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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Princeton Comic Makers presents: JERSEY ART MEETUPS (JAM)\, a weekly social event connecting creatives within the greater Central Jersey area through a shared passion for sequential art and new media.  Attendees may use this open workshop space to draw\, write\, and develop their own artwork\, with an opportunity to receive peer review and feedback from other members if desired. Illustrators\, animators\, writers\, and generalists are all welcome to join and discuss their art and career goals\, share learning resources\, promote current projects\, or find friends and collaborators. Together\, we aspire to cultivate a local community that keeps artists motivated towards achieving their dreams! \n\nOpen to ages 16+ of any skill level interested in any form of narrative art and design (i.e. Animation\, Concept Art\, Comics\, Game Design\, Picture Books\, etc.)\nGroup meets weekly on Wednesdays from 7pm to 9pm. Casual attendance is accepted!\nBringing own materials is highly encouraged. Some basic materials are provided – paper\, pencils\, etc. – but please bring any tools necessary to help you create (i.e. drawing tablets\, sketchbooks\, etc.)\n\nWho we are: Sponsored by artist and educator Ronah Harris\, Princeton Comic Makers is an artist collective founded in 2023 by local illustrators Christina Castro\, Suyang Gong\, and Masha Zhdanova after noticing a lack of in-person community spaces for NJ-based artists specializing in narrative arts and communications design. Although we create independently\, we often exhibit together at events such as MoCCA Fest\, Anime NYC\, and Camden Comic Con. Our weekly study group motivated us to strive towards completing projects and working towards professional goals\, so we hope more people can benefit from this club! \nChristina Castro is a freelance illustrator and storyboard artist who graduated from Pratt Institute (2018) with a BFA in Digital Arts (2D Animation) and a minor in Creative Writing. Past clients include Smashbits Animation\, gal-dem zine\, and Bad Robot. Christina also currently organizes and leads the production management of several indie charity zines\, collaborating with writers\, illustrators\, and musicians all around the world. Suyang Gong is a fine artist and illustrator who graduated from Rutgers (2021) with a BFA in Fine Arts. She has formerly worked as a teaching assistant at the Sharron Art Center for 3 years\, tutoring students in refining technical drawing skills. Suyang also specializes in traditional media\, often using materials like graphite\, ink\, and oil paint to create dynamic works. Masha Zhdanova is a freelance writer\, editor\, and illustrator who graduated from SCAD (2019) with a BFA in Sequential Art and recently completed her MFA in Cartooning at the Center for Cartoon Studies (2022). She was a teaching assistant for two Winter workshops at CCS and has taught comics classes for kids at the Princeton Public Library. Masha’s clients include Publisher’s Weekly\, Women Write About Comics\, and Polygon\, and she also currently edits content for The Anime Herald.
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2026-01-14/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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SUMMARY:Gallery Opening: Hands Talk
DESCRIPTION:Hands Talk\nBy Debbie Gibbs\nOn view: Jan 10 – Feb 7\nOpening: Sat\, Jan 10 | 3-5pm\n\nExhibition statement:\nHands are powerful communicators. This mixed media exhibition—created with paper and acrylic on stretched canvas—explores the many ways hands express\, connect\, and reveal. From the most direct form of communication\, sign language\, to symbolic gestures\, hands speak volumes. Hands in handcuffs underscore both the literal and symbolic restriction of freedom. The racially diverse hands depicted throughout the work highlight the beauty diversity brings to our world\, as well as the complexity it adds to communication and connection. Created during a time when the rights and freedoms of many are being limited\, this exhibition strives to raise awareness and inspire positive\, productive\, multicultural engagement. It also serves as a reminder of the grace\, strength\, and power found in our own hands. \nAbout the artist:\nDebbie Gibbs is a mixed media artist whose work explores themes of equity\, justice\, and inclusion through abstract paintings\, mosaics\, and sculptural assemblages. Drawing on her background in theater arts and education\, she combines materials such as acrylic\, paper\, wood\, plaster\, and fabric to create layered\, symbolic works. Her art has been exhibited in Washington\, D.C.\, Colorado\, Texas\, and New Jersey\, including at the Heidi Gallery\, Trenton Artworks\, West Windsor Arts Council and now at the Princeton Arts Council\, January\, 2026.  A larger version of the Hands Talk Series will be exhibited  at Trenton Artworks\, October 2026. Her work can be viewed at www.debbiegibbs.net and on instagram www.instagram.com/gibbsdpg.
