Recent Residency Projects

For over twenty years, 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 that are relevant to the participant’s lives.  The DCCA Visual Arts Residency Program has welcomed over 40 artists, collaborated with over 50 local community organizations, and brought art into the lives of hundreds of participants.  Visual Arts Residents are selected through a competitive, juried review process.  Each artist submits work samples, critical reviews, and a proposal for art they will create with a Wilmington community group. Proposals are judged by the strength and innovation of th pdfs e artists’ work, the artists’ experience with community work, and the impact the project will have on the Wilmington community.

The DCCA Art & Community Visual Arts Residency Program is made possible, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency committed to promoting and supporting the arts in Delaware, and by grants from Bank of America, the Gilliam Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, and the Wilmington Flower Market.  Special thanks to The Buccini/Pollin Group for their support of the Market Box Project.

Current AIR Project
Carlos Ferguson Spring 2010



Visiting artist Carlos Ferguson of Tiny Circus will work with a group of underserved middle school youth (ages 10 – 12) from the Greater Newark Boys & Girls Club in Newark, DE on an animation entitled The History of Ice. Students, along with Boys & Girls club staff Desiree Brady and April Thorpe, will meet 6 – 8 hours per week for eight weeks to work on this collaborative animation project.

The culmination of the work will be a stop-motion animation film presented to the public during the Art & Community Picnic and Outdoor Video Screening Friday, May 7, 2010 from 5 – 9 pm. The videos created during the residency and Free Family Program, Animation Station will be screened at sunset on a solar-powered rear projection screen attached to Carlos Ferguson’s rebuilt vintage Airstream Trailer.

View animation shorts by Tiny Circus.