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        • Somewhere We Landed
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        • Now Ya See it Now Ya Don’t / Open and Shut / Sneak Peek/ Not Ready for Prime Time / This is Not the Grand Opening: Drawing Rooms Presents Artists of the Topps Building
        • Somewhere Over The Interconnected Rainbow and Prospero's Grand St. Masque
        • Drawing Rooms Art Project: JC to AC
      • 2017 >
        • The Big Small Show 2017
        • Honoring Margaret & Sup-A-Genius
        • NJCU MFA Dress Rehearsal
        • The Can-Man Show
        • The Innocence of Trees
        • Bold and Beautiful
      • 2016 >
        • THE BIG SMALL Show 2016
        • State of the Union
        • Pin It Up
        • ReUse, ReDuce, RePurpose: The Art of ReFuse
        • New Drawing, New Jersey
        • The Nature of Things
        • Project Rooms Show 2016
      • 2015 >
        • THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2015
        • The Divine and Sublime
        • Mostly Drawing
        • Color Rules
        • Little Hand
        • Paper Constructions
        • Project Rooms Show 2015
      • 2014 >
        • THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2014
        • Duets
        • Drawing of the Wall
        • There to Here
        • Automatic Systematic
        • Pictures of Everything
        • Just Looking
      • 2013 >
        • THE BIG SMALL PAINTING SHOW 2013
        • Raw Drawing
        • Multiplicities
        • Night and Day
      • 2012 >
        • Subjective Objective
      • 2011 >
        • Pin It Up at Mana Contemporary
        • VAP at Warburg Realty
        • Victory Arts Projects at Mack-Cali Atrium
      • 2010-2007 >
        • Victory Arts Projects at The Beacon
        • 545 Washington
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    • Rewriting Herstory
    • Prayers for the Pandemic Project
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      • Installment One
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  • Home
  • Events
  • DR Exhibits
    • Current Exhibitions
    • Past Exhibitions >
      • 2026 >
        • Duets Too-Project Space 7
        • Flower Power-Project Space6
        • On the Grid-Solo Project Space 4
      • 2025 >
        • The Big Small Show 2025
        • Home/Project Space 3
        • Formless/Photo Project Space
        • EVERYDAY PEOPLE/SOLO PROJECT SPACE:
        • Right Now It's All Yellow
        • Material Wonder/Hatikvah Collective
      • 2024 >
        • The Big Small Show 2024
        • ONE PEACEABLE KINGDOM
        • Color, Shape, Line
      • 2023 >
        • The Big Small Show 2023
        • The Unbearable Lightness-Love of the Body
        • NJ & Me Imperfect Together
        • Tall Tales and Other Truths
      • 2022 >
        • Ani Rosskam and Bill Leech: A Wonderful World
        • Public Art Projects
      • 2021 >
        • Dvora p.2 >
          • About >
            • History & Mission
            • Visit
            • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
            • Accessibility
            • Press
            • Staff & Board
            • Volunteer & Internship
            • Press 2
        • Dvora p.1
      • 2020 >
        • David & Beatrice: Hands and Other Symbols. The Work of David W. Cummings and Beatrice M. Mady
        • Take Home a Work of Art Fundraiser 2020
        • Art Fair 14C
        • Dvora
      • 2019 >
        • The Big Show: All Animals Welcome
        • Cosmic Love
        • Just Beneath the Surface
        • Let Me Tell You A Story
        • Somewhere We Landed
        • Art Fair 14C 2019
      • 2018 >
        • Now Ya See it Now Ya Don’t / Open and Shut / Sneak Peek/ Not Ready for Prime Time / This is Not the Grand Opening: Drawing Rooms Presents Artists of the Topps Building
        • Somewhere Over The Interconnected Rainbow and Prospero's Grand St. Masque
        • Drawing Rooms Art Project: JC to AC
      • 2017 >
        • The Big Small Show 2017
        • Honoring Margaret & Sup-A-Genius
        • NJCU MFA Dress Rehearsal
        • The Can-Man Show
        • The Innocence of Trees
        • Bold and Beautiful
      • 2016 >
        • THE BIG SMALL Show 2016
        • State of the Union
        • Pin It Up
        • ReUse, ReDuce, RePurpose: The Art of ReFuse
        • New Drawing, New Jersey
        • The Nature of Things
        • Project Rooms Show 2016
      • 2015 >
        • THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2015
        • The Divine and Sublime
        • Mostly Drawing
        • Color Rules
        • Little Hand
        • Paper Constructions
        • Project Rooms Show 2015
      • 2014 >
        • THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2014
        • Duets
        • Drawing of the Wall
        • There to Here
        • Automatic Systematic
        • Pictures of Everything
        • Just Looking
      • 2013 >
        • THE BIG SMALL PAINTING SHOW 2013
        • Raw Drawing
        • Multiplicities
        • Night and Day
      • 2012 >
        • Subjective Objective
      • 2011 >
        • Pin It Up at Mana Contemporary
        • VAP at Warburg Realty
        • Victory Arts Projects at Mack-Cali Atrium
      • 2010-2007 >
        • Victory Arts Projects at The Beacon
        • 545 Washington
  • Projects
    • The Art Project
    • Rewriting Herstory
    • Prayers for the Pandemic Project
    • Victory Arts Projects >
      • JC Library Project
      • Installment One
    • Rainbow Thursdays Artists >
      • The Can-Man Show Artworks
    • Victory Hall Press
  • Giving
    • Donate and Supporters
    • Sustaining Donor
  • Calls
    • Sum sum summ-a-time call
    • Info Black,White,Gray
    • Info Solo Project Space 7
    • The Art Project Submissions
  • Blog


