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Montclair Art Museum: Matisse & the American Art Group Tour
Please join us for a group tour of the “Matisse and American Art” exhibit at the Montclair Art Museum on the afternoon of Friday, March 31. The docent-led tour will be from 2 to 3 p.m. You may view other exhibits at the museum before or after the tour. Participants pay for admission to the museum and the special exhibit: $18 for adults, and $16 for seniors. ALC will provide the tour fee.
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On View Now:
Sally Abbott will show her works at the Lundt-Glover Gallery, 58 Meyersville Rd., Chatham Twp., NJ in her upcoming solo show “On the Road and Home Again” hosted by Art League of the Chathams. The show is on view March 10 – June 13, 2017. The opening reception on March 10, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, will be accompanied by the live music of Joel Read and is open to public. The solo show and reception coincide with the opening reception of the ALC Spring Group Show at the same location and time. Please stop by and check out both these exciting events.
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Anne Paule Picker
Anne began studying art with her aunt who was an art teacher when she was 7 or 8. Throughout junior high and high school, she studied at the local art center and in high school was selected to help the art teacher in one of his classes. After taking art classes at university, she studied at a government sponsored atelier in Paris and much later at the Visual Art Center of New Jersey in Summit. At her first show there, she received an all media promise award for her painting “Dino”. She has been participating in group shows in Morris and Union counties and had her first solo show in…
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Call for Artists
The Somerville Library has several walls they like to fill with artists’ works. They display the works of one artist at a time for a minimum of one month. Works need to be ready to hang from the library’s suspended hooks. If you are looking for display space or know someone who is, please contact Mona-Paulina Mahaga-Ajala, program coordinator of adult services of the Somerset County Library System of New Jersey, Somerville Library branch, 35 West End Avenue, Somerville, NJ. Email her at mpmahaga@sclibnj.org or call 908-725-1336, ext. 16.
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ALC afternoon with Matisse
ALC organized docent lead group tour of Montclair Museum’s Matisse and the American Art exhibit. “Thanks for organizing this field trip. The docent was really excellent. I learned so much and enjoyed the good company of everyone visiting.” LK
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Artist Opportunities – Bucks County, PA; Summit & Montclair, NJ
Take a look at the upcoming artist calls in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Please let us know if you decide to participate, we like to see you succeed! Read now, the deadlines are near. Atlantic Health “Art Expressions”, Summit, NJ Bucks County, PA; “PleinAir” The Creativity Caravan “The Art of GoodBye”, Montclair, NJ
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Paint & Sip at the Newark Museum
The Newark Museum will host a paint-and-sip event with a Harlem Renaissance theme on Friday, Feb. 24, from 6 to 9 p.m. The art studio painting session will be paired with a private tour of the Harlem Renaissance exhibit now on view. For more information and tickets, go to http://www.newarkmuseum.org/paint-and-sip.
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ALC Spring Group Show: Call for Artists
Please join us for the upcoming Spring Group Show. In order to show your works, submit the registration form along with the payment and bring your works to the receiving on March 7th 1-2:30pm to the Chatham Municipal Building.
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Talk on ‘Impressionism and America’
Michael Norris, Ph.D., a former museum educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will give an illustrated talk, “Impressionism and America,” at the Bernards Township Library, 32 So. Maple Avenue, Basking Ridge, on Thursday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m. To register for the free lecture, go to the library’s website at: www.bernardslibrary.org. Dr. Norris, who has a doctorate in art history from the University of California at Santa Barbara, has given art lectures for more than 20 years.
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Winter Party 2017
ALC grew in 2016 and so did the Winter Party at the beginning of the New Year. Wishing everyone productive and creative 2017!
