What happens when a New Jersey community bands together to create artworks for public display? Find out at the Montclair Art Museum and Montclair Public Library, where new, collaborative artworks will be exhibited from mid-December 2024 through early January 2025. Fourteen volunteer art-making teams have been working since early October 2024, each team creating an...

Literacy-boosting initiative can be viewed from August 1 to September 15 MONTCLAIR, NJ (July 18, 2024) — This August, families can enjoy Walk + Read Montclair, a literacy-boosting initiative consisting of storybook pages lining walking paths in three local parks. Families will encounter an unfolding children’s story, page by page as lawn signage, until they...

Exploring the Emotional Impact of Art-Making by Deron High School Students with Special Needs MONTCLAIR, NJ (April 1, 2023) – The Montclair Public Library Gallery at 50 South Fullerton Avenue welcomes a group art exhibition of student self-portraits from the Deron School in Montclair, NJ, on view from April 1 until May 30. The Library...

Ukrainian artists-activists show work at the Montclair Public Library Art Gallery throughout June 2022 Four Ukrainian artists-activists living in the U.S. will feature their work at the Main Library’s Art Gallery from June 1-30, 2022. The show is entitled “Ukrainian Roots: Art by the Diaspora.” Work will include original paintings, photography, ceramics, and prints. All...

Document pre-dates Revolutionary War MONTCLAIR, NJ (March 8, 2021) — The Montclair Public Library announced today the preservation of a document transferring land from Azariah Crane (said to be Montclair’s first non-indigenous resident) to his son. The land deed, dated November 8, 1752, is one of the earliest written records of what would become Montclair....