As you probably know, I am currently in the sixth year of my second term on the Board of Directors of The Delaware Contemporary (a/k/a The Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Inc. or TDC).  As someone who has always loved art (and was urged by my undergraduate art teachers to pursue art as a vocation), my career choice led me on a very right-brain path. As a young, single lawyer, I would take an art class on Wednesday night and found it incredibly rejuvenating -- I returned to work on Thursday reinvigorated.  Years later, as a TDC Board member, I read the results of a study by researchers at the University of Delaware who, partnering with TDC, found that elementary school students whose curriculum included art classes performed better on their core academic subjects. This spoke to me, because my personal experience supported that conclusion -- that exercising the left side of your brain actually stimulated the right brain, responsible for analytical thought.  Part of my reason for eschewing a career in the arts was my sense that my work product was not "perfect."  My experience with TDC has exposed me to works in a variety of mediums and has taught me that successful art is not about faithfully reproducing what you see - it is about expression, evoking a feeling or communicating an idea.  As a non-collecting museum, TDC (among other things):

And the best part - daily admission is FREE. Unfortunately, in this post-COVID world, corporate donors have channeled their funding towards causes that directly provide aid to people in need, ignoring the impact of art on society.  Please help me meet my goal and allow TDC to continue to keep TDC admission free and accessible to all by supporting our efforts during DoMore 24 on March 7 - 8.