Since establishing ourselves in the Downtown Arts District at ART150Gallery, we have
been able to plan for and participate in JCFridays, the ArtCrawls, and Art Fair
14C/JCAST. We’ve welcomed community organizations by sharing the gallery to
outside organizations who’ve displayed the work of disabled students and adults as
well as hosting other arts organizations. Having a gallery near NYC has appealed to
artists living beyond Jersey City and Hudson County. We depend on members to
perform tasks associated with exhibition planning and execution, professional
development, marketing, outreach, fundraising, and promotion.
In 2025 we planned our second new members exhibition for January and our second
volunteers’ exhibition for February. For June JCFridays, we remembered long-time Pro
Arts member, Jim Fallon, with an exhibition featuring other US military veterans/artists
working with Frontline Papers. For our summer semi-annual members meeting/party
in July ’24, we created an exhibition, We Curate. Designed as a fundraiser, artists
brought a piece of their own choosing and hung it themselves in the gallery. We Curate
will become a regular part of our calendar. Curators Choice, has been the result of our
Meet The Curators portfolio reviews for many years. Once a spring exhibition, we’ve
moved CC to September due to a new format for the reviews. We are looking to fill the
remainder of this year’s calendar with cooperative programing with 14C Gallery and
the ART150 studio artists.
As we all know, arts funding is in jeopardy. We anticipate losing some grant money.
Leadership has discussed raising membership fees and other means of raising
necessary funds. Pro Arts membership is one of the lowest member organizations in
the area and we’d like to keep it that way. The most efficient way for members to
contribute to Pro Arts is to become Sustaining Supporters starting at a minimum of
$10/month. Drawn automatically from a credit card or checking account, membership
renews automatically and includes a donation. Some people would rather make an
annual lumpsum contribution. Either way, the yellow PayPal button takes you to our
account where you can make reoccurring donations or a one-time gift.
Your financial support will help keep this venerable Jersey City arts institution afloat
another 30+ years!
Thank you to those who have supported Pro Arts over the years through volunteerism
and monetary giving.