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/gallery-opening-hands-talk/
LOCATION:Lower Level Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Opening Receptions
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SUMMARY:Gallery Opening: Art for Change
DESCRIPTION:Copyright Terrance Cummings. All Rights Reserved. Artwork Title: Stronger Together. \n \nArt for ChangeBy artist Terrance CummingsOn view: Jan 10 – Feb 7Opening: Sat\, Jan 10 | 3-5pm\nExhibition Statement:I have faith in the ability of art to initiate contemplation\, foster discussions\, and drive change. Through my art\, I delve into profound themes inspired by human emotions\, societal intricacies\, ingrained beliefs\, and economic marginalization. While my work often addresses topics such as race and class\, the underlying essence always revolves around our shared humanity. Art has the power to shape society and challenge the status quo. By creating work that challenges perceptions and encourages introspection\, I hope to contribute to a larger cultural conversation about our relationship with each other. I believe that art has the power to bring people together and foster a sense of community\, and I strive to create work that reflects this belief. \nThe following books will be available for purchase at the Arts Council throughout the duration of the exhibition: \n\nWe Shall Overcome: A Song That Changed the WorldBy Stuart Stotts\, Artwork by Terrance Cummings. 2010.History of the song from the Civil Rights Movement.\nIn Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American PoetryBy Ethelbert Miller\, Artwork by Terrance Cummings. 1996A collection of African-American poems\, with works by Langston Hughes\, Maya Angelou\, Paul Laurence Dunbar\nToo Hot to Cool DownBy Terrance Cummings\, 1996From the great blues singers and jazz artists of all times this highly charged\, sometimes naughty\, anthology of lyrics and illustrations by Terrance Cummings\, Here\, Cummings has gathered together 32 wonderful lyrics from such greats as B.B. King\, Ma Rainey\, Sarah Vaughn\, Billie Holiday\, Duke Ellington and many others.\n\nArtist Bio:Terrance Cummings is a visual artist born in Birmingham\, Alabama\, whose early life in a working-class household continues to shape his artistic vision. Memories of his aunt gathering coal from railroad tracks to heat their home reflect the resilience and ingenuity that inform his work. After relocating to New York City\, Cummings graduated from the High School of Music and Art and earned his BFA from Parsons School of Design. His artwork has since been featured in solo exhibitions\, collected by private collectors\, and included in projects within the publishing industry. Cummings’s practice centers on uplifting portrayals of marginalized communities\, challenging stereotypes through layered color\, pattern\, and texture. His work aims to spark dialogue\, deepen understanding\, and create space for empowerment and reflection. To learn more about the artist\, visit his website or instagram.
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/gallery-opening-art-for-change/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Opening Receptions
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SUMMARY:Gallery Opening: Divergent Forms
DESCRIPTION:Divergent Forms\nBy Artists: Jennifer Martin\, George Taylor & Ben Pranger\nOn view: Jan 10 – Feb 7\nOpening: Sat\, Jan 10 | 3-5pm\n  \nExhibition statement:\n  \nDivergent Forms brings together the work of Jennifer Martin\, George Taylor\, and Ben Pranger—three artists who approach material\, structure\, and identity from distinctly different directions. Their practices diverge\, yet each reveals a careful attention to how form can hold memory\, presence\, and the traces of thought. Jennifer Martin’s ceramic vessels are rooted in the physicality of the body and the histories it carries. She works within the traditions of pottery while allowing herself to move beyond their constraints\, shaping forms that echo human asymmetry and the subtle marks of lived experience. Lines and impressions accumulate on the surface like records of touch\, suggesting layers of memory\, identity\, and personal history. Through groupings\, pairings\, and human-scaled arrangements\, Martin shifts the vessel away from function and into a space of reflection. Her use of traditional glazes and exposed clay emphasizes the connection between surface and skin\, reinforcing the idea that the stories we carry are inseparable from the bodies we inhabit. George Taylor works with slab-built ceramic bottles and panels that serve as supports for images of the figure. His practice has evolved from direct self-portraiture toward more universal representations\, often showing the body from the back or side. These figures are rendered through line and color\, interacting with the flat geometry of his rectangular bottle forms. Taylor’s work reflects both a personal search for belonging and a response to feeling marginalized within the larger art world. Each piece becomes an assertion of visibility and presence\, transforming clay into a site of representation and resilience. Ben Pranger constructs wall-based works from carefully assembled wooden elements. His forms grow gradually\, piece by piece\, according to simple structural rules that allow for complex results. Some works stretch outward as airy\, linear pathways; others condense into stepped configurations that suggest small architectural systems. These constructions map a kind of evolving mental or spatial process—recursive\, layered\, and continually shifting. With the addition of color and pattern in recent