With great excitement, we welcome you to The Delaware Contemporary Museum (TDC) for our new exhibition series, “DESIGN.” During this season, running from September 6th through December 29, we invite you to explore a presentation that explores the rich intersections of art and design.
DESIGN features eight dynamic multidisciplinary exhibitions, showcasing over 40 works by 17 contemporary artists.

From painting and sculpture to lightwork and three-dimensional visuals, this series is a reflection of how contemporary art and design converge to reveal fresh perspectives on aesthetics, functionality, and meaning. We encourage you to immerse yourself in these innovative works and reflect on how design influences our perceptions and experiences in subtle and transformative ways.


 

ART+ NIGHTS
A Little Night Museum+ Tribute Concert

John Coley and his band are back with a tribute show that celebrates the music of the legendary Stevie Wonder! Enjoy the full band tribute show and intimate gallery tour experience.

Thursday, November 21
6 - 8 PM

 

PRINTMAKING STUDIO
Linoleum Block Holiday Cards

This class will introduce you to basic principles and techniques to linoleum block printmaking.

Saturday, November 30

12:30 PM - 4:30 PM

ART LOOP
First Friday and Holiday Market

Join us to celebrate the closing of our Fall season, DESIGN and our annual holiday market that will include over two dozen vendors to shop from.


Friday, December 6
5 - 9 PM

 

DRAWING STUDIO
Intro to Figure Drawing

Instructed by artist Michele Tilford, this class will introduce you to basic principles and techniques to successfully draw the figure.

Saturday, November 30

10 - 1 PM

 

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FALL 2024: DESIGN

Langdon Graves, How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon

DESIGN features eight dynamic multidisciplinary exhibitions, showcasing over 40 works by 17 contemporary artists. From painting and sculpture to lightwork and three-dimensional visuals, this series is a reflection of how contemporary art and design converge to reveal fresh perspectives on aesthetics, functionality, and meaning.


Calida Rawles, Platform Gallery


This season’s Platform Gallery installation, the eighth in the public project series, features three recently completed works by internationally recognized painter Calida Garcia Rawles that constellate her signature motifs. Born in Wilmington and based in Los Angeles, this is the artist’s first-ever exhibition in her hometown. Wilmington looms large in Rawles’ origin story. Known for poetic, ethereal renderings of Black figures suspended in water, the artist uses bodily gesture and soft yet vibrant colors to counter the ways in which Black subjects are rarely afforded innocence, rest, vulnerability, and leisure. Often dressed in solid-colored garments that fold and billow in response to water’s force and movement, her figures flourish in imperceptible moments of submersion and release. 

Curated by Tiffany Barber, TDC Curator-in-Residence


ArtSource@ Gallery
Auxiliary Exhibition

ArtSource@ Gallery is The Delaware Contemporary’s online artist registry and one of the many ways to support emerging and local artists. ArtSource@ Gallery is an exhibit of selected ArtSource artists’ work, all of which is available to view and purchase in the ArtSource@ gallery.

September 6 - October 27 Paula Cahill
November 1 -  December 29 Su Knoll Horty

Curated by Kasia Bunofsky