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Camden FireWorks is committed to using art to create social change.
We invite artists and curators to partner with us in using art to illuminate the human condition.
Submit proposals to exhibitions at camdenfireworks.org. Proposals must include the artist’s name and title of work on all images (no more than 10 works can be submitted) and an artist statement of no more than 300 words.
Seaside Salvage is a solo exhibition featuring the art of Eduardo Jiménez, who was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico but now resides in Brigantine, New Jersey. The exhibition is an extension of the work Jiménez started...
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Across every time and culture, people use their bodies as a canvas to express who they are. Like customizable video game avatars, people present their identity with adornment and modification; through hair style, clothing, makeup, piercing, tattoos,...
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What does it mean to return home to the place of one's birth after many years living elsewhere? Coming Home is an artistic journey of exploration, discovery, and the embracing of self from the perspective of oil painter...
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Chicana poet Gloria E. Anzaldúa once wrote that "Nothing happens in the real world unless it first happens in the images in our heads". If this is true, then - for artists - changing the image in...
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A 2019 survey of the permanent collections of 18 prominent U.S. art museums found that the represented artists are 87% male and 85% white. The reality is that women have never been treated equally in the art...
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EBAN: Sense of Place welcomes a diverse roster of talented Camden-based artists of varying ages, experiences, and cultures. As curators, artist collective, Watu Moja, encourages artists to explore and push the boundaries of the concepts of place,...
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Quinton Greene’s work illustrates a kind of abandon that is often lost as we grow older, reveling in color and form, touching on both the personal and archetypal. From the seemingly random minutiae of our lives, the...
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What is it that attracts us about a mosaic? The play of light on a multitude of colorful surfaces? Its strong physicality, staking a claim on its little bit of the material world that we, in this...
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Join us Sunday, March 20 for the opening reception to Thom Goertel’s exhibition, Tiempo y Belleza (Time and Beauty). Featuring women from Cuernavaca Mexico, Goertel captured the portraits through a lens of deep feeling, shot in just...
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In celebration of Youth Art Month, Camden FireWorks is honored to partner with Freedom Preparatory Charter School on a pop up exhibition, March 12, 2022. Camden students from Freedom Prep Charter School are sharing their creations inspired...
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Camden FireWorks is proud to present a solo quilt exhibition of Renata Merrill's work from January 16 to February 19. Born and raised in the City of Camden, Renata first began quilting ten years ago, under the...
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Coming November 14th is the annual show we've all been waiting for! Thriving Artists 2021 features the work of Camden FireWorks artists from all disciplines. Don't miss the opportunity to see and purchase work from artists such...
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Injustice is happening in a world in environmental decline due to climate change. We Are Here is an exploratory discourse about what it means to be situated in a place where environmental justice is not the standard....
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