years\, Pranger’s works operate at the intersection of sculpture and painting\, using repetition and rhythm to guide the viewer’s movement across the surface. Together\, the works in Divergent Forms demonstrate how three distinct approaches—vessel\, figure\, and constructed structure—can expand the possibilities of form. The exhibition highlights the ways material can record experience\, assert identity\, or generate new spatial ideas\, offering viewers multiple points of entry into the artists’ investigations of shape\, meaning\, and presence. \n  \nArtist statement:\n  \nJennifer Martin\nOur bodies remember for us. Scars\, small flaws\, and softened edges become quiet archivists\, holding the moments that have shaped who we are. My work begins in that place—where memory meets the physical world—and invites both the tenderness and the ache of lived experience to surface.\nI move within ceramic tradition but do not allow its lineage to bind me. Clay\, in its sensual responsiveness\, becomes a partner in dialogue. Using the tools of a traditional potter\, I lean away from symmetry and toward forms that echo the body’s own asymmetry—its gestures\, its vulnerabilities\, its truths. Each mark left on the surface records the rhythm of my hand\, yet these traces also stand in for the histories we each carry\, ring by ring\, layer by layer\, like a tree quietly growing its story. Through repeated lines and patterns\, I build a language that speaks of memory\, gender\, identity\, and the winding paths of personal journey.\nScale and arrangement deepen this exploration. I seek to lift the vessel beyond function\, offering it instead as a site for contemplation—of relationships\, of lineage\, of the narratives that shape us. Whether in paired forms that echo one another\, grids of cups that reveal both unity and distinction\, or large works shaped from the measurements of the human body\, each composition becomes a constellation of possibilities. Viewers are invited to find themselves within these forms\, to trace their own stories through the spaces between them.\nAs a final gesture of devotion to the human form\, I turn to traditional glazes or exposed clay\, allowing them to stand in as the skin of the piece—an echo of flesh\, a quiet reminder that our bodies and our histories are inseparable.\nWebsite\nInstagram \nGeorge Taylor\nI have focused on my own image intently for some time now\, most recently in the form of portraits\, either on slabs of clay or slab built bottles. More recently I have pulled away from the image of my face and am instead incorporating the entire figure. These images feel more universal to me\, especially ones viewed from the back and side.\nAs my practice has evolved\, so too has my awareness of politics and representation. My portraits reflect both personal presence and a sense of exclusion—images that feel unwelcome within an art world where I often find myself marginalized. Making this work is both an act of acceptance and a battle: to claim space\, to challenge erasure\, and to transform clay into a record of persistence.\nWebsite \nBen Pranger\nMy wall based constructions slowly grow into emergent forms. Small pieces of wood are stacked and glued\, drifting off course to traverse the space in front of the wall. The work follows simple rules that unfold organically to create entangled\, rhizomatic structures. Many of the constructions suggest futuristic cities rising out of the rubble of their own destruction. Fragments from previous work coalesce into stairways\, passages\, apertures\, enclosures and pyramids\, leading the viewer through labyrinthine architectures. These indwellings map a recursive mental space that morphs into evolving worlds.\nWebsite
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/gallery-opening-divergent-forms/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Opening Receptions
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SUMMARY:Hands Talk
DESCRIPTION:Hands Talk\nBy Debbie Gibbs\nOn view: Jan 10 – Feb 7\nOpening: Sat\, Jan 10 | 3-5pm\n\nExhibition statement:\nHands are powerful communicators. This mixed media exhibition—created with paper and acrylic on stretched canvas—explores the many ways hands express\, connect\, and reveal. From the most direct form of communication\, sign language\, to symbolic gestures\, hands speak volumes. Hands in handcuffs underscore both the literal and symbolic restriction of freedom. The racially diverse hands depicted throughout the work highlight the beauty diversity brings to our world\, as well as the complexity it adds to communication and connection. Created during a time when the rights and freedoms of many are being limited\, this exhibition strives to raise awareness and inspire positive\, productive\, multicultural engagement. It also serves as a reminder of the grace\, strength\, and power found in our own hands. \nAbout the artist:\nDebbie Gibbs is a mixed media artist whose work explores themes of equity\, justice\, and inclusion through abstract paintings\, mosaics\, and sculptural assemblages. Drawing on her background in theater arts and education\, she combines materials such as acrylic\, paper\, wood\, plaster\, and fabric to create layered\, symbolic works. Her art has been exhibited in Washington\, D.C.\, Colorado\, Texas\, and New Jersey\, including at the Heidi Gallery\, Trenton Artworks\, West Windsor Arts Council and now at the Princeton Arts Council\, January\, 2026.  A larger version of the Hands Talk Series will be exhibited  at Trenton Artworks\, October 2026. Her work can be viewed at www.debbiegibbs.net and on instagram www.instagram.com/gibbsdpg.
