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SUMMARY:Ghada Amer: A New World
DESCRIPTION:Ghada Amer: A New World\nOn View: October 10 – November 7\, 2026Opening Reception: Saturday\, October 10\, 3-5pmArtist talk + seated dinner: Friday\, October 9\, 6-9pm (tickets sold out) \n\nGhada Amer: A New World\, marks the artist’s conclusion of a three-year Anne Reeves Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Council of Princeton\, generously supported by Timothy M. Andrews. It is both record of that residency and reflection on our relationship with Ghada Amer\, which began long before the residency itself. Since 2013\, I have had the privilege of working with Ghada as a teacher\, facilitator\, collaborator\, and\, increasingly\, as a witness to the ways in which her ideas have evolved through clay. What began more than a decade ago as an experiment in a new material has become an extended conversation about art\, desire\, beauty\, failure\, and possibility. \nThe residency provided this conversation with a sustained place and time. Over three years\, Ghada returned again and again to the Arts Council\, testing forms\, materials\, gestures\, and ideas. Clay was never simply a new medium for Ghada\, but became a means of asking questions that had always been present throughout her practice. Through clay\, those questions were allowed to take on new physical and conceptual dimensions. The works in this exhibition emerge from this process of experimentation — they are evidence of not only what Ghada physically created\, but of what can happen when an artist is given the time\, space\, resources\, and freedom to pursue an idea without knowing exactly where it will lead. This is the whole philosophical point of our residency. \nA New World also represents a continuation rather than a conclusion. Ghada’s ceramic practice has developed over more than 13 years\, and the works presented here demonstrate an artist who remains unwilling to settle into a fixed vocabulary — to becoming a brand. The introduction of new slab forms and vessels alongside the now-recognizable ceramic wall works reflects an ongoing restlessness. Clay continues to offer Ghada a material through which she can resist resolution\, allowing gesture\, image\, and chance to remain in productive tension. \nAbout Ghada Amer:Ghada Amer was born in Cairo (Egypt) in 1963. In 1974\, her parents relocated to France where she began her artistic training ten years later at Villa Arson\, Nice\, France. She currently lives and works between New York and Paris and has exhibited among others at the Venice Biennale\, the Sydney Biennale\, the Whitney Biennale\, and the Brooklyn Museum. \n“I believe that all women should like their bodies and use them as tools of seduction\,” Amer stated; and in her well-known erotic embroideries\, she at once rejects oppressive laws set in place to govern women’s attitudes toward their bodies and repudiates first-wave feminist theory that the body must be denied to prevent victimization. By depicting explicit sexual acts with the delicacy of needle and thread\, their significance assumes a tenderness that simple objectification ignores. \nGhada Amer continuously allows herself to explore the dichotomies of an uneasy world and confronts the language of hostility and finality with unsettled narratives of longing and love. \nGhada Amer’s work addresses first and foremost the ambiguous\, transitory nature of the paradox that arises when searching for concrete definitions of east and west\, feminine and masculine\, art and craft. Through her paintings\, sculptures and public garden projects\, Amer takes traditional notions of cultural identity\, abstraction\, and religious fundamentalism and turns them on their heads. \n								\n									Artist Website
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/ghada-amer-a-new-world/
LOCATION:Taplin Gallery – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Events & Performances,Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Taplin Gallery
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261108
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SUMMARY:Plant Planet: Two Views of Nature Printing
DESCRIPTION:Plant Planet: Two Views of Nature Printing\nby Laura Bethmann and Lisa Madson\n\nOn View: October 10 – November 7\, 2026\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, October 10\, 3-5pm\nLaura Bethmann in the Siegal Gallery & Lisa Madson in the Lower Level Gallery\n\n\nArtist statement: \nNature Printing: Natural objects\, printed by hand\, are direct impressions of life.