City Without Walls

About

City Without Walls (cWOW) is an urban gallery of emerging art that advances the careers of artists while building the audience for contemporary art.

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 in the City of Newark 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, online 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. Newark New Media is our artist residency and apprenticeship program at the cutting edge of art and technology. We maintain the largest and most active artist registry of any gallery in the State, and we offer discounted photography, digital printing and framing. cWOW arranges large-scale art commissions for public and private spaces, and advocates for artist rights and artist-friendly public policy. We also provide information about artist opportunities and technical assistance.