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/hands-talk/
LOCATION:Lower Level Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Opening Receptions
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SUMMARY:Art for Change
DESCRIPTION:Copyright Terrance Cummings. All Rights Reserved. Artwork Title: Stronger Together.\n \nArt for ChangeBy artist Terrance CummingsOn view: Jan 10 – Feb 7Opening: Sat\, Jan 10 | 3-5pm\nExhibition Statement:I have faith in the ability of art to initiate contemplation\, foster discussions\, and drive change. Through my art\, I delve into profound themes inspired by human emotions\, societal intricacies\, ingrained beliefs\, and economic marginalization. While my work often addresses topics such as race and class\, the underlying essence always revolves around our shared humanity. Art has the power to shape society and challenge the status quo. By creating work that challenges perceptions and encourages introspection\, I hope to contribute to a larger cultural conversation about our relationship with each other. I believe that art has the power to bring people together and foster a sense of community\, and I strive to create work that reflects this belief. \nThe following books will be available for purchase at the Arts Council throughout the duration of the exhibition: \n\nWe Shall Overcome: A Song That Changed the WorldBy Stuart Stotts\, Artwork by Terrance Cummings. 2010.History of the song from the Civil Rights Movement.\nIn Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American PoetryBy Ethelbert Miller\, Artwork by Terrance Cummings. 1996A collection of African-American poems\, with works by Langston Hughes\, Maya Angelou\, Paul Laurence Dunbar\nToo Hot to Cool DownBy Terrance Cummings\, 1996From the great blues singers and jazz artists of all times this highly charged\, sometimes naughty\, anthology of lyrics and illustrations by Terrance Cummings\, Here\, Cummings has gathered together 32 wonderful lyrics from such greats as B.B. King\, Ma Rainey\, Sarah Vaughn\, Billie Holiday\, Duke Ellington and many others.\n\nArtist Bio:Terrance Cummings is a visual artist born in Birmingham\, Alabama\, whose early life in a working-class household continues to shape his artistic vision. Memories of his aunt gathering coal from railroad tracks to heat their home reflect the resilience and ingenuity that inform his work. After relocating to New York City\, Cummings graduated from the High School of Music and Art and earned his BFA from Parsons School of Design. His artwork has since been featured in solo exhibitions\, collected by private collectors\, and included in projects within the publishing industry. Cummings’s practice centers on uplifting portrayals of marginalized communities\, challenging stereotypes through layered color\, pattern\, and texture. His work aims to spark dialogue\, deepen understanding\, and create space for empowerment and reflection. To learn more about the artist\, visit his website or instagram.
