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CHAMPEENS

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Join us for a residency performance of CHAMPEENS, a new work by ArtYard artist-in-residence Joe Orrach.

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CHAMPEENS, a new work by Joe Orrach (Aug. 10)
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ArtYard is an incubator for creative expression and a catalyst for collaborations that reveal the transformational power of art.We are an interdisciplinary alternative contemporary art center comprised of an exhibition space, theater, and residency program, dedicated to presenting transformative artwork, fostering unexpected collaborations, and incubating original new work.Address: 13 Front Street, Frenchtown NJEmail: contact@artyard.orgPhone: (908) 996-5018

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2025 ArtYard Live Performance Season

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ArtYard's 2015 performing arts season.

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Alexandre Arrechea: Landscape and Hierarchies

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Events related to the ArtYard exhibition Landscape and Hierarchies, featuring new works by Alexandre Arrechea.

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Aqualumina 2026

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Join us for events and artist-led workshops where families, schools, and community groups design illuminated giant sea-life puppets, whimsical rain cloud costumes, and jellyfish parasols in the lead-up to the Festival on May 9, 2026!

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Aqualumina Workshop

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Join a revolving cast of creatives in constructing parasol jellyfish lanterns, glow-in-the-dark fish puppets, illuminated cardboard boats, coral reef hats, lanterns, and a roving river surrey in preparation for the Aqualumina Festival on May 18.

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Art of Tarot with Laetitia Barbier

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Laetitia Barbier will be in residence this March hosting a series of events and workshops which aim to illuminate the multifaceted nature of Tarot.

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ArtYard Campus Tours

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Join us for our monthly campus tours to get a behind-the-scenes look at our mission incubating new work and catalyzing collaborations that reveal the transformational power of art.

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ArtYard Live Animation Festival

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The ArtYard Live Animation Festival is a weekend of unique cinematic experiences blending live performance and animated films with performances by animators Laura Heit, Melissa Ferrari, Stacey Steers, and Miwa Matreyek and curated by Richard Herskowitz.

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Big Screen Wonders Film Festival

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ArtYard’s Big Screen Wonders Film Festival is a series dedicated to films that demand a giant screen. The festival includes feature films and Q&As with artists behind the films to engage the audience in lively conversations.

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Camden Repertory Theater presents Child Support

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Urgent, searing, and wildly inventive, Child Support uses humor and hypertheatricality to examine single parenthood and financial responsibility from the points of view of everyone impacted by a broken system.

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Company SBB/ Stefanie Batten Bland Residency 2023

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Company SBB will be in residence this summer to incubate Coup D’espace, Stefanie Batten Bland’s newest work. Coup D’espace is an immersive work that empowers us as a collective people to examine what moves us to overthrow/transform a space.

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Creative Movement: Dance with Me!

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Creative Movement for Older Adults with Michael Sazonov is a workshop series designed to awaken the body and inspire the imagination through the joys and benefits of music and movement.

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Creative Movement: Dance With Me!

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At the intersection of somatic movement, dance, and theatre games, accentuating improvisation, the spoken word, and the expressive body, Creative Movement aims to spark one’s creativity and inner joy. Led by Michael Sazonov at ArtYard in Frenchtown, NJ.

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Creative People for Peace

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Inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh, this performance takes us on a poetic voyage to explore what it does to the human spirit to experience separation.

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Fall 2025 Exhibition Events

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We're excited to announce our fall exhibitions, Living in Brilliant Suspension: Didier William, Deep Seated, and Bernadette Simone: I Love My Condo.

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Fall Exhibition Events 2026

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We are thrilled to announce three exhibitions opening October 24 – Lonnie Holley’s How We Got Over, Dean Millien and Jude Tallichet’s Gleam, and National Portrait Beauty Gallery, which takes place across ArtYard and Studio Route 29.

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Fall Exhibitions Events

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Join us for events related to our fall exhibitions!

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Fall Exhibitions Opening Weekend

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Celebrate the opening weekend of two new solo exhibitions at ArtYard — Kendall Buster: What Blooms and Lucia Monge: While a Leaf Breathes (Mientras una Hoja Respira) — as well as You Come to Life, featuring works by BJ Armour and Ricky Bearsghost.

