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Students’ Mock Continental Congress Coming to Delaware

Delaware Heritage Commission | Delaware Public Archives | Date Posted: Wednesday, May 28, 2025

DOVER, Del. – Delaware 250 has announced that middle and high school students across Delaware will have the opportunity this June to take part in a Mock Continental Congress, inspired by the Second Continental Congress that convened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1776. On Friday, June 6, fifty middle and high school students […]




Applications for Delaware Community Investment Venture Fund Now Open

Department of State | State Bank Commissioner | Date Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2025

The Delaware Council on Banking has announced that it has started accepting applications for the Delaware Community Investment Venture Fund (DCIVF). The DCIVF provides funding opportunities for banking organizations, credit unions, and Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) doing business in Delaware to better serve the needs of low- to moderate-income census tracts within the state. […]




Award Winners XXV: Celebrating 25 Years of Honoring Delaware Individual Artists with The Biggs Museum of American Art

Delaware Division of the Arts | Department of State | Kent County | Newsroom | Date Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Special event to honor 21 individual artists to be held May 15   Dover, Del. (May 2, 2025) – The Biggs Museum of American Art proudly presents Award Winners XXV, a milestone exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of showcasing the Delaware Division of the Arts’ Individual Artist Fellowship recipients. The exhibition opens May 15 and […]




First State Food System Program Opens Fourth Grant Application Cycle

Small Business | Date Posted: Monday, May 5, 2025

The Delaware Division of Small Business (DSB) and the Delaware Council on Farm & Food Policy (Council) announced that DSB began accepting grant applications for Cycle 4 of the First State Food System Program on May 5, 2025.




The Mezzanine Gallery Presents Shefon Taylor’s “The Fragment Holds More Than the Whole”

Delaware Division of the Arts | Department of State | Mezzanine Gallery | New Castle County | Newsroom | Date Posted: Thursday, May 1, 2025

In The Fragment Holds More Than the Whole, Taylor uses found vintage magazine and book imagery, tracing paper, and thread to reframe our understanding of archives, memory, and identity. Rather than seeking to reconstruct or restore wholeness, Taylor’s work engages the fragment as a dynamic site of presence and possibility. Each piece becomes an act of negotiation—inviting viewers to confront the spaces between what is seen and unseen, remembered and forgotten, complete and incomplete.







  Category: Department of State

Students’ Mock Continental Congress Coming to Delaware

Delaware Heritage Commission | Delaware Public Archives | Date Posted: Wednesday, May 28, 2025

DOVER, Del. – Delaware 250 has announced that middle and high school students across Delaware will have the opportunity this June to take part in a Mock Continental Congress, inspired by the Second Continental Congress that convened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1776. On Friday, June 6, fifty middle and high school students […]




Applications for Delaware Community Investment Venture Fund Now Open

Department of State | State Bank Commissioner | Date Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2025

The Delaware Council on Banking has announced that it has started accepting applications for the Delaware Community Investment Venture Fund (DCIVF). The DCIVF provides funding opportunities for banking organizations, credit unions, and Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) doing business in Delaware to better serve the needs of low- to moderate-income census tracts within the state. […]




Award Winners XXV: Celebrating 25 Years of Honoring Delaware Individual Artists with The Biggs Museum of American Art

Delaware Division of the Arts | Department of State | Kent County | Newsroom | Date Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Special event to honor 21 individual artists to be held May 15   Dover, Del. (May 2, 2025) – The Biggs Museum of American Art proudly presents Award Winners XXV, a milestone exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of showcasing the Delaware Division of the Arts’ Individual Artist Fellowship recipients. The exhibition opens May 15 and […]




First State Food System Program Opens Fourth Grant Application Cycle

Small Business | Date Posted: Monday, May 5, 2025

The Delaware Division of Small Business (DSB) and the Delaware Council on Farm & Food Policy (Council) announced that DSB began accepting grant applications for Cycle 4 of the First State Food System Program on May 5, 2025.




The Mezzanine Gallery Presents Shefon Taylor’s “The Fragment Holds More Than the Whole”

Delaware Division of the Arts | Department of State | Mezzanine Gallery | New Castle County | Newsroom | Date Posted: Thursday, May 1, 2025

In The Fragment Holds More Than the Whole, Taylor uses found vintage magazine and book imagery, tracing paper, and thread to reframe our understanding of archives, memory, and identity. Rather than seeking to reconstruct or restore wholeness, Taylor’s work engages the fragment as a dynamic site of presence and possibility. Each piece becomes an act of negotiation—inviting viewers to confront the spaces between what is seen and unseen, remembered and forgotten, complete and incomplete.