Arts on the Hudson seeks to improve the cultural life of Jersey City and the greater metropolitan community by promoting and organizing local art and arts education by:

• providing a platform for a diversity of voices and perspectives to develop new, original, and experimental arts;
• partnering with various artists and arts organizations within our community to promote awareness of and accessibility to their work through the creation of promotional media;
• supporting and popularizing the arts through high quality programming such as performances, exhibitions, showcases, festivals, and auctions;
• increasing public awareness of the value of art and providing opportunities for it to be purchased and collected;
• providing affordable art classes in visual, literary, and performing arts for children and adults;
• encouraging gifted students to continue their study of the arts through opportunities both within and beyond our programs;
• connecting artists with paid teaching and art-making positions;
• providing all aforementioned activities to members of the public with no special constituency;
• attracting, collaborating, and exchanging with leading artists not only from Hudson County and the greater New York Metro area but also the global community.