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SUMMARY:Rooted in Bloom
DESCRIPTION:Rooted in Bloomby Prajakta Joshi\nOn View: August 29 – October 3\, 2026Opening Reception: Wednesday\, September 9\, 5-7pmGarden Club Collaboration on view starting Friday\, September 25\nArtist statement: \nBorn in Mumbai\, raised in Dubai\, and with years in the fast-paced design worlds of India and New York\, New Jersey\, Prajakta Joshi’s life has been an ongoing study in perspective. While her career led her to build her own design agency\, her creative soul remains anchored in something gentler and far more enduring: the elemental wisdom of the natural world. \nAs a practitioner of Yoga and Ayurveda\, Prajakta sees life not as a series of fixed moments\, but as a quiet\, rhythmic dance between Earth\, Fire\, Water\, Air\, and Space. These elemental forces do not simply surround us; they flow through our minds and bodies\, shaping how we experience growth and change. \nIn Rooted in Bloom\, Prajakta turns her lens toward this subtle energy. Her paintings move beyond traditional depictions of flowers and landscapes\, seeking instead to translate the invisible pulse of living things. Her work honors the forces of nature that guide us through transformation\, using bold color and gestural forms to translate the emotional and physical impact of movement onto the canvas. Through the softer gradients\, gestural forms\, she captures the delicate impermanence of nature—the swift rush of air\, the subtle shift of light\, and the fleeting beauty of a moment caught just before it becomes a memory. Her work reminds us that to truly bloom\, we must first allow ourselves to be moved by the quiet forces that sustain us. \n								\n									artist website\n					\n														\n									artist instagram
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LOCATION:Lower Level Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Lower Level Gallery
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SUMMARY:Echoes in Our Bones: The Empowering Legacy of Black Women Artists in American Art and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Echoes in Our Bones The Empowering Legacy of Black Women Artists in American Art and Culture \nCurated by Judith K. Brodsky and Rhinold L. Ponder\nOn View: Wednesday\, September 9 – Saturday\, October 3\, 2026Opening reception: wednesday\, September 9 from 5-7pm\n  \npanel discussion: re-visioning america: thursday\, September 17 from 5:30-6:30pm at princeton university art museum. learn more.\n  \nin conversation: “silks” by laura wheeler waring: thursday\, October 1 from 5:30-6:30pm in our taplin gallery. learn more.\nABOUT THE EXHIBITION:Echoes in Our Bones will explore how themes of identity\, history\, and cultural resilience have endured and transformed across generations. The exhibition examines how these artists have explored and expanded the ideals articulated in the Declaration of Independence\, “Life\, Liberty\, and the Pursuit of Happiness”\, using art as a powerful vehicle for expression\, resistance\, care\, and community. Pairings of artists from past and present generations will include Faith Ringgold and Bisa Butler\, Selma Burke and Alison Saar\, Mary Lovelace O’Neal and Julie Mehretu\, Betye Saar and Tschabalala Self\, Carrie Mae Weems and LaToya Ruby Frazier\, Laura Wheeler Waring and Jordan Casteel\, Elizabeth Catlett and Kara Walker\, and Howardena Pindell and Shinique Smith. Through these connections\, the exhibition will not only showcase individual artistic voices but also trace a lineage of creative expression that has contributed to shaping and defining American art. \n\n The Pairings: \nFaith Ringgold and Bisa Butler create large-scale works celebrating African American life through a combination of fabric and paint—a medium pioneered by Ringgold and Miriam Schapiro during the early years of the Feminist Art Movement in the 1970s. Bisa Butler: Courtesy of the Artist and Jeffrey Deitch\, New York and Los Angeles. \n																																																							 \n\nElizabeth Catlett and Kara Walker both explore the heritage of slavery through printmaking\, a medium traditionally associated with social justice and political commentary: \n																																																							 \n\nLaura Wheeler Waring and Jordan Casteel: Waring devoted much of her career to portraying the emerging African American middle class\, while Casteel depicts the everyday lives of a broad spectrum of African Americans\, confidently occupying a wide variety of roles in the 21st century. It is worth noting that this early painting\, created shortly after Waring graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and likely executed while she was still in Paris on the prestigious travel fellowship awarded by PAFA to an outstanding graduate\, depicts two white women. This suggests that Waring had not yet chosen to focus her artistic practice on Black subjects: \n																																																							 \n\nBetye Saar and Tschabalala Self\, artists from two different generations\, both use collage\, distortion\, and caricature to explore themes of social justice and the African American experience of injustice: \n																																																							 \n\nHowardena Pindell and Shinique Smith both use discarded\, nontraditional materials to create works of art\, drawing an analogy to the experiences of people who are often overlooked