Schedule

Tour the Grounds!

10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Casual attire, but wear good walking shoes

All day leading up to the wedding, our guests will be granted free access to the Grounds for Sculpture, a 42-acre sculpture park, museum, and arboretum founded on the site of the former New Jersey State Fairgrounds. leading up to the wedding. A Little About the Grounds: Outdoors, nearly 300 contemporary sculptures are sited across 42 landscaped acres. Indoors, temporary exhibitions from established and emerging artists are featured in six galleries. Founded by artist and philanthropist Seward Johnson and opened in 1992 on the former NJ State Fairgrounds and was a natural extension of its predecessor, The Johnson Atelier. Hundreds of artists studied and produced work at the Atelier, and Johnson saw the potential of the neighboring bygone fairgrounds as a place where artwork could be sited within the landscape, and visitors could delight in discovering contemporary sculpture.