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/art-for-change/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Opening Receptions
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SUMMARY:Divergent Forms
DESCRIPTION:Divergent FormsBy Artists: Jennifer Martin\, George Taylor & Ben PrangerOn view: Jan 10 – Feb 7Opening: Sat\, Jan 10 | 3-5pm\n \nExhibition statement: \n\nDivergent Forms brings together the work of Jennifer Martin\, George Taylor\, and Ben Pranger—three artists who approach material\, structure\, and identity from distinctly different directions. Their practices diverge\, yet each reveals a careful attention to how form can hold memory\, presence\, and the traces of thought. Jennifer Martin’s ceramic vessels are rooted in the physicality of the body and the histories it carries. She works within the traditions of pottery while allowing herself to move beyond their constraints\, shaping forms that echo human asymmetry and the subtle marks of lived experience. Lines and impressions accumulate on the surface like records of touch\, suggesting layers of memory\, identity\, and personal history. Through groupings\, pairings\, and human-scaled arrangements\, Martin shifts the vessel away from function and into a space of reflection. Her use of traditional glazes and exposed clay emphasizes the connection between surface and skin\, reinforcing the idea that the stories we carry are inseparable from the bodies we inhabit. George Taylor works with slab-built ceramic bottles and panels that serve as supports for images of the figure. His practice has evolved from direct self-portraiture toward more universal representations\, often showing the body from the back or side. These figures are rendered through line and color\, interacting with the flat geometry of his rectangular bottle forms. Taylor’s work reflects both a personal search for belonging and a response to feeling marginalized within the larger art world. Each piece becomes an assertion of visibility and presence\, transforming clay into a site of representation and resilience. Ben Pranger constructs wall-based works from carefully assembled wooden elements. His forms grow gradually\, piece by piece\, according to simple structural rules that allow for complex results. Some works stretch outward as airy\, linear pathways; others condense into stepped configurations that suggest small architectural systems. These constructions map a kind of evolving mental or spatial process—recursive\, layered\, and continually shifting. With the addition of color and pattern in recent years\, Pranger’s works operate at the intersection of sculpture and painting\, using repetition and rhythm to guide the viewer’s movement across the surface.  \nTogether\, the works in Divergent Forms demonstrate how three distinct approaches—vessel\, figure\, and constructed structure—can expand the possibilities of form. The exhibition highlights the ways material can record experience\, assert identity\, or generate new spatial ideas\, offering viewers multiple points of entry into the artists’ investigations of shape\, meaning\, and presence. \nArtist statement:\n  \nJennifer MartinOur bodies remember for us. Scars\, small flaws\, and softened edges become quiet archivists\, holding the moments that have shaped who we are. My work begins in that place—where memory meets the physical world—and invites both the tenderness and the ache of lived experience to surface.I move within ceramic tradition but do not allow its lineage to bind me. Clay\, in its sensual responsiveness\, becomes a partner in dialogue. Using the tools of a traditional potter\, I lean away from symmetry and toward forms that echo the body’s own asymmetry—its gestures\, its vulnerabilities\, its truths. Each mark left on the surface records the rhythm of my hand\, yet these traces also stand in for the histories we each carry\, ring by ring\, layer by layer\, like a tree quietly growing its story. Through repeated lines and patterns\, I build a language that speaks of memory\, gender\, identity\, and the winding paths of personal journey.Scale and arrangement deepen this exploration. I seek to lift the vessel beyond function\, offering it instead as a site for contemplation—of relationships\, of lineage\, of the narratives that shape us. Whether in paired forms that echo one another\, grids of cups that reveal both unity and distinction\, or large works shaped from the measurements of the human body\, each composition becomes a constellation of possibilities. Viewers are invited to find themselves within these forms\, to trace their own stories through the spaces between them.As a final gesture of devotion to the human form\, I turn to traditional glazes or exposed clay\, allowing them to stand in as the skin of the piece—an echo of flesh\, a quiet reminder that our bodies and our histories are inseparable.WebsiteInstagram \nGeorge TaylorI have focused on my own image intently for some time now\, most recently in the form of portraits\, either on slabs of clay or slab built bottles. More recently I have pulled away from the image of my face and am instead incorporating the entire figure. These images feel more universal to me\, especially ones viewed from