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Executive Director & Staff

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
Phone: 908.273.9121
Fax: 908.273.1457
Email: info@artcenternj.org


Executive Director
Marion Grzesiak, ext. 12
From our Executive Director

Exhibitions
Curator, Mary Birmingham, ext. 62

Exhibitions Manager, Katherine Murdock, ext. 30
Exhibitions Associate, Yadira Hernandez N.


Programs & Communications
Director of Programs & Communications, Mari D’Alessandro, ext. 46

Programs Manager, Cara Bramson, ext. 13
Studio School Manager, Vanessa Batista, ext. 45
Registrar, Barbara Smith, ext. 23
Studio School Associate, Amber Nelson, ext. 16
Communications & Marketing Manager, Bruce Lyons, ext. 17
Design & Publications Coordinator, Kristin Maizenaski, ext. 11


Development
Director of Development, Nancy Shannon, ext. 25

Membership & Special Events Manager, Fabiana Bloom, ext. 27


Operations & Finance
Director of Finance & Operations, Ernie Palatucci, ext. 26

Operations Manager, Monica Finkel, ext. 28

Customer Relations Associates
Jen Doninger, ext. 10
Debbie Farley, ext. 10
Alice Mateychak, ext. 10
Teresa Mendez, ext. 10
Lisa Owens


Building & Grounds
Building Superintendent, Rupert Adams, ext. 29
Custodian, Leon Norris, ext. 29

Finance
Accountant, Pat Tiedemann, ext. 15
Bookkeeper, Lan Wei, ext. 15



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CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS
02/23/2012
 - Encounters with Beauty through Poetry
Part of the Thursday Evening Salon Series presented by Lynne McEniry. Explore ideas about beauty in contemporary poems as they consider the natural world, visual art, and human relationships.
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03/08/2012
 - The Duke & the Tiger
Part of the Thursday Evening Salon Series presented by Dan Morgenstern. Experience Duke Ellington’s ingenious transformations of "Tiger Rag" to shed light on his genius, methodology and band.
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03/22/2012
 - The Body & Psyche in Modern & Contemporary Art
Part of the Thursday Evening Salon Series presented by Anne Swartz. Examine the re-definition of the body in space, both in its representation and in the ways that artists produced art.
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04/05/2012
 - Dreads: A Photo History of Dreadlocks
Part of the Thursday Evening Salon Series presented by Francesco Mastalia. Hear the stories behind an amazing journey around the globe documenting the different cultures of people with dreadlocks.
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04/26/2012
 - Hope & Resiliency in Film
Part of the Thursday Evening Salon Series presented by Laura Winters. An interactive presentation to explore how film is unique in its ability to convey overcoming suffering to develop hope.
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05/03/2012
 - Damn Yankees... You Gotta Have Good Design
Part of the Thursday Evening Salon Series presented by Mark Hoebee. A behind-the-scenes look at the artistic design of Paper Mill Playhouse’s production of Damn Yankees.
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05/17/2012
 - Artist / Curator Dialogue
Part of the Thursday Evening Salon Series presented by Mary Birmingham and John Goodyear. A conversation with the artist to investigate the experience of seeing by incorporating shifting illusions and elements of chance.
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