Volunteers
The DCCA is grateful for the volunteers who offer their time and talents to support our programs. Volunteer help is needed in our offices, in the galleries and at special events. Training will be provided. Email info@thedcca.org
Artist Instructors
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:
veastburn@thedcca.org (preferred method)
OR
Victoria Eastburn, Curator of Education
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
200 South Madison Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
Current Teaching Positions Available:
Teaching Artist, Youth Studio Fundamentals
Teaching Artist, Contemporary Connections
Looking for a Workshop
... or a new art instructor?
Maybe you just want to know where all the upcoming gallery openings are. Check out our Artists’ Information Wall across from the ING DIRECT Kids Foundation Education Center and in front of the JPMorgan Chase Artists Studios.
Development Internship at the DCCA
We invite you to become part of a dedicated team that is preparing to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the DCCA. We are looking for a highly motivated, recent college graduate who can work with the Director of Development on database maintenance, development research and writing, special event coordination, and communication projects.
The DCCA staff is small and close knit. This is an opportunity to learn about varied aspects of museum operations; work on a meaningful project under the guidance of an experienced professional; and develop mentoring relationships with museum professionals who can advise and support.
Responsibilities may include research on individuals and companies, grant writing, entering information into the Raiser’s Edge database, assisting with the coordination of special events, communicating with potential special events participants/volunteers, and assisting with the Annual Fund campaign and Membership activities.
The focus of this internship will be supporting the ongoing operations of the Development Department. This is an opportunity to learn how a small non-profit art organization generates annual income to support its mission. Put your skills to work and develop new ones. Interns should be energetic, flexible, and well organized. He/she should be able to work independently as well as with a team, should be detail-oriented while keeping an eye on a larger goal, skilled in Word and Excel, and possess excellent writing and problem-solving skills.
This is an unpaid, 30 hour per week internship for a 3 or 6 month term and is potentially renewable.
Please send a letter of inquiry, resumé, brief writing sample, and the names of 3 references to:
Patricia Leach Krouse, Ph.D.
Director of Development
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
200 S. Madison St.
Wilmington, De 19801
If you prefer you may submit your application for this internship via email and attachments to: pleach@thedcca.org
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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.
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:
Victoria Eastburn, Curator of Education
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
200 South Madison Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
Applications are accepted on a year-round basis.
For more information, please contact veastburn@thedcca.org
CALL FOR ENTRIES
EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES
OPEN CALL FOR ARTIST MEMBERS’ SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Postmark deadline: June 30, 2009
Eligibility: Open to all DCCA artist members
Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts was created in 1979 by a group of artists who believed that a small industrial city on the East Coast could and should support contemporary art and artists.
In addition to its curated solo and group exhibitions, the DCCA remains committed to providing artist members with solo exhibition opportunities in its changing galleries. A non-collecting museum housed in an industrial building that was previously a railroad car factory and sited in the growing Riverfront area in Wilmington, the DCCA functions as a kunsthalle for temporary exhibitions. Hundreds of artist members have shown new bodies of work made specifically for their solo shows at the DCCA, site-specific installations, mini retrospectives, or selected works from specific periods of their careers.
The proverbial white cube at the DCCA lends itself to the varieties of artistic vision, experimentation, voice, discipline, 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, new art.
Application guidelines.
Join to become a DCCA artist or renew your artist membership
For questions, please contact Samantha Fruchtman, Curatorial Coordinator, at sfruchtman@thedcca.org or call (302) 656-6466 ext. 7112.
ARTISTS’ SUBMISSIONS
The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts accepts unsolicited portfolio material or exhibition proposals on a rolling basis throughout the year. Submissions are regularly 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.
For artist members, there are two opportunities each year for their works to be considered: the annual members’ juried exhibition (postmark deadline for which is around December 1st) and the open call for individual artist members’ solo exhibitions (postmark deadline for 2009 is June 30).
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