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Camden County: Art Institutions by Municipality
Camden County packs an unusual amount of art into a small corner of South Jersey, from the Camden waterfront to the theatres of Collingswood and Haddonfield. A town-by-town guide.
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Camden County packs an unusual amount of art into a small, dense corner of South Jersey. A university arts centre anchors the Camden waterfront, the walkable boroughs of Collingswood and Haddonfield brim with theatres, galleries and outdoor sculpture, and historic movie houses have been reborn as stages. 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.
Audubon
1 institutionMusic School
Conservatory of Musical Arts
A community music school in Audubon offering lessons, ensembles and recitals for students of every age and level.
Camden
2 institutionsGallery · Theater
Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts
The anchor of the Camden waterfront arts scene, home to the free Stedman Gallery and the 650-seat Walter K. Gordon Theater, presenting museum-quality exhibitions, music, theatre and dance year-round. Admission is always free.
Theater
South Camden Theatre Company
A community and professional theatre company in the Waterfront South neighbourhood, staging a season of drama in its purpose-built Waterfront South Theatre.
Cherry Hill
1 institutionArts Center
Croft Farm Arts Center
A township-run arts centre on a historic 1779 farm, with a 200-seat barn performance space and studios hosting concerts, classes and exhibitions beside the Cooper River.
Collingswood
3 institutionsArts Center
Perkins Center for the Arts
The Camden County home of the Perkins regional arts centre, in a historic 1910 industrial building, with galleries, classes, concerts and a conservatory of music.
Concert Hall
The Scottish Rite Auditorium
One of the largest auditoriums in South Jersey, presenting more than twenty concerts a year by renowned performers, plus dance, theatre and the Camden County Concert Series.
Music
Symphony in C
One of only three professional training orchestras in the country, based in Collingswood and presenting its full concert season at the Gordon Theater in Camden.
Gloucester Township · Blackwood
1 institutionPerforming Arts
Mainstage Center for the Arts
A year-round performing-arts organisation based at Camden County College, known for its Summer Stage youth program and main-stage productions at the Dennis Flyer Theatre.
Haddon Township
1 institutionTheater
The Ritz Theatre Company
A producing company in a lovingly restored 1927 vaudeville and movie house on the White Horse Pike, listed on the state and national historic registers.
Haddonfield
4 institutionsArts Center
Markeim Arts Center
Haddonfield’s nonprofit home for the visual arts since 1956, with exhibitions of local and national artists, a summer arts camp, and classes for all ages.
Theater
Haddonfield Theatre Arts Center
A community theatre-arts centre on Kings Highway offering classes, workshops and productions for young performers and adults.
Theater
Haddonfield Plays & Players
A long-running community theatre offering a full season from comedies to mysteries to musicals, professional-quality theatre with a community spirit.
Public Art
Haddonfield Outdoor Sculpture Trust
A juried public-art program that sets figurative and abstract sculpture from renowned artists along the sidewalks of downtown Haddonfield, turning the whole borough into an open-air gallery.
From a free university gallery on the waterfront to sculpture set out along Haddonfield’s sidewalks, Camden County proves that a short drive can take in a full season of art. Next in the series we cross into another county and keep the map growing, one town at a time.
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About the author
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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