(MORRISTOWN, NJ)-- Medhavi Patel, Grade 11, Randolph High School and JR Perez, Grade 9 Boonton High School, were selected as the winners of Mayo Performing Arts Center’s annual student art cover contest.  The winning works will appear on MPAC program book covers later this season, handed out at evening events. Approximately 10,000 will see their works on MPAC program book covers.... READ ON

(GLASSBORO, NJ) -- Rowan University Art Gallery presents Tracing Origins, a group exhibition that brings together three Philadelphia-based artists, Colette Fu,Claes Gabriel, and Hiro Sakaguchi, who create work inspired by their ancestral homelands and native cultures. Pulling from personal memories, experiences, and familial influences, their stories are expressed through photography, paper engineering, painting, and sculpture. The exhibit runs from March 23 through June 6, 2020.... READ ON

(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- PRIME Gallery presents HANDS UP (A Campaign for Peace) showcasing a group exhibition of local North Jersey artists coming together to raise awareness of our campaign for peace and to promote love and unity through various forms of art and expression. The exhibition runs from February 28 through May 3.... READ ON

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, in collaboration with the Moscow Design Museum, presents the first exhibition in the United States to explore Soviet industrial design from the postwar era. While creative innovation in design flourished in the Soviet Union in the years between 1959 and 1989, limitations in both fabrication processes and consumer circulation resulted in production shortages and left many design ideas unmade. ... READ ON

(ASBURY PARK, NJ)-- art 629 Gallery presents "Women's Work" featuring the work of 14 artists, curated by Brittany James. The exhibit, which runs from March 7 through April 27, is a showcase of art in different media from artists across the country. 2020 is the 100-year anniversary of the Suffrage Movement in America. To honor this occasion, most of the art chosen for this exhibit is focused on women’s rights, past and present. ... READ ON

(UPPER FREEHOLD, NJ) --  Enjoy an up close view into the fascinating lives of raptors when the Monmouth County Park System offers Hunters of the Sky: Live Owl and Raptor Presentation.  Held on Friday, March 27 at the Clayton Park Activity Center from 7:00pm to 8:00pm, this live presentation features raptors from the Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge.  ... READ ON

(PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ) -- Starting Saturday, February 29, 2020, West Windsor Arts Council will be hosting a series of music and dance performances, film screenings and other events in its versatile gallery space. The series, called “Tin Ceiling Presents...”  will showcase regional talent representing a broad range of genres.... READ ON

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers invites the public to attend exclusive programming at Art After Hours: First Tuesdays on March 3 from 5:00pm to 9:00pm. The evening features curator-led tours of “It makes me think of that awful day…” The Natural World in the Anthropocene and A Celebration of the Children’s Books of Vladimir Radunsky, as well as a performance by violinist Suliman Tekalli, the State Theatre New Jersey Artist-in-Residence, in partnership with the Center for Musical Excellence. In addition, Mason Gross jazz students Vaughn Stavropoulos (keyboard) and Ian Young (bass) perform throughout the evening. Art After Hours is free and open to the public, with complimentary refreshments. ... READ ON

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- "Life in the Garden" -- Stony Brook Garden Club's 2020 juried exhibition of members’ photography-- may be viewed in D&R Greenway’s Olivia Rainbow Gallery through March 27.  Nature photographs were requested for categories of “Residents / Guests / Interlopers” (pollinators); “Constructing Beauty”; and “Winter’s Tale.” Best in Show was awarded by discriminating judges from the Garden Club of America to Novice Julie Tennant. This sub-category emphasizes the crucial role of pollinators in our gardens. ... READ ON

(NEW YORK, NY) -- New Jersey artist Marsha Heller returns to Ceres Gallery in March, the first gallery in New York City devoted to showcasing and promoting the work of women artists.  Heller's new work highlights nature's vistas in her second solo exhibition, 'Fragments of Beauty', from March 3 through March 28, 2020. ... READ ON