YAP RETURNS WITH ANCIENT ART

YAP, the Center for Community Arts Youth Arts Program for grades 5-8, resumes January 20 at 6:00 p.m. in Cape May, Wildwood and Lower Township. This free program provides a light supper and art activities led by professional artists. This semester’s theme is “Art of Ancient Cultures.” On January 20, participants will make an Ancient Roman mosaic clock.

YAP is in Lyle Hall (or a lower level classroom) at the Cape May United Methodist Church,

at Cape Assist’s Kare Center, 3819 New Jersey Avenue in Wildwood, and

at the Millman Center, 209 Bayshore Road in Villas.

It is led by Janet Payne and Laura McPherson in Cape May, Trish Fox and Amanda Vernon in Wildwood, and Cheryl Crews in Lower Township.

YAP continues with the same activity at all three sites: On January 27, decorate your own Chinese Ming Dynasty porcelain; February 3 create an Ancient Greek Cycladic Statue; February 24 Make a Canopic Jar to store your own treasures; March 3 create an ancient Aztec Mask. The program continues most Saturdays through April 28. For a detailed schedule call 884-7525 or see http://www.centerforcommunityarts.org/yap.htm and download the schedule in PDF.

There is a day trip to the King Tut Exhibit at the Franklin Institute on February 10. The trip is free for YAP participants, but an advance deposit and special permission slip are required.

Center for Community Arts is a multicultural educational nonprofit organization whose arts and humanities programs foster creativity, community building, and appreciation for the rich diversity of our world. CCA is rehabilitating the Franklin Street School, a Cape May African American Historic Site, to house a community cultural center, and recently launched WCFA 101.5 FM, a mostly-jazz community radio station. For further information, call 609-884-7525 or access CCA’s Web site at www.CenterforCommunityArts.org.

YAP is made possible by grants from the Lower Cape Alliance, the Byrne Fund for Wildwood, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and many other businesses and individuals.

INTERGENERATIONAL ART CLASSES AT NATURE CENTER

Center for Community Arts (CCA), in partnership with the Nature Center of Cape May, announces a series of art and craft classes starting in February 2007.

Pictured are Jean Dougherty, Judy Ballinger and Rose Law: Jody Swope’s class, Watercolor on Chinese Parasols, will be offered again in April and May. Classes February through May include new Drawing Together and Printing Together parent and child classes with Janet Payne (children can be 6 or 60), Experimental Watercolor with Shannon Sterner, Portrait Drawing with Cheryl Crews, Oil & Acrylic Painting with M. Simkins-Federici, Eco-Crafts with Gretchen Ferrante, Pottery with Amanda Vernon, and much, much more.

Most classes meet at the Nature Center of Cape May, 1600 Delaware Avenue, and are wheelchair accessible. Tuition is on a sliding scale, with discounts for CCA members, seniors, active military and those on fixed incomes. Advance registration is required; for a detailed brochure and registration form, stop by CCA at 712 Lafayette Street in Cape May, call 884-7525, email info@centerforcommunityarts.org or download one: click the following link and then click on "click here for a PDF brochure": http://www.centerforcommunityarts.org/classes.htm


Center for Community Arts received a Citation for Excellence from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. These programs are made possible in part by grants from the Lower Cape Alliance, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, 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, families and individuals.

Center for Community Arts is a multicultural educational nonprofit organization whose arts and humanities programs foster creativity, community building, and appreciation for the rich diversity of our world.

WCFA Temporarily Off the Air

A problem this morning with the transmitter took us off the air. The manufacturer is sending a replacement and we expect to be on the air late Thursday afternoon, 1/18/07.

SOUP-ER BOWL SATURDAY – Meet Mike Stover of Ocean View and the fifteen other volunteer DJ’s who keep WCFA 101.5 FM on the air at the Center for Community Arts February 3 soup, salad and auction benefit for the mostly-jazz community radio station. Call 884-7525 or see centerforcommunityarts.org for further info.

