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SUMMARY:Story & Verse: A Storytelling and Poetic Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Share your story\, your poetry\, or your prose\, based on the monthly theme!\nStory & Verse provides a warm and welcoming spotlight for both emerging and established artists in our Solley Theater\, an intimate space in the heart of Downtown Princeton. \nJoin us as a performer: \n\nPrepare a story\, poem\, or spoken word piece up to 5 minutes in length and (at least loosely) related to the theme. This month’s theme is “Ready\, Set\, Go!”\nArrive by 6:45pm to add your name to the hat. No previous experience or pre-registration necessary.\n\nJoin our audience: \n\nTake the elevator or stairs to the Solley Theater\, located on the top floor of our Paul Robeson Center for the Arts.\nOptional: participate from your seat with a Micro Story. Read the printed prompt based on the evening’s theme and respond with a super concise story (just a line or two!) that answers the question. Brass Rabbit will read your story at the mic\, as time allows.\nFind a seat and enjoy the performances. We kick off shortly after 7pm.\n\nQuestions? Shoot us an email. \n \nAbout our host:  \nBrass Rabbit is an artist\, contemporary curator\, and arts administrator based in Trenton\, New Jersey. Rabbit has been creating and hosting poetry\, spoken word\, and storytelling events in the tri-state area for over a decade. As a performer\, the art of storytelling holds a very special place in her heart\, but listening to and supporting others is where she feels most at home. \nHosting the Story & Verse Open Mic at the Arts Council of Princeton could be called a dream job\, but for Rabbit\, the position completely lacks any “work-like” qualities and is more of an outstanding experience she looks forward to each month. Previously\, Rabbit has hosted the Levitt Amp Music Series\, Voice to Ear Festival\, Word on Front Poetry Festival\, independent poetry and storytelling open mics\, and even curated an art exhibition celebrating the art of poetry.
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/story-verse-a-storytelling-and-poetic-open-mic-may26/
LOCATION:Solley Theater – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Events & Performances,Free or Low Cost
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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/2026-05-20/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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SUMMARY:Pop-Up Choir Princeton
DESCRIPTION:The choir you didn’t know you needed.\n\nPop-Up Choir Princeton is an all-ages community singing experience where families\, neighbors\, and music-lovers come together to sing pop songs in harmony — no auditions\, no pressure\, just joy. \n\nKids and parents sing side-by-side\nAdults who “used to sing” feel safe to try again\nFirst-time singers get to experience the magic of choir\n\nSing shortened versions of well-loved pop songs arranged with easy-to-follow harmonies. \nRather than being divided by age or gender\, singers choose the range that feels best for their voice: Low\, Middle\, or High. \nFamilies sit together and work as a team — either choosing to all sing the same part or challenge each other to sing in harmony. \nThere will also be moments where singers can volunteer to sing a short line of the melody on their own. If you feel inspired\, just raise your hand when prompted and you can try the melody while the choir supports you. \n\nA screen-free singing experience:\n\nPop-Up Choir Princeton is intentionally phone-free and screen-free. Instead of staring at iPads or projectors\, everyone receives a simple lyric sheet and learns the music together by ear and by voice — the way humans have always sung. This keeps the focus on listening\, connection\, and the shared energy of singing in the same room. \n\nFREE RSVP
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/pop-up-choir-princeton-may20-26/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Events & Performances,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T180000
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SUMMARY:ART OF Mixology with 3BR Distillery
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun spring cocktail experience! \nLearn basic bartending skills and craft delightful spring-themed cocktails while discovering the unique story of 3BR\, a local craft distillery. Sip creative craft cocktails\, taste 3BR’s products and win prizes as we play games with our bartools. \n								\n									tickets
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/art-of-mixology/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:ART OF
