Mark your calendars for our inaugural Art on Tap Fest!! Thursday, May 2nd from 6-8pm at Big Chill Beach Club. Your favorite breweries and their artists will be competing in a Beer & Art collaboration for YOU to vote on!

We’ll have a DIY station set up so you can make your own bottle opener. Our DAC artists will also be competing to see who can make the coolest growler. Lots of fun and beer to be had!!

Coming together for the sake of art is easy, but the journey getting there is filled with bumps and turns. In the beginning, the DAC was a small group of artists creating art and making opportunities to connect the community with it. Through Pop-up Galleries in breweries and restaurants, as well as partnering with other organizations and businesses to enhance their events, our humble little organization was dedicated to getting our name out there without much of a interest in what the future could hold. In May of 2017, the reality that this little monster was something bigger than we could ever have imagined suddenly occurred to us. Though finding a brick and mortar home wasn’t on the agenda, our dream home found us which evolved us into our next chapter.

When the air grew cold and the tourists left, Amanda Pace, Leah Beach, and Jason Wilson owner of Alley Oop Skim brought together 18 artists on Black Friday and Small Business Saturday in the Starboard parking lot for the Dewey Sip and Shop. In three weeks they pulled together the logistics, some awesome breweries, and an inspired group of artists. They took the biggest gamble so far; Will our community support local artists? They did. With overwhelming success, which happened again at Dewey Sip and Shop 2016. They embraced these artists and showed us we have artists hungry for opportunity and a community ready to embrace them.