Our Mission
City Without Walls (cWOW) is an urban gallery of emerging art that advances the careers of artists while building the audience for contemporary art.City Without Walls is New Jersey's oldest not-for-profit alternative art space, in continuous operation since 1975. Its two-fold mission offers career development opportunities to new and emerging artists, while providing the public a chance to understand and enjoy challenging contemporary art. We operate a professional fine art gallery that showcases the work of over 100 emerging artists per year in 10 to 14 on-site, off-site, and traveling exhibitions.
cWOW offers programs and services designed to address artist and community needs that are not served by other sources. Our ArtReach education program pairs promising high school art students with working-artist mentors, and offers other students valuable experience through gallery internships. We maintain the largest and most active artist slide registry of any gallery in the state, as well as an artist information bank with materials on insurance, housing, taxes, legal help, hazardous materials, competitions, employment and other career topics. We offer free photographing of artworks for member artists, and we arrange large-scale art commissions for public and private spaces.