Late Summer Rain Date for Crafts

Vacation's over...back on your heads!

Annelies van Dommelen just notified me that the Sizzling Summer Bazaar scheduled to take place today (Saturday) in Hamilton's Grill Room Courtyard (Lambertville) has been moved to TOMORROW (Sunday, August 23) from noon to 4 pm. Featured will be original paintings, jewelry, handmade clothing, tiles, and much more. And, of course, Annelies' latest (gorgeous) archival, handmade boxes will be prominently featured. For directions to the Grill Room, click here.

Last Freestyle Music Show of the Summer

Jean Caffeine

This Wednesday, August 12th.

7pm Jean Caffeine

8pm Radio I-Ching w/Felice Rosser

9pm Elliot Sharp 3

10pm Fire of Love featuring Bobby Radcliff

11pm James Chance Trio

$10 ADMISSION

LOCAL 269 • 269 E. HOUSTON @ SUFFOLK ST. LES NYC • 212-228-9874

Jack Wright Trio at Mill Hill

Jack Wright

This month's TAG Night at the Mill Hill is this

Wednesday, August 5, and features:

The Jack Wright/Todd Capp/Andrew Lafkas trio

The trio represents a merger of two long-standing associations between the legendary Jack Wright (saxes) and Andrew Lafkas (bass); and Andrew and Todd Capp (drums). It came together just six months ago, performing for the first time in NYC last April. Here, Jack (currently a resident of Easton, PA) returns to his roots in free jazz after ten years of exclusive focus on textural and minimal playing, picking up where he left off in the eighties and nineties. Todd's jazz roots go back to his days in Chicago when he played with members of the early Art Ensemble, and then California, before returning to NY. Andrew is a visionary young bassist hailing from Minnesota who came to NY five years ago and has been playing with a large variety of partners and in a variety of directions to great acclaim.

Damthesnes* An Opera

This is only the third performance -- and the Trenton premiere -- of this two act, two-musician improvisational opera by Wilbo Wright. Set in the unspecified future, it tells the tragic story of two brothers, Damthesnes ('damn these knees') and Hildago, who happily run a business that is “a sort of clearing house for happiness in the age of interdimensional relationships” until Damthesnes falls in love with a computer icon. Problems of operatic proportions arise with plenty of betrayal, deaths, and hand-wringing. Two musicians (in this case, Wilbo on multi-instruments and Eric Haltmeier on reeds and multi-instruments) work with a loose, but predetermined palette of sounds that portray the story line and characters. There are, however, no words, no singing, and no bad acting. For an article featuring Damthesnes, click here.

8:30PM - 12AM - ONLY $5! The Mill Hill Saloon is located at 300 S. Broad St. at the corner of Broad and Market in Trenton, NJ. 609-394-7222

TAG Night at the Mill Hill Basement takes place on the first Wednesday of the month and is curated and produced by Wilbo Wright. It's a labor of love and some of the coolest performances you'll ever see in this area -- for only a fin!

Call for Photographers!!!

Mercer County Photography Exhibit 2009 will take place from September 8 - October 8, 2009, at The Gallery at Mercer County Community College. Artists working in all photographic media/process who are 18 years old or older and living, working or attending school in Mercer County, NJ, are eligible to enter up to 3 photographs for consideration.

Jurying for this show is a one-day process, takes place on Saturday, August 29. A full calendar with times is below. The juror for this year's exhibition is Edward Fausty, an award-winning photographer/printmaker with degrees from Yale University and Cooper Union. An NEA Survey Grant recipient in Photography, he has work in many collections, including The George Eastman House, the U.S. Library of Congress, and Yale University.

More than $1,000 in prizes, including the Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Commission Purchase Awards will be announced at the Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony event which takes place on Wednesday, September 9, from 5:00 - 7:30 pm. The Commission is the sponsor of this biennial exhibit.

A full prospectus is available on-line at the MCCC website. Or you can email your full name and address (with zip code) to gallery@mccc.edu

Calendar:

Drop off work: August 29, 9:30 am - noon

Pick up work not selected: August 29, 3:45 - 5 pm (no exceptions!)

Show Dates: September 8 - October 8, 2009

Reception/Awards: September 9, 5 - 7:30 pm

Art from the Home Front

On August 11th, from 7 – 9 pm, join HomeFront’s ArtSpace artists for an Artists Reception celebrating their exhibition at Triumph Brewing Company in Princeton. The artists are all participants in Art Space, a visual arts program that encourages women – many single mothers – struggling with the crippling personal, emotional, and day-to-day anxieties associated with being homeless in America, to explore and strengthen their self-confidence and inner spirit through visual self expression. Their work is up at Triumph now through September 19th.

Triumph Brewing Company is located at138 Nassau Street Princeton, NJ 08540 (between Witherspoon and Washington Streets.) For directions click here. If you are interested in attending the reception, you’re asked to RSVP to ruthanntraylor@comcast.net

HomeFront is the regional non-profit organization that provides emergency assistance and long-term support services for area families who are already homeless or in danger of becoming so. They also work holistically, offering enrichment, support, and educational programs for the children and parents with whom they work.

image is from show of art by homeless adults in Ojai, CA

Re-examining Work in Old City

Carmina’s Dessert, lime • photographic emulsion with applied color on d’arches, by Lorraine Raywood

Photographer/artist Lorraine Raywood, freshly returned from her 13th ride for Anchor House (home for runaways) in Trenton, has a solo exhibition coming up next month at The Muse Gallery in Old City, Philadelphia. For this show, she’s decided to re-explore images from earlier work using photographic emulsion and other media to adjust, enhance, and alter the surfaces. The ‘sneak preview’ of the work is intriguing.

The show is up from September 1 through October 1, 2009, and the Opening Reception on Friday, September 4th, 5 to 8pm, coincides with Philadelphia’s rocking First Friday festivities, so you can make a night of it. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday from 12:00 to 5:00 PM.

The MUSE Gallery is, in their own words, “...an artist-run gallery dedicated to exploring individual visions in shaping the world as we experience it...(that) affirms the role of the arts in the community: to provoke thoughtfulness, stir the senses, awaken awareness of beauty and to lead us beyond ourselves.” (I love a good vision statement!) It’s located at 52 North 2nd Street, between Arch and Market Streets, in Philadelphia. Their phone is 215-627-5310 and email is muse1arts@musegalleryphiladelphia.com

Meandering in Lambertville

Opening, Gail Bracegirdle

Art Imitates Art, Jennifer Cadoff

Gail Bracegirdle and Jennifer Cadoff have a two-person show, Meanderings, opening this week at the Artists’ Gallery (32 Coryell Street, Lambertville, NJ). The show goes from August 7 through September 8, and the Opening Reception is this Saturday, August 8, from 6 – 9 pm.

Lately Jennifer – who also works in pastels and printmaking – has been generating lovely graphic black and white drawings of familiar and beloved objects (including her omnipresent cats!) using her personal take on pointillism. Gail continues to explore luminous moments in nature and life while gently pushing her watercolor techniques. (She’s also, for my money, one of the best watercolor instructors in the area.) If you can’t make the reception, there will be a "Meet the Artists" closing event on Sunday, September 6, from 3:00 - 6:00 pm.

Artists' Gallery is a coop of professional visual artists (selected for membership by jury) who administer, staff, and curate all exhibits in the gallery. Gallery hours are Friday, Saturday & Sunday from 11:00 am - 6:00 pm. Or, to arrange a viewing outside gallery hours, call them at 609-397-4588 (They also have a Blog that you can check out.)