The HeART of Downtown Renaissance
By Ann Marie Miller, Director of Advocacy & Public Policy, ArtPride New Jersey What happens when you get five business leaders in a room filled with hungry learners who want to know the secrets to making their downtowns come alive? This was the scene at the recent New Jersey League of Municipalities Conference where ArtPride […]
Creative Art as a Tool for Community Revitalization
By Jim Simon, Deputy Director, Community Planning, Isles, Inc. What does your mind conjure when asked to visualize Trenton’s art scene? Public sculpture concentrated near the State House? Street-style art on abandoned buildings? While both examples can be found across the spectrum of art in Trenton, the reality is much more vibrant and diverse. Creative and […]
Make Your Voice Heard: Support the Arts – VOTE!
By Koren Rife, Marketing & Communications Manager, ArtPride New Jersey Elections are determined by those who make their voices heard, and with 13 seats up for election in New Jersey’s midterms, there’s a lot to be said. Moreover, there’s a lot at stake in the November 6 election. For example, influential arts supporter and chair […]
Never Stop Asking Questions
By Dan Swern, Producing Director and Co-Founder, coLAB Arts Five years ago, I put a personal and institutional moratorium on making theatre. coLAB Arts had a massive question that had been hanging in the air for the five years since the organization first started: Why do we exist? Why does there need to be another […]
What Is the Future of the Arts?
By Steve Runk, Director of Communications at Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University Chair of Thrive Conference Planning Committee Nearly 300 arts professionals from across New Jersey gathered at Princeton University’s Lewis Arts complex and McCarter Theatre Center on June 7 for the Thrive Arts Conference to explore that very question. Thrive is presented every […]
Celebrate All 48 Blocks of Atlantic City
By Joyce Hagen, Executive Director, Atlantic City Arts Foundation What is 48 Blocks Atlantic City? Atlantic City is fairly small as cities go. It stretches only 48 blocks from the inlet to neighboring Ventnor City. Tucked within those 48 blocks, in the shadows of towering casino-hotels, is a community of wonderfully diverse and creative residents. […]
Hey Bartender! Make Me a Creative Placemaker.
By Leonardo Vazquez, Executive Director, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking So by now, you may have heard of this thing called “creative placemaking,” and it’s got something to do with public art and making places better. That’s nice, but isn’t that what communities have been doing for a long time? Why are so many […]
Notes from NAMPC 2017
By Koren Rife, Marketing & Communications Manager, ArtPride New Jersey From November 11-13, 650+ arts marketers from across the country came together in Memphis, TN, to learn how the marketing strategies, tools and decisions of today will play a pivotal role in creating our field’s tomorrow. ArtPride New Jersey’s Web Content & Promotions Manager, Emily […]
2017 NJ League of Municipalities Conference
Join us at the NJ League of Municipalities Conference from November 13-16 at the Atlantic City Convention Center. ArtPride staff will share information on Art Matters, a co-sponsored project with the NJ State Council on the Arts, and first steps to create public art in towns throughout the state. Kelley Prevard, an artist from the […]
Portrait of a Partnership: Municipalities & the Arts
By Michael J. Darcy, CAE Executive Director, New Jersey State League of Municipalities The arts have brought of herd of painted oxen to the fields of Hopewell Valley, a mural to the wall of a city garden in New Brunswick, and Monet to Toms River — actually, a very realistic sculpture of the artist. Throughout […]
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