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Gloucester County: Art Institutions by Municipality
Gloucester County's art lives close to home, from Rowan University's galleries in Glassboro to the old glassmaking towns and main streets around them. A town-by-town guide.
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Gloucester County is South Jersey’s third-largest by number of municipalities, a patchwork of twenty-four townships, boroughs and the city of Woodbury spread across old glassmaking towns and college streets. Its art lives close to home, in Rowan University’s galleries at Glassboro, in Pitman’s lovingly restored 1920s theatre, and in the working studios tucked among the antique shops of Mullica Hill. What follows is a guide to those spaces, gathered town by town.
A quick note: opening hours, locations, websites and programming can change over time. Please confirm the details with each venue before you plan your visit.
Glassboro
1 institutionGallery · Museum
Rowan University Art Gallery & Museum (RUMOCA)
Rowan’s contemporary art gallery and museum stages rotating exhibitions of regional and national artists across spaces on and near campus, and admission is free to the public.
Pitman
2 institutionsTheater
The Broadway Theatre of Pitman
A lovingly restored 1920s movie house on South Broadway, now staging concerts, musicals, plays and classic-film nights year-round.
Art Center
Pitman Gallery & Art Center
A community gallery and arts space in Pitman’s walkable downtown, showing rotating exhibitions of local, regional and national contemporary artists and running classes and workshops for all ages.
Harrison Township · Mullica Hill
2 institutionsArt Center
Mullica Hill Art Center
A gallery of local artists and a busy studio in the antique-lined historic district, with classes, workshops and camps for adults, teens and children of every ability.
Gallery · Studio
The Art Aesthetic
An indoor and outdoor avant-garde art space, school and gallery on South Main, offering original work, instruction and a lively calendar of creative events.
Monroe Township · Williamstown
1 institutionTheater
The Grand Theatre
A 1924 Main Street theatre, home to the Road Company, staging affordable, professional-quality live theatre and youth workshops in the heart of Williamstown.
Woodbury
1 institutionTheater
Sketch Club Players
Founded in 1933 and the oldest continuously performing community theatre in South Jersey, staging mainstage plays and children’s productions in the historic West End Schoolhouse.
Gloucester County rewards the reader willing to wander past the highway. Its galleries, theatres and studios sit inside old glassworks towns and along walkable main streets, close enough to string together in a single afternoon. Next in the series we cross into a neighbouring county and keep the map growing, one town at a time.
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CreARTivity Educational Team
The Educational Team writes CreARTivity's reference work: histories of artistic disciplines, guides to cultural traditions, and the county-by-county surveys of arts institutions across New Jersey. Its brief is to be useful to someone meeting a subject for the first time and still worth reading to someone who already knows it. Edited by Marie Juliane David.
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