Express Newark

Express Newark: A University – Community Collabratory is located in the iconic, former Hahne & Company department store bordering Broad, New, and Halsey Streets. Facilities are designed to support cross-unit, cross-sector, cross-institutional publicly engaged scholarship and include an arts incubator where faculty work with community artists and local schools and institutions to cultivate new talent; a community media center that leverages expertise on and
off campus to help Newarkers of all generations develop tools to tell stories in multimedia that will weave the counter-narrative of this diverse community, told by, rather than merely about, its members; a design consortium partnering the university and community arts and cultural organizations to immerse students in a real- world consulting company that takes on the challenge of communicating about urgent issues facing metropolitan America; and a community
portrait studio where people who live in, work
in, or pass through Newark—including student and youth groups—can have complimentary portraits made and practice photography
while learning about Newark’s historic role in American portraiture; and a space for exhibitions and performances associated with Newark’s grand legacy in Jazz.