Delaware Centre for the Contemporary Arts in Wilmington, New Hanover County, United States | Art Museum | Arts Centre | Arts Center

Welcome to the Delaware Centre for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, United States. Founded in 1979 by a small volunteer group of artists and arts patrons, this Art Museum, the Delaware Centre for the Contemporary Arts (DCCA) made its focus the promotion of growth and understanding of the contemporary Arts in Delaware. It started in a former sheet-metal fabricating factory and moved several times, finally finding a permanent home in 2000. This location offered a 35,000-square-foot building and, once remodeled, opened with seven galleries, 26 on-site artist studios, an auditorium, a museum shop, a classroom and administrative office space.

The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts is a non-collecting Art Museum dedicated to the advancement of contemporary art. Our mission is to present exhibitions, offer exposure to the creative process, provide educational opportunities and extend innovative programs to a diverse community.

The Delaware Centre for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, currently presents nearly 30 exhibitions annually of regionally, nationally, and internationally recognized artists. In addition to the exhibitions, DCCA commits to educational and community outreach through various programmes, such as Artist Residencies with under-served community groups and Contemporary Connections, a model program that fuses art with schools’ core curriculum, offering fresh new ways to teach subjects such as maths and science. The DCCA has partnered in some way with more than 60 community groups and schools.