To the Wall and Chaos

Order and Chaos, E. McCue

You still have a chance this week to catch the work of sculptor Elizabeth Miller McCue and painter Bruce Rigby at Ellarslie, the Trenton City Museum. Bruce is exhibiting works from his Wall Series - a project that has absorbed his artistic explorations for some time now. Elizabeth is exhibiting sculptures new and old - primarily cast bronze - that elegantly explore a range of thematic and visual queries.

November 14, 2009 - January 3, 2010 Ellarslie, the Trenton City Museum, Cadwalader Park off Parkside Avenue, Trenton, First Floor Main Galleries

Meta-More-Something!

polaroid by Neil Larson

Meta-More-Faces, an exhibition featuring photographs by Ricardo Barros, Ilya Genin, Neil Larsen and Andrew Wilkinson and curated by photographer/author Jon Naar, opens with a reception January 9 (6-9 pm) and will remain up through February 21, 2010 (11 Everett Alley/on Stockton St, Trenton, N.J.). For more information, visit the ARTWORKS website.

Follow the Strand

JEAN BURDICK

"STRAND"

paintings and works on paper

January 8 - February 4, 2010

ARTIST'S RECEPTION

FRIDAY, JANUARY 8TH from 6-8 PM.

THE SILVA GALLERY OF ART

The Pennington School

112 W. Delaware Ave

Pennington, NJ 08534

Perkins Center for the Arts Seeks Photographers

Thanks to Will Ostergaard for this reminder and information:

A Call for Works — PHOTOGRAPHY 29
Perkins Center for the Arts announces “PHOTOGRAPHY 29”, a juried exhibition of photographs by regional artists, professional, student and amateur, at the Perkins Center ’s Moorestown Gallery. This year's juror is Julia Dolan, H.W. Goldsmith Curatorial Fellow in Photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Work must be hand delivered on Friday, January 8 between 10:00 am and 3:30 pm; or on Sunday, January 10 between Noon and 4:00 pm. Artists may enter up to three works at an entry fee of $8 per piece (for the full calendar, download a prospectus.)

“PHOTOGRAPHY 29” opens January 31 and runs through March 7, 2010.
Opening Reception: Sunday, January 31 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM.

Awards include up to 6 Juror Awards totaling $600 for Artistic Excellence of and exhibited works will be offered to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for their photography collection with a Maximum Purchase award of $600.
Perkins Center for the Arts - 395 Kings Highway , Moorestown , New Jersey 08057 - Contact: Philip J. Carroll, curator: P: 856-235-6488 F: 856-235-6624 ext.202

What? What Child Is This?

Yep...they're at it again. This Wednesday night. Mill Hill Saloon. Free! See you there!

Art Scholarship for Trenton High School Senior

For those of you in touch with some of the many talented children living in Trenton, there's a chance for a terrific holiday "gift" being offered by the Trenton Musicians Foundation. They're offering their inaugural Arts Award Scholarship to support talented high school seniors living in Trenton who wish to continue their education in either the visual or the performing arts. The grant application is available on-line. Deadline for the scholarship is December 31, 2009. The winner will be announced February 16, 2010.

Photos from Debby Berger on NJ.com photo gallery slide show on the revival of Trenton Central High School's marching band.

Job Opportunity for Arts Educator

Susan Roseman passed along the following:

Bucks County Community College is looking for an arts educator with a Masters Degree (ideally in Early Childhood Education) to teach a course for the Spring 2010 semester. Interested folks should contact John Petito at Bucks. His email address is petitoj@bucks.edu .

Description: Part Time Art/Movement/Play Position (#112509-13200)
Discipline: Education
Required: Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education. or closely related field Teaching experience in an early childhood or elementary school setting. Additional experience planning lessons involving the integration of art, movement, and play.
Preferred: We seek an individual to teach an education course titled Integrated Art/ Movement/Play who has teaching experience in higher education, preferably in a community college, and who understands the mission of a community college. The course will be taught during our spring semester beginning in January. Please submit the following to the College Human Resources Department: a cover letter, resume, names of three references, and informal transcripts from degree-granting institutions.

NOTE: for some useful discussion on some Integrative Arts Education programs, you can check out the Vermont Arts Council's page on programs in their state.

Art and Nature!

Janet Felton

Nina Wommack

This weekend, there’s another wonderful opportunity to do some of your holiday shopping locally while supporting area artists and artisans and supporting land conservation efforts in the region. The “Winter Green: Gifts of Nature” Holiday Sale takes place this Sunday, December 6, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm and the Johnson Education Center of the D&R Greenway.

"A selection of treasures by regional artists and artisans, including jewelers, will be on display for sale and special orders. These intimate and reasonable works have been chosen for seasonal giving with 35% of the proceeds supporting D&R Greenway's preservation and stewardship..."
Handmade calendars, recycled art, ceramics, photography, mosaics, jewelry, and baskets are just some of the items that will be available from artists Beatrice Bork, Maggie Creshkoff, Valerie Ramos-Ford, Jeanne Johngren, Robin Hepburn, Joy Kreves, Tasha O'Neill, Lynn Ebeling, Nina Wommack, Eva Mantell, Janet Felton, and Leah Targon. Author Sophie Glovier will also be on hand signing her best-selling compact guidebook: “Walk the Trails In and Around Princeton."

Directions to Johnson Education Center

While there, be sure to check out the two exhibits on display: Season's Greenings, A Gift of Nature (in the Marie L. Matthews Gallery) and Hey Mister: Is That the Ocean? (Olivia Rainbow Gallery).

Frost is in the air -- and at Poet's House!

Are you going to be in NYC over the holidays? If you have a chance, consider checking out the lovely new Poets House, located in Battery Park City at 10 River Terrace (at Murray Street). Opening on December 2, through January 15, 2010, they’ll be displaying “Robert Frost’s Annual Christmas Cards” -- “...beautiful, illustrated chapbooks of Frost’s poetry” that the poet and his publishers sent out as holiday greetings for almost 30 years. (For directions, click here.)

Poets House is closed December 24, 25 & 26, 2009 and January 1 & 2, 2010.

In 1926, 28-year-old Joe Blumenthal founded The Spiral Press with a partner, George Hoffman. For Christmas in 1929, Blumenthal printed an illustrated chapbook of Robert Frost poems to send out as the holiday greeting from himself and Henry Holt and Company (one of Frost’s printers.) All 275 copies were sent out before they realized that none had been sent to the poet, himself. (Frost insisted that the printer retrieve a half dozen for his own Christmas list!)

Spiral Press was hit hard during the Depression. Blumenthal closed shop and lived in Europe for several years where he designed a new font type (Emerson). He returned to the US in late 1933, settling just north of NYC in Croton Falls, NY, and started up Spiral Press with a small handpress, quickly reestablishing his reputation as a master printer. Each Christmas from 1934 through 1962, Spiral Press printed - in collaboration with Robert Frost this time!!! - new illustrated chapbooks of Frost poems.