or cast aside\, yet possess immense value: \n																																																							 \n\nStop by to see the above pairings and more on view starting September 9. \n\nAbout the curators:\nJudith K. BrodskyActivist\, artist\, curator\, writer Judith K. Brodsky is Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Department of Art and Design\, Rutgers University. She is a works-on-paper artist with prints and drawings in many museum collections worldwide and the founder of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper\, now the Brodsky Center at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The Brodsky Center\, established in 1986\, is known for its activist pioneer mission to further opportunities for women-identified\, BIPOC\, and non-binary artists. An exhibition documenting the years it was at Rutgers was on view at the Zimmerli Art Museum\, Fall 2023. She was also co-founder of The Douglass Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities at Rutgers University in 2006. As a curator or co-curator\, she has organized many exhibitions including The Fertile Crescent: Gender\, Art\, and Society (2012) and the Philadelphia city-wide print festival\, Philagrafika (2010)\, three decades of exhibitions for the Rutgers Women Artists; Restoring the Art and Lives of a Circle of Five Forgotten Black Artists (2022); and (re)FOCUS: Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts\, 1974-2024 (2024). She is past national president of ArtTable\, College Art Association\, Women’s Caucus for Art\, former board chair\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, current board member\, Print Center New York\, and a former dean and associate provost at Rutgers. Brodsky writes on women artists and printmaking. Her most recent book is Dismantling the Patriarchy Bit by Bit: Art\, Feminism and Digital Technology (Bloomsbury 2022). A book on the history of the United States Feminist Art Movement focusing on the activist art historians and curators rather than the artists is due out in early 2027 (Bloomsbury Academic). \nRhinold L. PonderRhinold Lamar Ponder\, the Executive Director of Art Against Racism\, is an artist\, curator\, author\, activist and lawyer.  He is the founder and Executive Director of Art Against Racism\, a 501(c)(3)\, based in Princeton\, New Jersey. AAR’s mission is to leverage the arts to promote the creation of an anti-racist\, just and equitable society.An independent curator\, Rhinold has worked on several exhibitions and projects including those with Judith K. Brodsky.  Together they have curated Memorial\, Monument\, Movement (2020)\, a groundbreaking exhibition showcasing a unique archive of personal and communal art created during the pandemic in response to the cultural and political challenges of extrajudicial killings of people of color; Retrieving the Life and Art of James Wilson Edwards and a Circle of Black Artists (Arts Council of Princeton\, 2022); Freedoms Reframed: Art on the Edges of the Constitution (Trent House Museum\, 2026); Echoes in Our Bones (Arts Council of Princeton\, 2026); and Voices in Print (Morven Museum and Garden\, 2026).  As Executive Director of Art Against Racism\, he has organized or curated the following exhibitions: Not Afraid with the West Windsor Arts Council (2025); Manifesting Beloved Community exhibitions in partnership with the West Windsor Arts Council (2020-2024 ); The Art of Black Joy (Monroe Township Library\, 2024);Earth Song Refrained (Princeton Public Library\, 2023 ); and Beyond Freedom (Morven Museum and Garden\, 2023). Rhinold’s writings have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times\, the Trenton Times and the City Sun.  In 1997\, he co-edited\, with his wife\, Michele Tuck-Ponder\, two critically acclaimed compilations of sermons\, published by Crown\, entitled Wisdom of the Word: Faith and Wisdom of the Word: Love. \n										 \nThis project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. \nTHANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS\nMUSE\nTIMOTHY M. ANDREWS\nDEVOTEE\n																													 \nENTHUSIAST\nJohns Hopkins University\, Program in Visual Arts \nRUTH MILLER \nJAMIE PHARES \nKERRY PERRETTA\n\n																												 \nJoin us for the Re-visioning America Event Series – now through February 2027!Inspired by the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, the Princeton community-based and collaborative initiative Re-visioning America invites contemplation of the past\, present\, and possible futures of the American nation through the lens of art. “America” refers to a specific geography\, but it also conjures a diverse and sometimes contradictory cohort of ideas\, myths\, debates\, experiences\, identities\, and aspirations. \nRe-visioning America showcases how artists from a range of backgrounds grapple with the complexity of America and its histories\, then and now\, and invites audiences to do the same through a series of exhibitions and accompanying programming\, including lectures\, artist conversations\, hands-on workshops\, film screenings\, and a gallery crawl. \nExplore the full program schedule Re-visioning America is collaboration between the Arts Council of Princeton\, Morven Museum & Garden\, Art Against Racism\, Princeton Public Library\, Historical Society of Princeton\, William Trent House Museum\, Garden Theatre\, Princeton University Art Museum\, and the Princeton University Humanities Initiative.
