2026 Teen Arts Traveling Exhibit
June 25 - August 27, 2026
Documenting the Resilience on Atlantic Ave
Photography Exhibit featuring work by Christina Walley & Oral History by Christy Goodnight
July 11 - September 24, 2026
Opening Reception: July 11, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
This exhibition highlights Atlantic City’s small businesses during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Through photography and oral histories, the exhibition captures storefronts and the voices of business owners who endured shutdowns and reopened, preserving a historical record of Atlantic Avenues resilience.
Jim Brossy
July 4 – October 3, 2026
Opening Reception: July 11, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Crackpot Realism is an artistic approach that dissolves the boundaries between art and life by emphasizing relationships between materials, ideas, emotions, and lived experience as the source of meaning and beauty. Rather than representing reality, the artwork exists as a real object in real space, inviting interaction between physical materials and mental associations. By combining traditional media with unconventional “non-art” materials such as tar, cement, wax, steel, and found objects, Crackpot Realism creates new forms that balance spontaneity and resistance, immediacy and labor. Assemblage, collage, and text function not as supplements but as integral elements, with written language operating visually and politically to allow works to be read on multiple levels. Through rhythm, pattern, and material presence governed by natural forces, Crackpot Realism constructs emotional and contemplative experiences that connect inner and outer worlds, offering a disorienting yet deeply felt abstract realism grounded in lived reality.
Earth & Sky: Thomas Murray
July 4 – October 3, 2026
Opening Reception: July 11, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Thomas Murray is a multidisciplinary artist originally from St. Petersburg, Florida. He earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico in 2004 and has since exhibited widely, earning recognition through numerous awards. At the heart of his practice is a recognition that our connections to one another—across distance, time, and space—are among the most meaningful aspects of life. Whether through color, form, or gesture, his work seeks to trace those moments of reaching, growing, and becoming.
Society of NJ Artists
October 3 – 24, 2026
October 10, 2026, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Pat Grimes
January 16 - March 28, 2027
Opening Reception: January 16, 2025, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
January 16 - March 28, 2027
Opening Reception: January 16, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
This traveling exhibition MORE THAN TOUCH, A CONNECTION will engage the senses, with a focus on visitors who are blind or visually impaired. It will also provide sighted visitors with innovative ways to engage with art, while simultaneously cultivating a greater understanding and empathy towards the experiences of individuals who are visually impaired. This exhibition will be shown at Ocean City Arts Center, Ocean City, NJ (exhibition organizer); Riverfront Renaissance Arts Center, Millville, NJ; and Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University, Atlantic City, NJ.
Exhibition & Reception Dates for All Locations
Ocean City Arts Center, 1735 Simpson Ave, Ocean City, NJ
July 1 - July 29, 2026
Reception: Friday, July 10, 2026, 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville, NJ
October 14 - November 13, 2026
Reception: Friday, October 16, 2026. 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University, Atlantic City, NJ
January 16 - March 28, 2027
Opening Reception: January 16, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
