OUR SUN IS RISING — OUR SUN IS SETTING

A Group presentation of artists working and living in delaware

Juried by Dr. Morgan Joseph Hamilton and Sara Ganter

Gallery 1 | Max & Jay Rosenthal Gallery
August 7, 2026 - January 3, 2027

The Delaware Contemporary is participating in Delaware’s 250th anniversary with a group exhibition of Delaware-based artists. Our Sun Is Rising — Our Sun Is Setting is a balanced look at our place in a very complex Union. We are taught a story in which, shortly after signing the new Constitution in 1787, Benjamin Franklin asks George Washington if the carved half sun on his wooden chair was rising, or setting. For the new republic, if we could keep it, it was still uncertain.

Fifteen artists living and working in Delaware come together to tell a patchwork story of belonging, isolation, disenfranchisement, and power of the people. Each artist considers the apocryphal question, one we welcome you to answer, too.

Is the sun rising or setting on America?

This exhibition is a sibling to We WEre Always Here in Gallery 5. These two shows tell different parts of our shared story.

Contributing artists: RM Cimini, Chad Cortez Everett, Suzie Goodenough, Andy Gordon, Janice King, Jeff Komins, Blazo Kovacevic, Anna McDermott, Michael McSorely, itunu ogundipe, Maia Palmer, Khamari Smith, Brad Thompson, Caitlin Walls, John Yeatman, Jr., and Carson Zullinger

This exhibition was sponsored in part by the DE 250 Commission.