Historic House Tour

Cadwalader Heights House Tour

This Saturday, September 26th, Noon to 5 p.m.

New this year: local restaurants featured in each house!

This year's proceeds will be shared with HomeFront.

Start point/registration: Cadwalader-Asbury United Methodist Church

900 Stuyvesant Avenue, Trenton (Get a Map - MapQuest)

Tickets: $20 in advance at www.cadwaladerheights.com or $25 the day of the tour

Photography I: just something for fun

There’s a lot to talk about for photographers and photography lovers in this area. To start, photographers may want to check out the Lomography site online. It’s a really fun international photography group/site that offers on-going competitions, and just started an on-line magazine. They also promote relatively inexpensive but curious (in a good way) photography products that you may want to experiment with...the Diana-mini film camera (which takes both square and split frame photos - that's a split frame, above) is my current favorite.

Reflections in a Black Pool

The Mariboe Gallery at Peddie School in Hightstown, NJ, is presenting Black Pool, an exhibition of sculptures and drawings by artist Rachel Frank. The exhibition will run from Friday, September 11 – Wednesday, September 30, 2009.

"Rachel Frank employs the techniques of wood parquetry and inlay to explore how intricate designs such as Islamic and optical illusion patterns can formally inform and subvert three-dimensional sculptures. She harnesses the cosmological implications of each of these formal languages in both public and personal frameworks: how the geometry within the platforms connotes violence; how these objects in space deal with the absence and loss of death. Through these intimate geometries, she determines how the work can suggest infinite space as a reflection on violence and loss."

For directions, check the Peddie School site.

Back to Nature!

image by Elliot Gordon

En el jardín
premiere performance of The Outlet Dance Project
Collaborative work of Central Jersey choreographers
Lisa Botalico and Marie Alonzo Snyder
with guest dancer, Henri Velandia

takes place at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 2 PM
Tickets: adults $10, children $6, Grounds for Sculpture members free.
For more information go to http://www.groundsforsculpture.org/ or http://www.theoutletdanceproject.com/

En el jardín is a collaborative work that weaves the flamboyance and earthy rhythms of flamenco and the physicality and imagery of modern dance. Following the story of the Serpent, and of Adam and Eve, the dance integrates the natural surroundings of the outdoor museum and the abstract forms of the sculptures to create an imaginative, organic yet contemporary Garden of Eden.


Music by Argentine composer, Osvaldo Golijov and guest palmeras: Leanne Alexandrini, Kelsey Burns, Cathy Carr, Anna Castro, Alena Docena. Costumes by Anna Castro.

Honky Tonk and Surfabilly Fun!

LENNY LOUNGE RETRO-REACTIVE

AND

DOGGY STILES PRODUCTIONS

PRESENTS

SATURDAY SEPT, 19

WAYNE "THE TRAIN" HANCOCK

ALSO APPEARING

"DEBRA DYNAMITE AND THE TORPEDOS"

"THE COPPERTONES"

TAKING PLACE AT THE BRIGHTON BAR

121 BRIGHTON AVE.

LONGBRANCH, NJ 07790

THIS IS A FUN JOINT AND IT WILL BE A GREAT NIGHT OF MUSIC

SO PUT YOUR HONKY TONKIN"- SURF/GARAGE - ROCKABILLY

SHOES ON AND C'MON OUT AND HAVE A GOOD TIME!!!

IT'S GONNA BE CRAZY MAN, CRAZY !!!

you can also check out the Brighton Bar on My Space.

Mahon Atelier Open for Workshops

Rory Mahon is offering another round of his sculpture classes (except for the Bronze casting which won't be offered until Spring, 2009). (Click here for link to original blog posting with class descriptions.) For details and dates for the fall sessions, contact Rory directly at rory98@hotmail.com. All classes are starting next week (week of September 20), so don't put it off!

Print! Print! Print!

The Fall 2009 line-up of workshops from the Printmaking Council of NJ is now available on-line. The Council is the only open print-making studio in the state, and they've been offering programming for 35 years! Annelies van Dommelen (image above) is offering a variable relief monotype workshop, and Melissa Pepin is holding a "Bigger Print" workshop. Students working in mixed media, collagraph, dry point and/or monotype in Pepin's workshop will have the chance to experiment on the Council's new 36" x 60" Charles Brand Press.

