Arts

Fundholder Favorite: ArtsPower in Cedar Grove

Fundholders at the Community Foundation of New Jersey support effective nonprofit organizations up and down our state. Over the next month, we’ll be sharing some of our fundholders’ favorite programs. As the season of giving approaches, we hope these short profiles inspire you to support new and worthwhile programs in New Jersey communities.…

Students learn through art and reading at Philadelphia Museum of Art

July 25, 2016 On July 14th, twenty-three Head Start students from Center For Family Services experienced a culturally and intellectually stimulating field trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art thanks to a grant made possible by the Field Trip New Jersey Fund, a new fund and pilot program designed to support opportunities for students in underserved communities to experience field trips.…

Millville Students Tour Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts

June 1, 2016 The Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, the focal point of the City of Millville’s Glasstown Arts District, hosts a number of exhibits and cultural presenters. The learning is experiential with students creating origami with artist Carol Nagao, making Italian lace under the direction of Cesarina Croce, and participating in a multicultural presentation by storyteller Kathryn Ross.…

Millville Students Learn to Make Beads, Glass

May 25, 2016 Fourth grade students from R.D. Wood School in Millville last week visited the Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center where they learned to make beads out of paper, observed the creation of vessels and art objects made from molten glass, and toured the Museum of American Glass.…

Poetry Slam Inspires Newark Students to Perform

May 25, 2016 Students at Barringer STEAM Academy recently experienced something many had heard of, but none had personally seen – a poetry slam. Produced by students at William Paterson University, with the support of a professional company, the slam inspired the Barringer students liked they couldn’t have imagined.…

Newark Elementary Students Gain Appreciation for Art

May 23, 2016 Students from Ivy Hill Elementary School in Newark learned how to walk like an Egyptian, among other things, during an educational field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The students toured many of the museum’s exhibits and were tasked with sketching their favorite art displays.…

Lindenwold Students Visit Wheaton Arts

May 18, 2016 Just yesterday, students from Lindenwold Middle School spent the day at the Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center to get a firsthand look at how glass art is created. According to Wheaton: With a history spanning four decades, WheatonArts has earned regional, national and international recognition for its unique collections and programs.…

Fundholders Recognized at Montclair Performance

May 3, 2016 Tom and Lucy Ott have long had a passion for music therapy, which is why they use their donor advised fund at the Community Foundation to support the music therapy program at Montclair State University’s John J.Cali School of Music.…

Morris Committee Funds Student Mural in Rockaway

April 13, 2016 Fifth grade students at the Dennis O’Brien Elementary School in Rockaway recently participated in an artist residency program with local artist Dan Fenelon. A grant from the Community Foundation’s Morris County Committee to our friends and partners at Morris Arts helped to make this project possible.…