ATRIUM GALLERY
Art in the Atrium's 18th Annual Exhibit and Sale of African American Art

"Wonderfully Made"**

January 29, 2010 - March 18, 2010
Atrium Gallery, 10 Court Street
Morristown, NJ

The Closing Reception
Thursday, March 18, 2010
6 to 8 pm

with a book signing and remarks by featured artist Deborah Willis, PhD , curator of the phenomenal achievement

"Posing Beauty: African American Images From the 1890s to the Present"

and a Special Memorial Program dedicated to the Life and Art of Russell Aldo Murray

Signed copies of Posing Beauty will be available!

To purchase Posing Beauty and other popular items NOW, shop the ATA STORE!

For more information including a list of participating artists, please visit www.artintheatrium.org

**"I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well" Psalm 139:14

JERSEY CITY MUSEUM
Hair Tactics
Guest curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado

Hair Tactics explores hair as subject matter and medium. Increasingly, artists have begun to use both real and synthetic human hair to create works of art. Some use synthetic hair because it is widely and inexpensively available in urban neighborhoods, others because it is laden with social and political meaning, and still others because they are exploring the human obsession with hair. Texts written in hair, fancy hair motifs used to decorate a love letter, extravagant and multi-colored wigs, drawings featuring hair-covered bodies, and ladies with elaborate up-dos are all featured in Hair Tactics. The exhibition includes works in a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, prints, photographs, video, and installation.

Artists in the exhibition: Manuel Acevedo, Amina Ahmed, Elia Alba, Firelei Báez, Nina Lola Bacchuber, Melody Boone, Melissa Calderón, Ursula Endlicher, Zachary Fabri, Carson Fox, Chitra Ganesh, Asha Ganpat, Bill Gaskins, Renée Green, Hermanas Iglesias (Janelle and Lisa Iglesias), Kristina Jacob, Tamara Kostianovsky, Jessica Lagunas, Simone Leigh, Sharon Louden, Felicia Megginson, Irvin Morazán, Omar Obdulio Peña Forty, Sa’dia Rehman, Kenya (Robinson), Nadine Robinson, Roger Sayre, Roger Tucker III, Quintín Rivera-Toro, Jayoung Yoon, and So Yoon Lym.

Reception: March 5, 5-8pm

Jersey City Museum
350 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302
www.jerseycitymuseum.org

Gallery hours
Wednesday thru Friday: 11am to 5pm
Saturday: 12pm to 5pm

NEWARK MUSEUM
Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-1950s

The first exhibition to bring together South American and US geometric abstraction, Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s features more than 90 works by 70 artists from Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Constructive Spirit examines the connections, both conceptual and personal, among abstract artists, suggesting parallels that cut across time, national borders, and a range of media, including paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, drawings and films. Featured artists include Alexander Calder, Joaquín Torres-García, Jesús Rafael Soto, Gyula Kosice, Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Geraldo de Barros and many others.

Constructive Spirit includes many never-before-seen works from the Newark Museum's preeminent collection of US art, as well as major loans from acclaimed private and public collections and galleries across both continents.

Complementing the exhibition are related programs and events. On Saturday, April 10 from 10 am to 5 pm the Newark Museum and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros will present an international symposium that will offer new perspectives on South American and US abstract artists including John Ferren, Juan Melé, Charles Biederman, Gego, Josef Albers and Lygia Pape. Other related programs include a lecture series, gallery talks and family events.

Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s is accompanied by a major publication of the same name that will be available February 2010 at the Newark Museum Shop. Fully illustrated and co-published by Pomegranate Press, it features seven essays that place North and South American abstraction in dialogue. Authors include Karen A. Bearor, Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Aliza Edelman, Adele Nelson, Mary Kate O'Hare and Cecilia de Torres. The 196-page publication will be available in hardcover for $39.95. Call 973-596-6696 to pre-order your copy today.

