Why Giving Matters

The Delaware Art Museum offers a robust schedule of major exhibitions, which this year includes The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Garry KnoxBennett: Call Me Chairmaker, and Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks. The Museum also presents a dazzling array of programs, including studio art classes, teacher workshops, and Glory of Stories for children. In addition, we conserve and preserve our collection of over 12,000 works, we make our library and archival collections available to scholars, and we partner with dozens of community organizations.

To help us maintain this kind of activity, your generous support is more essential than ever. Your contributions enable us to bring people together with art, to encourage creative renewal and innovative thinking, and to preserve the treasures of the past for the generations of the future.

Fortunately, we continue to enjoy a tremendous outpouring of support from our surrounding community. The Delaware Art Museum is rapidly becoming a favorite destination for people of all ages.  Here are some of the accomplishments our donors have helped us achieve:

• In 2007, the Museum provided educational and public programs for 13,715 young people and students, an increase of 208% from those served in 2006. 

• The success of Glory of Stories, the Museum’s weekly program for preschoolers and their parents or caregivers, led to the addition of more sessions and a separate track for home-schoolers.

• Since moving into our expanded home in 2005, the Museum has partnered with over 50 community organizations on more than 80 different programs.

• Last year, we partnered with a group of labyrinth aficionados, who worked with Museum personnel to create a popular labyrinth in our beautiful stone reservoir.

• Over 80 scholarships have been awarded since the Museum created the Red Apple Fund.

• The Museum sought and secured major corporate funding that enables us to open our doors free of charge every Sunday.