\nThe forms\, patterns and textures of leaves\, flowers\, roots\, fruits\, tree bark\, seeds\, vegetables\, and a host of natural objects produce phenomenally expressive\, life-sized artwork. The spontaneity\, immediacy\, and organic qualities of even the simplest nature print depict true visual characteristics of the natural world. \nAn Ancient Practice\nLeonardo da Vinci described this process on folio 72 verso of his ‘Codice Atlantico’ including a nature printed sage leaf. Benjamin Franklin devised a secret nature printing process when printing colonial currency in Philadelphia. Nature printing is a little-known technique today\, but it holds a fascinating and worldwide history. This practice served as art and craft\, and as a science for the study and identification of plants. Although it has been traced back thousands of years\, its origins have never been discovered. \nTwo Views: Lisa Madson and Laura Bethmann\nLisa lives and works in northern New Jersey. Laura lives and works in southern New Jersey. The highlands and mountainous regions versus the Pine Barrens and flat\, rich farmlands. Both of these regions are catalysts for creative innovation\, as these artists make vivid associations with their surroundings and explore a kinship with the natural world. \nTwo Views: Nature Printing\nLisa presents artworks that portray a moment in time with insight into our connections to the environment. She translates the beauty of nature through a steam dyeing process where the natural pigments and patterns of plants project their images onto paper or canvas. Lisa invites nature’s outdoor elements to play a role in determining the final result\, such as floating a printed canvas on the river for pattern\, or aging it through the winter in ice and snow. Other media include inks\, embroidery\, cyanotype\, silkscreen and encaustic.\nLaura is influenced by the fantastic structures\, delicacy\, and mystery of botanical life. She has continued to be excited by adventures in the experimental process of nature printing for over 40 years. Her process is direct printing. Botanicals\, carefully inked or painted\, are printed by hand onto papers\, fabrics\, and a variety of other surfaces. Her nature printing media include relief ink\, watercolor\, and acrylic. Laura’s botanically-inspired watercolor paintings include ink nature printing\, color pencil and collage.
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/plant-planet-two-views-of-nature-printing/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Lower Level Gallery,Solley Lobby
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261114
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SUMMARY:PIECES OF WORK
DESCRIPTION:PIECES OF WORKBy Artists Carol Schepps & Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura\nOn View: November 14 – December 12\, 2026Opening Reception: Saturday\, November 14\, 3-5pm\n  \nExhibition Statement:\nWe have spent more than thirty years finishing each other’s sentences\, and eventually\, we started doing the same with our art. Our creative practices began in the demanding worlds of precision craft—one of us meticulously shaping wire\, metal\, and stone in jewelry design\, and the other engineering form\, movement\, and texture through textiles and fashion. That foundational obsession with strict craftsmanship\, micro-details\, and structural integrity still rules everything we make. \nHowever\, somewhere along the line\, the boundaries of traditional craft began to fray. We morphed into visual arts\, trading functional parameters for purely expressive freedom. Today\, our artwork\, although dissimilar\, brings the obsessive\, tactile discipline of Trudy’s jeweler’s bench and Carol’s fashion studio onto the canvas and into three dimensions. We take our construction seriously\, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Our deep friendship ensures that a thread of humor\, playfulness\, and joy runs through every complex layer\, proving that meticulous discipline and a good laugh can live in the exact same frame. \nAbout the Artists:\nTrudy Borenstein-Sugiura\nBioTrudy Borenstein-Sugiura is an award winning designer of fine jewelry and tabletop objects whose work is included in the Permanent Collection of the Smithsonian Institution at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. \nTrudy has returned to the creation of fine art through paper collage.  Using documents and personal papers for storytelling\, she constructs with a goldsmith’s meticulous obsession for detail. Since 2016\, her collages have been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally.  She was awarded a Mid-Atlantic States and NJ Council for the Arts Individual Artist Award and a selected Artist in Residency at Foundation House in Greenwich\, CT. \nArtist StatementI explore the intricate layers of time\, memory\, cultural identity\, ecology\, and politics through collage\, using documents\, texts\, maps and an array of personal papers.  The materials function as both image and archive\, carrying their own histories into new configurations. While forming the image\, these materials invite viewers to look beneath the surface\, where words\, dates\, and events recede into shadow and reassemble into fuller and deeper narratives.  \nMy practice is rooted in time and memory. It began as a way to honor my late father\, a mathematician\, by forming his portrait from his personal papers—assembling a life through its traces.  Even as underlying narratives were revealed\, his image was truly formed from the sum of all of his parts and his life story was literally written all over his face. Creating many iterations\, I further examined how inherited and found materials could reveal personal and collective histories which shape identity. \nI select materials for their thematic and emotional resonance\, then cut\, arrange\, and layer them in a meditative act of construction. My skillset as a goldsmith informs my technique.  