David Keefe's Contact Details

David Keefe's Company Details

Frontline Arts

N/A, NJ, US • 5 - 9 Employees
Arts and Crafts

Frontline Arts is 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Central NJ with a mission to connect and build communities through socially engaging arts practices rooted in papermaking and printmaking. The organization supports in-house and mobile educational programs and provides a communal space with shared equipment for printmakers and papermakers across the State of New Jersey and larger regions. The organization also offers community-building events, a variety of artist studio services, and groundbreaking exhibitions in the newly refurbished second-floor gallery.One of our largest programs is Frontline Paper, formerly known as Combat Paper NJ, which is a unique mobile art project that offers artistic tools and professional instruction for veterans, providing a space to use art and writing to explore experiences, and ultimately share them publicly, all through papermaking.Our specialty is the transformative process of making handmade paper from military uniforms. Through public workshops, this handmade paper creates a platform for veterans and non-veterans to come together and share stories, providing a "new language," and much needed discourse between veterans and society. In casual drop-in sessions, on college campuses, in community centers, at pop-up street corner workshops, and at VA and military hospitals, Frontline Paper artists teach papermaking and printmaking to veterans of all service eras.