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Atlantic County: Art Institutions by Municipality
Atlantic County's art runs deeper than the boardwalk lights, from Stockton University's arts district in Atlantic City to the historic theatres of the mainland. A town-by-town guide.
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Atlantic County is best known for its boardwalk and its casinos, but its art runs deeper and wider than the shore lights suggest. Stockton University has built a genuine arts district in Atlantic City, the glass-and-brick towns of the mainland hold historic theatres and galleries, and free museum spaces turn up from the beach to the edge of the Pinelands. 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.
Atlantic City
3 institutionsGallery · Museum
Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University
The cornerstone of Atlantic City’s arts district, a converted parking garage housing fifteen artist studios, galleries and shops, a Noyes Museum satellite gallery, and the African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey. Admission is free.
Theater
Dante Hall Theater of the Arts
A restored performing-arts theatre operated by Stockton University, hosting concerts, dance and live performance a block from the Boardwalk in the heart of the arts district.
Performance Venue
Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall
The historic 1929 Boardwalk arena, home to the Atlantic City Ballet and host to major concerts and events, and keeper of the largest pipe organ ever built.
Galloway
2 institutionsPerforming Arts
Stockton Performing Arts Center
One of the region’s largest theatres, on Stockton University’s campus, presenting a full season of music, dance, comedy and family shows, alongside the university’s own Art Gallery nearby.
Gallery
Noyes Gallery at Seaview
A free 2,500 square foot satellite gallery of the Noyes Museum at Seaview Resort, showing selections from the permanent collection and work by regional artists, open daily to the public.
Hammonton
3 institutionsTheater
Eagle Theatre
South Jersey’s year-round professional theatre, in a 1914 downtown building saved from demolition by its neighbours, staging dramas, musicals and film screenings alongside a summer conservatory.
Gallery
Noyes Galleries at Kramer Hall
A Noyes Museum satellite gallery in Stockton’s Kramer Hall, adding to downtown Hammonton’s arts district with seasonally changing exhibitions of regional, national and student work.
Arts Center
Hammonton Arts Center
A community arts center in downtown Hammonton offering exhibitions, classes and events that give local artists a place to show and sell their work.
Somers Point
1 institutionTheater
Gateway Playhouse
A community theatre near the bay in Somers Point, staging plays and musicals through the year with a devoted local company.
From the studios of the Arts Garage to a 1914 theatre saved by its neighbours in Hammonton, Atlantic County keeps making room for art in unexpected places, well beyond the reach of the Boardwalk lights. Next in the series we move on to another 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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