Perkins Center for the Arts

Perkins Center for the Arts is a regional, community cultural asset that enriches lives, inspires life-long learning, and offers interdisciplinary and intercultural experiences through the arts. Established as an arts education institution, Perkins is dedicated to providing exemplary arts experiences for all community members. Perkins’ programs include comprehensive musical instruction through the Perkins Conservatory of Music; year-round visual & performing arts instruction; 12 exhibitions annually; free public concerts and ticketed concert series’; artist-led in-school residency programs; Summer Arts Camp; Perkins Folklife Center; and community enrichment projects throughout South Jersey.

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. Since its founding in 1977, Perkins Center has expanded from a local community arts center to a regional arts center presenting programs that support and expand relationships with artists, students, members, and audiences in Burlington, Camden, Gloucester Counties, and the greater South Jersey and Delaware Valley region.

Originally established in the Perkins family manor at 395 Kings Highway in Moorestown (an historic, 1910 Tudor home and carriage house), in 2002 the Center expanded to a second facility in Collingswood, NJ at 30 Irvin Avenue (another historic, 1910 modern-industrial style building). This location has enabled Perkins to expand programming and extend services throughout Camden County.