Entirely analog\, my work relies on precision cutting and pasting\, using hand drawn ‘maps’ to lay out the meticulous placement of various papers to tell the story. \nMy subjects range from contemporary and ancestral portraits\, local\, extinct\, and living birds (often situated within conflict zones)\, historical chronicles and classic literature—or simply whatever feels most in need of close introspection. \nAs connections emerge through both intention and chance\, each collage becomes its own historical document. In an era where paper is disappearing\, these works act as time travelers—exploring the past and repurposing them for future reflection. \nArtist WebsiteArtist Instagram \nCarol Schepps\nBioCarol Sara Schepps is a mixed media artist based in Princeton Junction\, New Jersey. A graduate of Pratt Institute with degrees in Communication Design and Fashion Design\, her diverse creative career spans fashion\, commercial product design\, textile arts\, and fine art. \nCarol’s professional journey began in children’s wear design and manufacturing\, and evolved into custom clothing design for women. She later transitioned into creating modern Art Quilts\, which were represented and sold in high-craft galleries across the United States. Expanding into commercial home products\, Carol also designed successful collections of rugs\, pillows\, and throws for Crate and Barrel. \nIn addition to her studio practice\, Carol is a dedicated community arts advocate and a co-founder of the West Windsor Arts Council. During the pandemic\, her practice shifted into bag-making and creating graphic artwork utilizing paint\, ink\, collage and sewn paper—a transition that laid the groundwork for her current focus of abstract mixed-media art. \nArtist StatementWorking in mixed media\, I layer watercolor and inks often along with collage elements including altered National Geographic this process of layering\, abstract shapes emerge that instinctively resemble a gallery of characters with a variety of personalities. \nI intentionally leave every piece untitled. The artwork as viewed\, is a shape-shifting entity that evolves based on the viewer’s unique personal experience and emotion.
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/pieces-of-work/
LOCATION:Taplin Gallery – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Taplin Gallery
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SUMMARY:DRAWN LIVE
DESCRIPTION:DRAWN LIVE\nBy David Morhaim\n\nOn View: November 14 – December 12\, 2026\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, November 14\, 3-5pm\nArtist Statement\nEarly on\, I discovered that music had a direct effect on how I drew. This show is a small sample of over 40 years of drawing musicians\, live\, in concert. As luck would have it\, one of my oldest friends is a successful music agent and was kind enough to get me on-stage to draw many bands (ie. The Grateful Dead\, The Allman Bros.\, James Taylor\, Eric Clapton\, Grover Washington Jr.\, Little Feat\, Dr. John\, to name a few). Often I’d get backstage afterwards\, show the band the drawings and get their autograph. I hope you enjoy the viewing\, as much as I did the process. \n\nArtist website
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/drawn-live/
LOCATION:Solley Lobby – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Solley Lobby
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SUMMARY:The Experience 
DESCRIPTION:The Experience\nby Martryce Roach\n\nOn View: November 14 – December 12\, 2026\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, November 14\, 3-5pm\nin the Lower Level Gallery\n  \n\nExhibition Statement: \nThe Experience connects right now to the period from 1916 through 1970\, when millions of African Americans journeyed North and Midwest from the Jim Crow South\, changing the landscapes of major cities across the country and shaping American culture. These paintings and pastel drawings invite viewers to reflect on visual stories that preserve our memories and inform of the collective\, lasting impact of the Great Migration. \n\n\nRoach has created surrealistic landscapes that incorporate elements of blues music\, environment\, and cultural folklore into her works to portray layers of endurance\, resilience\, and creativity evident throughout the journey of African American people. “This exhibition celebrates how we unite to navigate through the burdens\, use music to energize ourselves and overcome\, and how we can spark change\,” she says.\nAlthough many African American families can trace their histories back to the Great Migration and the social fabric of this country is largely influenced by it\, the story is not widely discussed in the classroom\, Roach observed. She didn’t learn about it as a historical movement until college and later explored a more personal connection. Her great grandmother travelled from Virginia to New York City in the 1930s to become a beautician and sent money back home until her grandmother and other family members could join her in the north.\n\n\nAbout the artist: \nRaised in New Brunswick\, Martryce Roach is a self-taught artist with a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health and Africana Studies and a Master’s Degree in Social Work.  