About The Downtown Millville Merchants Association
Officers
President - Jim Penland,
(seated second from left)
J.B. & M.E. Studio
Vice-President - Amy Lombardo
(seated third from left)
Bogarts Bookstore
Secretary/Treasurer - Sandy Walter
(seated first from left)
Graphicus Communications
Committees
Arts, Music & Antiques Festival
- George & Sandy Walter, Graphicus Communications
- Jeff & Amanda Page, JasperDyne Industries
- Jim Penland, J.B. & M.E. Studio
- Amy Lombardo, Bogarts Bookstore
- Blair Seitz, One World, One Planet
- Dan Godbey (Music Coordinator)
- Sheila Brunner (Antique, Arts and Cultural Society of South Jersey)
Merchant Publications & Marketing
- George & Sandy Walter, Graphicus Communications
- Jeff & Amanda Page, JasperDyne Industries
About the Downtown Millville Merchants Association
During the winter of 2008, a group of downtown Millville merchants and other business people met informally to discuss what they might do together to spur the growth of the city's Glasstown Arts District. They were concerned that the unique vision of those who had brought the District into being a decade ago had not been focused on its ultimate objective: to recreate Millville's downtown, especially High Street between Broad and Main, as a genuine cultural center dedicated to the region's fine and performing arts.
The City of Millville and the Millville Development Corporation have been tirelessly working to create the economic and regulatory business conditions necessary for an art colony to flourish. Today, the Glasstown Arts District has scores of artists working in diverse media, with galleries and exhibition spaces in which to show their art. What has been absent from the downtown is a showcase - not only for Millville's own artists, artisans, and serious musicians, but also for those of the Delaware Valley. Art cannot survive in a vacuum. Only when it is allowed to engage with the productions of artists living in different landscapes - pastoral, rural, urban, even industrial - can it grow.
About Millville, NJ
Millville is a progressive community with a vibrant, nationally recognized Arts District which is home to many visual and performing artists and craftspeople. It is also home of the New Jersey Motorsports Park, a state-of-the-art racing facility which hosts numerous classic and sports car events throughout the year. Millville and its surrounding communities also contain some of the last pristine ecologies in the eastern United States, with our Maurice River being proclaimed a National Wild and Scenic River by the US Congress. The Maurice River watershed is a eco-tourism destination for bird-watchers and outdoorsmen alike.
