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Delaware

Facts and Figures

In the past five years, the National Endowment for the Arts distributed $10,382,688 in federal funding, either directly or through state and regional partners, in Delaware.

In the most recent information (2023) from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), which is produced jointly by the National Endowment for the Arts’ Office of Research & Analysis and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Commerce Department, Delaware...

  • Added 1.2 percent or $1.1 billion to the state economy from arts and cultural production
  • Employed 10,156 workers in the arts and cultural industries, with workers earning wages and benefits totaling $700 million

More than 45 percent of Delaware’s adults attended live music, theater, or dance performances, while more than 14 percent attended art exhibits, according to the 2022 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, conducted in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau.

In addition to offering direct grants, the NEA supports national initiatives benefiting people across the country. Over the last five years:

The Blue Star Museums program provided free admission to thousands of active military personnel and their families at 32 participating museums in Delaware.

More than 1,471 students from 48 high schools in Delaware participated in Poetry Out Loud.

The NEA Big Read program generated community events focused on reading outstanding American literature and involving more than 1,602 adults and students in Delaware.

The Shakespeare in American Communities program in Delaware enabled schools to offer 46 children the opportunity to see live professional performances of Shakespeare, or to engage in educational programs


Delaware Fact Sheet

On this page, find information on the arts and culture for Delaware, and how the National Endowment for the Arts has supported the arts in communities throughout the state. 

To find a list of grants awarded by the agency to Delaware, go to our Recent Grant Search. 

State Highlights

a photograph of an antique map shows the progress in the women's suffrage movement
Grant Spotlight: Celebrating Women's Suffrage at Brandywine River Museum of Art
Apr 17, 2020
A talk with curator Amanda Burdan of Brandywine River Museum of Arts about the women's suffrage movement and figures such as Alice Dunbar Nelson, whose papers are at the University of Delaware.
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Faces of two african american male twins
Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills
Feb 18, 2016
Poets and social workers, the twins’ primary audience have been Wilmington’s underserved children.
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State & Regional Contacts

Delaware Division of the Arts 
State Office Building
820 North French Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
302/577-8278 (from New Castle County)
302/739-5304 (from Kent or Sussex Counties)
TT/Relay: 1-800-232-5460
delarts@state.de.us

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (Regional Arts Organization)
201 North Charles Street, #401
Baltimore, MD 21202
410/539-6656
TT: 410/539-4241
maaf@midatlanticarts.org 

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