TOUR Eastern Bottle Walls aFnoudnd ArPtisats laces: MAPS Two South Jersey Self-Guided Tours of Installation Sites

1 Perkins Center for the Arts 30 Irvin Avenue, Collingswood, NJ 08057

2 Jackie Stack Lagakos’ Bottle Walls 434 Chestnut St. Lindenwold, NJ 08021

3 A&A Auto Salvage Recent work of William Clark 241 E. Piney Hollow Road, Williamstown, NJ 08094

4 William Clark’s Junkyard Robots 1011 Rt 54, Beuna Vista Twp, NJ 08094

5 EL&M Auto Recycling — Robots of William Clark 111 Weymouth Road, Hammonton, NJ 08037

6 Tom Peterson’s Scraptures — Peterson’s Service Center 308 White Horse Pike, Egg Harbor, NJ 08215

7 Stanley & Dorothy Hammel’s Glass Trees 202 W. Jimmy Leeds Road, Galloway, NJ 08205 Southern 8 Stanley Szymanski’s Bowling Balls 151 W. Cohawkin Road, Clarksboro, NJ 08020

9 Brian Ackley’s Ackmonsters 92 W. Cohannsey Deerfield Road, Bridgeton, NJ 08302

0 Gary Ecret’s Wood Sculptures 501 Shiloh Pike, Bridgeton, NJ 08302 We invit e you... to fill up the tank, pack a tasty snack and use this ¡ Smitty’s Garden of Wheels guide as your map for an exciting adventure, experiencing that which is truly unique and 590 South Avenue, Bridgeton, NJ 08302 special in Southern New Jersey. Bottle Wall & Palaces features two self-guided tours highlighting the artists and work in the recently published book Found Artists: On the Ô Palace of Depression Country Roads, Side Streets and Back Alleys of South Jersey by Sally Lilychild Willowbee 265 South Mill Road Vineland, NJ 08346 and exhibited at Perkins Center, Collingswood over the summer of 2014. Each tour takes a little over two hours and at each stop along the way you’ll see the art works of folk and self- £ Fairy Garden taught artists who live and create in the Southern New Jersey counties of Gloucester, Camden, Burlington, Atlantic, Corner of Rt 41 and Rt 564, Deptford, NJ 08096 Cumberland, Salem and Cape May. Often working with recycled or discarded materials reflective of the occupational, industrial, and agricultural activities of the region, these individuals create work which captures and embodies the time, place and memory of Southern New Jersey. All the art is on private property. Please be very respectful. Both self-guided tours leave and end at Perkins Center for the Arts in Collingswood. At the conclusion of your adventure, we invite you to go to our website: www.perkinsarts.org and write your comments and feedback on this road to discovery of the arts in Southern New Jersey. BON VOYAGE

30 Irvin Avenue | Collingswood NJ 08108 | [856] 235-6488 www.perkinsarts.org | www.perkinscenter.org !

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the arts. Art Works. Programs of Perkins Center for the Arts are funded in part by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, with additional support provided by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Township of Moorestown and the Borough of Collingswood. Eastern Self Guided Tour: Southern Self Guided Tour: Driving Time: 2 hours 20 min. Allow time for visiting each site and exploring. Driving Time: 2 hours 12 min. Allow time for visiting each site and exploring.