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Film Festival of Joy

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The Film Festival of Joy is a five-day event curated by Dennis Doros and Amy Heller featuring shorts, features, and documentaries with guest filmmakers and live music performances to bring joy back after two-plus years of pandemic isolation.

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Flor de Toloache

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Flor de Toloache joins us in Frenchtown to perform a concert at 7:30 PM on Saturday, April 19 and to conduct a workshop taking attendees behind their rousing mariachi music on Sunday, April 20.

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In the Company of Still Life

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In conjunction with In the Company of Still Life, ArtYard presents a series of public programs that invite visitors to engage more deeply with the exhibition’s themes and practices.

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Interdisciplinary Performance Workshop Intensives

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Work with artist-in-residence Sebastienne Mundheim, an interdisciplinary performance maker, to help create a new performance inspired by the story of social activist, self-taught engineer, and ark-builder Kea Tawana.

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Isabella Rossellini & Andy Bright: Onward

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Isabella Rossellini, Andy Bright, and collaborators return to ArtYard a year after a performance of Darwin’s Smile to develop a new work, Onward, which builds on their many years of collaboration and draws from their Green Porno and Seduce Me episodes.

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Isabella Rossellini's Darwin's Smile

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ArtYard is pleased to present two performances of Isabella Rossellini's Darwin's Smile at the McDonnell Theater in Frenchtown at 7 PM on Saturday, March 11 and 3 PM on Sunday, March 12.

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Kea and the Ark incubator performances

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Join ArtYard and White Box Theatre on May 6 and 7 for the first look at Kea and the Ark, a new multidisciplinary work investigating the life of Kea Tawana integrating movement, puppetry, storytelling, and live music.

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Latin Ballroom with Michael Sazonov

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Light the fire for movement within and keep you dancing long after the session ends!

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Modern Times Theater

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Modern Times Theater’s Justin Lander joins us for a Junk Music Workshop and two performances of The Baffo Box Show, a daring work of puppetry and object manipulation full of beautiful images, junk music sonatas.

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Ophelia

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Ophelia, a theater play directed by Peter Schumann. July 23rd - July 24th, 2022 at ArtYard.

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Punching Bag Embroidery Workshops

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Join us for a series of collaborative embroidery workshops exploring the quiet, often unseen labor of care. Participants will embroider the canvas covers of life-sized punching bags for an upcoming exhibition on motherhood.

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Slovo. Theater Group presents Mothermotherland

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A theater troupe formed by Ukrainian actors in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of the country present a new performance exploring motherland at ArtYard’s McDonnell Theater at 7:30 PM on Nov. 4 and 5.

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Spring 2026 Exhibitions

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Join us to experience our spring 2026 exhibitions with an opening, curator talks, and related events throughout the season!

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Spring Exhibition Tours and Conversations

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Join us for tours and conversation with artists or curators part of our current exhibitions.

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Spring Exhibitions 2025 Opening Weekend

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Join us to celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions — American Lawn and Soft as Earth — on view through spring featuring works by painter Alex Callender and ceramic artists Janny Baek, Brian Guerin, and Tom Hubben. Also on view: Words That Start.

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Summer Exhibitions 2026

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We’re excited to announce the opening of four solo exhibitions this summer that move between the visceral and the deeply personal, bringing together artists who transform material, memory, and perception into immersive encounters.

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Summer Exhibitions Events

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Join us for the opening weekend of our summer exhibitions!

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Summer Exhibitions Opening

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Join us for the opening weekend festivities celebrating The Alchemy of Blood, Diseñando Masculinidades / Designing Masculinities, and Stairway From Heaven.

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The Golden Hour with Joseph Keckler

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The Golden Hour with Joseph Keckler is a live performance series bringing some of today’s boldest and most visionary artists together into an inviting variety show format.

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The Hatch Workshop

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Please join us for The Hatch as we leap over our walls of solitude, rub shoulders with strangers, make a flock of birds, and bring to life Emily Dickenson’s dictum at this fractured, vulnerable moment that, “Hope is the thing with feathers."

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Tiny Talks

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Join us to get your week started with a jolt of creativity as we hear from artists and friends during Tiny Talks on the second Sunday of the month.

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Where There's Smoke Playtests

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Get an inside look at an incubating exhibition and help refine its immersive experience