DelawareScene: Delaware Art Museum | "Citizen Artist" Curator Talk @ Lewes Public Library

Delaware Art Museum | "Citizen Artist" Curator Talk

Join Delaware Art Museum Head Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art Margaret Winslow and Lynn Herrick Sharp Curatorial Fellow Dorothy Fisher as they discuss the exhibition Citizen Artist, which meets a moment of national reflection with a celebration of artist workers in America. The show brings together artworks from the interconnected eras of New Deal programs like the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s and the lesser-known Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of the 1970s, alongside Citizen Photographer, a special installation that provides a platform for Delaware residents to consider and visually capture what it means to be a Delawarean as the nation marks its 250th anniversary. Citizen Artist is on display at DelArt from April 11 to July 19.

Margaret Winslow has brought a new focus to local art history and culture at DelArt since 2009. She curated the groundbreaking 2015 exhibition Dream Streets: Art in Wilmington 1970–1990. In 2018, Winslow led a city-wide effort to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Wilmington uprisings and commissioned Hank Willis Thomas’s Black Survival Guide, or How to Live Through a Police Riot.

Dorothy Fisher is a doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Delaware and has served as the Lynn Herrick Sharp Curatorial Fellow at DelArt since 2023. Her research involves the history of arts programs operated in unusual places—like the Space Race era Artist Cooperation Program operated by NASA, the subject of her dissertation.

Registration is required.

Image caption: Civilian Conservation Corps Camp, 1937. Jack Lewis (1912–2012). Gouache on paper, sheet: 9 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. Courtesy of the Rehoboth Beach Art League Fine Art Collection. © Artist or artist's estate.

Presented by Delaware Art Museum.

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