1 Collingswood Hammonton 5 Clarksboro 8 Bridgeton 11 Perkins Center for the Arts EL&M Auto Recycling — Stanley Szymanski’s Bowling Balls Smitty’s Garden of Wheels 30 Irvin Avenue, Collingswood, NJ 08057 Robot of William Clark 151 W. Cohawkin Road 590 South Avenue Continue tour to Lindenwold 9.5 miles 21 min. > 111 Weymouth Road Clarksboro, NJ 08020 Bridgeton, NJ 08302 Hammonton, NJ 08037 Like giant colorful lollipops on Using ordinary house paints and Lindenwold Please call the day before. sticks, bowling balls outline Stan - brushes, Smitty daubed paint on 2 (609) 561-2266 ley’s yard. After retirement he built everything he could get his hands Jackie Stack Lagakos’ Bottle Walls Junkyards have been William’s biggest supporters, and in turn this playground for bowling balls on. Dots and dashes, dashes and dots. Wheels, many wheelchair 434 Chestnut St. Lindenwold, NJ 08021 William believes his robot sculptures belong in junkyards — over and retired hobbyhorses. Plastic wheels from his job express a sense of movement. As the spirit Using skills Jackie learned as one of the 30 populate this junkyard. hobbyhorses and other cultural icons lead and flank these orderly moved, Smitty created new work and the old faded into the back - first female bricklayers in NYC and in - Continue tour to Egg Harbor 9.3 miles 11 min. > rows and outline a parking area for visitors. ground. But since Smitty’s stroke, there is no new art, and this spired by Grandma Prisbey’s work, Jackie Continue the tour to Bridgeton 22.3 miles 31 min. > site continues to fade. Please enjoy from either South Street or the built bottle walls, bird baths, and shrines Egg Harbor back street or knock on the door to ask if you can look around. to honor her spiritual practices, peace and 6 Bridgeton Continue tour to Vineland 12.7 miles 20 min. > freedom and her beloved Rottweilers. The Tom Peterson’s Scraptures 9 pathways are tiled. The foundation, chim - Peterson’s Service Center Brian Ackley’s Ackmonsters Optional Stop: Further down the road at the full moon in May ney and windows wear magical mosaic 308 White Horse Pike 92 W. Cohannsey Deerfield Road and June, the Delaware Bay beaches are invaded by horseshoe cloaks of stained glass. Feast your eyes on this magic from the Egg Harbor, NJ 08215 Bridgeton, NJ 08302 crabs who advance out of the bay en masse to lay their eggs. sidewalks please. A Scrapture of Liberty holds her torch On top of a pile of sawdust, with a Many historic little towns exist on these back roads. Continue tour to Williamstown 18.3 miles 27 min. > high at Peterson’s Service Center with roaring chainsaw in hand, Brian an ever-changing montirague. With Ackley can often be found carving Vineland 12 Williamstown deep family roots in Egg Harbor City figures out of upright logs. Park 3 and the family business, Tom can be carefully and enjoy the chain saw Palace of Depression 265 South Mill Road A&A Auto Salvage found during the week working on cars sculptures. Brian is often around but weekends are family time. Respect Vineland, NJ 08346 Recent work of William Clark during the week. Weekends, he is the property and have a look. If the chain is down, 241 E. Piney Hollow Road, away demonstrating his chainsaw skills and selling his artwork. Continue tour to Galloway 6.1 miles 8 min. > come on around, if the Williamstown, NJ 08094 Custom carved figures and creatures dot the South Jersey coun - chain is up use your eyes Just off Black Horse Pike, Rt 168 tryside and city streets. How many can you find? Optional Stop: Peace Pilgrim Park and Neutral Water to explore. (The original (856) 318-2978 Continue tour to Hopewell 7 miles, 10 min. > Son of a preacher and auto Health Resort Sanitorium with a serpentine ticket booth is to the bathing stream. shop/salvage-yard owner, William Clark began building robots Optional Stop: right.) The Palace was originally built in the 1930’s by George 533 London Avenue, Egg Harbor City, NJ 08215 Seabrook Educational & Cultural Center from the familiar materials of auto parts in his youth. William’s Upper Deerfield Township Municipal Building Daynor following a vision. A place of drama and intrigue for many of Vineland’s young, it is being rebuilt from recycled stone, recent work advertises A&A Auto Salvage. Galloway 1325 Highway 77, Seabrook, NJ 08302 Continue tour to Buena Vista Twp. 5 miles, 7 min. > 7 (856) 451- 8393 brick, cement and interesting artifacts. Kevin Kirchner and Jeffrey Stanley & Dorothy Hammel’s Mon –Thurs, 9:00 am –noon Tirante, with the help of many, are rebuilding the Palace and Glass Trees Fascinating and largely unknown history of a small culturally di - building community as they go. Check out their Facebook page William Clark’s Junkyard Robots 4 202 W. Jimmy Leeds Road, verse town, but predominately Japanese Americans relocated for planned activities. A haunted house occurs around Halloween. 1011 Rt 54, Buena Vista Twp, Galloway, NJ 08205 from internment camps during WWII. Continue tour to Deptford 28.8 miles 29 min. > NJ 08094 (south of Hammonton) Telephone pole trees decorat - Robot-like people, animals and birds, mostly ed with antique glass electric Hopewell Deptford created from junked auto parts and cash insulators grow behind the in - 10 13 registers, play music, garden, play sports, or sulator fences in this pine Gary Ecret’s Wood Sculptures Fairy Garden 501 Shiloh Pike, Bridgeton, NJ 08302 Corner of Rt 41 and Rt 564 just hang along Rt. 54. This is a changing barren yard. Stanley began walking the old railroad bed and col - Rt 49, West of Bridgeton Deptford, NJ 08096 and recycling exhibit. lecting after he retired from working as a carpenter. He has Bird houses in all sizes and shapes Immerse yourself in this miniature passed on since the writing of the book. Enjoy from the road and Optional Stop: Nearby African American Heritage and other yard art line this old high - land of European fairytales created by watch the dappled sunlight play with the translucent glass. Museum of Southern NJ way in front of Gary Ecret’s house. A Joseph Laux using local stone, Return to Perkins, 30 Irvin Avenue 48 miles, 54 min. > 661 Jackson Rd, Newtonville, NJ 08346 self-taught and self-defined Wood chunks of jersey glass, broken tiles, Continue tour to EL&M Auto Recycling 8.1 miles 12 min. > Optional Stop: Noyes Museum and the Edwin B Forsythe Artist, Gary uses recycled wild wood china and knickknacks, shells and ce - National Wildlife Refuge. with salvaged weathered wood ment. Please park carefully and enjoy 733 Lily Lake Rd, Oceanville, NJ 08231 planks. Knock on his door if you are from the road. (609) 652-8848 interested in buying anything. 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