’ juried group exhibition and the open call for individual artist members’ solo and group exhibitions. The DCCA has artist members from across the United States. To join the DCCA, please click here. Please contact the curatorial department if you have questions about current deadlines and opportunities: call 302-656-6466 x7112 or email: dccamail@thedcca.org.

The selected works for the annual members’ juried exhibition are juried by an invited outside juror. Past jurors have included, among others, Eleanor Heartney, Kristin Hileman, Ann Landi, Richard Torchia, Darci Alexander, and Roberta Fallon. The members’ open call exhibition opportunity is determined by an annually changing panel of artist members who have had exhibitions at the DCCA, artist board members, the DCCA director, and the curatorial staff. Out of this process artists are chosen for one-person and thematic group exhibitions at the DCCA.

The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts also accepts unsolicited portfolio material or exhibition proposals by non-members on a rolling basis throughout the year. Submissions are reviewed and artists whose works might be considered for exhibition opportunities will be contacted. CDs with jpeg images, DVDs, photographic reproductions, artist statements, résumés, and exhibition catalogues or announcements are welcome. Please do not send slides, videotapes, or original artwork. Due to the volume of submissions, we do not acknowledge receipt of, or return, materials.

Guidelines for all applications: The DCCA looks for artwork created within the last 4 years. The DCCA does not mount retrospective exhibitions. The DCCA does not give one-person exhibitions to artists who already have had one-person exhibitions at the DCCA within the last four years. The DCCA does not exhibit work that was already shown at the DCCA in a previous group or one-person show. The DCCA is highly focused on varieties of artistic vision and experimentation and presents work by emerging, mid-career, and established artists.

OPEN CALL FOR 2012 ANNUAL MEMBERS’ JURIED EXHIBITION

June 15th - September 16th, 2012, Carole Bieber and Marc Ham Gallery

Guest Curator Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Julien Robson relocated to Philadelphia in 2008 after eight years in Louisville, Kentucky where he was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum and Adjunct Professor at the University of Louisville. A native of Scotland, Robson initially trained as an artist before taking up curatorial positions at the University of Sussex and, subsequently, the University of Southampton, England. During the 1990s Robson lived in Austria, working in the commercial gallery sector in Vienna, and in 1998 he spent six months as Guest Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The proverbial white cube at the DCCA lends itself to the varieties of artistic vision, experimentation, engagement, and impetus from emerging, mid-career, and established artists.

Artists working in all media are encouraged to apply for the opportunity to contribute to the DCCA efforts towards a widened, deepened, and strengthened forum for new ideas and new art.

Download PDF Submission Guidelines here.

Postmark deadline: Friday, April 13, 2012

If you have questions, please contact J. Gordon, Curatorial Assistant, at jgordon@thedcca.org or 302.656.6466 ext. 7112.

Posted: February 13, 2012

ARTIST INSTRUCTORS

The DCCA seeks Teaching Artists for various programs. Responsibilities vary depending on the program. They include but are not limited to; curriculum development and implementation, supply purchasing, overseeing volunteers and assistant teachers, set-up and clean up, and maintaining a safe and creative studio environment. If you are interested in participating as an instructor in one of DCCA’s programs, please send a letter of interest and resume that indicates training and teaching experience along with three references to: jchesson@thedcca.org (preferred method) OR Jane Chesson, Curator of Education, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, 200 South Madison St., Wilmington, DE 19801

Types of Programs:

• Family Programs

• Hands-On Art Activities

• Summer Arts Camps

• Teen Workshops

• Outreach Programs

• Children’s Art Classes

View full PDF here.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Funded Residency / Art & Community Visual Arts Residency Program

Spring 2012 AIR Call Application Coming Soon!

The DCCA Visual Arts Residency Program has forged relationships between nationally recognized artists and the Wilmington community-- providing innovative artists with the opportunity to develop professionally and to collaborate with under-served community groups to create unique works of art.

For more information please contact Jane Chesson,Curator of Education at jchesson@thedcca.org.

302-656-6466 x7106

Learn More about DCCA's Artist in Residence Programs

CONTEMPORARY CONNECTIONS
Contemporary Connections is a school-based program in which DCCA pairs a professional artist with a classroom teacher. This team, together with a DCCA representative, designs a curriculum in which the arts are integrated into core curriculum subjects. The main goal of Contemporary Connections is for students to understand the intellectual and cultural heritage of the arts and to see how this relates to contemporary society, their studies, and their lives. This program also develops teachers’ skills that enable them to use arts integration as a powerful teaching tool in core curriculum subjects is also a key aspect of the program. Applications are accepted on a year-round basis. For more information, please contact jchesson@thedcca.org

If you are an artist and interested in participating in this program, please send work samples along with a resume that indicates teaching experience to:

Jane Chesson, Curator of Education
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
200 South Madison Street
Wilmington, DE 19801

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