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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-05-12/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-05-19/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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SUMMARY:Café Improv
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/monthly-cafe-improv-open-mic-2/2027-05-22/
LOCATION:Solley Theater – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Events & Performances,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270526T190000
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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-05-26/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270602T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270602T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
CREATED:20240124T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
UID:10001303-1811962800-1811970000@artscouncilofprinceton.org
SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-06-02/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270609T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270609T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
CREATED:20240124T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
UID:10001304-1812567600-1812574800@artscouncilofprinceton.org
SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-06-09/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270616T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270616T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
CREATED:20240124T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
UID:10001305-1813172400-1813179600@artscouncilofprinceton.org
SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-06-16/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270623T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270623T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
CREATED:20240124T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
UID:10001306-1813777200-1813784400@artscouncilofprinceton.org
SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-06-23/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270626T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270626T220000
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SUMMARY:Café Improv
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/monthly-cafe-improv-open-mic-2/2027-06-26/
LOCATION:Solley Theater – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Events & Performances,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270630T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270630T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
CREATED:20240124T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-06-30/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270707T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270707T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
CREATED:20240124T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-07-07/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270714T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270714T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-07-14/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270721T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270721T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-07-21/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270724T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270724T220000
DTSTAMP:20260521T162326Z
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SUMMARY:Café Improv
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/monthly-cafe-improv-open-mic-2/2027-07-24/
LOCATION:Solley Theater – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Events & Performances,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270728T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270728T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-07-28/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270804T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270804T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
CREATED:20240124T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
UID:10001312-1817406000-1817413200@artscouncilofprinceton.org
SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-08-04/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270811T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270811T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
CREATED:20240124T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
UID:10001313-1818010800-1818018000@artscouncilofprinceton.org
SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-08-11/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270818T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270818T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
CREATED:20240124T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
UID:10001314-1818615600-1818622800@artscouncilofprinceton.org
SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-08-18/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270825T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270825T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
CREATED:20240124T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
UID:10001315-1819220400-1819227600@artscouncilofprinceton.org
SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-08-25/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270828T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270828T220000
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SUMMARY:Café Improv
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/monthly-cafe-improv-open-mic-2/2027-08-28/
LOCATION:Solley Theater – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Events & Performances,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270901T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270901T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
CREATED:20240124T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-09-01/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270908T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
CREATED:20240124T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-09-08/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270915T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270915T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
CREATED:20240124T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-09-15/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270922T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270922T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-09-22/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270925T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270925T220000
DTSTAMP:20260521T162326Z
CREATED:20260521T162127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260521T162326Z
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SUMMARY:Café Improv
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/monthly-cafe-improv-open-mic-2/2027-09-25/
LOCATION:Solley Theater – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Events & Performances,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270929T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270929T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
CREATED:20240124T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
UID:10001320-1822244400-1822251600@artscouncilofprinceton.org
SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-09-29/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20271006T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20271006T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-10-06/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20271013T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20271013T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-10-13/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20271020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20271020T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T204643Z
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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2027-10-20/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20271023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20271023T220000
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SUMMARY:Café Improv
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to an intriguing art detective story. Included 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.It 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.The Arts Council of Princeton is thrilled to be the first to show this painting in over 100 years!About Laura Wheeler Waring:Laura 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. About Dr. H. Lynn Starr\, M.D.\, F.A.A.P.:A 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.Dr. 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. About Valerie Harris:Valerie 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.Harris 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.Related writings include The Art of Biography; The Problem With Biography\, and Verifying A Painting: Is This A Waring?Harris 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.A 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. 								\n				\n									This 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				\n										\n						\n									Learn more
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/monthly-cafe-improv-open-mic-2/2027-10-23/
LOCATION:Solley Theater – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Events & Performances,Free or Low Cost
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