Make a DONATION to Victory Hall/Drawing Rooms THis Spring!

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2026 Spring Donations

Supporters
John Donovan $100.

DonorsJerry Gallo $50.00 
Caridad Kennedy $50.00
Eileen Ferara $50.00
Friends
Sean Burns $40
Harriet Finck $35.00Susan Tompkins $25.00
Donald Fortenberry $20.00 
Preston Birckner $20.00 
Eva Weiss. $10.00 
Victory Hall Inc. / Drawing Rooms is a 501c3 non-profit, bringing the Arts to the Hudson County NJ area for 25 years! 
Your Support helps us to continue providing excellent, exciting and diverse programming.
Your DONATIONS strongly contribute to the sustainability of our organization. Keep reading to see our accomplishments.
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​Check out our 
SUSTAINING DONOR PROGRAM HERE!
Giving Levels
$250+: Patron
$150: Sponsor
$100: Supporter
$50: Donor
Up to $40: Friend
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Would you like to consider a larger donation? 
Please contact us at: [email protected] or
Send a check to Victory Hall Inc. at:
​ 926 Newark Ave. Jersey City, NJ 07306
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Everyday People Exhibit 2025



Highlights from 2025-6
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Visitors at "Material Wonder: Jewish Joy and Mysticism in 2025" exhibit
Drawing Rooms continued in our remodeled gallery spaces with new seasons of exhibitions, artist talks and workshops. Your support will help us keep producing engaging exhibits and enlightening artist talks and events going for years to come!

Victory Hall/Drawing Rooms exhibited the work of more than 600 Artists this year reaching more than 10,000 viewers!

Our 2025-26 Activities:
  • 7 Drawing Rooms exhibitions per year, 20 events and artist talks,
  • 180 hours of Rainbow Thursday Artist classes for adults with disabilities, 50 students with disabilities and 2 Exhibits,
  • 55 Solo-Lobby Exhibits at Art Project JC, with 20 art-tour events,
  • 35 Free Public Art Workshops at 5 Corners Library JC and Canco Park.
For a total of over 650 artists featured annually, over 3,000 visitors to exhibitions, 5,000 viewers of Public Art Projects, 3,000 on our newsletter list, 5,600 social media followers, and more than 18,500 people served and reached over all.
Spring Donation Drive continues through May 21st.  
RECEIVE ART WITH YOUR DONATION! CLICK HERE

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Community Crochet Public Art Project at Canco Park, JC !
Artist Jill Scipione worked with more than 30 community members to adorn the trees with a crocheted public project. 

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A busy day at Rainbow Thursdays Artists program in the Windmill Center
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Wayne's "Happy People"
▪ Rainbow Thursdays Artists program for adults with disabilities featured 90 classes per year, serving more than 50 participants and their families, free of charge.

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Above: a participant in the Seniors Painting Workshops at Five Corners Library, JC.
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Artwork from the Seniors painting workshop led by Artist Kim Wiseman
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Seniors Painting Workshop at Sunflower Adult Medical Day Center led by Artist Jill Scipione

PictureArtist Pam Kalish with her work at The Oakman.
▪ The Art Project continues to give us opportunity to prepare new exhibits in residential buildings. We now produce over 55 solo-artist and multiple-artist lobby exhibits in 5 accessible buildings year-round. ​


PictureJay Golding artist talk at Bethune Center, "Picture This: How I See Myself in Today's Society" exhibit
▪   2024-25 Art at Bethune, our year-round free classes and community exhibit program at the Mary McLeod Bethune Center in the Greenville section of Jersey City brings art to dozens of children and shares diverse artist's experiences.