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/echoes-in-our-bones/
LOCATION:Taplin Gallery – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Events & Performances,Exhibitions,Featured Events,Free or Low Cost,Taplin Gallery
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SUMMARY:Charles Evans Scholars Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Charles Evans Scholars Exhibition\nOn View: September 10 – October 3\, 2026Opening Reception: Thursday\, September 10\, 5-6pm\n \nThis annual exhibition celebrates the artistic achievements of exceptional Princeton High School students. Made possible by the Charles Evans Foundation\, the scholarship program was established in 2011 to support young artists through a partnership with the Arts Council of Princeton. Many recipients go on to pursue creative paths in college and beyond. The Foundation\, created in memory of fashion entrepreneur and philanthropist Charles Evans\, continues his legacy of empowering talent through education and the arts. \nFEATURED ARTISTS: \nEric Carrera-Nieto \nFaye Jiang \nNikolai Morozov \nGeovanni Rosales-Carrillo \nEmilia Retuerto \nPrisha Shekatkar \nAnthony Zubialevich
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/charles-evans-scholars-exhibition/
LOCATION:Solley Lobby – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Solley Lobby
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SUMMARY:In Conversation | "Silks" by Laura Wheeler Waring
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story.\n\nIncluded in the exhibition at the ACP in celebration of the semiquincentennial is a painting by Laura Wheeler Waring\, an African American artist whose portraits of Black Americans are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum\, that has been hidden in an attic for 110 years.\nIt was given by Waring to the mother of Dr. Lynn Starr who recently found it when she went through her deceased mother’s belongings. Judith K. Brodsky and Rhinold Ponder\, the curators of the exhibition very much wanted to include a painting by Waring.  Most of her work is on permanent display in major museums\, and for many months\, despite their queries\, they could not find one for the exhibition. But they persisted and continued their research hoping to find a loanable piece.  They eventually found a blog by art historian Valerie Harris about a lost painting by Waring. Harris had located it in Philadelphia\, and thanks to Harris\, Ponder and Brodsky were able to contact Dr. Starr who agreed to loan the painting but said it needed restoration. At that point\, they brought it to the Conservation Center in Philadelphia. Once they saw the painting\, they realized that it was one of only a few paintings from her early period\, last on public view in 1916. On October 1\, Dr. Starr\, scholar Valerie Harris\, and a conservator from the Conservation Center will hold a conversation moderated by Brodsky and Ponder in the Taplin Gallery where the painting will be on view. The audience will see the actual painting whose story of discovery is being told. Harris will talk about Waring’s place in American art history\, Starr will explain how her mother came to know Waring and own the painting\, and the conservator will talk about how good conservation and restoration takes place. \nThe Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!\n\nAbout Laura Wheeler Waring:\nLaura Wheeler Waring was born in Philadelphia and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Upon graduation\, she was awarded the school’s top prize for excellence — the Cresson Traveling Fellowship. She arrived in Paris in 1914\, just in time for World War I\, a circumstance which cut short her visit. She returned to the United States in 1915. Waring did have another opportunity to travel to Paris in the 1920s. Her second visit shaped her mature work — vigorously oil painted portraits of the rising Black middle class in the United States. The painting in the exhibition\, titled Silks is one of only a few surviving from her early period. It is not clear whether the painting was initiated in Paris and finished in the United States\, or completed in one or the other. Portraying two white women examining silk fabrics in a shop\, it was exhibited in 1916 and has not been seen since\, until this exhibition. It is an image of the past\, full of Art Deco swirls and pastel colors. The women are white\, but the painting forecasts Wheeler’s later work in which she concentrates on portraying Black individuals as successful members of American society. Waring became well-known through the commission she received from the Harmon Foundation to execute a series of portraits of well-known African American figures like W.E.B. Du Bois and Marian Anderson. According to an interview with her widower husband\, Waring complained about the fact that the only images of Blacks in painting and sculpture were menial workers. She wanted to show that instead\, they were successful like white Americans. \nAbout Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:\nA pediatrician with specialization in behavioral & developmental