Commission — Delaware Art Museum, 2025
Our Summit
A screen print commissioned by the Delaware Art Museum in 2025, with contributions from Art Bridges, created for the Painters Print commission — a project pairing Wilmington artists with community organizations whose vital work anchors the city.
As described by the museum
“For his print, Our Summit, Oscar references the visual legacies of artists Aaron Douglas and Jacob Lawrence to create an image representing the essential role libraries fulfill.”
Museum-reported description from the Delaware Art Museum’s Painters Print feature, April 2, 2025.
The Commission
Painters Print drew inspiration from the exhibition Marisol to Warhol: Printmaking and Creative Collaboration, celebrating printmaking’s accessibility and its capacity to promote public dialogue. Painters Oscar Eduardo de Paz, Cony Madariaga, and Alim Smith were each matched with a local organization to learn about its mission, then worked with printmakers Matao Dreskin and Erica Honson at The Soapbox Community Print Shop & Zine Library, where the prints were produced.
Oscar was paired with the Route 9 Library & Innovation Center in New Castle. The resulting print, Our Summit, amplifies the library’s role as a community anchor — and is now held in the museum’s permanent collection.
Object Details
- Artist
- Oscar Eduardo de Paz (born 1982)
- Date
- 2025
- Medium
- Screen print
- Dimensions
- Composition: 16 3/16 × 12 1/8 in. (41.1 × 30.8 cm); sheet: 18 5/16 × 14 1/8 in. (46.5 × 35.9 cm)
- Credit Line
- Commissioned by the Delaware Art Museum, with contributions from Art Bridges, 2025
- Object Number
- 2025-14
- Collection
- Delaware Art Museum