Roach’s style is marked by her mix of history\, musical references and geometric shapes assembled to tell surrealistic stories about human experiences and relationships.  In 2021\, she was named Curator’s Choice by Pro Arts in Jersey City.  In 2022\, she was awarded the Mid Atlantic Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Grant through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.  Also in 2022\, she was commissioned by the Meyerhoff Alumni Association to visually capture the life story of University of Maryland Baltimore County former President\, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski.  In 2023\, Roach completed an artist residency with ArtCrawl Harlem on Governor’s Island\, NY. Her pastel drawing\,”Facing the Future Together\,’’ was licensed by Newark Liberty International Airport\, where a massive\, mural-sized image of it was displayed digitally in Terminal A from 2022 through 2023. In 2025\, Roach was the Public Art and Community Engagement Mural Ambassador for a 240-foot mural installed at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick and she installed a PSE&G mural honoring the legacy of Lebby Jones on Nye Avenue in Irvington\, NJ\, as a part of a collective public art project called Legend’s Way.  Her last solo exhibition\, Patterns: People in Transition sold 14 new pieces in 2025 at Akwaaba Gallery in the northeast.  Several of Roach’s works\, including oil paintings and pastel on paper\, have been acquired into permanent museum collection. In 2026\, Roach has completed two new public art projects in the State of New Jersey\, and is currently working on a third which addresses environmental justice and hope for tomorrow.  Her most recent mural\, Created Equal\, was commissioned by the Arts Council of Princeton\, and is currently on display on Spring Street in the city. \n“To me\, life is filled with twists\, blocks\, turns and waves. How we swerve through those changes tells a powerful story and makes for a magical visual. Working with cultural experiences as source material\, my practice serves as visual storytelling\, connecting viewers with familiar environments\, shared narratives\, and layered feelings.” – Martryce Roach
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/the-experience/
LOCATION:Lower Level Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Lower Level Gallery
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261114T170000
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SUMMARY:Gallery opening: PIECES OF WORK
DESCRIPTION:PIECES OF WORKBy Artists Carol Schepps & Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura\nOn View: November 14 – December 12\, 2026Opening Reception: Saturday\, November 14\, 3-5pm\n  \nExhibition Statement:\nWe have spent more than thirty years finishing each other’s sentences\, and eventually\, we started doing the same with our art. Our creative practices began in the demanding worlds of precision craft—one of us meticulously shaping wire\, metal\, and stone in jewelry design\, and the other engineering form\, movement\, and texture through textiles and fashion. That foundational obsession with strict craftsmanship\, micro-details\, and structural integrity still rules everything we make. \nHowever\, somewhere along the line\, the boundaries of traditional craft began to fray. We morphed into visual arts\, trading functional parameters for purely expressive freedom. Today\, our artwork\, although dissimilar\, brings the obsessive\, tactile discipline of Trudy’s jeweler’s bench and Carol’s fashion studio onto the canvas and into three dimensions. We take our construction seriously\, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Our deep friendship ensures that a thread of humor\, playfulness\, and joy runs through every complex layer\, proving that meticulous discipline and a good laugh can live in the exact same frame. \nAbout the Artists:\nTrudy Borenstein-Sugiura\nBioTrudy Borenstein-Sugiura is an award winning designer of fine jewelry and tabletop objects whose work is included in the Permanent Collection of the Smithsonian Institution at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. \nTrudy has returned to the creation of fine art through paper collage.  Using documents and personal papers for storytelling\, she constructs with a goldsmith’s meticulous obsession for detail. Since 2016\, her collages have been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally.  She was awarded a Mid-Atlantic States and NJ Council for the Arts Individual Artist Award and a selected Artist in Residency at Foundation House in Greenwich\, CT. \nArtist StatementI explore the intricate layers of time\, memory\, cultural identity\, ecology\, and politics through collage\, using documents\, texts\, maps and an array of personal papers.  The materials function as both image and archive\, carrying their own histories into new configurations. While forming the image\, these materials invite viewers to look beneath the surface\, where words\, dates\, and events recede into shadow and reassemble into fuller and deeper narratives.  \nMy practice is rooted in time and memory. It began as a way to honor my late father\, a mathematician\, by forming his portrait from his personal papers—assembling a life through its traces.  