The new juried fine art exhibition “Coast,” on display through Aug. 16 at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies, is the first of its kind in the main gallery.

According to art juror Michelle Donnelly, a curator with the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art, the call brought in “several hundred submissions” from New Jersey artists eager to express their feelings and ideas about the state’s eastern border. Sixty-five works were selected.

“The works in this exhibition engage with the coast as an edge, a threshold, a point of convergence,” Donnelly wrote in…