the back and side.As my practice has evolved\, so too has my awareness of politics and representation. My portraits reflect both personal presence and a sense of exclusion—images that feel unwelcome within an art world where I often find myself marginalized. Making this work is both an act of acceptance and a battle: to claim space\, to challenge erasure\, and to transform clay into a record of persistence.Website \nBen PrangerMy wall based constructions slowly grow into emergent forms. Small pieces of wood are stacked and glued\, drifting off course to traverse the space in front of the wall. The work follows simple rules that unfold organically to create entangled\, rhizomatic structures. Many of the constructions suggest futuristic cities rising out of the rubble of their own destruction. Fragments from previous work coalesce into stairways\, passages\, apertures\, enclosures and pyramids\, leading the viewer through labyrinthine architectures. These indwellings map a recursive mental space that morphs into evolving worlds.Website
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/divergent-forms/
LOCATION:Taplin Gallery – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Taplin Gallery
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SUMMARY:ACP BYOB: Wheel Ceramics
DESCRIPTION:Beginner-friendly intro to wheel ceramics! \nShake off the stress of your work week and give pottery a whirl! You bring your favorite brew\, wine\, or bubbly\, and we take care of the rest. \nSela Stazzone\, ACP artist-instructor and owner of Jean Ceramics\, will introduce you to the basics of throwing a bowl on the potter’s wheel. You’ll throw\, choose your glaze\, and pick up your two completed pieces in a week or two. \nInstruction\, materials\, and tools are provided. Bring some friends or come on your own to meet fellow art-lovers during this creative night on the town. \nDon’t feel like drinking wine? That’s ok! Bring whatever bevvies that you’d like. \n\nSAVE YOUR SPOT
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/acp-byob-wheel-ceramics-jan26/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Jersey Art Meetup (JAM)
DESCRIPTION:Princeton Comic Makers presents: JERSEY ART MEETUPS (JAM)\, a weekly social event connecting creatives within the greater Central Jersey area through a shared passion for sequential art and new media.  Attendees may use this open workshop space to draw\, write\, and develop their own artwork\, with an opportunity to receive peer review and feedback from other members if desired. Illustrators\, animators\, writers\, and generalists are all welcome to join and discuss their art and career goals\, share learning resources\, promote current projects\, or find friends and collaborators. Together\, we aspire to cultivate a local community that keeps artists motivated towards achieving their dreams! \n\nOpen to ages 16+ of any skill level interested in any form of narrative art and design (i.e. Animation\, Concept Art\, Comics\, Game Design\, Picture Books\, etc.)\nGroup meets weekly on Wednesdays from 7pm to 9pm. Casual attendance is accepted!\nBringing own materials is highly encouraged. Some basic materials are provided – paper\, pencils\, etc. – but please bring any tools necessary to help you create (i.e. drawing tablets\, sketchbooks\, etc.)\n\nWho we are: Sponsored by artist and educator Ronah Harris\, Princeton Comic Makers is an artist collective founded in 2023 by local illustrators Christina Castro\, Suyang Gong\, and Masha Zhdanova after noticing a lack of in-person community spaces for NJ-based artists specializing in narrative arts and communications design. Although we create independently\, we often exhibit together at events such as MoCCA Fest\, Anime NYC\, and Camden Comic Con. Our weekly study group motivated us to strive towards completing projects and working towards professional goals\, so we hope more people can benefit from this club! \nChristina Castro is a freelance illustrator and storyboard artist who graduated from Pratt Institute (2018) with a BFA in Digital Arts (2D Animation) and a minor in Creative Writing. Past clients include Smashbits Animation\, gal-dem zine\, and Bad Robot. Christina also currently organizes and leads the production management of several indie charity zines\, collaborating with writers\, illustrators\, and musicians all around the world. Suyang Gong is a fine artist and illustrator who graduated from Rutgers (2021) with a BFA in Fine Arts. She has formerly worked as a teaching assistant at the Sharron Art Center for 3 years\, tutoring students in refining technical drawing skills. Suyang also specializes in traditional media\, often using materials like graphite\, ink\, and oil paint to create dynamic works. Masha Zhdanova is a freelance writer\, editor\, and illustrator who graduated from SCAD (2019) with a BFA in Sequential Art and recently completed her MFA in Cartooning at the Center for Cartoon Studies (2022). She was a teaching assistant for two Winter workshops at CCS and has taught comics classes for kids at the Princeton Public Library. Masha’s clients include Publisher’s Weekly\, Women Write About Comics\, and Polygon\, and she also currently edits content for The Anime Herald.
