Title: Executive Director
Workplace: Delaware Arts Alliance
Alma Mater: University of Delaware
Boards: Delaware Hispanic Commission, Delaware Community Foundation Youth Philanthropy Board
What’s something interesting about you that isn’t on your resume? “You’ll catch me on stage performing occasionally.”
Neil Kirschling took over in 2022 as executive director of the Delaware Arts Alliance, a statewide nonprofit advocacy organization that develops sector-wide strategies to advance arts and culture. He brought his experience from Rodel, where he helped shape education policy research, to the DAA. One of his first major tasks was creating Delaware’s Creative Economy and Cultural Tourism Recovery and Growth Plan, a roadmap for the necessary policy changes and investments required to grow and sustain the creative sector that includes arts nonprofits, for-profit businesses, and individual artists. The plan outlines a $3.7 billion economic impact in Delaware, but also sets up a roadmap on how to reduce barriers to help the state’s arts community thrive.
