Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit will partner with Elizabeth Public School District to address students' needs, including those created and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and help with its pandemic recovery. Although the school district is planning to hold in-person classes this school year, the students are still recovering from the emotional impacts of the pandemic and loss of in-person learning since March 2020. Since 2009, the center has hosted the Arts Alive Initiative, bringing high school students from Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy to the center for an in-depth, sequential learning arts education program that expands students' knowledge and understanding of contemporary art. Because of a possible restriction to field trips this school year due to the pandemic, the center will continue adapting its educational programming to the students' needs.