pediatrics\, H. Lynn Starr\, M.D. has professional experience across consultation\, clinical practice and faculty roles in pediatric primary care and child behavior and development. Prior to her retirement\, Dr. Starr served as the Group Medical Director\, Schizophrenia Area Lead for Janssen Neuroscience US Medical Affairs\, holding overall medical leadership for schizophrenia and related areas. In this role\, she aligned evidence generation with advances in patient care in the evolving health care landscape and supported Janssen’s continued engagement with psychiatry\, health policy\, advocacy\, and health care quality decision-makers. In her 21 years with Johnson & Johnson\, Dr. Starr developed innovative programs for Janssen to impact disease state knowledge and the adoption of accepted clinical practice in under-represented minorities\, and designed and implemented novel clinical trials in Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)\, schizophrenia\, and treatment-resistant depression. She is the author of numerous publications and the recipient of several Johnson & Johnson awards.\nDr. Starr has served as a member of several professional organizations\, and she is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She was appointed to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consensus Conference on Conflicts of Interest and the American Psychiatric Association Corporate Advisory Council\, and has served on review committees for the Partnership for a Healthier America’s Catalyst for Change Awards and The Academic Pediatric Association’s New Century (NC) Scholars Program. Her volunteer work has included serving on the Children First Executive Board of Directors and leading mentorship programs for the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority\, Inc. chapter. \nAbout Valerie Harris:\nValerie Harris is a writer\, independent scholar\, and media creator. She is internationally recognized as an authority on the life and work of African American artist\, Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948). She is the author of the Laura Wheeler Waring blog\, where she shares biographical knowledge about the artist and emphasizes the importance of Black biography as a means of cultural preservation. Her often-cited article\, Life of A Portrait: Laura Wheeler Waring’s Anna Washington Derry (Pennsylvania Heritage\, Summer 2019) which details the parallel lives of the artist and the sitter for Waring’s most-widely reproduced painting\, has been downloaded from Academia.edu by historians and scholars in 19 countries.\nHarris frequently presents on Waring\, including the visual lectures\, Laura Wheeler Waring: Her Best Face Forward\, for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; as well as on Waring’s work as an illustrator for the Delaware Art Museum\, and on Waring’s legacy at The Matronage Salon installation at Future Fair 2025 during New York Art Week. She successfully authenticated “Silks\,” a newly discovered Waring painting\, thanks to her extensive knowledge of the artist.\nRelated writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?\nHarris is a former Board member of the Historic Paul Robeson House and Museum in Philadelphia\, where she founded and led  “Teen Writers Academy\,” a model community-based writing workshop. A three-time Leeway Foundation grantee\, Valerie received the foundation’s Transformation Award for her film\, “A Highway Runs Through It: A Community History of Darby Township” which traces the history of African Americans in the area back to the late 18th century.\nA member of Biographers’ International\, Harris is currently at work on the first in-depth biography of Laura Wheeler Waring\, positioning Waring as a forerunner of the new renaissance in Black figurative art. \nThis piece is a part of our Echoes in Our Bones: The Empowering Legacy of Black Women Artists in American Art and Culture exhibition. About the show: Echoes in Our Bones will explore how themes of identity\, history\, and cultural resilience have endured and transformed across generations. The exhibition examines how these artists have explored and expanded the ideals articulated in the Declaration of Independence\, “Life\, Liberty\, and the Pursuit of Happiness”\, using art as a powerful vehicle for expression\, resistance\, care\, and community. Pairings of artists from past and present generations will include Faith Ringgold and Bisa Butler\, Selma Burke and Alison Saar\, Mary Lovelace O’Neal and Julie Mehretu\, Betye Saar and Tschabalala Self\, Carrie Mae Weems and LaToya Ruby Frazier\, Laura Wheeler Waring and Jordan Casteel\, Elizabeth Catlett and Kara Walker\, and Howardena Pindell and Shinique Smith. Through these connections\, the exhibition will not only showcase individual artistic voices but also trace a lineage of creative expression that has contributed to shaping and defining American art. \n\nLearn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/panel-discussion-silks-by-laurawheelerwaring/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
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