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May Update from
The Center
Greetings!
Spring classes are underway, summer camps are starting to fill up and "Hooray for May!" is just over one week away. The four spring exhibits will remain on view through the end of the month-you will not want to miss them!
Please read on...
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Mural by "Hooray for May!" featured artist Dan Fenelon
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"Hooray for May!," a free family art day, will take place on Saturday, May 10th from 1-4 p.m. at The Center.
The event is offered free of charge to the public thanks to generous sponsorship support from Investors Bank. According to Antie Celli, Pluckemin Branch Manager, "At Investors we believe in supporting our communities. We're proud of sponsoring events such as "Hooray for May!" that bring families together for a day of fun and creativity."
"Hooray for May!" will be a fun day of making art with hands on projects in all three art studios and in the outdoor park pavilion. There will be crafts for Mother's Day gift giving, projects to take home, and creative community group projects. Family gallery tours will be available throughout the afternoon, as well as a do-it-yourself creative photo booth.
Banners created by families at "Hooray for May!" with guidance by New Jersey artist and muralist Dan Fenelon, will be prominently displayed in Local Business Sponsor locations after the event.
In addition to Investors Bank, many Local Business Sponsors and In Kind Sponsors have pitched in to support "Hooray for May!"
Local Business Sponsors include:
Delicious Heights; J.M. Stringer Gallery of Fine Art; Mauro, Savo, Camerino, Grant & Schalk, PA; Princeton Public Affairs Group, Inc.; Somerset County Business Partnership; Valley Integrative Pharmacy; and Ventura, Miesowitz, Keough & Warner, P.C.
In Kind Sponsors include:
Asian Food Market; Blick Art Materials; Edible Arrangements; Herr's Foods, Inc.; Friendly's; Nasco Arts and Crafts; Shop Rite of Bernardsville; Staples; The Stone Center at Bridgewater; Valley Integrative Pharmacy; and Wegmans.
We are very grateful for this wonderful show of community support. See you on May 10th!
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Spring and Summer
Classes, Art Camps & Workshops
The spring session of classes and workshops for children and adults is underway with new classes starting this month. See the side bar for May workshops for adults including a special two-day mosaic workshop led by artist Becky Santora.
Registration is ongoing for The Center's popular weekly summer art camps which begin June 30th and run for nine weeks through August. Give your child or grandchild a creative summer to remember!
And remember that shorter sessions of adult afternoon and evening classes are offered all summer long to fit in with your vacation schedule. Because of the full schedule of children's summer art camps, offerings are limited and spaces fill quickly.
Browse all 2014 summer programs
Browse all spring 2014 classes
View a flip book of the spring & summer 2014 brochure
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"The Gift" by Rebecca Simon, winner of the 2013 Juried Exhibit Exhibitions Committee Solo Exhibit Award
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Exhibition Opportunities
Pop-Up Ceramics Exhibit Next month we are squeezing in a "Pop-Up Ceramics Exhibit" and Open House before the Members' exhibit opens on June 20th. All ceramics students and faculty members are invited to participate. Questions? Speak with your individual instructor.
Members' Non-juried Exhibit
The Center's members are invited to participate in this annual non-juried exhibit. The show is eagerly anticipated by artists and art appreciators alike. Rachael Faillace, Executive Director at Rahway Arts District, Inc., will judge the work and select six pieces for awards. She is a visual artist and the former Assistant Director of Arts Guild New Jersey and Gallery Director at the Art School at Old Church. She has a BFA in Illustration, Rhode Island School of Design and MFA in Visual Arts, Mason Gross School of the Arts.
The entry form will arrive shortly by mail and is also available on The Center's website.
2014 International Juried Exhibit
Entries are now being accepted for The Center's third annual juried exhibit. We are please to welcome Evonne Davis as this year's juror. Evonne is Co-founder and Artistic Director of Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ. (visit at aferro.org), as well as a working artist. She has also served as the Gallery and Education Director for City Without Walls. Evonne studied at the School of Visual Arts and Cornell University. She has worked with youth in many contexts, including teaching creative writing workshops to LGBT youth, overseeing the ArtReach program at City Without Walls, acting as a mentor and serving on the Arts High School Advisory Committee. Evonne has curated independent and affiliated exhibitions for the past 14 years in innovative as well as traditional settings.
Three cash prizes will be awarded by the juror, and in addition, The Center's exhibitions Committee will select an artist for a solo exhibit in 2015. "Solo Exhibitions of New Works: Rebecca Simon and Dana McElroy" shows the work of two artists selected from the 2013 exhibit.
Enter online or download the forms on our website.
Good luck!
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Great classes and workshops, excellent exhibits and a free family event - one way or another you should
will find your way to The Center this month!
Elie
Elie Porter Trubert
Executive Director
The Center for Contemporary Art
2020 Burnt Mills Road
Bedminster, NJ 07921
(908) 234-2345
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Hooray for May! Saturday, May 10th from 1-4 p.m.!
Free!
Spring Exhibits
March 31 - May 31
- SOFT: Elisa D'Arrigo, Jeff Hand, Derick Melander & Lucy White
- New Works by Dana McElroy & Rebecca Simon
- "Breathing" by Garam Lee (on view through December 13
with Wes Sherman
Thursday, May 15th
11 am-1 pm
Click here for more information or to register:
Pop-Up Ceramics Exhibit & Open House Exhibit: June 9-12
Open House: June 12
5-7 pm
Opening Reception for Members' Non-Juried Exhibit Friday, June 20th
6-8 pm
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May
Workshops for
Adults
352-Loosen Up Your Watercolors
With W. Carl Burger
Thursday, May 15 10:00 AM-3:00 PM
Tuition: $110.00
Member Tuition: $89.00
358-Painting with a Palette Knife
with Yelena Piatagorsky
Friday, May 30
9:30 AM-2:30 PM
Tuition: $110.00
Member Tuition: $89.00
364-Mosaic Workshop
With Becky Santora
Saturdays May 31 & June 7
9:30 AM-2:30 PM
Tuition: $220.00
Member Tuition: $178.00
Click on the links above for detailed descriptions or to register!
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Earth Day Visitors
Thank you to a hard-working group of young students and their teachers from The Willow School who spent Earth Day 2014 cleaning up the grounds and creating beautiful planters for The Center's entrance!
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