2025 New Jersey Creative Communities Conference

The 2025 New Jersey Creative Communities Conference.
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The 2025 New Jersey Creative Communities Conference.

The Art of Community Well-Being

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Hudson County Community College – Culinary Conference Center, Jersey City, NJ

A gathering of leaders, doers, thinkers, and artists throughout New Jersey. Together, they will explore innovative ways to make places better for everyone through art and creative placemaking. You can make great connections; get inspired for new and better projects; meet prospective partners, and more.

Four Conference Tracks

ART AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
How art and artful environments benefit mental and physical health and well-being.
COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
How arts and placemaking boost local economies, create jobs and support cultural entrepreneurship.
EMPOWERING AND SUPPORTING SOCIAL PRACTICE ARTISTS
Training and supporting artists and emerging artists wanting to help communities.
INCLUSIVE AND ACCESSIBLE COMMUNITIES
How the arts can help make places more welcoming and comfortable for everyone.

Registration is open

Don’t miss this exciting gathering of leaders, doers, thinkers, and artists throughout New Jersey. Register now and join us at Hudson Community College in Jersey City on Thursday, November 6th for the 2025 New Jersey Creative Communities Conference!

Look Who’s Going!

Here are some of the organizations and communities that will be represented at the conference.

All conference participants will get a list of attendees who agreed to share their information.


Alvernia University, Reading, PA

CANVS, Jersey City

City of Hackensack, Hackensack

City of Hoboken, Hoboken

Core Creative Placemaking, Morristown

Divine New York Productions, New York, NY

Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton

Hackensack Arts Club, Hackensack

Hudson County Community College, Jersey City

Hunter College, New York, NY

Institute of Music for Children, Elizabeth

Investors Foundation, Livingston

Jersey City Arts Council, Jersey City

Jersey City Department of Health and Human Services, Jersey City

Keep America Beautiful, Newark

Kennedy Dancers Repertory Company, Jersey City

Kennedy Dancers School, Jersey City

LISC New Jersey, Newark

Mana Contemporary Art, Jersey City

New Jersey Economic Development Authority, Newark/Trenton

New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark

Newark Arts Council, Newark

Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn

Perth Amboy Arts Works, Perth Amboy

Steam Urban, Newark

Stockton University, Hammonton

The Artist Baker, Morristown

The Arts Institute of Middlesex County, New Brunswick

The New School Parsons, New York, NY

Third Space Partners, Millburn

Topology, Newark

Valley Health System, Paramus

West Orange Arts Council, West Orange

What Co Theater Company, Kearny

…and many individual artists and students!

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QUESTIONS?

Contact Danielle De Laurentis
Northern New Jersey Community Foundation
danielle@nnjcf.org | 201-568-5608, x1

All proceeds support

Sponsors

Citizens
JC Health and Human Services
Investors Foundation
LISC New Jersey