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Peters Valley School of Crafts (formerly the Peters Valley Craftsmen) is a nonprofit arts organization and craft school within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Layton, New Jersey. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is located an hour and a half drive from New York City, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and is part of the NRHP-listed Peters Valley Historic District .
The couple continued their collecting after moving to New Jersey. [ 5 ] The museum's building, designed by Boston architect Charles Brigham and his associate, Willard P. Adden , [ 6 ] is a prime example of Romanesque Revival ; the building, a gift to the town of D. Willis James , [ 7 ] was completed in 1900, and was used as the town's library ...
The Powerhouse. The Powerhouse Arts District is a historic warehouse district in Downtown Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, on the water front of the Hudson River.Its name derives from the unused generating station Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse, [1] [2] [3] a historic Victorian-era power plant that was renovated into an arts center. [4]
The Park Performing Arts Center is a cultural center located at 32nd Street and Central Avenue in Union City, New Jersey, United States.Originally built by a church parish, it became a non-profit organization in 1983, and hosts appearances of local, national, and international artists as well as community events The center also houses a small museum dedicated to the craft of embroidery ...
The Community Theatre was built in 1937 and was once the crown jewel of Walter Reade's chain of movie theatres in New Jersey, opening on December 23, 1937, with the David O. Selznick film, Nothing Sacred. By the 1980s, the Theatre had fallen into disrepair and sat idle for nearly a decade. [2]
The Arts and Music Center traces its beginnings to 1959 when musicians and arts educators Clare, a German-born refugee and her husband, New Jersey farmer Albert Appel, decided to turn their 176-acre (0.71 km 2) former farm into a day camp, merging their love for their children and their friends with their interest in music. [2]
The park's collection of sculptures has continued to change and grow since the park opened, with a list of current exhibits maintained on the park's website. [2] Since 2000, Grounds For Sculpture has been a public not-for-profit corporation [3] with a Board of Trustees overseeing the successful operation of the sculpture park and museum. As a ...
The Newark Museum of Art, formerly known as the Newark Museum, in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey is the state's largest museum. It holds major collections of American art, decorative arts, contemporary art, and arts of Asia (including a large collection of Tibetan art ), Africa, the Americas, and the ancient world.