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260513T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260513T210000
DTSTAMP:20260610T204643Z
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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/2026-05-13/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260509T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260509T170000
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SUMMARY:Gallery Opening: Color as Composition
DESCRIPTION:Color as Composition\nBy Phoebe Wiley\nOn view: May 2 – 30\nOpening: Sat\, May 9 | 3-5pm\n\nExhibition statement:\nStudies in how juxtaposed colors relate\, contrast to one another to come forward\, recede\, move around\, create rhythm emotion\, intensity\, and form. \nAbout the artist:\nI was overwhelmed this morning by the RED dahlias in my garden. The story of my life! Since childhood the observation of color in nature has overtaken my senses and compelled me to think\nabout it and recreate it. This intensity of feeling has led me to a very long life as a painter. For many years I worked as an impressionist painter observing the play of light and color in still lives and landscapes\, analyzing how to use gestural marks of color to describe objects in the picture. I recently learned to let go of all figuration to concentrate on the color itself to create the composition.\nWebsite
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/gallery-opening-color-as-composition/
LOCATION:Lower Level Gallery
CATEGORIES:Free or Low Cost,Opening Receptions
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SUMMARY:Gallery Opening: Sounds of Color
DESCRIPTION:Sounds of ColorBy artist AidaOn view: May 2 – 30Opening: Sat\, May 9 | 3-5pm\nArtist Statement:When we muse on the beauty of art\, we associate it with the oculus of the soul\, the eye\, as the periscope to the soul. It is a perceived reality. Color goes beyond what the eye can see. It connects directly to what the soul sees. When the soul sees\, it deeply feels the beauty before it. Maybe no two people see or feel color the same way? Color is a fantasy of communication between the eye and the soul. Color works like rhythm and wavelength\, it plays with our understanding of lumen and refraction of light. It can be simultaneously harmonious and discordant\, like green against red\, yellow beside violet. Like a musical composition it may blend without confrontation. It changes desire and emotion. Unlike music\, visual color must permeate the soul\, maybe in a slower way. We associate color with memory and emotion. I work mindfully with saturated color boldness to reveal another journey of modern color application. \nMuch of my inspiration came about through meditation and spiritual connections to the sounds of wildlife\, water and musical rhythms. In 2025\, I participated in an artist residency in Beaumont de Pertuis\, Luberon\, where I created works en plein air. They are studies of light and color en Provence. \nArtist Bio:Cuban born\, Aida immigrated to the US in 1968 at the age of three. She grew up in Elizabeth\, NJ\, where her family settled. From a young age\, Aida loved to draw and began to paint as an undergraduate while attending Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts. She flourished in the art school environment and was considered a true “painter’s painter” by her peers\, receiving a BFA degree in 1990. \nThroughout her career\, Aida’s work has been exhibited in numerous regional\, national and international juried shows throughout the US and the Tri-State area of NY\, NJ and PA. She was recently selected for and exhibited at a juried National Works on Paper 2024 exhibition held at Long Beach Island Foundation of Art and Science\, as well as the 47th International Water media Exhibition at WASH-H in Houston\, Texas\, where she received a Merit Award. Aida has given workshops and demos for the Garden State Watercolor Society and Warren County Arts\, NJ\, and has taught classes and given workshops at AOY Art Center\, in Yardley\, PA. Aida paints in her home studio in High Bridge\, NJ\, where she has lived with her husband since 1997\, having raised two daughters. www.aidawatercolors.com
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/gallery-opening-sounds-of-color/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost
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SUMMARY:Gallery Opening: Tales from the Disenchanted Forest
