CCA EXHIBIT ON EDUCATION & SEGREGATION

OPENS IN WEST CAPE MAY

On Wednesday, May 24, 2006, at 6:00 p.m., Center for Community Arts (CCA) will host a reception to celebrate the opening in West Cape May of its Community History Program exhibit, “A Feeling of Community: Segregation and Education on Cape Island, 1860-1954,” at West Cape May Borough Hall, 732 Broadway. The event is free and open to the public.

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.

Sections of the exhibit focus on two girls who grew up in West Cape May, Mary Cordelia Howard (Bounds) and Janet Eldredge (Vance), who went to school in adjacent, racially segregated elementary schools and graduated first and second in their Cape May High School class (of 1929). Other individuals featured include William J. Moore, superintendent of the segregated West Cape May elementary school, and Emily Dempsey, a current resident of West Cape May, co-founder of CCA, and alumnus of the segregated Franklin Street School in Cape May.

The exhibit has been re-designed for West Cape May Borough Hall by CCA Curator Rachel Rodgers, and re-assembled in collaboration with CCA Community History Program volunteers. The exhibit is traveling to West Cape May, where it will remain through Labor Day, at the invitation of Mayor Pam Kaithern. It was originally displayed from January – mid-May 2006 at the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts (MAC), with design by Yvonne Skaggs.

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 further information, please see centerforcommunityarts.org or call 884-7525.

CLASS OF ’29 – Mary Cordelia Howard Bounds (seated) and Janet Eldredge Vance, two members of the Cape May High School Class of 1929, were reunited recently at a panel discussion of the CCA Community History Program exhibit, “A Feeling of Community: Segregation and Education on Cape Island.” Both women are natives of West Cape May, who went on to teach public school: Bounds at Cape May’s Franklin Street School, and Eldredge in Cape May Court House. The exhibit opens at West Cape May’s Borough Hall on Wednesday, May 24, 2006, at 6:00 p.m., with a celebratory reception, free and open to the public. For information call 884-7525 .

ART IN THE GARDEN TOUR

ENJOY EIGHT CAPE ISLAND GARDENS

AND LOCAL ARTISTS’ WORK

AT THIRD ANNUAL TOUR

Cape May, NJ – A special one-time tour on Saturday, June 17, 2006 will feature eight Cape Island Gardens and the works of over 20 local artists and fine crafts people. The self-guided tour is from noon to 4:00 p.m. and will raise funds for Center for Community Arts (CCA) programs. The rain date is Sunday, June 18.


Artists display their work, and some are at work during the tour, on the grounds of eight private Cape Island homes. Media include oils, watercolors, fiber arts, photography, pottery, sculpture, jewelry, prints, cards, gourds and baskets.


Tickets are $15, $8 youth ages 6-12, and may be purchased in advance or the day of the tour at CCA, 712 Lafayette Street, Cape May or by calling 884-7525 with a Visa or Master Card.


Proceeds support CCA’s Arts and Community History Programs, including its African American Heritage Walking Tour of Cape May and its work to preserve the Franklin Street School.
For further information on CCA visit http://www.centerforcommunityarts.org/.


Photo above: Margaret Heuges paints in Ro Wilson’s Cape Island garden during the Center for Community Arts 2005 Art in the Garden Tour. This year’s tour is June 17, 2006. For info call 609-884-7525.

DOLORES CHENEY GIFT TO YOUNG PEOPLE & SIDNEY HICKS SCHOLARSHIP

FOR SUMMER STUDY IN THE ARTS

On Saturday, May 6, the Center for Community Arts (CCA) presented the Ninth Annual Dolores Cheney Gift to Young People: Scholarships for Summer Arts Study, and the First Annual Sidney Hicks Scholarship, at its Dolores Cheney Youth Arts Fair at the Richard M. Teitelman School in Lower Township.

Dolores Cheney, a founding board member of CCA, nurtured many children during her lifetime and understood the importance of the arts in children’s lives. The fair is named in her honor and the scholarships in her name are funded by the generous support of members of the Cheney family.

Sidney Hicks, a Cape May resident who was actively involved in the lives of many of youth in CCA’s YAP Youth Arts Program, left a bequest to CCA to create another scholarship in the spirit of the Dolores Cheney Gift to Young People. The first of these was awarded to Lauren Murphy of Cold Spring to study jewelry.

