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Atrium Gallery

As of January 2008, at the request of the County Administrator’s Office and the Board of Chosen Freeholders, Morris Arts assumed oversight for planning exhibitions at the Atrium Gallery, housed in the Morris County Administration & Records Building on Court Street in Morristown.

Located on Floors 2-5 of the County’s Administration and Records Building, the Atrium Gallery offers 4-5 exhibits per year which showcase works in varied media by a wide variety of artists including African-American artists, high school students throughout the county (in a professionally juried show), emerging and established individual professional artists, artists with disabilities, Latin American artists, and member artists of various art associations within the county. The Gallery also includes a unique, multi-story open Atrium stairwell area which has allowed the inclusion of unusual art installations such as large mobiles, banners, and quilts.

Most of the artwork is available for sale. Free catalogues with information on the artists and the works on display are available to the public in the elevator lobby of each floor and on tables in the seating area on the fifth floor. The Atrium Gallery is located in the Morris County Administration and Records Building on 10 Court Street, Morristown. The exhibit is free and open to the public during the below hours:

Monday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Tuesday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Wednesday: 8:30 AM – 7:30 PM
Thursday: 8:30 AM – 7:00 PM
Friday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed

 

 

 

Another Slice of Sweet Potato Pie Now Through September 19, 2025

Art in the Atrium’s 33rd Annual Signature exhibition is now on display at the Atrium Gallery. Curated by Onnie Strother, this show features artist Russell Murray and showcases the work of more than 75 Black and Afro-Latino artists.

Russell Murray was one of the founding curators of Art in the Atrium. He and another curator, Carnell Oliphant, curated the majority of Art in the Atrium’s exhibitions for the first 20 years of its existence. This is the first time Art in the Atrium has highlighted his work. “Russell was so uniquely talented, so different. His work is so exciting, that we wanted to pay homage to him,” said curator Onnie Strother.

In addition to being a founding curator of Art in the Atrium, Murray was one of the founding members of the Newark Art Colony. Beginning in the early 1970s, he worked to bring art into the community alongside artists like Nette Forné Thomas and Bisa Washington.

The title of Art in the Atrium’s exhibition, Another Slice of Sweet Potato Pie comes from a piece by Murray, pictured below. “Sweet potato pie invokes images of the black community because sweet potato pie is a staple at big family gatherings of African Americans… But it also reminiscent of Langston Hughes’s anthology The Sweet Flypaper of Life,” explained Strother when asked how he decided on the title of the show.
The opening reception for Another Slice of Sweet Potato Pie will take place Thursday, June 19, 2025 from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM at the Atrium Gallery. This reception is open to the public with food and refreshments available throughout the evening.

L-R: “Sweet Potato Pie” and “Self-Portrait”, by Russell Murray