Even as underlying narratives were revealed\, his image was truly formed from the sum of all of his parts and his life story was literally written all over his face. Creating many iterations\, I further examined how inherited and found materials could reveal personal and collective histories which shape identity. \nI select materials for their thematic and emotional resonance\, then cut\, arrange\, and layer them in a meditative act of construction. My skillset as a goldsmith informs my technique.  Entirely analog\, my work relies on precision cutting and pasting\, using hand drawn ‘maps’ to lay out the meticulous placement of various papers to tell the story. \nMy subjects range from contemporary and ancestral portraits\, local\, extinct\, and living birds (often situated within conflict zones)\, historical chronicles and classic literature—or simply whatever feels most in need of close introspection. \nAs connections emerge through both intention and chance\, each collage becomes its own historical document. In an era where paper is disappearing\, these works act as time travelers—exploring the past and repurposing them for future reflection. \nArtist WebsiteArtist Instagram \nCarol Schepps\nBioCarol Sara Schepps is a mixed media artist based in Princeton Junction\, New Jersey. A graduate of Pratt Institute with degrees in Communication Design and Fashion Design\, her diverse creative career spans fashion\, commercial product design\, textile arts\, and fine art. \nCarol’s professional journey began in children’s wear design and manufacturing\, and evolved into custom clothing design for women. She later transitioned into creating modern Art Quilts\, which were represented and sold in high-craft galleries across the United States. Expanding into commercial home products\, Carol also designed successful collections of rugs\, pillows\, and throws for Crate and Barrel. \nIn addition to her studio practice\, Carol is a dedicated community arts advocate and a co-founder of the West Windsor Arts Council. During the pandemic\, her practice shifted into bag-making and creating graphic artwork utilizing paint\, ink\, collage and sewn paper—a transition that laid the groundwork for her current focus of abstract mixed-media art. \nArtist StatementWorking in mixed media\, I layer watercolor and inks often along with collage elements including altered National Geographic this process of layering\, abstract shapes emerge that instinctively resemble a gallery of characters with a variety of personalities. \nI intentionally leave every piece untitled. The artwork as viewed\, is a shape-shifting entity that evolves based on the viewer’s unique personal experience and emotion.
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/gallery-opening-pieces-of-work/
LOCATION:Taplin Gallery – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Events & Performances,Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Taplin Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261114T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261114T170000
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CREATED:20260918T194403Z
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SUMMARY:Gallery opening: DRAWN LIVE
DESCRIPTION:DRAWN LIVE\nBy David Morhaim\n\nOn View: November 14 – December 12\, 2026\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, November 14\, 3-5pm\n  \nArtist Statement\nEarly on\, I discovered that music had a direct effect on how I drew. This show is a small sample of over 40 years of drawing musicians\, live\, in concert. As luck would have it\, one of my oldest friends is a successful music agent and was kind enough to get me on-stage to draw many bands (ie. The Grateful Dead\, The Allman Bros.\, James Taylor\, Eric Clapton\, Grover Washington Jr.\, Little Feat\, Dr. John\, to name a few). Often I’d get backstage afterwards\, show the band the drawings and get their autograph. I hope you enjoy the viewing\, as much as I did the process. \n\nArtist website\n \n\nArtist website
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/gallery-opening-drawn-live/
LOCATION:Solley Lobby – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Solley Lobby
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261114T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261114T170000
DTSTAMP:20261009T192005Z
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SUMMARY:Gallery opening: The Experience 
