Art House Productions

Art House Productions is a not-for-profit arts organization located in Jersey City, New Jersey.[1][2][3] Art House Productions is best known for organizing and coordinating JC Fridays, a variation on a First Fridays citywide art and culture event, held quarterly since 2006.[1][4] Art House also produces Your Move Modern Dance Festival, an annual performance festival featuring the art of modern dance at the historic Loew’s Jersey Theater,[5] and Art House TV, a weekly public-access television show on the air since 2003, in addition to hosting acting classes and workshops for teenagers and adults.[6]

Art House was founded by Christine Goodman, current Director for the Office of Cultural Affairs for the city of Jersey City, in 2001.[1] Following the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City, Goodman reportedly wanted to create a community open mic night for Jersey City artists, living directly across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan, to be able to reflect on the events of the attack.[7][4] In the years following, Art House Productions began offering regular open mic nights and performance showcases, co-sponsoring arts and culture programming with the Jersey City municipal government, and hosting visual and performing arts exhibitions, festivals, theater productions, and drag bingo events.[8][9][10][11][12]

The first Art House Productions offices, theater, and gallery space was located in the Jersey City neighborhood of Hamilton Park.[7] In 2014, the organization relocated its headquarters to Journal Square, and moved again in 2017 to the Cast Iron Lofts building in the Soho West district.[13][14][15] Meredith Burns succeeded Goodman as the executive director of Art House in 2017.[7][16][17]