Major exhibition support provided by: Prudential, the Museum's Centennial sponsor, National Endowment for the Arts, Henry Luce Foundation, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Johnson & Johnson, Richmond County Savings Foundation, Consulate General of Brazil in New York, and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Catalogue support is provided by Mr. Samuel C. Miller, Director Emeritus of the Newark Museum, in memory of Rosetta Miller, and the Society for the Preservation of American Modernists.

Early Childhood Initiative support provided by TD Charitable Foundation.

NEWARK MUSEUM
49 WASHINGTON ST
NEWARK, NJ 0710

ARTS GUILD NEW JERSEY
Arts Guild New Jersey (formerly The Arts Guild of Rahway), presents ENABLED, an exhibition of art by artists with disabilities, in collaboration with VSA arts of New Jersey, Arts Access Program at the Matheny Medical & Educational Center of Peapack, NJ, and The WAE Center of West Orange, NJ. The exhibit will run February 19 – March 12, 2010, at Arts Guild New Jersey, 1670 Irving Street in Rahway, NJ. The public is invited to attend the opening reception on Sunday, February 21, from 1:00 to 4:00 PM. Light refreshments will be served. Admission to the exhibit and reception is free. The facilities are wheelchair accessible.

Featured NJ-based artists include: Stanley Bednarz, Dennis Berhardt, Chet Cheesman, Joyce Collura, Allison Doatch, Jay Feldman, Janet Kolstein, David Lakra, Daniel Malinsky, Robert Otterbine, Kayana Schultz, Cindy Shanks, Kasey Tarauj, and Lisa Zampano.

Gallery hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 1-4 PM. The exhibit can also be viewed during our regular office hours: 9 AM-12 PM & 1-4 PM, Monday through Friday. Free parking is available in the parking lot behind the building on Seminary Avenue.

ARTS GUILD NEW JERSEY
1670 Irving Street
Rahway, New Jersey
(732) 381-7511
Artsguild1670@verizon.net
www.rahwayartsguild.org

NEW JERSEY ARTS INCUBATER GALLERY
TERRA

The prospective and the themes related to TERRA (Earth/Soil/Land) have a vast range and the twenty artists selected for this exhibit explore them in many different ways: as an inner research, as a social investigation, anthropological study and more - using a variety of medium from 2-D mixed media and painting to 3-D installation, sculpture and video. The result is an outstanding mental, spiritual and physical experience in to a welcoming and soothing environment through the Terra’s outstanding artwork collection.

“We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth”. George Bernard Shaw

OPENING RECEPTION: February 20th from 6 to 9 PM

Artists: Krystle Lemonias, Susan Lisbin, Juile Saypoff, Helaine Soller, Lisa Westheimer, Hollie Heller, Bill Westheimer, vanOs, Mike Malbrough, Sterling Brown, Jody Lee, Robert Lach, Mansa Mussa, Carol BlackLemon, Heidi Sussman, Doreen Valenza, Guerilla Galleries, Sue Karnet.

Gallery hours: Saturday and Sunday 1pm to 5pm and by appointment.

Curator: Lorena La Grassa

www.njai.org.

STUDIO THEATER GALLERY OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY COLLEGE
Postponed: Site of Departure, Source of Arrival
Curated by: Kathryn Myers

Studio Theatre Gallery and Performing Arts Center
Middlesex County College
2600 Woodbridge Ave.
Edison, NJ 08818

February 25th - March 25th
Opening: February 25th 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

ARTISTS
Sonia Chaudhary
Raghava KK
Ruby Chishti
Indrani Nayar-Gall
Asha Ganpat
and Satyakam Saha.

COLONNADE GALLERY
"Visual Magic"

An exciting new exhibit, featuring the work of five distinguished and exciting artists:

Abby Levine, Lavette Ballard, Nancy Nikkal, Alice Harrison, and Jason Gluskin

Opening Reception: February 27, 6-8 pm

Colonnade Gallery
51 Clifton Ave
Newark, NJ
973 484-9750
www.colonnadegallery.com

ALJIRA, A CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Event: Aljira's new exhibitions + Shop Aljira open Feb 27
"Featuring solo projects by JENNY SALOMON and ETHAN SHOSHAN, and a special group exhibition based on Aljira's temporary collection!!"
On view February 27-April 17, 2010
Reception: Thursday, March 25, 2010
6-9pm

Shop Aljira
Featuring unique t-shirts by EmergeNEXT artists Michael Paul Britto, Brendan Fernandes, Jerry Gant, Jenny Salomon. And Aljira's catalogs are on sale to benefit Aljira's exhibitions, public programs, and educational program for youth.