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Children's Art Class at the Bethune Center

2025 Season of Giving Donors
$500
Pat Rubino
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$250
Alyce Gottesman

$200
Daniel Frohwirth
Bruce Halpin

$180
Laura Lou Levy
$150
Charles Kessler

$100
Ben Goldman
Tim Main
Eileen Ferara

$75
John Keene

$50
Caridad Kennedy
Alberte Bernier
Etty Yaniv
Judy Wukitsch

$35
Robin Feld

$25
Shelley Haven
Deborah Block Krol
Don Fortenberry
Dorie Dahlberg
Nancy Tompkins
Julie Terestman
Gail Winbury
Barbara Friedman

2025 Hudson Gives Donors

$250+ Patron
  • Julia Ben Shalom ($500)​
  • ​Ariel Penzer ($360)
  • ​Matt Weinrich ($300)​
  • Carol Salmanson ($300)
  • ​Dan Frohwirth 
  • Laura Lou Levy 
  • Melissa Marr
  • ​Francesca Zambello

$150+ Sponsor
  • Stephanie DeManuelle ($200)
  • ​Peter Bodke and Ingrid Nagy ($200)
  • Bruce Halpin ($200)
  • Eileen Ferara

$100 Supporter
  • Jill Scipione and James Pustorino
  • Mona Brody (In memory of Kaaren Patterson, artist, teacher and friend who passionately loved art, art history, and poetry.)
  • Jack Starr​
  • Caridad and Arthur Kennedy
  • Katrina Bello
  • Curt Harris
  • Beatrice Mady
  • Donna Moran
  • Pauline Chernichaw

$50 Donor
  • Claire McConaughy
  • Michael Pribich
  • Judy Wukitsch
  • Cheryl Hochberg
  • Amy
  • Nanette Beachner
  • Carol Pustorino
  • ​Samuel Pott
  • Angie and Jamie Adams
  • Melinda Brown

Up to $40 Friend
  • Nancy
  • Sam Pesin
  • Robin Feld
  • Bill Matsikoudis
  • Annette Loblanco
  • Linda Byrne​
  • Nancy Januzzi
  • Donald Fortenberry
  • Tatyana Kazakova

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2024 Season of Giving Donors

$250+: Donor

  • Pat Rubino ($1200)
  • Alyce Gottesman ($500)

$150+: Supporter
  • Bruce Halpin
  • ​Stephanie DeManuelle

$100: Sponsor
  • Anonymous

$50+: Patron
  • Cheryl Hochberg
  • Anne McKeown
  • Judy Wukitsch
  • Michael Pribich
  • ​Caridad Kennedy
  • Peter Delman
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Up to $40: Friend
  • Hilary Goldblatt
  • Karen Nielsen-Fried​
Thanks to our 2024/25 Sponsors
  • The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
  • Mario and Anna Scipione
  • Perry Pogany and Kay Cook
  • The New Jersey Arts and Culture Renewal Fund
  • Qualcomm
  • City of Bayonne, CDBG
  • Hudson County LAP

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This program Is made possible by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a division of the Department of State, and administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs/Tourism Development, Craig Guy, Hudson County Executive & the Hudson County Board of County Commissioners.
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SUPPORTED BY PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE JERSEY CITY ARTS AND CULTURE TRUST FUND.”

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New Jersey Arts & Culture Renewal Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation


Give the Gift of Art to your community! ​
Support Victory Hall Inc. as we promote the Arts in Hudson County. We provide a place where artists and public can gather, connect and share their ideas. Our innovative and exciting exhibitions, public programs and publications enrich the lives of our community through an appreciation of and involvement with contemporary art.

Join us as we celebrate our diverse cultures through the arts.
Victory Hall Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization producing exhibitions, programs and public art projects in the NJ/NY area since 2001.
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This program Is made possible by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a division of the Department of State, and administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs/Tourism Development, Craig Guy, Hudson County Executive & the Hudson County Board of County Commissioners

Location

DRAWING ROOMS
​Topps Building
​926 Newark Ave #T101

Jersey City, NJ 07306
Gallery Hours-
Th/Fri 4-7p, Sat/Sun 2-6p
Park in Topps/Mana lot free.
Enter on Newark Ave.

THE ART PROJECT
• 172 2nd St, JC
• Art House 148 1st St, JC
• The Oakman 160 1st St, JC
• Hamilton House:
   255 Brunswick St, JC

Ph: (201) 208-8032
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E: [email protected]
​W: www.drawingrooms.org

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Accessibility
Victory Hall Inc/Drawing Rooms is committed to providing programming that is accessible to all. We are working to ensure full accessibility at all our venues. Please contact James Pustorino with any questions at (201) 208-8032. 

​View our Accessibility page.

See our Grievance Procedure here