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/jam/2026-01-07/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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SUMMARY:Fiesta del Día de Los Reyes Magos 2026: A Three Kings Day Flamenco Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join the Arts Council of Princeton for a special dance performance! \nFiesta del Día de Los Reyes Magos\, or Three Kings Day\, is celebrated throughout the world to mark the culmination of the twelve days of Christmas. This live dance performance by the Arts Council’s Flamenco program\, led by Lisa Botalico\, will feature multiple dance numbers as you learn about this cultural holiday and end the holiday season in celebration! \nThis live performance features the adult performers of the Arts Council of Princeton’s Flamenco program\, led by Lisa Botalico. \nTickets: $10. All proceeds benefit Arts Council community programming. \nCelebra la Fiesta del Dia de los Reyes Magos\, un evento cultural para familias\, presentando Bailes de Flamenco dirigidos por Lisa Botalico. Sábado\, 3 de enero\, 2026. Boletos: $10. \n\nTickets
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/fiesta-del-dia-de-los-reyes-magos-2026-a-three-kings-day-flamenco-celebration-2/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Events & Performances,Free or Low Cost
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SUMMARY:Fiesta del Día de Los Reyes Magos 2026: A Three Kings Day Flamenco Celebration (Sold Out)
DESCRIPTION:Join the Arts Council of Princeton for a special dance performance! \nFiesta del Día de Los Reyes Magos\, or Three Kings Day\, is celebrated throughout the world to mark the culmination of the twelve days of Christmas. This live dance performance by the Arts Council’s Flamenco program\, led by Lisa Botalico\, will feature multiple dance numbers as you learn about this cultural holiday and end the holiday season in celebration! \nThis live performance features the adult performers of the Arts Council of Princeton’s Flamenco program\, led by Lisa Botalico. \nTickets: $10. All proceeds benefit Arts Council community programming. \nCelebra la Fiesta del Dia de los Reyes Magos\, un evento cultural para familias\, presentando Bailes de Flamenco dirigidos por Lisa Botalico. Sábado\, 3 de enero\, 2026. Boletos: $10. \nThis 3pm performance is sold out. \n\nTickets for 5pm performance
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/fiesta-del-dia-de-los-reyes-magos-2026-a-three-kings-day-flamenco-celebration/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Events & Performances,Free or Low Cost
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260104
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SUMMARY:Dogoyles
DESCRIPTION:About Dogoyles:\nVictor Bell’s deep affection for rescue dogs\, and the unconditional love they so freely give\, sparked the creation of Princeton’s Dogoyles. Equally inspired by the spirit of his community\, Victor imagined a series of whimsical guardians that celebrate both canine devotion and neighborhood pride as his Anne Reeves Artist-in-Residence Spring 2025 project. \nThese ceramic “dogoyles” (a magical blend of dog\, dragon\, and gargoyle) were originally crafted for beloved small businesses and community landmarks across town. Each one was designed to channel the sense of belonging\, protection\, and joy that dogs and local gathering places offer. Now reunited in our gallery\, the full pack brings their collective magic together in one space. \nEvery dogoyle is accompanied by a QR code linking to SAVE\, our local animal shelter\, extending Victor’s hope that these sculptures inspire others to support and experience the transformative love of rescue animals. \n  \n  \nAbout Victor Bell:\nHaving grown up in Princeton\, I was lucky enough to experience the magic of the Arts Council and the community from an early age. My parents were both inspirational to me in their passions for creation\, from my artist mother and my inventor father. I graduated from Rowan University in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in MIS. During my last semester\, I took one ceramics class but did not plan on ever doing it again. I work for my family’s small business and until recently\, I did not consider myself to be much of an artist. \nAbout 3 years\, ago I got my hands back into clay and I am so grateful. I started taking beginner ceramics classes at the Arts Council where I found a passion for sculpting dogs. After getting a solid foundation of skills\, I started practicing at a studio in New York City on 46th and 10th called Mud Matters. Early on\, my goal was to somehow have my clay sculptures help rescue dogs. \nWhy dogs? In 2018\, my family rescued two dogs and they changed our lives. The unconditional love that a dog teaches us is truly otherworldly. This feeling of spiritual protection is what I am trying to capture in my sculptures. Similar to how a gargoyle protects a space by scaring off bad spirits\, my gargoyle-esque creatures bring forth the same feeling of safety which a dog provides. \nThe art serves functionally as a vessel for love. The feeling when you look at a dog and your emotions overflow you can put into these forms. Through creating with my own emotions for my dogs\, my hope is these whimsical beasts can inspire others to create with their hands\, hearts\, and minds. \nBy placing them throughout the community\, I wish to remind people that while we are all different\, we share the same feelings of love. These shared experiences are important to celebrate and are what will bring us all closer together. This is my reason for creating\, enjoy! \nAbout the Anne Reeves Artist-in-Residence Program:\nThe Anne Reeves Artist-in-Residence Program\, named after ACP Founding Director\, was established by the Arts Council in 2009 to offer artists the opportunity to conceptualize and create work while providing the community with creative interaction with working artists in all disciplines.
