Posts Tagged ‘visual arts’

This Weekend’s Best Bets

By Shane Smith • Mar 19th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

It’s gonna be a gorgeous weekend, folks; make sure you get out there and make the most of it. For the most comprehensive arts and entertainment listings, be sure to check our Cultural Calendar. But if you want a little help planning your weekend, here are your Best Bets.
TODAY
Today’s sun will greet the Creative Grove [...]



The Distillery Brings Jersey City’s Gallery Scene to the Heights

By Jon Whiten • Mar 18th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Lead Story

In the past few years, art galleries have begun popping up outside of Downtown Jersey City, the epicenter of the city’s art scene. Lenapeeps and the Chamot Gallery are both making a go of it in Bergen Hill, and this weekend the gallery scene will officially continue its geographic expansion when the Distillery opens its doors for the first time.



Creative Grove Artist Market Returns Friday

By Jon Whiten • Mar 16th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

After a short winter hiatus, the Creative Grove Artist Market will once again begin gracing the Grove Street PATH plaza with its presence this Friday. Each Friday from 2 to 8 pm, the market will feature art, live music and DJs, local designers and handmade goods and more.
If you want to be a vendor, [...]



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By Jon Whiten • Mar 12th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

It’s another jam-packed weekend for Jersey City culture vultures. For the most comprehensive arts and entertainment listings, be sure to check our Cultural Calendar. But if you want a little help planning your weekend, here are your Best Bets.
TODAY
The first East Coast solo show for Oakland-based printmaker and digital artist Favianna Rodriguez is happening [...]



Two Jersey City Artists Launch Summer Program for High Schoolers

By Jon Whiten • Mar 11th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

This summer on the Downtown campus of St. Peter’s Prep, 15 local high school students will take part in the first-ever Metro Arts Summer Institute. The intensive two-week program will be taught by Jersey City artists (and Prep art faculty) Megan Klim and Nguyen Smith, and it’s modeled on the state Governor’s School for the Arts, where Klim taught for several years. The successful arts program became a victim of state budget cutting, and hasn’t been in operation since the summer of 2008.



Kanibal Home Launching Art Classes

By Jon Whiten • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

The Montgomery Street boutique Kanibal Home is rolling out some intimate art classes taught by Jersey City’s own James French.
The classes, which begin this Friday, are open to only 10 people. The first lesson is on Scratchboard Drawing — you can take this one on Friday, March 12 at 7:30 pm, or Tuesday, March [...]



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By Shane Smith • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

For Jersey City’s most comprehensive arts and entertainment listings, be sure to check our full Cultural Calendar. Here are your Best Bets for the coming weekend.
TODAY
With JC Fridays back in town today, there is plenty of good stuff going on. While you can see the full event listings on the JC Fridays website, there are [...]



JC Fridays Returns Tomorrow

By Jon Whiten • Mar 4th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

The quarterly arts extravaganza JC Fridays returns to Jersey City this Friday, March 5, with nearly 40 events lined up all over town for art lovers of all ages.
As part of the festivities, the city and Art House Productions will honor three local businesses — Fischer Confections, Churrasqueira Europa Restaurant & Bar and [...]



Heading to the ‘Motherland’: New _gaia Exhibition Opens Tonight at NJCU

By Jon Whiten • Mar 4th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Featured

New work by 10 women exploring themes of immigration, identity, home, culture and family will be on display starting this evening at New Jersey City University, as _gaia unveils the latest exhibition to spring from its annual Wonder Women residency program, “Ah, Motherland!”



Inaugural Art Eat-Up Brings Grassroots Arts Funding to Jersey City

By Jon Whiten • Feb 17th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Featured

Food, art and community will come together next month as an innovative grassroots arts funding program takes root in Jersey City. The idea for the first-ever Art Eat-Up, which is being put together by Pro Arts Jersey City, came from Brooklyn’s FEAST, a recurring public dinner designed to use grassroots financial support to fund new and emerging artists.