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Causes: Art Museums, Arts & Culture
Mission: For sixty-five years the Hunterdon art museum in Clinton, new jersey has served as an invaluable cultural and educational resource for new jersey and the surrounding areas and has carried out its mission to engage people with contemporary art, craft, and design in ways that educate, challenge and inspire. Hunterdon County's only art museum is located in an 1836 gristmill that is on the state and national historic registers. The four-story building has three floors of exhibition space and one floor of art studios. The museum presents approximately thirteen exhibitions annually and offers hundreds of studio art courses, workshops, and art camps, including classes for those with developmental disabilities. Programs for schools include a young artists showcase, which for more than twenty-five years has brought students from nearly thirty schools to the museum for workshops and exhibitions of student work. In the most recent year, there were more than 28,000 visitors to the museum's grounds.
Direct beneficiaries per year: 1100 students enrich their lives through engaging with our workshops and classes
Programs: The Hunterdon Art Museum is an educational resource with programs for all ages. The museum's education department offers opportunities to explore and experience art in many forms. Beginning with programs for the very young and continuing through adulthood, the museum annually offers more than 300 workshops and classes that support lifelong learning. In the summer, hundreds of children participate in the museum's art camps. Subjects range from painting and drawing to video production, fashion design, animation, and much more. For more than twenty-five years ham has offered classes for adults with developmental disabilities and has filled a need in the community with this important program.
Working with nearly thirty schools for almost three decades, the museum has given tens of thousands of students the opportunity to exhibit their artwork and participate in workshops through our young artists showcase.
the museum's exhibitions have garnered a reputation for their high quality and interesting subject matter. From group shows that investigate trends in contemporary art to one-person exhibitions that explore personal journeys, the museum brings extraordinary artwork to our region with approximately thirteen exhibitions annually. Examples include intimate lines: drawing with thread, which highlighted the work of sixteen artists from across the united states who approach the traditionally painstaking process of embroidery with a modern sensibility; the ceramic work of adam welch; and contemporary landscape paintings by Richard wengenroth. On our Toshiko Takaezu terrace bronze sculptures by renowned artists Tom Otterness and Toshiko Takaezu are accessible to the public 24/7.