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Check out the Newark Arts and Music Festival this June 9th!
June 2 - 16, 2007 Thank you for subscribing to
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Downtown Newark, NJ 07102
Saturday June 9, 10am - 10pm | Free!
Recognizing the fact that the City of Newark is rapidly growing economically, politically, socially and culturally, a group of motivated local business owners, artists and residents formed a committee to organize the Newark Arts & Music Festival @ Halsey Village (NAMF) taking place on Saturday, June 9th from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. The colorful festival will be held on Halsey Street between Central Avenue and Bleeker Street, showcasing exhibits and talents of local and regional artists and musicians, live performances, a sculpture garden, imaginative children?s activities and vendors from throughout the NY/NJ region.
During the day, audiences of all ages can participate in a variety of activities including interactive art exhibits and games; a sculpture garden; turning glass into art; two butterfly releases and fire engine exploration with The Newark Museum; as well as experience local galleries including Aljira and RedSaw. Children?s entertainment includes interactive activities such as creating a mural, face painting, art demonstrations and puppet making.
Two outdoor soundstages will feature a diverse roster of live music performed by bands from throughout Jersey and NYC. The Kootz kick off the festival at 11am with their style described as "classic rock with fiber". Bands and music genres range from Oasis Steel Drum ensemble to the Latin sounds of 3D; locally popular indie rock faves Frances, Kite Operation, My Teenage Stride and American Watercolor Movement; surf rock sounds of Coffin Daggers; Big Train toot their horns; Jazz talent Bradford Hayes plays his sax and B Soul get psychedelic. The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Greater Newark Youth Orchestra will perform a few sets, and 14-year old Miss Nana represents the teenage rap movement. Additional festivities will take place inside participating bars and restaurants in the area including 27Mix and Kilkenny Alehouse.
Newark Art and Music Festival Website
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Redsaw Gallery
285 Broad St,
Newark NJ 07102
Reception Saturday, June 2, 6 - 9 pm
Through June 27th | Reception may 11th 6 - 9 pm | Free!
Red Saw Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by emerging artist Erika Diamond.
Set before us are unusual and intricate works referential of the body through both medium and execution. Diamond?s delicate constructions utilizing the organic, textural materials of peeled grape and onion skins to grass and human hair explore the concepts of control, containment and obsession.
At first glance, it is not entirely evident how the artist has obtained these exact line drawings and fragile, wafer like sculptures. However upon closer inspection, the line drawings reveal their medium of human hair or sometimes grass, and the suspended wafer thin sculptures unmask themselves as the reconstructed skins of onions. The works are obsessive in nature, and the masterful repetition of organic forms is breathtakingly beautiful. The completed pieces are as much about process as the end product. Diamond has literally peeled us a grape ? make that several hundred ? or, as in her Epidermis series - unraveled the outer layers of an onion, and carefully stitched them back together, suspending them in mid-air like ornaments or floating cocoons. The ephemeral nature of her work challenges traditional ideologies of permanence and material. Diamond has crafted and painstakingly executed wonderful marvels of patience.
curated by Dave Smith
Also exhibiting: Artwork by Discovery Charter School Students in Redsaw's Reception Gallery
Paintings by Phil Shimko at 27 Mix (and more work by Charter Students in the back!)
RedSaw Website
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Aferro
73 Market St.
Downtown Newark, New Jersey
June 16-July 14, 2007 | | Free!
Opening Reception Saturday June 16, from 6-9:30 PM
"Cause when I look in his eyes/I can see it, paradise " - The Jellybeans
"It ain't a mystery/Baby not to me." -The Misfits
Gallery Aferro presents 5 artists working from within the landscape genre. "Someday This Will All Be (something else)" is about being a local, locally or otherwise, about what agenda nostalgia might serve, and about remembering the view. The ruin, the home town, the block, the unofficial monument and the front yard all get the benefit of the long view, the last look, or the look backwards.