DESCRIPTION:Tales from the Disenchanted Forest\nBy Artists: Elizabeth Jordan & Terri Fraser\nOn view: May 2 – 30\nOpening: Sat\, May 9 | 3-5pm\n  \nJoint Artist Statement: \nArtists Terri Fraser and Elizabeth Jordan create visually distinct sculptural work grounded in a shared commitment to process\, material\, and the layered narratives that emerge through making. Frasers work moves toward an ethereal\, immersive interpretation of the natural world\, shaped by a practice rooted in the woods\, while Jordans is informed by an urban environment and grounded in the presence of individual animal forms. Both practices are rich in detail and guided by an attention to how systems hold—and fail—within the environment. Responding to the ongoing degradation of the natural world\, their work reflects a deep awareness of the reciprocal relationship between flora and fauna\, offering an experience that is both attentive and quietly unsettling. \nFraser constructs an immersive forest through layered materials drawn from the natural world and the remnants of human use. These elements are woven\, knotted\, and coiled into shifting forms that hold a restrained presence while remaining open\, skeletal\, and in flux. The installation unfolds through clusters\, clearings\, and suspended canopies\, creating shifting pathways that move around and through the work. Rather than replicating nature\, the forms register its strain—caught between growth and collapse\, structure and fragility—suggesting an ecosystem no longer in balance. \nJordan’s creatures emerge through a layered and material-driven process\, inhabiting a space between beauty and unease that reflects the shifting relationship between humans and animals. At times strange and not fully identifiable\, they communicate through gesture\, posture\, and surface—where cuts\, seams\, and scars hold traces of their making. Their presence suggests both memory and displacement\, as if once of the forest yet now shaped by a human world. In their stillness and outward gaze\, they hold a tension between what has been altered and what endures. \nThe juxtaposition of these two perspectives creates a space shaped by uncertainty\, beauty\, and quiet tension. Working from different relationships to the natural world\, Fraser and Jordan bring their practices into proximity\, where their differences generate a subtle but persistent dialogue. Within this exchange\, an intangible connection emerges—held in the vibration between past\, present\, and what might still be possible. The Disenchanted Forest does not resolve this tension\, but allows it to remain. \n 
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/gallery-opening-tales-from-the-disenchanted-forest/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Free or Low Cost,Opening Receptions
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Keith O’Shaughnessy
DESCRIPTION:“His poetry is as impeccable and\nsui generis as he is … His lines\nare simultaneously earnest and\nplayful\, austere and effusive\,\ndirect and multivalent. Sentences\ncan spill across dozens of lines\nwithout losing their grammatical\ncoherence or sense of trajectory.”  – ERIC MCHENRY\,\nColumbia Magazine		\n																												 \nPoet and Princeton resident Keith O’Shaughnessy will present a reading from his latest work\, Petrushka. An audience Q&A and signing will follow. \nSet in a quasi-Russian dreamscape\, the blackly comic\, darkly beautiful poems and fables contained in this vast volume chronicle\, in an elaborate symphonic arrangement of recurring themes and motifs\, the miscellaneous travails of several interacting characters—ballerina\, chess master\, opera tenor\, cabaret chanteuse (if not\, too\, the odd street urchin\, idiot\, or organ grinder)—all under the vigilant glare of the gleefully belligerent\, aggressively indecorous Petrushka puppet thwacking away savagely at his various adversaries with his signature slapstick. By turns elegant\, satirical\, and absurd\, the collection\, like its namesake\, revels throughout in the perverse and grotesque\, yet always with mischievous wit and rhetorical invention. \nIn 2011 Keith O’Shaughnessy’s first book of poems\, Incommunicado\, won the inaugural Grolier Discovery Award\, sponsored by the legendary Cambridge bookshop of the same name. His second\, Last Call for Ganymede\, followed in 2014 from Ilora Press. At long last\, his magnum opus\, Petrushka\, was released by Ragged Sky Press in March of 2026. Along the way he also authored three chapbooks—Carnaval\, The Devil’s Party\, and Snegurochka—all with Pudding House Publications. A near-lifelong resident of Princeton\, he teaches English at Camden County College in southern New Jersey. \nLearn more by visiting keithoshaughnessy.com. \n								\n									free rsvp
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/poetry-reading-keith-oshaughnessy/
LOCATION:Solley Theater – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Events & Performances,Free or Low Cost
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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/2026-05-06/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Free or Low Cost
