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Garden State Art Weekend to Take Place April 17-19

(EAST ORANGE, NJ) -- Garden State Art Weekend (GSAW), a statewide celebration of New Jersey's visual arts, will return for a third consecutive year. Running from April 17–19, 2026, the festival will transform the state into an expansive art crawl featuring exhibitions, open studios, and community arts events.

GlassRoots Celebrates A Quarter Century Of Sparking Change In New Jersey's Biggest City and Beyond

(NEWARK, NJ) -- Twenty five years ago, GlassRoots started as a table and two torches at the Boys and Girls Club of Newark. A small number of students joined them once a week for an after school flameworking class. A few years later, they moved into their current space at 10 Bleeker Street: a 5,000 square foot glass art center that serves 5,000 individuals annually. Collectively, they've reached 40,000 people over the past 25 years and currently offer a dozen programs serving participants ages 8 - 80.

Gallery on Grant's latest exhibit celebrates Women's History Month

(DEAL PARK, NJ) -- Throughout the ages, women have had pivotal roles in history. To celebrate these achievements and in honor of Women's History Month, the Gallery on Grant, located in the lobby of the Axelrod Performing Arts Center in Deal Park, is exhibiting a collection of artwork depicting women as the main subject.

Gallery Bergen presents "OMG" featuring works by Graham Elliott

(PARAMUS, NJ) -- Gallery Bergen, the visual arts presentation space of Bergen Community College, presents a new exhibition by one of its extraordinary faculty members, illustrator and motion graphics creative Graham Elliott. "OMG" will feature two tents erected inside the gallery to house secular shrines to lost keys, sketchbooks, projections, "wallbooks," installations, and looped motion graphics and videos. Some of the pieces include collaborations with Graham's former and current BCC students. The exhibit is on display from February 26 - April 10, 2026.

Art House Productions presents "Black is The New Black"

(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- Art House Productions presents Black Is The New Black, a group exhibition curated by Bryant Small. The exhibition will be on view at the Art House Gallery from Saturday, February 7 through Sunday, March 1, 2026. It brings together six artists whose practices demonstrate the expressive power, conceptual range, and visual intensity of working in monochrome.

Can Creativity Be Automated? Gallery 14C Says No.

(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- Gallery 14C presents Art (Official) Intelligence: The Human Hand in an Algorithmic World from February 19 – April 2, 2026. This is the culminating exhibition of the Project 14C 2025–2026 Artists-in-Residence program. Featuring work by the program's inaugural cohort, the exhibition brings together artists working across painting, sculpture, textiles, digital media, and performance to consider what it means to create at a moment when automation and machine-generated imagery increasingly shape visual culture.

Trenton City Museum presents "Trenton Makes Jazz" Exhibition

(TRENTON, NJ) -- Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie presents Trenton Makes Jazz, a juried exhibition celebrating Trenton's jazz scene, past and present. The varied array of 80 works by 48 area artists is inspired by jazz music, musicians, venues, and audiences. Janis Purcell and Michael Richardson juried the show. Opening Friday, February 13th, the exhibition will remain on view through March 22, 2026 with several related events planned.

Gallery491 presents "Playing with Light and Color"

(MONTCLAIR, NJ) -- Gallery491 presents Playing with Light and Color, a vibrant and imaginative exhibition by artist Bruce Rainier, from February 12 to April 24, 2026. In an age when technology evolves at astonishing speed—and when most of us carry the power of a studio in our pockets—Rainier embraces these tools with curiosity and joy. His work seamlessly blends photography with digital processes, creating images that honor two of art's timeless foundations: light and color.

The BrassWorks Gallery presents "Sharp Teeth, Long Tongues!"

(MONTCLAIR, NJ) -- The BrassWorks Gallery presents Sharp Teeth, Long Tongues!, an exhibition of works by Ann Vollum, a New Jersey–based fiber and mixed media artist whose practice intertwines storytelling, cultural memory, and environmental consciousness. The exhibition showcases a range of Vollum's welt-felted sculptures and intricately embroidered textile works, each piece pulsating with color, texture, and imagination. It runs from February 8 - May 22, 2026.

Zimmerli Exhibition features New Jersey-Born Artist Whose Work Extended Beyond the Walls of the Studio and Imprinted His Community

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- Born in North Plainfield, New Jersey, and raised in Boston, Allan Rohan Crite (1910-2007) created a rich visual record of Black life in 20th-century urban America, revealing a sense of community that resonates across time and place. The new exhibition Allan Rohan Crite: Neighborhood, running from February 11 to July 31, 2026 at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers—New Brunswick, offers a sweeping overview of his long career as a storyteller and cultural historian who chronicled the everyday lives of his friends and neighbors.

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