NJPAC 2024-2025 Exhibition Dates and Deadlines
For questions or more information, email: advocacy.outreach@aenj.org
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) is a professional art gallery that the public, students, and their families can visit year-long. AENJ partners with NJPAC to provide gallery space for select students of AENJ members to show their work at NJPAC. Approximately thirty artworks are prominently displayed in the gallery at the entrance of the Victoria Theater. Works can also be seen through NJPAC-AENJ’s virtual gallery.
Please see below for the upcoming submission deadlines, installation, and reception dates.
Teachers must be current AENJ members to enter students’ works at these exhibitions. Contact membership@aenj.org or join through the website.
Volunteers are needed for each installation and to assist with the receptions, including creating the program, printing the certificates, taking photographs, and congratulating the hard-working artists.
Please contact Advocacy.Outreach@AENJ.org for volunteering opportunities.
- Advocacy/Outreach Chair: Danielle Fleming
- NJPAC: Mira Septimus
Please note: For the NJPAC Fall-Winder Exhibition, your students’ artwork will also be displayed at our NJEA Convention Gallery, near the AENJ Booth.
We offer two (2) ways to drop off the artwork:
You can bring the work to the AENJ Conference and drop off at the Advocacy table.
Remember to prepare the AENJ Back Label and attach it to each submitted artwork. Please DO NOT forget to complete and attach this label. Doing so may increase the chances of losing the artwork because there are no identifiable markers and our conference volunteers are wearing many hats.
Or, you may either mail OR drop off (If you are dropping off please email me to set up a time) work to:
Mira Septimus
438 Denison Street
Highland Park, NJ 08904
OR
Grover Cleveland Elementary School
486 E Milton Ave, Rahway, NJ 07065
(If you are dropping off please email me to set up a time)
Or,
Danielle Fleming
335 Broad Street
Keyport NJ
(Has to be dropped off before 4:00 pm)
Danielle Fleming
1606 Dorsett Dock Rd.
Point Pleasant, NJ 08723
(If you are dropping off please email me to set up a time)
2024-2025 NJPAC Dates
Fall-Winter Exhibition*
- Submission Deadline: 11/10/24
- This AENJ Back Label must be attached to each submitted artwork.
- Installation: November 10, 2024
- Reception: December 8, 2024
* Art for this exhibition will also be displayed at the NJEA Convention Gallery.
We will collect student art for these exhibitions at our Fall Conference: Making the InVISIBLE Oct. 30-31, 2023, drop-off at the Advocacy Table.
Be sure to complete both the AENJ Back Label and the Submission form
Late-Winter Exhibition
- Submission Deadline: 2/9/2025
- This AENJ Back Label must be attached to each submitted artwork.
- Installation: February 9, 2025
- Reception: February 16, 2025
Spring Exhibition
- Submission Deadline: 4/1/2025
- This AENJ Back Label must be attached to each submitted artwork.
- Installation: April 6, 2025
- Reception: May 4, 2025
*This exhibition will stay up until the Fall Exhibition is installed.*
- Size of Artwork
- 12 x 18 in. horizontally
- 18 x 24 in. vertically
- NJPAC provides frames, so these size restrictions are mandatory.
- Mount artwork to construction paper 12 x 18” horizontally or 18”x 24” vertically.
- Please only mount work to construction paper, no mats or foam board.
- You may mount artwork to fit these two sizes (and these sizes ONLY).
- 10 pieces of 18 x 24” sized work (vertical orientation only)
- 20 pieces of 12 x 18” sized work (horizontal orientation only)
Approximately thirty (30) works will be on display at the show!
- Be sure to have the AENJ Back Label completed and attached to the back of each work.
- Do not attach any AENJ labels to the front of the artwork. Also, do not mat or frame artwork.
- Please refrain from submitting artwork with copyrighted characters and logos.
- Please do not STAPLE artwork to construction paper.
- No 3-D work, acetate, stretched canvas, or canvas board will be accepted.
- High-quality printed reproductions of student original artworks are encouraged.
- If submitting original artwork, please provide the appropriately sized self-addressed stamp envelope to return the work. Artwork will only be mailed back when accompanied by the proper envelope and postage.
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