DESCRIPTION:The Experience\nby Martryce Roach\n\nOn View: November 14 – December 12\, 2026\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, November 14\, 3-5pm\nin the Lower Level Gallery\n  \n\nExhibition Statement: \nThe Experience connects right now to the period from 1916 through 1970\, when millions of African Americans journeyed North and Midwest from the Jim Crow South\, changing the landscapes of major cities across the country and shaping American culture. These paintings and pastel drawings invite viewers to reflect on visual stories that preserve our memories and inform of the collective\, lasting impact of the Great Migration. \n\n\nRoach has created surrealistic landscapes that incorporate elements of blues music\, environment\, and cultural folklore into her works to portray layers of endurance\, resilience\, and creativity evident throughout the journey of African American people. “This exhibition celebrates how we unite to navigate through the burdens\, use music to energize ourselves and overcome\, and how we can spark change\,” she says.\nAlthough many African American families can trace their histories back to the Great Migration and the social fabric of this country is largely influenced by it\, the story is not widely discussed in the classroom\, Roach observed. She didn’t learn about it as a historical movement until college and later explored a more personal connection. Her great grandmother travelled from Virginia to New York City in the 1930s to become a beautician and sent money back home until her grandmother and other family members could join her in the north.\n\n\nAbout the artist: \nRaised in New Brunswick\, Martryce Roach is a self-taught artist with a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health and Africana Studies and a Master’s Degree in Social Work.  Roach’s style is marked by her mix of history\, musical references and geometric shapes assembled to tell surrealistic stories about human experiences and relationships.  In 2021\, she was named Curator’s Choice by Pro Arts in Jersey City.  In 2022\, she was awarded the Mid Atlantic Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Grant through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.  Also in 2022\, she was commissioned by the Meyerhoff Alumni Association to visually capture the life story of University of Maryland Baltimore County former President\, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski.  In 2023\, Roach completed an artist residency with ArtCrawl Harlem on Governor’s Island\, NY. Her pastel drawing\,”Facing the Future Together\,’’ was licensed by Newark Liberty International Airport\, where a massive\, mural-sized image of it was displayed digitally in Terminal A from 2022 through 2023. In 2025\, Roach was the Public Art and Community Engagement Mural Ambassador for a 240-foot mural installed at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick and she installed a PSE&G mural honoring the legacy of Lebby Jones on Nye Avenue in Irvington\, NJ\, as a part of a collective public art project called Legend’s Way.  Her last solo exhibition\, Patterns: People in Transition sold 14 new pieces in 2025 at Akwaaba Gallery in the northeast.  Several of Roach’s works\, including oil paintings and pastel on paper\, have been acquired into permanent museum collection. In 2026\, Roach has completed two new public art projects in the State of New Jersey\, and is currently working on a third which addresses environmental justice and hope for tomorrow.  Her most recent mural\, Created Equal\, was commissioned by the Arts Council of Princeton\, and is currently on display on Spring Street in the city. \n“To me\, life is filled with twists\, blocks\, turns and waves. How we swerve through those changes tells a powerful story and makes for a magical visual. Working with cultural experiences as source material\, my practice serves as visual storytelling\, connecting viewers with familiar environments\, shared narratives\, and layered feelings.” – Martryce Roach
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/gallery-opening-the-experience/
LOCATION:Lower Level Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Lower Level Gallery
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270103
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SUMMARY:Annual Member Show
DESCRIPTION:Annual Member Show\nOn view: December 17\, 2026 – January 2\, 2027Opening reception: Friday\, December 18\, 2026 | 5-7pmEach year\, the Arts Council welcomes our member artists to submit work to our Member Show\, held during the month of December. We fill the Taplin Gallery with artwork produced by more than 100 artists on view for our community to enjoy\, including drawing\, painting\, photography\, sculpture\, ceramics\, and more. \nLearn more about participating
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/annual-member-show-2026/
LOCATION:Taplin Gallery – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Events & Performances,Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Taplin Gallery
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SUMMARY:Gallery Opening: Annual Member Show
DESCRIPTION:Annual Member Show\n\nOn view: December 17\, 2026 – January 2\, 2027Opening reception: Friday\, December 18\, 2026 | 5-7pm\n\nEach year\, the Arts Council welcomes our member artists to submit work to our Member Show\, held during the month of December. We fill the Taplin Gallery with artwork produced by more than 100 artists on view for our community to enjoy\, including drawing\, painting\, photography\, sculpture\, ceramics\, and more. \nLearn more about participating
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/gallery-opening-annual-member-show/
LOCATION:Taplin Gallery – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Events & Performances,Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Opening Receptions
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