The stipends can help pay for a summer camp in the arts, or for performing arts or fine crafts classes during the summer months. Students must submit a written application and be interviewed by the Scholarship Selection Committee. During the summer, recipients perform community service, and in the fall, each recipient will make a presentation about their summer study to the Center for Community Arts Youth Arts Program.

This year’s recipients of the Dolores Cheney Gift to Young People will study painting, saxophone, acting, pottery, drawing, jewelry, dancing, and guitar. Recipients are (left to right): Izabela Lotozo (of West Cape May), Dennis McVay (Erma), Rosie Johnson (WCM), Lily Mullock (WCM), Richard Ferrer (WCM), Lauren Murphy, Leatrice Spiewak (Wildwood Crest), Brandie Newman (WCM), Victoria McFarlane (Villas), and Shamus Magee (Cape May, not pictured).

SUMMER ARTS CAMPS

Ages 6-9 and Ages 10-14

June - August 2006

Cape May, Lower Township, Wildwood

SUMMER YAP SUMMARY (Youth Arts Program for ages 10-14):

All three locations Mondays – Fridays, 9 a.m. – noon,

no program July 4

Do one week or any combination.

CAPE MAY (at Cape May Elementary School)

Cost: $85/week, $300/any combination of 4 weeks, $550/8 weeks

Week Starting/Week’s Theme
June 26 Handmade Paper
July 3 PHOTOGRAPHY (please note this is a change in the schedule as of 5/25/06)

July 10 ART FROM NATURE (please note this is a change in the schedule as of 5/25/06)

July 17 Weaving
July 24 Illustration
July 31 Beaches, Bones & Boats--trip to Higbees Beach and learn to draw using pastels, pen and ink, pencils, watercolor.
Aug 7 Sculpture
August 14 Printmaking

LOWER TOWNSHIP (at the Millman Center, Villas)

(Lower Township residents only; Free, with $5 advance deposit per week refunded in September)

Week Starting/Week’s Theme
June 26 Handmade Paper
July 3 Art from Nature
July 10 Photography
July 17 Weaving
July 24 Illustration
July 31 Beaches, Bones & Boats--trip to Higbees Beach and learn to draw using pastels, pen and ink, pencils, watercolor.
Aug 7 Sculpture
August 14 Printmaking

WILDWOOD (at Wildwood High School first 5 weeks, TBA last 3 wks)

(free; $5 advance deposit per week refunded in September)

Week Starting/Week’s Theme
July 3 Handmade Paper
July 10 Weaving
July 17 Art from Nature
July 24 Photography
July 31 Illustration
Aug 7 Beaches, Bones & Boats--trip to a beach and learn to draw using pastels, pen and ink, pencils, watercolor.
August 14 Sculpture
Aug 21 Printmaking

CAPE MAY KIDS ART CAMP (ages 6-9)

(at Cape May Elementary School)

Stand-alone workshop Mondays, 9 a.m. - noon, $19 each

Or stay the whole week: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - noon,

$85/week, $300/any combination of 4 weeks, $550/8 weeks

Multiple Mondays: 5 for $85

Week Starting/Week’s Theme
June 26 Weaving
July 3 Art from Nature
July 10 Paper Mache
July 17 Invention Convention
July 24 Pencils, Pens & Pastels
July 31 Puppet Play
Aug 7 Photography

To request a registration form and detailed brochure, call 884-7525 (leave a message with address and location if you get the answering machine) or email info@centerforcommunityarts.org.

ART PLUS NATURE EQUALS “NATURAL EXPRESSIONS” – Center for Community Arts (CCA) artist-teachers Tina Giaimo (Photography), Judy Ballinger (Silk Painting, Book Arts, Nature Studies, Collage, Paper Mache), and Jody Swope (Sea Sculpture, Floral Design, Chinese Watercolor Parasols, Painting as Meditation) celebrated the exhibition of the work of their adult art students Saturday as part of the Nature Center of Cape May’s Trucksess Welcome Center grand opening.

There’s no rest for the creative: Swope will expand her offerings for the summer; in addition to art classes for grownups, Ballinger will lead CCA’s Kids Art Camp for ages 6-9; and Giaimo will lead Cape May photography walks and be a guest artist in both the Kids Camp and YAP Summer Camps for ages 10-14.

CCA art programs are supported by grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Lower Cape Alliance, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and many generous businesses and individuals.
For information on CCA’s summer art workshops for everyone ages 6-96, see http://www.centerforcommunityarts.org/ or call 884-7525.