The committee, which would be created by the City Council and chaired by Cultural Affairs director Maryanne Kelleher, would include a museum-appointed representative, one council member, and a member of the city’s Law Department. Each council member would also be allowed to appoint one person “familiar with museum best practices” to the committee.
The United Way of Hudson County no longer plans to purchase the Jersey City Museum building and the museum’s Montgomery Street headquarters is facing “imminent” foreclosure by Sovereign Bank, according to a memo obtained by JCI. In addition, two of the museum’s board members have resigned in recent months as a result of the turmoil.
While the fate of the troubled Jersey City Museum remains unclear, a Jersey City-based nonprofit’s quest to purchase the museum’s Montgomery Street headquarters received a boost at last week’s City Council meeting.
The Jersey City Museum is in dire straits, with a massive debt load forcing it to lay off its staff, miss payments to vendors and, most recently, close its doors to the public entirely. However, through all the reporting done on the institution’s problems, one question has remained largely unasked: what do Jersey City’s artists make of this mess?
Share/Save – JC Stays #2: New 2010 Census data shows that Newark remained New Jersey’s largest city, with 277,140 residents, a gain of roughly 3,600 people since 2000. Jersey City grew at a faster pace since 2000 and grew to 247,697, up from 240,055 in 2000, but remains the Garden State’s second-largest city for now. [...]
The cash-strapped Jersey City Museum has been completely closed to the public since mid-December, but it remains unclear if the closure is temporary or permanent. One trustee has assured JCI that the museum is closed only due to repairs that are being made inside the building, but other sources say the museum’s board remains in full-on scramble mode as it looks to stave off extinction.
Share/SaveThe African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) will once again be held in Jersey City this year, despite having to change venues. The festival will celebrate its seventh year in Jersey City at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church instead of the Jersey City Museum thanks to help from the nonprofit group Uptown Crew, which is helping [...]
Share/SaveAs Halloween approaches this month, the Jersey City Museum is going to produce a new exhibition on the sidewalk adjacent to its Montgomery Street building, and it is looking for “talented artists to create public art using an unconventional exhibition space.” The Chalk the Walk show is open for submissions of spooky sketches that will [...]
Share/SaveIn August, the Jersey City Museum put out a call for Jersey City-based artists for a fall show that would debut at the annual Artists Studio Tour; not long after, it sent rejection letters to the artists who didn’t make the cut, and included the names of all of them on the document. Once Jersey [...]
Performing arts organization Surati says the debt-ridden Jersey City Museum has owed them about $30,000 for nearly a year, and Jersey City’s business administrator says museum leadership has admitted using money intended to fund performances by Surati and other groups to pay off other debts instead. “They’re behind on their mortgage; they’re behind on their utility bills,” Kelly says. “There are a number of problems.”
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