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SUMMARY:Pop-Up Choir Princeton
DESCRIPTION:The choir you didn’t know you needed.\n\nPop-Up Choir Princeton is an all-ages community singing experience where families\, neighbors\, and music-lovers come together to sing pop songs in harmony — no auditions\, no pressure\, just joy. \n\nKids and parents sing side-by-side\nAdults who “used to sing” feel safe to try again\nFirst-time singers get to experience the magic of choir\n\nSing shortened versions of well-loved pop songs arranged with easy-to-follow harmonies. \nRather than being divided by age or gender\, singers choose the range that feels best for their voice: Low\, Middle\, or High. \nFamilies sit together and work as a team — either choosing to all sing the same part or challenge each other to sing in harmony. \nThere will also be moments where singers can volunteer to sing a short line of the melody on their own. If you feel inspired\, just raise your hand when prompted and you can try the melody while the choir supports you. \n\nA screen-free singing experience:\n\nPop-Up Choir Princeton is intentionally phone-free and screen-free. Instead of staring at iPads or projectors\, everyone receives a simple lyric sheet and learns the music together by ear and by voice — the way humans have always sung. This keeps the focus on listening\, connection\, and the shared energy of singing in the same room. \n\nFREE RSVP
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/pop-up-choir-princeton-may8-26/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Events & Performances,Free or Low Cost
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SUMMARY:Princeton Art Bazaar 2026
DESCRIPTION:Shop 100+ creative vendors working in ceramics\, textiles\, printmaking\, wood\, glass\, leather\, jewelry\, self-care\, vintage\, and more! Sip local brews in our Beer Garden\, jam to tunes by The Strange Brew Crew band and get hands-on in our all-ages open studios. \nPlus new this year: Discover our new Bazaar Bodega bringing together local artisans who channel their unique perspectives into one-of-a-kind food and beverage creations. From small-batch preserves and homemade sweets to innovative pre-packaged goods\, sauces\, and specialty snacks\, every stall tells a story of craft and community. \nIt’s a full day of community + creativity\, and you’re invited. \n\nEvent details
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/princeton-art-bazaar-2026/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Community,Events & Performances,Free or Low Cost
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SUMMARY:Color as Composition
DESCRIPTION:Color as Composition\nBy Phoebe Wiley\nOn view: May 2 – 30\nOpening: Sat\, May 9 | 3-5pm\n\nExhibition statement:\nStudies in how juxtaposed colors relate\, contrast to one another to come forward\, recede\, move around\, create rhythm emotion\, intensity\, and form. \nAbout the artist:\nI was overwhelmed this morning by the RED dahlias in my garden. The story of my life! Since childhood the observation of color in nature has overtaken my senses and compelled me to think\nabout it and recreate it. This intensity of feeling has led me to a very long life as a painter. For many years I worked as an impressionist painter observing the play of light and color in still lives and landscapes\, analyzing how to use gestural marks of color to describe objects in the picture. I recently learned to let go of all figuration to concentrate on the color itself to create the composition.\nWebsite
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/color-as-composition/
LOCATION:Lower Level Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Opening Receptions
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SUMMARY:Sounds of Color
DESCRIPTION:Sounds of ColorBy artist AidaOn view: May 2 – 30Opening: Sat\, May 9 | 3-5pm\nArtist Statement:When we muse on the beauty of art\, we associate it with the oculus of the soul\, the eye\, as the periscope to the soul. It is a perceived reality. Color goes beyond what the eye can see. It connects directly to what the soul sees. When the soul sees\, it deeply feels the beauty before it. Maybe no two people see or feel color the same way? Color is a fantasy of communication between the eye and the soul. Color works like rhythm and wavelength\, it plays with our understanding of lumen and refraction of light. It can be simultaneously harmonious and discordant\, like green against red\, yellow beside violet. Like a musical composition it may blend without confrontation. It changes desire and emotion. Unlike music\, visual color must permeate the soul\, maybe in a slower