SOUP-ER BOWL SATURDAY BENEFITS 101.5 FM

"Soup-er Bowl Saturday” is a soup, salad and dessert supper and auction to benefit WCFA 101.5 FM, the new mostly-jazz community radio station of the Center for Community Arts.

The event is Saturday, February 3, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at the West Cape May Fire Hall, 732 Broadway, West Cape May. A $10.00 contribution will be requested at the door.

The auction features the donated talents and services of area residents such as a home-cooked Ecuadorian dinner for four; a custom-made decorative garden mosaic; a spring cleaning of your home; Hobie cat (surf) sailing off Stone Harbor Beach; a children’s photographic portrait; a fly fishing lesson; and three conversational French lessons.

The auction will also include special items such as a night at the Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City and a chance to program one-hour of music from WCFA’s 5000 CD library and record your own announcement to air during your “show.”

You’ll be able to put a face to the voice of your favorite WCFA volunteer announcers. Come join the fun and dine with the DJs. For more information, call 884-7525.

“Small Towns, Black Lives” exhibit celebrates African American heritage

The Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts (MAC) and the Center for Community Arts (CCA) present “Small Towns, Black Lives: African American Communities in New Jersey,” an exhibit by photographer Wendel A. White of African American communities in Cape May, Whitesboro and other towns in southern New Jersey, Jan. 13 through May 13 at the Carriage House Gallery at the Emlen Physick Estate, 1048 Washington St.

White is a professor of art at Stockton College, Pomona, N.J., and winner of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship based on this project. “Small Towns, Black Lives” is a visual journal of White’s experiences as a fine art photographer and social documentarian. The exhibit features images of residents, businesses, historic landmarks, landscapes, interiors and exteriors of architecture, panoramic views of communities, and personal interviews which together transcend the specific locale and speak to the experience not only of a community, but of a nation.

The public is invited to the exhibit’s opening reception at 4 p.m., Monday, Jan. 15, at the Carriage House Gallery. Admission is free and refreshments themed to the exhibit will be provided.

White will also be part of a panel discussion which is free and open to the public, 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 25 at the Carriage House Gallery.

Admission to the ongoing exhibit is $2 for adults, $1 for children (ages 3-12), or free with any tour of the Physick Estate. The Gallery is open weekends through March; call for hours.

These events are co-sponsored by MAC and CCA. The Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Cape May’s heritage. MAC also fosters the performing arts. MAC membership is open to all. For information about MAC’s year-round schedule of tours, festivals, and special events, call 609-884-5404 or 800-275-4278, or visit MAC’s Web site at www.capemaymac.org.

Center for Community Arts is a multicultural educational nonprofit organization whose arts and humanities programs foster creativity, community building, and appreciation for the rich diversity of our world. The Center’s Community History Program is dedicated to preserving, interpreting and celebrating Cape May’s African American heritage through exhibits, tours, and its John and Janet Nash African American History Archive. The Center is currently rehabilitating the Franklin Street School, a Cape May African American Historic Site, to house a community cultural center, and recently launched WCFA-LP 101.5 FM, a community radio station. For further information, call 609-884-7525 or access CCA’s Web site at www.CenterforCommunityArts.org.

For information about restaurants, accommodations and shopping, call the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Cape May at 609-884-5508.

The Center for Community Arts presents

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday Party

on Monday, January 15, from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.,

at the Cape May City Elementary School Cafeteria,
921 Lafayette Street.

This free event, open to the public, begins with a community pot luck supper – so bring a dish and don’t forget the serving spoon!

After dinner, we will unveil three murals by YAP,
CCA’s Youth Arts Program.
The murals depict African American history in
Cape May, Wildwood and Lower Township.

Musical entertainment will be provided by Elephants Everywhere and Carl Behrens.

This event is wheelchair accessible.

For more information call 884-7525.