BENSON FIRST FRIDAY Competitors

MISSION Monmouth Arts provides programs and services that support the practice, presence, and influence of the arts and of artists throughout Monmouth County. VISION Monmouth Arts is a leading, independent, 501c(3) arts advocacy organization that delivers needed programs and services to artists, member organizations, and art affiliates to ensure the arts thrive in every corner of Monmouth County. Assistance and support from Monmouth Arts is accessible in the form of advocacy, programming, policy development, leadership, funding, outreach, promotion, information, and knowledge-based expertise. Guided by our mission and goals, and with help from our arts partners, we collectively undertake actions that reflect our core values as we seek to elevate the visibility of the arts in the community, increase and diversify membership, and expand our influence on behalf of the arts. We are committed to having a staff and Board of Trustees that are dedicated, responsive, and representative of the people and interests of the community we serve. Our work supports local art programs, the pursuit of personal expression, and community development through creative placemaking, resulting in positive economic, social, and cultural outcomes. What we do is dynamic and transformative for individuals as well as the community; requiring us to respond and adapt to the changing needs of those we serve. Because of our efforts, we are viewed by those we assist, and by the public, as one of the foremost arts and cultural agencies in the State of New Jersey. Monmouth Arts is Monmouth County’s official arts agency dedicated to improving the quality-of-life for all those who live, work, and visit here by connecting the arts, artists, and the community.

ARTSBUILD is a nonprofit organization management company based out of 301 E. 11TH STREET, SUITE 300, CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, United States.

BRAF promotes a spirit of experimentation. All of our work takes place within a society in transition and wrestles simultaneously with many social issues in local, regional, and global contexts, in changing rural and urban landscapes, and under the strain of significant environmental pressures. Projects that create and place interactive public art address these conditions and create opportunities to discover productive ways to resolve them. BRAF values and continually works to promote connectedness. We look to art as a way to connect individuals and communities across boundaries of geography and point of view.