FEELING ADVENTUROUS?
We’re hitting the road for some unforgettable travel experiences. From city centers to lush countryside, we’ll meet artists, gallery owners, and cultural experts, enjoy delectable cuisine, and expand our creative horizons as we see the sights. By joining us for this special fundraising series, you’re paving the way to keep art-making experiences free for our whole community.
UPCOMING TRIPS
HUDSON VALLEY, NEW YORK
OCTOBER 20, 2023 | 7:30am-7pm
New York’s Hudson Valley is renowned for its historic landmarks, artist communities, and stunning landscapes.
We’ll kick off our trip with a private tour of Storm King Art Center. This 500-acre outdoor museum invites you to experience large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions under the open sky. Since 1960, Storm King has been dedicated to stewarding the hills, meadows, and forests of its site and surrounding landscape.
We’ll then head to lunch at local favorite Il Cena’ Colo to enjoy the decadent flavors of Tuscany. This highly-regarded eatery is tucked into an unlikely corner of commercial Newburgh in true “if you know, you know” fashion.
From lunch, we will head to the world-famous Dia Beacon on the banks of the Hudson River. Dia is unique in that – keeping with Dia’s history of single-artist, site-related presentations – each gallery was designed specifically for the installation of one artist’s work. This attentiveness to the work is tangible when traversing Dia’s vast, experimental spaces.
This ACP Roadtrip includes charter bus travel, private tour of Storm King, lunch, and guided tour of Dia Beacon.
Tickets: $495 per traveler
A portion of your ticket will be tax deductible.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
NOVEMBER 2, 2023 | 8am-5pm
The Louis K. Meisel Gallery occupies 20,000 square feet (that’s about four times the area of a basketball court!) Credited with coining the term “Photorealism,” Meisel became a pioneer of Photorealist art, championing the work of now renowned painters. Our group will be treated to a private discussion with Mr. Louis Meisel, gallery owner and author of numerous books including the definitive volumes on Photorealism. We’ll tour the space that boasts the work of many of the original Photorealist artists, plus the new generation of the finest realist painters and sculptors in the world.
We will dine at Freeman’s Restaurant, a clandestine colonial American tavern restaurant, inspired by Old-World traditions and hiding in not-so-plain-sight.
Following lunch, we will head to the groundbreaking exhibition, “Judy Chicago: Herstory” at the New Museum. This survey spans Judy Chicago’s sixty-year career encompassing the full breadth of the artist’s contributions across painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking. Chicago is best known for her Dinner Party icon of feminist art. Expands the boundaries of a traditional museum survey, the exhibition will place six decades of Chicago’s work in dialogue with work by other women across centuries in a unique Fourth Floor installation.
This ACP Roadtrip includes charter bus travel, private tour + discussion with Louis Meisel of Meisel Gallery, lunch, and guided tour of Judy Chicago Retrospective at the New Museum.
Tickets: $475 per traveler
A portion of your ticket will be tax deductible.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
FEBRUARY 22, 2024 | 8am-5pm
Learn about one of the earliest NYC settlement houses on a tour with ACP Executive Director Adam Welch, formerly of Greenwich House Pottery. Adam led Greenwich House for 17 years and is the unofficial historian of the Settlement House and the Pottery.
Starting with classes as part of a larger handicraft program in 1904, the Pottery officially became a department within Greenwich House in 1909. The teachers, students, and residents that have worked in the Pottery’s classrooms over the years have included such renowned names as Peter Voulkos, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Betty Woodman, Ghada Amer, Ann Agee, Kathy Butterly, Simone Leigh, and David Salle.
We will dine at Michelin Star restaurant, Bar Primi, in the Bowery. Known for excellent Italian-American food, you can expect a delicious twist here and surprise ingredient there. The result is a restaurant we would all love to have just around the corner.
From lunch, our group will head to The Tenement Museum. The Museum celebrates the enduring stories that define and strengthen what it means to be American.
Hear stories of the immigrant and migrant experience through a private guided tour of one of their two tenement buildings on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
This ACP Roadtrip includes charter bus travel, private tour of Greenwich House Pottery, lunch at a Michelin Star restaurant, and guided tour of the Tenement Museum.
Tickets: $375 per traveler
A portion of your ticket will be tax deductible.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
APRIL 18, 2024
Join us for a rare opportunity: an intimate tour of Tom Sachs studio led by Tom Sachs.
Sachs is a sculptor, known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, all of them masterpieces of engineering and design. Sachs is the only artist to have a solo show at the Noguchi Museum, other than Noguchi himsef. Sachs is also well known for his Space Program and his Tea Ceremony work.
Together, we’ll then dine at Michelin Star restaurant Tomino Taberna Gallega, a treasure trove of delicious tapas from Northwestern Spain, located on the border of Little Italy and Chinatown. To call it a tavern may be a misnomer, as the dining room is attractively decorated with handsome wood tables, ocean-blue banquettes, and a stunning skylight overhead.
From lunch, we’ll head to the Judd Foundation for an intimate view into the life of world-renown minimalist artist Donald Judd’s life. Judd’s work sought autonomy through pristinely fabricated objects. This guided tour of his living and studio space in NYC will allow us direct engagement with Judd’s installed spaces.
This ACP Roadtrip includes charter bus travel, private tour of Tom Sachs Studio with Tom Sachs, lunch at a Michelin Star restaurant, and guided tour of the Judd Foundation.
Tickets: $675 per traveler
A portion of your ticket will be tax deductible.
LONDON, ENGLAND
JUNE 15-22, 2024
This premier London experience has been curated by board president Joe Kossow.
Full itinerary coming soon!
Want to be notified as soon as the details are announced? Email Emma Stephens at estephens@artscouncilofprinceton.org
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
MARCH 2024
This behind-the-scenes experience of Mexico City has been curated and will be led by artist, instructor, former trustee, and current advisory board member Veronica Olivares-Weber.
Full itinerary coming soon!
Want to be notified as soon as the details are announced? Email Emma Stephens at estephens@artscouncilofprinceton.org