Dreamtime overtones from a fantastic brown planet
Special exhibition of works primarily from Aljira's temporary collection with a curatorial focus on the color brown. Artists include Pacita Abad, Pablo Agudelo, Keith Anderson, Firelei Baez, Suzanne Bocanegra, Matthew Burcaw, Matthew Fischer, Gerard H. Gaskin, Lennon Jno-Baptiste, Richard Koppe, Russell Murray, Kenya (Robinson), Ryan Roth, Juan Sanchez, Carlos Sandoval de Leon, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Wahala Temi, Megan Williams and more.

Her Dark Materials by Jenny Salomon
An EmergeNEXT exhibition of hybrid drawings to expose aspects of the emotive self that might normally be concealed.

I'm thinking of you even when I'm kissing another boy by Ethan Shoshan
New York-based artist Shoshan presents an intimate collection of objects—some art, some ephemera, some gifted, some found—each presented with a narrative to bring the inanimate to life.

Additional Programs
• Live Storytelling by Ethan Shoshan every Saturday, 2-4pm, during run of the exhibition
• Intimate Portraits film screening: March 11, 7-9pm
Co-presented by MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival
This film screening presents a series of autobiographical stories of personal, social, and political experiences confronting relationships of desire and alienation. Works are by artists Jamika Ajalon, Dino Dinco, Mónica Enríquez, Leor Grady, Dana Inkster, Vince Mascoli, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Matt Palazzolo, Timothy Smith, and X'Ho.

Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art
591 Broad Street, Newark, NJ
973 622-1600
www.aljira.org

ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE ART GALLERY
Catfish Friday Women's Art Collective presents

Sanctuary for the Beloved

March 1 - 27, 2010

curated by Sadee Brathwaite

Featuring: Janice Anderson Kathleen Heron Diana Jensen Shonda Nicholas Shirley Parker Benjamin Lynn Presley Toni Thomas

Essex County College Art Gallery 303 University Avenue Newark, NJ 07102

Opening Reception: Thursday March 4, 5 - 8pm Featuring Poetry by Shonda Nicholas

Artist Talk: Tuesday March 16, 5:30 - 7pm Siegler Hall, Room 2132

NEWARK SYMPHONY HALL
Newark Symphony Hall presents
Modern Dance Classes with Aimee Cox

Terrace Ballroom

February 17 - April 21
Wednesdays 6:30PM - 8PM

To sign up for classes or for more information, please contact: Nicole Davis at 973-643-4550; ext: 100 or ndavis@newarksymphonyhall.org

Adults Only (18+ years of age)
$12 per class; $100 for a ten-class pass

https://www.newarksymphonyhall.org/index.php

Newark Symphony Hall

BOX OFFICE ADDRESS:
1030 Broad Street
Newark, New Jersey

TELEPHONE:
(973) 643-8014

HOURS:
Box Office hours are:
10am - 6pm Monday - Friday
10am - 3pm Saturday
Closed Sunday

CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF THE SACRED HEART
Wednesday at Noon

Organ Recital with Andrew Scanlon – East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

(Free-will Offering)

SEED GALLERY
Every Wednesday: Show & Tell, Open Mic at Seed Gallery

Sign up at 7:30 Show starts at 8pm

Live painting and Sculpting encouraged, Musicians, Poets, Rants, Philosophical discussions

Free and Open to Streams of consciousness and collaborations between Artisans

Refreshments and bake sale available

$5 suggested donation

239 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102
PH:917.607.4440
email: seedgallery@mac.com
web: http://www.newarkseed.com