02 Aug Instructors (Rolling Proposal)
We are currently accepting applications from Art Instructors for our fall and winter semesters for classes for children, teens, and adults....
18 Jul Joint Efforts Safe Streets 2023 | Full Schedule
The Joint Effort Safe Streets program celebrates the history of Princeton's Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood....
20 Jun smART kids Take On Printmaking
Our smART kids outreach program was all about printmaking this February....
20 Jun Field trip to a Christmas Carol
Our community partner McCarter Theatre Center generously extended an invite to both our Arts Exchange and smART kids outreach programs to see A Christmas Carol....
13 Jun Princeton Young Achievers Students Featured in Gallery Exhibition
In collaboration with the YMCA’s Princeton Young Achievers, students share their stories about their lives growing up in Princeton and their hopes for the future....
06 Jun Reconstruction of the Witherspoon Branch Y
Albert De Martin, photographerCollection of the Historical Society of PrincetonGift of Youth Communications Inc., in Memory of F.G. Clark, 1996The fire which devastated the Witherspoon Y branch building started from an over-heated furnace. A December 1936 letter to the editor of the “Princeton Herald” noted...
06 Jun Witherspoon Street Young Men’s Christian Association
Frank A. VanZant, photographerCollection of the Historical Society of PrincetonIn the early twentieth-century, in racially divided Princeton, the Witherspoon branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association served as a focal point for the town’s African-American men and boys. Located on the corner of Witherspoon and...
06 Jun Witherspoon Y Group Portrait, 1945
Collection of the Historical Society of PrincetonGift of Youth Communications Inc.,in Memory of F.G. Clark, 1996Top Row (left to right): George Wilson, Captain Campbell, Hydia Steward, Garnell Herron; Bottom Row (left to right): George Reeves, William Hall, Ira Dickerson, John Gripper....
06 Jun Paul Robeson, Paul Robeson Jr., and Eslanda Robeson, 1930
Collection of the Historical Society of PrincetonBy the time these photographs of the Robeson family were taken (on the occasion of the Robeson’s ninth wedding anniversary), Paul, “Essie,” and Paul, Jr. were living in London. In 1928, Robeson’s performance in Show Boat in London catapulted...
06 Jun In Front of the Witherspoon Y, c. later 1940s
Collection of the Historical Society of PrincetonGift of Youth Communications Inc.,in Memory of F.G. Clark, 1996This group portrait includes Thomas Brown, Executive Secretary of the Witherspoon Y (top row, far right). Brown served in the position for three years starting in 1947. He left Princeton...