Education

Culture in Context Curriculum Guide

Folklife

www.njfolklife.com This website is a project of the NJ Folklife Partners.  Visit the “Organizations” page for an extensive listing of regional and national folklife resources.

www.njartscouncil.org  Visit The New Jersey State Council on the Arts online for more information about Folk Arts Apprenticeship Grants: see the “Community Arts” page.

New Jersey’s Folklife Centers

For the urban and suburban corridor along the Delaware River, including all or parts of Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Mercer counties
The Delaware Valley Folklife Center at Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center
101 Cooper Street, Camden, NJ 08102
856-964-8300, ext. 102
www.waltwhitmancenter.org

For Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, and Salem counties and parts of Ocean and Gloucester counties
The Down Jersey Folklife Center at Wheaton Arts
1501 Glasstown Road, Millville, NJ 08332
856-825-6800, ext.131
www.wheatonarts.org  

For Sussex, Warren, and Hunterdon counties and parts of Morris, Somerset, and Mercer
The Northwest Jersey Folklife Project
178 South Main Street, Phillipsburg, NJ 08865
908-454-1495
www.wcchc.org/folkart.htm

For Hudson, Bergen, Essex, Passaic and Union counties
Northeast New Jersey Folk Arts Program at Park Performing Arts Center
560 32nd Street, Union City, NJ 07087
Folklife: 201-865-6980 x15
www.parkpac.org

For the central New Jersey region, including all or parts of the counties of Middlesex, Somerset, Mercer, Monmouth, Union, and Essex
The Folklife Program for NJ at Middlesex County Cultural Heritage Commission
703 Jersey Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-3605
732-745-4489
www.cultureheritage.org/culturalheritage/folklife.asp 

For the area between Monmouth County and Salem County, as well as counties in the Pinelands region
The Jersey Shore Folklife Center at Tuckerton Seaport
120 W. Main Street, Tuckerton, New Jersey 08087
609-296-8868
www.tuckertonseaport.org