Our Mission
Superior Arts Institute mission is to provide the greater Camden area with an artistic outlet for residents to embark upon a compelling experience utilizing advocacy through the art of Dance, Acting, Film, and Production Management. The organization partners with local schools and community organizations to develop conscious skilled, superior artists.
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Current Projects
Town Hall: Resolution 50
Superior Arts is proud to partner with The Trust for Public Land in the creation of “Town Hall: Resolution 50,” made possible through funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town grant. "Town Hall" will premiere on October 23, 2021 2-5 pm at North Gate Park. “Town Hall,” offers a guide to navigating advocacy through the arts. By joining the audience, you are asked to think critically about personal, community and governmental responsibility, and to collectively make sense of environmental injustices that are difficult to reconcile with the popular and historical American messages of equality and democracy.
Blackology:101
Blackology:101 is our Black Lives Matter statement in art. When realized, Blackology is a trilogy that will provide three years of robust programming for Superior Arts. This program is our main priority and scaling it is our 3-year goal. Blackology 101 is the first component that is targeted to high school students and their experience. Blackology 102, the second component, will be targeted to college students and subsequently, their experience. Blackology 103, the final component of the trilogy, will be a culmination of the black lived experience and will seek to capture how that experience aligned or misaligned with the American dream. The Trilogy. Blackology is envisioned as an immersive, theatrical experience that happens in real space as well as digitally.
Environmental Justice Through Theater
Superior Arts Institute, a Camden-based non-profit dedicated to bringing awareness to social injustices through interactive, artistic experiences, is proud to announce a partnership with the Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit that creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations. This partnership, made possible in part by funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, will result is a performing arts and community storytelling project centered around experiences of environmental injustice in Camden.
Meet the Executive Director
Samir Nichols is a 25 year-old Camden native who has a community activist spirit and works hard to bring awareness to community and social issues through theater arts awareness, He refers to his self and his team as “gladiators in Suits". At age 14 he constructed a non-profit to support an “Arts in Education” platform that allows Camden City scholars the ability to express themselves through dance and musical arts.
Most recently, Samir has served as Artistic Facilitator to Rutgers University, Yorkship Elementary School, Hatch Family School, and Coopers Poynt School providing students with a rigorous training in performing arts. Samir is a firm believer that everyone has a dream and is entitled to live out that dream as he has, and it is his job and reasonability to be a beacon of hope for young artistic pioneers to not only serve artistically, but civically as well.
In The News.
Local Arts Organization to Spread Awareness of Environmental Racism with National Partner
Local Arts Organization to Spread Awareness of Environmental Racism with National Partner
Local Arts Organization to Spread Awareness of Environmental Racism with National Partner
“It’s going to be an immersive experience,” said Briana Melendez, a member of Superior’s creative team of the event. “It’s mostly about the (residents’) response to” issues impacting the city like illegal dumping, brown fields and flooding, she said. “Not a lot of people know this is really happening to them.”
Forest Hill Tree Planting Highlights First of Camden Art Sanctuaries
Local Arts Organization to Spread Awareness of Environmental Racism with National Partner
Local Arts Organization to Spread Awareness of Environmental Racism with National Partner
“We’re going to bring that feel to the city. This is going to be the first-ever outdoor art sanctuary, where we’ll be able to build sets,” Nichols said, pointing to a trail off Wildwood Avenue along the Cooper River. “And it kind of already looks like a theater.”
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Camden Arts, Neighborhood Groups Partner for Parkside Arts Pavilion Project
Camden Arts, Neighborhood Groups Partner for Parkside Arts Pavilion Project
Camden Arts, Neighborhood Groups Partner for Parkside Arts Pavilion Project
At age 14, Camden resident Samir Nichols established the Superior Arts Institute to support an “Arts in Education” platform that allows Camden City scholars the ability to express themselves through dance and musical arts.
"Committing to the Arts Plan" unveiled in Camden
Camden Arts, Neighborhood Groups Partner for Parkside Arts Pavilion Project
Camden Arts, Neighborhood Groups Partner for Parkside Arts Pavilion Project
The plan includes professional development opportunities for artists, workshops, grant-writing seminars and programs for adults and children.
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