Perkins Center for the Arts – Youth Arts Programs and Summer Arts Camp
Perkins Center for the Arts, 30 Irvin Ave, Collingswood, NJ 8108
About
Perkins Center for the Arts – Youth Arts Programs and Summer Arts Camp offers a Summer Arts Camp along with year-round visual and performing arts instruction. The program also includes comprehensive musical instruction through the Perkins Conservatory of Music, as well as exhibitions, concerts, and artist-led in-school residency programs connected to its youth arts focus.
Since its incorporation in 1977 in Moorestown, Perkins Center for the Arts has grown from a local community arts center to a regional arts center, and in 2002 it expanded to a second facility in Collingswood. The Center presents 18–22 exhibitions annually, offers free public concerts and a ticketed concert series, and runs the Perkins Folklife Center and community enrichment projects throughout South Jersey. Its mission states that Perkins Center for the Arts enriches lives, inspires life-long learning, and cultivates intercultural experiences through the arts. Perkins Center for the Arts is recognized by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as a Major Presenting Organization for free and fee-based arts programs that promote participation, understanding, and communication among diverse audiences. The organization identifies itself as a regional, community cultural asset and notes that it sits on the native land of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Native American Tribe, with a stated commitment to partner in education and to honor the Tribe’s history, present, and future. The Center cites a Commitment to Cultural Equity & Inclusion, including championing policies and practices of cultural equity that empower a just, inclusive, and equitable society. It also states that companions or caregivers may accompany those needing assistance to classes or events free of charge, and that assistive services such as sign language interpreting, audio description, open captioning, large-print programs, and alternative formats like Braille for printed materials are available upon request.
Last updated July 8, 2026.
Since its incorporation in 1977 in Moorestown, Perkins Center for the Arts has grown from a local community arts center to a regional arts center, and in 2002 it expanded to a second facility in Collingswood. The Center presents 18–22 exhibitions annually, offers free public concerts and a ticketed concert series, and runs the Perkins Folklife Center and community enrichment projects throughout South Jersey. Its mission states that Perkins Center for the Arts enriches lives, inspires life-long learning, and cultivates intercultural experiences through the arts. Perkins Center for the Arts is recognized by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as a Major Presenting Organization for free and fee-based arts programs that promote participation, understanding, and communication among diverse audiences. The organization identifies itself as a regional, community cultural asset and notes that it sits on the native land of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Native American Tribe, with a stated commitment to partner in education and to honor the Tribe’s history, present, and future. The Center cites a Commitment to Cultural Equity & Inclusion, including championing policies and practices of cultural equity that empower a just, inclusive, and equitable society. It also states that companions or caregivers may accompany those needing assistance to classes or events free of charge, and that assistive services such as sign language interpreting, audio description, open captioning, large-print programs, and alternative formats like Braille for printed materials are available upon request.
Last updated July 8, 2026.
Is this your business? There is no cost, but you will be asked to sign up or log in.