ArtYard

ArtYard is a contemporary multidisciplinary art gallery, theater, and residency program on its campus in the vibrant center of Frenchtown. The campus includes a new state-of-the-art theater and exhibition space, two artist residencies, and a workshop space for visiting artists.

In 2005 ArtYard began its life as a series of experiments in an unheated former dairy barn in the founders’ backyard. Over the next decade, they organized literary, music, theater, and dance events on an improvised stage before crowds of friends were invited to perch on stackable chairs. In 2015 ArtYard was incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit arts center. The founding team fastened on a former electronics warehouse and abandoned egg hatchery located a few hundred yards apart in the congenial and walkable town of Frenchtown, New Jersey. The venture was named ArtYard, evoking the idea of an unpretentious place, a yard as opposed to a museum, a space where culture and community are planted, nurtured, and grown.

In addition to their gallery exhibitions, ArtYard’s programming consists of live events and communal engagements that take place in and beyond their theater, including performances, music, film screenings, poetry, and storytelling events.