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  • Abdul-Kha’leef Cason, Untitled (eye), 2024? Charcoal on paper? 9 x 12 inches, on 11 x 14 matboard, needs 11 x 14 frame Courtesy of the artist (artist does not wish to be anonymous) Location: DOC Commissioner’s Office

Perceptions Reimagined: Art from the Women at Edna Mahan

2025-01-29T15:23:58+00:00

Perceptions Reimagined: Art from the Women at Edna Mahan Second-Floor Community Gallery November 1, 2024–January 26, 2025 The Art Center's Second-Floor Community Gallery will feature, Perceptions Reimagined: Art from the Women at Edna Mahan an exhibition of work created by incarcerated artists

Perceptions Reimagined: Art from the Women at Edna Mahan2025-01-29T15:23:58+00:00
  • Brian standing at the top of a mountain under the guidance of Erik James Montgomery The Rock (ode to the location, and also to the planet we live on, the place we can’t ever truly escape during this lifetime). Inkjet print 24 x 30 inches Courtesy of the artist

Reentry, Reestablished, Renewed

2025-01-29T15:22:23+00:00

Reentry, Reestablished, Renewed Marité & Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I November 1, 2024–January 26, 2025 Reentry, Reestablished, Renewed, which will be featured in the Marité & Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I, showcases work developed through a photography workshop led by Erik James

Reentry, Reestablished, Renewed2025-01-29T15:22:23+00:00
  • A 36 x 19 inch photocopied collaged poster by Ojore Lutalo called Untitled. It features a white page with the text "A people suffered; their art tells the story. Every picture tells a story. The man behind the collages. Ojore Lutalo, former U.S. Political Prisoner. (Profiled!)" Next to the text is a man wearing sunglasses. Behind the white page is a cheetah print with a red, pink, and orange zigzagged boarder.

Ojore Lutalo: When Justice is Not Served

2025-01-29T15:20:26+00:00

Ojore Lutalo: When Justice is Not Served Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Gallery November 1, 2024–January 26, 2025 The Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Gallery will feature Ojore Lutalo: When Justice is Not Served, a collection of collages created by New Jersey-based artist Ojore

Ojore Lutalo: When Justice is Not Served2025-01-29T15:20:26+00:00
  • Contraband Scholars under the guidance of JD McGuire, The Things that can be Learned, 2020, digital print, dimensions variable. It shows a man looking out the bars of a cell in black and white. On top of that is two blue outlines of circles, one inside the other, and an outline of a C inside of that. The text in the middle of the image says, "Contraband Scholars. The things that can be learned."

Something to Hold On To: Art and the Carceral System

2025-01-29T15:18:20+00:00

Something to Hold On To: Art and the Carceral System Main Gallery November 1, 2024–January 26, 2025 On display in VACNJ’s Main Gallery, Something to Hold On To: Art and the Carceral System sheds light on the vision, ingenuity, and hard-earned creativity

Something to Hold On To: Art and the Carceral System2025-01-29T15:18:20+00:00
  • Neha Kulkarni's The Aftermath of Gatherings (2024). It is a 30 x 40 inch acrylic on canvas painting that displays a living room. The main focus of the painting are the cups and wine bottles on the coffee table, with little things like a spilt cup and messy sofa scattered around the scene.

Neha Kulkarni: Emotive Spaces

2025-03-28T16:40:21+00:00

COMMUNITY GALLERIES Neha Kulkarni: Emotive Spaces Marité & Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery II January 25–March 16 Reception: February 1, 2–4 PM Neha Kulkarni, The Aftermath of Gatherings, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches Neha Kulkarni has always

Neha Kulkarni: Emotive Spaces2025-03-28T16:40:21+00:00
  • A 16 x 16 inch oil on canvas painting by Carol Cassel Baker (2022). It is split into four smaller portraits, each featuring a different person. Going clockwise, they are called: Contemplation, Wise Woman with Hat, Blonde Brian, and Intensity.

Carol Cassel Baker: Face to Face

2025-03-28T17:01:09+00:00

COMMUNITY GALLERIES Carol Cassel Baker: Face to Face Ann's Place Gallery January 25–March 16 Reception: February 1, 2-4 PM Carol Cassel Baker, (clockwise) Contemplation, Wise Woman with Hat, Blonde Brian, Intensity, 2022, Oil on Canvas, 16 x 16 inches

Carol Cassel Baker: Face to Face2025-03-28T17:01:09+00:00
  • Mic Check by Justin Cepeda (2024) is a 16 x 20 inch acrylic, paint marker, and alcohol marker painting made on canvas. It features a black man in colorful streetwear and chunky, silver jewelry singing into a mic.

Tree of Hope: Celebrating Black History Month

2025-05-23T17:49:47+00:00

COMMUNITY GALLERIES Tree of Hope: Celebrating Black History Month Overlook Medical Center January 21–April Justin Cepeda, Mic Check, 2024, Acrylic, paint marker, and alcohol marker on canvas, 16 x 20 inches Organized by the Visual Arts Center of New

Tree of Hope: Celebrating Black History Month2025-05-23T17:49:47+00:00
  • Logo for the National Endowment for the Arts in Black

VACNJ to Receive $30,000 Award from the National Endowment for the Arts

2025-01-17T20:10:32+00:00

Summit, NJ (January 17, 2025)—The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (VACNJ) is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $30,000. This grant will support an upcoming exhibition series

VACNJ to Receive $30,000 Award from the National Endowment for the Arts2025-01-17T20:10:32+00:00
  • An installation view of ETA at VisArts. There is a VR headset in the foreground and a TV screen displaying a beach in the back. On the left, there are two abstract paintings hanging from the ceiling. Shown in courtesy of VisArts.

VACNJ to Open Winter/Spring Exhibitions on February 7

2025-02-05T21:24:20+00:00

Summit, NJ (January 15, 2025)—Opening on February 7 and running through May 18, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey will host a series of exhibitions focusing on the theme of place(less(ness)) that will feature various forms of media, including technology, textiles, and printmaking. Each

VACNJ to Open Winter/Spring Exhibitions on February 72025-02-05T21:24:20+00:00
  • Cheesequake Sunset (detail) by Bruce McClellan. Below the cloudy sunset sits an orange mountain and terrain, which opens up to a grassy field.

Bruce McClellan: Feel the Moment

2025-02-27T21:25:56+00:00

COMMUNITY GALLERIES Bruce McClellan: Feel the Moment The Gallery at The Summit Free Public Library January 3 – February 28 Bruce McClellan, Cheesequake Sunset, 2011, Oil on canvas, 18 x 36 inches Artist’s Statement: Fifteen years ago, Bruce McClellan

Bruce McClellan: Feel the Moment2025-02-27T21:25:56+00:00
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