The Delaware Division of the Arts recently hosted the15th annual Delaware State Employee Art Exhibition in the arts center and gallery at Delaware State University, Dover.

Nearly 220 state employees and their family members submitted artwork and competed for awards. 

In the professional category, a first-place prize and $350 were awarded to Rick Burrow of Dover for his painting, “Vacuum Row.” Burrow is the father of Becca Frankum, an art teacher at Sussex Academy.