way. We associate color with memory and emotion. I work mindfully with saturated color boldness to reveal another journey of modern color application. \nMuch of my inspiration came about through meditation and spiritual connections to the sounds of wildlife\, water and musical rhythms. In 2025\, I participated in an artist residency in Beaumont de Pertuis\, Luberon\, where I created works en plein air. They are studies of light and color en Provence. \nArtist Bio:Cuban born\, Aida immigrated to the US in 1968 at the age of three. She grew up in Elizabeth\, NJ\, where her family settled. From a young age\, Aida loved to draw and began to paint as an undergraduate while attending Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts. She flourished in the art school environment and was considered a true “painter’s painter” by her peers\, receiving a BFA degree in 1990. \nThroughout her career\, Aida’s work has been exhibited in numerous regional\, national and international juried shows throughout the US and the Tri-State area of NY\, NJ and PA. She was recently selected for and exhibited at a juried National Works on Paper 2024 exhibition held at Long Beach Island Foundation of Art and Science\, as well as the 47th International Water media Exhibition at WASH-H in Houston\, Texas\, where she received a Merit Award. Aida has given workshops and demos for the Garden State Watercolor Society and Warren County Arts\, NJ\, and has taught classes and given workshops at AOY Art Center\, in Yardley\, PA. Aida paints in her home studio in High Bridge\, NJ\, where she has lived with her husband since 1997\, having raised two daughters. www.aidawatercolors.com
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/sounds-of-color/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Opening Receptions
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SUMMARY:Tales from the Disenchanted Forest
DESCRIPTION:Tales from the Disenchanted ForestBy Artists: Elizabeth Jordan & Terri FraserOn view: May 2 – 30Opening: Sat\, May 9 | 3-5pm \n\nJoint Artist Statement: \nArtists Terri Fraser and Elizabeth Jordan create visually distinct sculptural work grounded in a shared commitment to process\, material\, and the layered narratives that emerge through making. Frasers work moves toward an ethereal\, immersive interpretation of the natural world\, shaped by a practice rooted in the woods\, while Jordans is informed by an urban environment and grounded in the presence of individual animal forms. Both practices are rich in detail and guided by an attention to how systems hold—and fail—within the environment. Responding to the ongoing degradation of the natural world\, their work reflects a deep awareness of the reciprocal relationship between flora and fauna\, offering an experience that is both attentive and quietly unsettling. \nFraser constructs an immersive forest through layered materials drawn from the natural world and the remnants of human use. These elements are woven\, knotted\, and coiled into shifting forms that hold a restrained presence while remaining open\, skeletal\, and in flux. The installation unfolds through clusters\, clearings\, and suspended canopies\, creating shifting pathways that move around and through the work. Rather than replicating nature\, the forms register its strain—caught between growth and collapse\, structure and fragility—suggesting an ecosystem no longer in balance. \nJordan’s creatures emerge through a layered and material-driven process\, inhabiting a space between beauty and unease that reflects the shifting relationship between humans and animals. At times strange and not fully identifiable\, they communicate through gesture\, posture\, and surface—where cuts\, seams\, and scars hold traces of their making. Their presence suggests both memory and displacement\, as if once of the forest yet now shaped by a human world. In their stillness and outward gaze\, they hold a tension between what has been altered and what endures. \nThe juxtaposition of these two perspectives creates a space shaped by uncertainty\, beauty\, and quiet tension. Working from different relationships to the natural world\, Fraser and Jordan bring their practices into proximity\, where their differences generate a subtle but persistent dialogue. Within this exchange\, an intangible connection emerges—held in the vibration between past\, present\, and what might still be possible. The Disenchanted Forest does not resolve this tension\, but allows it to remain.
URL:https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/tales-from-the-disenchanted-forest/
LOCATION:Taplin Gallery – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Free or Low Cost,Taplin Gallery
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