Exhibit Celebrating 20 Years of CCA History Opens

CAPE MAY – The Center for Community Arts (CCA) held an opening reception for the exhibit, “Center for Community Arts Celebrates 20 Years of History” Jan. 19 at the Carroll Gallery in the Carriage House, Emlen Physick Estate, 1048 Washington St., Cape May, N.J., which is home to the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities (MAC).
From left, Cape May Mayor Ed Mahaney, CCA Board Chair Marga Matheney, one of CCA’s “founding Mothers” Emily Dempsey, CCA Director David McKenzie, MAC Board President Mary McKenney and MAC Director Michael Zuckerman, were on hand to celebrate the organization’s 20-year milestone and to open the exhibit. The exhibit features photographs and objects that tell the stories of CCA’s programs and people — 20 years of exhibits, art and music, the John and Janet Nash African-American History Archive and walking tours, the rehabilitation of the once-segregated Franklin Street School, children’s arts and culture programs throughout the lower Cape, adult arts programs, and a community radio station, WCFA 101.5 FM — all created and developed by CCA’s pioneer founding mothers and the volunteers who followed them.
The exhibit is open Saturdays through March 21; Feb. 15; and Feb. 16; and is open daily from March 27 through April 12 (except April 5). Hours vary. The public is invited to a free panel discussion Feb. 15 at 4 p.m. at the Carroll Gallery. This exhibit is sponsored by CCA in association with MAC.
For information on the exhibit, call 609-884-7525 or visit www.CenterforCommunityArts.org. For gallery hours call 609-884-5404 or visit www.capemaymac.org.