Center for Community Arts

712 Lafayette Street
Cape May, NJ 08204
P: (609) 884-7525
F: (609) 884-6424
Michael Lane
Executive Director

Center for Community Arts

www.centerforcommunityarts.org

Center for Community Arts (CCA) has a multi-faceted mission. It is committed to celebrating our world’s diversity and nurturing creativity and community through arts and humanities programs that reach out to underserved populations. The Community History Program is dedicated to discovering, preserving and presenting the African American history of Cape May County. The organization is also dedicated to restoring the Franklin Street School, a New Jersey African American Historic Site. The School was built in 1928 as a segregated elementary school for Cape May’s African American children. When restoration is complete, the School will serve as a focal point for CCA’s African American Heritage Tourism Initiative, including tours, exhibits, radio programs, a gift shop and living history presentations. CCA’s programs serve year-round residents of Cape May County and its many seasonal residents and visitors.

Cultural Education at the Center

CCA’s Arts Program began in 1996 to serve youth in grades 5 through 8. That Youth Arts Program (YAP) is now but one element of a larger program that offers arts instruction for ages 6 and up. The coming year’s roster of activities remains unchanged from 2007 and is outlined here, grouped by age of participants:

6-10

Art at the Library, Cape May, Wildwood Crest and Lower Township. Free
Kids Summer Art Camp, Cape May, 6 weeks, M-F, 9 am – noon, a new theme each week. Fee-based, but Cape May Education Foundation & CCA provide scholarships.
Camp Congress Hall, Cape May, 4 nights/week in the summer, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m., open to the public, a rotating series of art projects and supper. Fee-based.
Culture Club, a once-a-week after-school program at Cape May Elementary School, administered by CCA, with programming by CCA and other area nonprofits. Free.

10-14

YAP – Saturday Night, Cape May, Wildwood and Lower Township, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. most school-year Saturdays. A new theme each semester. Free.
YAP in the Summer, Cape May, Wildwood and Lower Township, 8 weeks, M-F, 9 am – noon, a new theme each week
YAP After School, two days/week, two hours/day, the only art instruction offered to Wildwood Middle School students, as part of their 21st Century Communiy Learning Center grant.

Teen/Adult/Senior

Art for Adults, Cape May. A variety of classes across a wide spectrum of media throughout the year and summer, with prices on a sliding scale, discounted for seniors, active military and those on fixed incomes.

Art Programs are not Core Curriculum Based.

Contact Director of Arts, Chase Jackson, at (609) 884-7525.

Group Tours at the Center

The African American Heritage Walking Tour of Cape May is an entertaining and informative walking tour. Hidden in plain sight among Cape May’s Victorian beauty are stories of Harriet Tubman, blacks-only beaches and USO, the thriving African American business, social and religious community and the fate of the segregated Franklin Street School.

Tours are held during June - September on Thursdays & Saturdays, 11:00 Am. $10 Adults, $7 children under 12. Contact Yvonne Wright-Gary, Yvonne@centerforcommunityarts.org, for more information.

Return to Results


FROM:
Address or Intersection:

City:

State:	ZIP Code:

Country: