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HEALTHCARE ANGELS: This painting by Joe LaMattina is featured in “Art and Healing,” a juried exhibition on view on the West Windsor Arts Council’s website August 31 through October 23. A virtual reception is September 11 from 7:15 to 9 p.m.

WWAC “Art and Healing” Online Exhibit, Reception

For its new virtual juried exhibit, the West Windsor Arts Council invited artists to explore the theme of “Art and Healing,” not only as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact it has had on our lives, but also to reflect on past life experiences or feelings relating to healing from any condition or challenge.

As we slowly emerge from the quarantines of the past few months, WWAC sought to create an exhibition that looks at art as a healing tool, reflecting the realities, feelings, or experiences during this surreal time, or from other past events, either personal or public.

“Art and Healing” can be viewed at westwindsorarts. org from August 31 through October 30. A free virtual reception, featuring discussions with the juror and artists, is Friday, September 11 from 7:15-9 p.m. Visit the website to register.

Accepted artists include Zakia Ahmed, Maureen Bennett, Joe Bucciano, Vincent Bush “VCAB”, Thomas Chiola, Connie Cruser, Ceil Diskin, Joann Donatiello, Ilene Dube, Gary David Fournier, Jay Goldberg, Spriha Gupta, Joelle Hofbauer, Margaret

ART RE-CREATION CHALLENGE: The work submitted by Kristina Giasi, above, re-creates William Merritt Chase’s “Landscape: Shinnecock, Long Island, 1896,” shown below. The Princeton University Art Museum is now hosting a challenge to re-create works from the museum’s collections, or from another museum, from home using anything on hand. The deadline for entries is August 30.

Kalvar Bushnell, Joy Kreves and Ivia Sky Yavelow, Joe LaMattina, Sang-Yeol Lee, Yun Li, Kathleen Hurley Liao, Eleni Litt, Beth Malcolm, Judith Marchand and David P. Horowitz, Kim Matthews, Lucretia Ellen McGuff-Silverman, Hamish Abrahms, John Piccoli, William Plank, Helene Plank, Karen Schoenitz, Alok Sharma, Anubha Sood, Ilana Visotsky, and Lauren Vroegindewey

Juror Lisa Freeman has more than 25 years of diversified experience in both profit and nonprofit medical business sectors in the tri-state area. For the last five years, Freeman has assisted her husband Richard S. Freeman, president and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton, by creating several programs and initiatives with focus on the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Hamilton Campus and the unique Holistic Medicine Program offered within. Currently a New Hope, Pa., resident, Lisa Freeman believes that art, nature, music and giving back to your community heals the soul.

For more information, visit westwindsorarts.org.

PU Art Museum Hosting Art Re-Creation Challenge

The Princeton University Art Museum is now hosting a Museum Challenge — entries are open through this Sunday, August 30.

Here’s how it works: Choose any artwork, from the Princeton University Art Museum’s collections, or from another museum, and re-create it at home using anything on hand, the more imaginative the better. Think dogs with books, a ketchup bottle standing in for wine, a bathrobe in place of a cape.

Then simply snap a photo and submit your entry, through the Museum’s website (artmuseum.princeton. edu/nss). Categories include Best Use of Food, Best Use of a Pet, Best Landscape, Best Still Life, Best Portrait, 13-and-under Best in Show, and others.

The deadline is Sunday, August 30. Winners will be announced during the Museum’s Nassau Street Sampler Virtual Festival on Thursday, September 3. The Fest will include online lotería, trivia, art-making, chef videos, student performances, and a virtual dance party.

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Art Center Offers In-studio, Online Classes

The Center for Contemporary Art (The Center) in Bedminster is offering instudio and online art classes and workshops this fall for adults, teens and children beginning September 14. Classes and workshops are offered for artists with all levels of expertise in a variety of media including oil and acrylic paint, pastel, watercolor, drawing, and ceramics.

The in-studio classes will be offered at The Center and online classes will be taught using the Zoom platform. On Zoom, students will be able to see and interact with the teacher and other students, receive personal feedback and instruction from the teacher, participate in live demonstrations, and share their work and ideas. The Center hopes these online classes will offer an alternative for those who feel more comfortable learning from home.

There are more than 30 fall adult classes including Portrait Drawing, Watercolor Step-by-Step, The Power of Pastels, Plein Air Contemporary Landscape, Evening Acrylic Painting, and ceramics classes such as Wheel Throwing and Hand Building. New classes this fall include Art Appreciation: 4 Artists in 4 Weeks, Experimental Poetry, The Art of Comedy, and iPad Drawing & Painting.

Two-day fall workshops offer students the opportunity to try something new. Workshops include Watercolor for Beginners, Drawing 101, Wonderful Watercolor Landscapes, and a Ceramic Workshop with Peter Calls.

In-studio and online classes are available for teens and children. For children ages 5-8 the online classes Painting In Depth and Drawing In Depth will be available. Students ages 9-12 can select from in studio or online classes including Drawing In Depth and Painting In Depth, as well as Cartooning, Manga and Anime, Graffiti Off the Wall, and The Dynamic Sketchbook. Teen offerings include in-studio and online classes Drawing In Depth, ceramics Wheel Throwing & Hand Building, Painting In Depth, Cartooning, Magna & Anime, The Dynamic Sketchbook, and iPad Drawing & Painting.

Online classes will also be offered for children with autism spectrum disorder and other special needs beginning September 21. Students will explore a variety of art projects specifically geared to their interest and ability both in two- and-three dimensional approaches.

The Center is located at 2020 Burnt Mills Road in Bedminster. For further information or to register for a class, call (908) 234- 2345 or visit The Center for Contemporary Art online at www.ccabedminster.org. Area Exhibits Check websites for information on safety protocols. Art Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, has “The Princeton Paper Crane Project” through August 29. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 1:30-4:30 p.m. and Saturday 12-4 p.m. artscouncilofprinceton.org. D&R Greenway Land Trust, One Preservation Place, has “Garden State Watercolor Society’s 50 th Anniversary Virtual Juried Exhibition: Out of the Wild,” through September 30 and 25 • TOWN TOPICS, PRINCETON, N.J., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2020 the ongoing virtual galleries “Trail of Breadcrumbs: Nature in Fairytales” and “Portraits of Preservation: James Fiorentino Art.” The center is currently closed to the public. drgreenway.org.

Ellarslie, Trenton’s City Museum in Cadwalader Park, Parkside Avenue, Trenton, has the ongoing virtual exhibit “Not Quite Open: The Art of Sheltering in Place.” The museum is currently closed to the public. ellarslie.org.

Grounds For Sculpture,

80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, has “Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective, 1960- 2020,” and other exhibits. Hours are Thursday through Monday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Timed tickets required. Indoor buildings are closed to the public. groundsforsculpture.org.

Historical Society of

Princeton, Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, has “A Virtual Tour of Hamilton’s Princeton” and the “History@Home” series. princetonhistory.org.

Hopewell Valley Bis

tro & Inn, 15 East Broad Street, Hopewell, has “This Too Shall Pass, an exhibition of artwork by Hopewell Valley Arts Council members, through October 29.

James A. Michener Art

Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa., has “Selma Bortner — The Journey” through August 30, “Ponstingl: Dreams of Past Futures” through September 27, and “Rising Tides: Contemporary Art and the Ecology of Water” through January 10. The museum is now open to the public. michenerartmuseum.org.

Morven Museum & Gar

den, 55 Stockton Street, has “Dreaming of Utopia: Roosevelt, New Jersey” through January 24. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. morven.org.

Old Barracks Museum,

101 Barrack Street, Trenton, has the ongoing virtual exhibit “When Women Vote — The Old Barracks and the Anti-Suffrage Movement.” The museum is currently closed to the public. barracks.org.

Pr inceton Un ivers ity Art Museum has a virtual tour of “Life Magazine and the Power of Photography” along with many online events. The museum is currently closed to the public. artmuseum.princeton.edu.

We s t W i nd s o r A r t s

Council, 952 Alexander Road, has the online exhibit “Art and Healing” August 31 through October 23. The center is currently closed to the public. westwindsorarts. org.