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/dogoyles/
LOCATION:Lower Level Gallery
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost,Opening Receptions
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SUMMARY:Annual Member Show: Third Place
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, the Arts Council welcomes our member artists to submit work to our Member Show\, held during the month of December. We fill the Taplin Gallery with artwork produced by more than 100 artists on view for our community to enjoy\, including drawing\, painting\, photography\, sculpture\, ceramics\, and more. \n2025 Theme: Do You Have a Third Place?  \nWhere do you go when you’re itching to leave the house but don’t need to go to work or class? Maybe it’s a café\, bar\, art club\, dog park\, library\, gym\, bookstore\, or even a place to which you travel in your mind. \nSome of these spots can be described as “third places”. Sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined this term to describe places outside of the home (the “first place”) and the workplace (the “second place”)\, where folks go to converse with others and connect with their community. In these cases\, no one is obligated to be there and are often free or affordable. In other words\, they’re our happy places. \nThese spaces serve us well and we come back time and time again. Here at the Arts Council\, we get it. We see repeat students\, familiar faces at gallery openings\, people who come out every week to draw\, paint\, print\, chat\, and it lets us know we’re doing something right. \nSo for this year’s Annual Member Show\, we invite you to capture what you call sanctuary\, comfort\, zen — whether it’s a physical place or somewhere abstract to which you travel in your mind — and show it off in our Taplin Gallery. And if you’re lacking a third place\, get an ACP membership today and find your bliss.
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/member-show-third-place/
LOCATION:Taplin Gallery – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost,Opening Receptions
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SUMMARY:The Witherspoon Collective: Advanced Painters from Charles Viera’s Class
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition statement:\nThe paintings on display are by artists studying in the Advanced Painting classes here at the Arts Council of Princeton. This class is unique in that it attracts artists seeking to take the next step toward developing an exhibition-level body of work\, yet the shift from student to mature artist is not always easy.  \nThese artists come from a wide range of backgrounds and educational experiences. Many have pursued part-time painting studies while balancing careers and home life. Some hold degrees in the arts that\, for one reason or another\, did not lead them where they hoped to be today. The purpose of this class is to provide a studio environment where artists can focus on discovering their artistic identity\, surrounded by like-minded creatives.  \nAdvanced Painting is free of formal assignments. Instead\, artists bring their own ideas\, and the class acts as a laboratory where colors\, concepts\, and compositions are cultivated and woven into personally meaningful images. A landscape becomes more than a scene – it becomes the unfurling of a memory. A portrait is more than an academic exercise – it is a continued interaction with someone the artist may know. More expressionist works reflect not only remembered images but also the emotions tied to those moments.  \nThis exhibition represents the culmination of each artist’s intellectual and creative journey and affirms that\, even in an age of large-format photography and digital artmaking\, there remains a vital place for the deeply personal touch of easel painting.  \n\nAbout The Witherspoon Artists Collective:\nThe Collective is composed of local artists who have studied painting and drawing at the Arts Council of Princeton\, working across oil\, acrylic\, and pastel. Their work reflects both the high caliber of ACP’s visual arts instruction and the deep creative engagement nurtured within its classrooms. \nCharles Viera\, ACP teaching artist and curator of the exhibition\, shares\, “Some of the artists in this exhibition have been studying with me for years\, while others come and go as their schedules allow. The unifying theme of this exhibition is that all of these artists are local\, they have studied at ACP\, and they are all excellent artists who are now being recognized as such.” This exhibition highlights the creative growth\, skill\, and dedication of artists who have found community and artistic momentum through ACP’s programs. \nArtists exhibiting include: Si Chang\, Paula Huttner\, Margaret Kalvar\, Luccia Carsky-Wilson\, Lori Langsner\, Geraldine Shea\, Marisa Braccia\, Hoke Bullard\, Cynthia Butler\, Anne Diebel\, Jane Conlon Goble\, Erica McEnery\, Jane McCort and Pam Potenza.
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/the-witherspoon-collective-advanced-painters-from-charles-vieras-class-2/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost,Opening Receptions
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