Artists: Dylan Chatain, Evonne Davis, Tim Maul, Conor McGrady, Laurinda Stockwell
Curated by Emma Wilcox
With essay by Tim Maul
Installation on live sod by Evonne Davis
We are also proud to present film by Gianluca Bianchino and Jonathan Franco in our (brand new) New Media Room
We are having the following events in collaboration with Liberation in Truth Social Justice Center:
June 12 Queer Black Cinema (New Media Room 8-10 PM)
June 15 Film Screening & Youth Discussion (New Media Room 4-7 PM)
Current open calls on website:
"Desideratum" Due July 23
"In The Country of Last Refuge" Due August 15
Aferro Website
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A dedicated group of young artists and teachers from Arts High and West Side High Schools visited museums, galleries and artists¹ studios to survey a range of work and ideas in contemporary art. The Culture Creators' ten-week studio program focused on producing work for the current installation. Through the mentorship of a project coordinator, contemporary curators, museum educators, and an exhibition designer, the Culture Creators' curatorial team organized this exhibition.
Rose Oluronke Ojo, Coordinator and Instructor
This exhibition is in continued remembrance of the founder of this program, Eathon G. Hall Jr.
April 28th, 2007 - June 30th, 2007
Contemporary artist Franco Mondini-Ruiz has created a site-specific installation with a humorous twist by commissioning piñata makers from his hometown of San Antonio, Texas to copy masterpieces of modern and contemporary art.
This exhibition is in conjunction with The Newark Museum's historical exhibition Mexicana: Discovering Mexican Popular Arts, 1919-1950.
Aljira Website
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The Newark Museum
49 Washington Street, Newark
May 23, 2007 - August 19, 2007, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday | museum admission
Hopper's much-loved view inside a grand New York City movie theater is the inspiration for this exhibition that examines the subjects of the painting - both architectural and human - in order to investigate not only Hopper's artistic and personal world, but also the flourishing movie culture of the 1930s in America. Movies were a revitalizing source for Hopper; to understand his work - from its striking perspectives to its lonely figures - one must look to contemporaneous cinematic sources, both on the screen and behind the scenes.
Highlights include 10 rarely seen studies that Hopper executed for the final painting, as well as archival photographs of the Greenwich Village theater before it was demolished in 1969. Placing Hopper in context with his contemporaries, the exhibition also showcases a selection of oils, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs created by his peers (including Reginald Marsh and John Sloan) who similarly were inspired by the architecture and inhabitants of movie houses. At the Movies: Edward Hopper's "The Sheridan Theatre" peels back the layers of meaning in this highly compelling work. This is the initial exhibition in the Museum's new series that closely examines a specific work in its permanent American art collection.
The Newark Museum
49 Washington Street, Newark
May 6, 2007 - August 5, 2007, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday | museum admission
This exhibition traces the development of 20th century studio glass from decorative arts, growing out of the arts and crafts movement, to contemporary sculpture using glass as a primary artistic medium.
Drawing on the collections of The Newark Museum and of Dena and Ralph Lowenbach, the works on view demonstrate both the precursors and the evolution of contemporary studio glass and illustrate the enormous breadth of work in the field today.
The Newark Museum
49 Washington Street, Newark
April 28 - Novemeber 25th | museum admission
This exhibition offers a critical view of The Newark Museum's little known, yet significant Mexican popular art collection acquired or donated between 1919 and 1950, during a highpoint of interest in Mexico. Mexicana offers both insights into how museum collections reflect larger cultural trends and introduces Mexico's varied and rich artistic traditions to new audiences.
Newark Museum Website
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City Without Walls
6 Crawford Street
Newark, NJ 07102
ph: 973.622.1188
JUNE 14 - JULY 13, 2007 | Free!
12 Aspiring Young Artists 12 Professional Artist Mentors 15 Years of award winning arts education programing.
City Without Walls Website
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see you next week (S***)
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