The Friends for Abbott Marshlands Announces Call For Art - Voices for the Marsh Juried Photography Exhibit

(HAMILTON, NJ) -- The nonprofit Friends for the Abbott Marshlands announces a Call for Art for Voices for the Marsh, its 2022 biennial, 10th Juried Photography Exhibit. It is juried by Al Horner of New Jersey Pinelands photographic fame, and Pat Coleman, Naturalist and President of the Friends. Submissions are due by Earth Day, April 22, with the exhibition running June 5 – September 18, 2022. The venue is Tulpehaking Nature Center’s galleries at 157 Westcott Avenue in Hamilton, New Jersey.

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The Visual Arts Gallery at NJCU Presents BURN: Origins & Resistance by Antoinette Ellis-Williams

(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- The Visual Arts Gallery at New Jersey City University presents BURN: Origins & Resistance by Antoinette Ellis-Williams from January 31 through March 3, 2022.This is a multi-disciplinary project which rethinks and explores the many ways black women experience “Burn” (e.g. unemployment, appropriation, dismissal, isolation, gentrification, cooptation, physical and sexual abuse, exploitation, etc.) and simultaneously their unique agency to set things on "Fiya" (aka fire) and heal.

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Ocean County Library Toms River Branch presents "Seasons of Life" Exhibit by Carol Stauffer in February

(TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- The Ocean County Library presents Seasons of Life, a month-long exhibit by Toms River photographer Carol Stauffer. The collection, which will be displayed in the Toms River Branch McConnell Gallery during February, consists of inspirational photography.

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Gallery Aferro Welcomes 2022 With Three New Exhibitions

(NEWARK, NJ) -- On Saturday, February 5th, Gallery Aferro will celebrate for the first time in the new year with three new winter exhibitions. The new shows will highlight the 19-year-old organization’s commitment to public-serving art in a community hit hard by the ongoing pandemic. The winter exhibitions (on display until April 1) will feature artists who expertly combine personal reflection and social commentary wrapped in the brilliance of artistic ingenuity. This delight for the eyes and ears offers amazing musical and visual creations to help you start off your new year (solar or lunar) just right. 

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New Art Exhibitions at Hunterdon Art Museum Explore Climate Change, Socio-Political Friction, Burdens of 21st Century Society

(CLINTON, NJ) -- The Hunterdon Art Museum presents three new exhibitions opening January 23, 2022. The exhibitions include work from artists Thea Clark, Malcolm Mobutu Smith, and Nanette Carter. They each explore the topics of climate change, socio-political friction, and burdens of 21st-century society. Malcolm Mobutu Smith: Evermore Nevermore January 23 – April 17, 2022 Thea Clark: Do/Undo

Creating Art From Newspapers Every Day For 18 Years

(MONTCLAIR, NJ) -- Physical newspapers may be part of a dying breed, but they still hold beauty and wonder for many.  Long-time Montclair resident Peter Jacobs is one who not only loves newspapers, but creates art with them each day. In fact, he has created a collage from daily newspapers every single day, uninterrupted, for nearly 18 straight years.

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That’s What Friends Are For

Stepping into the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie’s new exhibit, Painting the Moon and Beyond: Lois Dodd & Friends Explore the Night Sky, is truly a treat. It’s the first time that Dodd and her former students and friends Jeff Epstein, Dan Findaldi, and Elizabeth O’Reilly have appeared in the same show. And it comes on the 25-year anniversary of a retrospective of Dodd’s work at The Trenton City Museum.

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"The First Water is the Body" and "After the Falls" — Exhibitions Present Visual Celebration of Indigenous People

The First Water Is the Body and Athena LaTocha: After the Falls, the exhibitions on view through January 23, 2022, at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, were organized by VACNJ curator Mary Birmingham and present a visual celebration of Indigenous people, the history, landscape, and culture of New Jersey, the power of words and images, and inspiration, in all of its limitless forms. 

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Behind the Scenes at the Morris Museum

If you have ever been drawn to a mural on the street and wondered what kind of fine art could be made by the artist, this is the exhibit for you.