While you're up there, check out their exhibition space. Coming up in their gallery is BELOW THE SURFACE: a cooperative Book Arts fxhibition between The Book Arts Roundtable and The Printmaking Council of NJ. October 10 through December 5, 2009. Anyone want to drive up?

NJ Printmaking Council

440 River Rd
Branchburg, NJ 08876
(Get Directions)
Email: director@printnj.org
Phone: (908) 725-2110

Start the Harvest Fest with Celtic Fun

Na’Bodach

Trent House

Outdoor Highland Concert Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

On the lawn of the 1719 William Trent House Museum, Trenton, NJ

2-4 pm

Featuring: Celtic band Na’Bodach

The 1719 William Trent House, once the summer home of Scotsman and Philadelphia merchant, William Trent, sits on a point (now behind the Hughes Justice Complex) that once commanded one of the area's best views of the Delaware River. This lovely venue, now owned and operated by the City of Trenton, boasts period furniture, a riotous garden and cutting edge interpretation of the first quarter of the 18th century

The concert showcases Na’Bodach, a high energy five-man Celtic band. Incorporating the traditions and culture of Scotland and Ireland into their music, Na’Bodach performs haunting ballads and lively jigs "...arranged in their own high octane compositions..." on traditional Celtic instruments."

Tickets: $20 for adults and $5 for children under 12.

For reservations call 609-989-0087 or purchase tickets at the gate. Check the Trent House website (link above) for directions.

Refreshments including beer, wine, cider, tea and snacks will be provided. Seating will be provided, or bring your own lawn chair. There is ample free parking and the site is wheelchair accessible from William Trent Place and the south parking lot.

Grand Purcell at Ellarslie II

Madurai Smoothie Shop, by Paul Grand

Grand Purcell at Ellarslie

Wildflowers I, by Janis Purcell

Grand Purcell

featuring the sculpture of Janis Purcell and the photography of Paul Grand

September 17 - November 13, 2009

Reception: September 26, 2009 7 - 9 p.m.

Ellarslie, the Trenton City Museum

Cadwalader Park, Trenton

Daily Bread - the Show and the Book

Artist Lisa Salamandra (Paris resident from Hamilton, NJ) has spent several years creating terrific paintings on the beautiful bread bags and papers used in Parisian bakeries. A show of her work is opening this week at the Chapin School gallery in Princeton, and the book can be pre-ordered directly from the artist. See her website for more information (and maybe to experience "studio-lust" when you see her working space!)

Two Upcoming Shows with Sunday Receptions

WWAC Seeks Temporary Paid Gallery Help

...okay...not this Avenue of the Arts, but you get the idea

The West Windsor Arts Council is looking to fill part-time (paid) gallery positions during the month-long Avenue of the Arts celebration at Princeton MarketFair.

Interested in part-time work for a few hours a day? In the month of September, the work of 39 artists will be on display and for sale at the MarketFair. The West Windsor Arts Council needs individuals who have experience in dealing with cash and credit card transactions and can work part-time in the WWAC temporary gallery. These part-time positions pay $10 a hour. Minimum hours per sitting is 4 hours.

Schedules are flexible.If you are interested, please send a short resumé describing your experience in handling cash, checks and credit cards, and working with the public, to exdir@westwindsorarts.org with subject heading: Part-Time Gallery Position. Detailed information on the responsibilities of the position, gallery dates and hours will be forwarded to you at that time.

New Visions from Pakistan

“High Rise: Lake City Drive” by Huma Mulji
“No Two Burns Are the Same” by Ali Raza

There's a lot to report, but there's an 80 piece show (Mercer County Photography) to be hung first! While it's on my mind, though, wanted to share this article in the New York Times on "Hanging Fire" show of contemporary art from Pakistan that opens next Thursday (September 10) at the Asia Society Museum in NYC (upper East Side). The show looks quite interesting, and -- if you've got the money -- the Society's Garden Court Cafe is pretty special. The museum is free on Friday evenings from 6 - 9 pm.