JOBS FOR ARTISTS

Artist-teachers sought for spring and summer workshops and art camps for children, youth and adults, part-time, days and evenings, Wildwood, Cape May, Villas. One immediate opening. Spanish language skills a+. Some paid interns; experience preferred for assistant and lead teachers. Letter & resume to Steve Bacher, Center for Community Arts, 712 Lafayette St., Cape May, NJ 08204, info@centerforcommunityarts.org. EOE.


INTERNSHIPS / JOBS FOR HISTORY AND AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES STUDENTS

African American Studies intern sought for African American History Archives, and Community History Program Exhibits & Tours. Assist part-time archivist/curator with accession, oral histories, research and planning for annual exhibits and walking tour. Compensation depending on experience. Letter & resume to Steve Bacher, Center for Community Arts, 712 Lafayette St., Cape May, NJ 08204, info@centerforcommunityarts.org. EOE.


DEVELOPMENT INTERNSHIP

Development intern sought for growing community arts organization. Assist with prospect research, proposals, reports, appeals, newsletters, special events. Compensation depending on experience. Letter & resume to Steve Bacher, Center for Community Arts, 712 Lafayette St., Cape May, NJ 08204, info@centerforcommunityarts.org. EOE.


ARTS ADMINISTRATION INTERNSHIP

Arts Administration intern sought for growing community arts organization. Assist Executive Director with program development and coordination, personnel policies, advertising, public relations, governance, assessment, capital project, facility management. Compensation depending on experience. Letter & resume to Steve Bacher, Center for Community Arts, 712 Lafayette St., Cape May, NJ 08204, info@centerforcommunityarts.org. EOE.

PANEL TO DISCUSS SEGREGATED EDUCATION;
INCLUDES CAPE MAY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1929 MEMBERS

In recognition of Black History Month, the Center for Community Arts (CCA) Community History Program and the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts (MAC) will present a panel discussion of their joint exhibit, “A Feeling of Community: Segregation and Education on Cape Island, 1860-1954,” at the Carriage House Gallery, Emlen Physick Estate, 1048 Washington Street, in Cape May. The discussion, on Thursday, February 23, 2006, is at the Gallery at 7:00 p.m., free and open to the public.

Panelists will include Cordelia Howard Bounds and Janet Eldredge, Cape May High School Class of 1929, and Emily Dempsey and Frank Simonsen, who attended elementary school on Cape Island in the late 1940’s, when Cape Island, like all of New Jersey, underwent the transition from segregated to integrated public education. Bounds and Eldredge both went on to careers as teachers, and Bounds was a teacher in Cape May’s Franklin Street School while it was a segregated elementary school. The discussion will be moderated by CCA Board Chair and Cape May County NAACP Woman of the Year, Shirley “Becki” Wilson.

The exhibit contains artifacts, photographs and excerpts from oral histories gathered by CCA’s Community History Program over the last ten years. It tells part of the story of education on Cape Island between the establishment of public school in 1860 and the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education that ended legalized school segregation throughout the nation. New Jersey’s State Constitution outlawed segregation in 1947.

CCA and MAC receive operating support from the New Jersey Historical Commission, and this exhibit is supported by Sturdy Bank. CCA and MAC also receive support from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and many generous businesses and individuals.

For gallery hours and further information, please see www.centerforcommunityarts.org, http://www.capemaymac.org/, or call 884-7525 or 884-5404.


ORAL HISTORY—CCA Community History Program volunteers Yvonne Wright-Gary (left) and Emily Dempsey (right) interviewed M. Cordelia Howard Bounds (center) in her Moorestown home this fall for the current exhibit at MAC’s Carriage House Gallery, “A Feeling of Community: Segregation and Education on Cape Island.” Bounds, a native of West Cape May who attended Cape May High School and went on to teach at the Franklin Street School, and Dempsey, who attended the segregated Franklin Street School, will be part of a panel discussing the exhibit on Thursday, February 23, at 7:00 p.m. at the Carriage House Gallery at MAC. (Photo: Steve Bacher)

VARIOUS PROGRAM UPDATES:

YAP does not meet on Saturday, February 18, but will resume on Feb 25.

Cape May Cooks, Cape May Sings will be rescheduled. A new date will be posted here as soon as it is arranged.

Art at the Library, for ages 6-10, at the Cape May City Public Library continues February 17 and every alternate Thursday from 7-8 pm.

Our Community History Program’s new exhibit, A Feeling of Community: Segregation and Education on Cape Island, 1860-1954 is on view at the Carriage House Gallery at the Emlen Physick Estate, 1048 Washington Street in Cape May through mid-May. Gallery hours are extremely limited:

The gallery is open
only on Saturdays and Sundays
from 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
through the end of March.
April & May Hours:
Sunday through Friday* 3/31-4/27 11:15-3:00
Saturday 4/1
11:15-5:00
Saturday 4/8-4/22
10:15-5:00
Wednesday* 4/12 & 4/19
10:15-3:00
Friday 4/28 & 5/5
11:15-4:00
Saturday 4/29 & 5/6
9:45-5:00
Sunday through Thursday 4/30-5/7 11:15-3:00
Sunday through Friday 5/8-5/14 11:15-4:00
Saturday 5/13 10:15-5:00

A Panel Discussion featuring members of the Cape May High School Class of 1929, a teacher and student from the Franklin Street School and others is Thursday, Feb. 23 at 7 pm at the Carriage House gallery.

CCA’s Spring Gala, An Evening in Paris, is Friday, March 10, at the Congress Hall Ballroom with music by Dr. Cheeko Band, buffet suppert & desserts, and the Chapeau Challenge, with prizes for the most creative hat or beret. Tickets are available at the CCA Office between 10 am and 5 pm, Monday – Friday. They are $35 in advance through March 9, and $40 at the door.

The Art of Vitality, art classes for adults start in have additional new offerings each month through May. Details are on our website; for a registration form and brochure, leave your name, address and phone number.

Our free intergenerational poetry workshop WILL NOT MEET ON FEB 22, BUT OTHERWISE meets Wednesday evenings at our office, 712 Lafayette Street, from 6-8 pm.

Our African American Heritage Walking Tour is by appointment only until the spring.

Our intergenerational dance and stretch class is on break for a few weeks. We will change this message when the new start date is determined.

CAPE MAY COOKS, CAPE MAY SINGS POSTPONED

Due to today’s weather and concerns about wet roads freezing tonight, CAPE MAY COOKS, CAPE MAY SINGS, originally scheduled for Feb 12 at 6pm, HAS BEEN POSTPONED and will be rescheduled for a later date. Steve Bacher, Executive Director