All Kinds of Jazz-zy

Wing Dam with Wilbo Wright, John Sheridan and featuring Tom Cottone

Nationally known post-modern jazz trio, the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey plays at at Joe's Mill Hill Saloon this Tuesday, October 13th. Among the opening acts is the well-known regional go-go boot jazz trio, Wing Dam. This all-ages show starts at 7:30 pm

Joe's Mill Hill Saloon is at 300 S. Broad St, Trenton, NJ 08608. 609-394-7222. Tickets are $8 (in advance) are available online http://www.millhillsaloon.com/ $10 at the door!

D'Eco, D'Echo...

"Corner Tree" by NYC-based Japanese eco-artist Yuken Teryua

Gallery 125 issues a Call for Artists for:

Art D'Eco
JURIED THEMED SHOW
Juror: Michelle Barfoot -- www.michellebarfoot.com

Associate Professor, Digital Media Arts/Modeling & Animation/Game Design /Digital Art at Mercer County Community College

Inviting artists in all mediums (except video) who utilize found objects or recycled materials or non-traditional materials in all, or part of the artwork; or whose work raises awareness about the impact of environmental issues affecting us; or whose subject is concerned with the preservation of our ecological resources to submit work for consideration...

FEBRUARY 12 through APRIL 3, 2010
Deadline - December 17, 2009

CD images must be .jpg files preferably 4" x 6" at 300 DPI, and must include on paper:

1. Artist's name, home address, phone number and email address

2. Brief bio/resume

3. Submit up to five JPEG images on one CD. JPEGs should

be 300 dpi 4" x 6".

4. Title (**title of piece on paper must have the SAME title as the file on CD), medium, year created AND framed dimensions for each entry.

5. All submissions must include a $20 check payable to: TDA/Gallery 125.

Send CDs and entry packet to Gallery 125, 125 S. Warren St., Trenton, NJ 08608.

Please include a stamped, self-addressed envelope if you wish to have the visuals returned.

Please call the gallery at 609-989-9119 or email gallery125@trenton-downtown.com with any questions.

La Belle Époque, NJ Style!

The Coach House on Lovers Lane - one of the "outbuildings" on the tour!

The Historical Society of Princeton holds its 8th annual Historical House Tour on Saturday, November 7, from 10am -4pm. This year features a terrific line-up of homes, including five that were originally outbuildings for Drumthwacket (the beautiful NJ Governor’s mansion!) at the turn of the 20th century.

Financier and Princeton University alum Moses Taylor Pyne had purchased Drumthwacket from Charles Smith Olden’s estate in 1893 and expanded the estate to more than 300 acres (including the entire area between Stockton St., Princeton Pike, Lover’s Lane and Quaker Road in Princeton). He created “…park-like landscaping, greenhouses, bridle paths, a dairy farm, and formal Italian gardens…” and commissioned the construction of fabulous buildings, including the Dairy, the Superintendent's House, the Greenhouse, the Coach House, the Garden House – all now privately owned homes which are included in this year’s House Tour. Tickets for the House Tour, a fundraiser for the Historical Society, are $35 per person. For tickets, Click Here .

The Historical Society also invites you to become a Docent for House Tour 2009! Click Here

House tour participants can also choose to lunch at Drumthwacket, the beautiful mansion that is the official residence of NJ's Governor. The boxed lunches, priced at $20.00, will be provided by Griggstown Quail Farm. Visitors that day can also opt to visit the building and gardens of Drumthwacket without the lunch (a rare Saturday opportununity!) for a $5.00 donation. Advanced registration is required for either the lunch or the visit. [Purchase of the Historical Society's house tour tickets are required in order to visit Drumthwacket on this day.] Click Here for information and the reservation form for the Drumthwacket lunch and open house or make reservations by phone at 609-683-0057.

Preserving the History Around Us

Do you live in a historic house, work in a historic property, own land near some of the County's many historic areas? On Wednesday, October 28, the D&R Greenway and the NJ Historic Trust
are offering a workshop “Easements, an Under-Utilized Tool for Protecting New Jersey’s Historic Resources” to share private-land protection options and strategies.

A 5-person panel of experts will discuss currently available tax and land-saving opportunities, particularly for historic properties. This event is open to all, with an emphasis on historic homeowners, municipalities, architects, attorneys, realtors, historic preservation specialists and historians. The keynote speaker is Paul Edmondson, Esq., Vice-President, Law and General Counsel, National Trust for Historic Preservation, who will discuss legal issues in the easement process, including IRS regulations. Other panelists are Susanne M. Curran, Curran Realty Advisors, John D. Snook, Senior Advisor, Brandywine Conservancy, Kate Marcopul, from the NJDEP Historic Preservation Office and Kevin Tremble, private homeowner who is donating a preservation easement.

The workshop is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at D&R Greenway’s Johnson Education Center. Registration starts at 9:30 am. You must register in advance (by October 23) by contacting Mary Penney at the D&R Greenway: 609-924-4646, x. 127 / mpenney@drgreenway.org. The $25 fee is payable by credit card or a check made out to D&R Greenway. Lunch and registration refreshments are included. D&R Greenway is located at One Preservation Place, Princeton, just off of Rosedale Road. For directions go to www.drgreenway.org

Small World Gets Bigger for Artists!

Jacqui Alexander

Suzanne Ives Cunningham

Suzanne Ives Cunningham writes to say that she and Jacqui Alexander are now co-curating exhibits for Princeton's Small World Cafe, and they're looking for regional artists to display. You can read more about their upcoming projects and download prospectus for theme shows by clicking here.

Suzanne adds that she's gotten into a couple of juried shows that were posted on this blog, including the Metropolitan Memories exhibit that just opened up in Hudson County. Congratulations! And while I'm at it, I did want to mention that Jacqui was a recipient of TAWA's Stockton Scholarship years ago, as a high school senior. She makes us proud.

In Depth: opportunity for printmakers and photographers

untitled by Sharon Doerner

From the Main Line Art Center in Haverford, PA (it's close...really!) an exhibition opportunity for printmakers and photographers that looks like a terrific opportunity. In their own words:

In Depth: Printmaking and Photography
Dates: Feb 5, 2010 - Mar 2, 2010
First Friday Opening Reception: Feb. 5, 6-9 pm

As part of Philagraphika 2010, an international festival to be held in the region, this exhibition presents thought-provoking and excellent examples of contemporary hand-pulled prints, photography and digital images by professional artists.

Three notable jurors, Cindi Ettinger, Master Printmaker, Toni Rosati, artist and teacher and Peter Barberie, Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art, will select artists from the region who are pushing the boundaries of printmaking and photography.

Note: they're looking for artists with a comprehensive series of works. Artists must submit 6 images. Download the prospectus for comprehensive information.

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.