August 2013 • Opportunities

CALL FOR ARTISTS • SOUTH BRUNSWICK ARTS COMMISSION
Legendary Locations show applications being accepted now through September 13, 2013. All media. Application available at www.sbarts.org/the-gallery or at the South Brunswick Municipal Building, Library and Senior Center. Exhibition October 11, 2013 to January 7, 2014. arts@sbtnj.net, 732.329.4000 x7635. 

CALL FOR ARTISTS AND FINE CRAFTS • HIGHLAND PARK ARTS IN THE PARK
September 29
from 11:30-4:30, Raritan Avenue, Highland Park; cash awards in: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Fine Crafts. “Green” (recycled/found), Graphics/Drawing/Printmaking, and Mixed Media.
For info email jmccrone@mainstreethp.org, call 732-828-8444, or stop in the Main Street office at 212 Raritan Avenue in Highland Park. www.mainstreethp.org/polCalendarEvent.cfm?Event_Id=137

CALL FOR ARTISTS AND FINE CRAFTS • BARRONFEST, OCT 5
The Sixth Annual BarronFest to be held on Saturday, October 5, 2013, 10am until 4pm, rain or shine at James Parker Press Park, Rahway Avenue, Woodbridge.  Each 12’ x 12’ space is FREE and artist demonstrations are enthusiastically encouraged during the exhibition. Applications are available at the Barron Arts Center 582 Rahway Avenue in Woodbridge, by calling the Barron Arts Center, 732.634.0413 or from twp.woodbridge.nj.us. Deadline for application, Sep. 6, 2013.

INVITATION TO CREATIVE THINKERS AND ARTISTS
Meeting August 10, 2-4:30pm, South Brunswick Library, to help plan the Creative Caregiving Ideas Festival, scheduled for October 19. Email your bio to AgingInPlaceAdvocate@yahoo.com; for information call Jacque Rubel, 732.305.7079.

OPEN AUDITIONS FOR CARRIE, THE MUSICAL, BEGINNING AUGUST 11
Kelsey Theatre, West Windsor Campus of Mercer County Community College 1200 Old Trenton Rd, West Windsor; information at www.kelseyatmccc.org/auditions.shtml; to receive email notifications of auditions for future shows, register at kronos.mccc.edu/mailman/listinfo/kelsey-auditions.

CALL FOR WRITERS • DEADLINE SEPT. 30
The Unlimited Potential Theater Company, a project of VSA/NJ, is seeking poems, essays, short stories and plays by New Jersey residents eighteen years of age or over for its 20th annual Joyce Indik New Jersey Wordsmith Competition. The contest is open to all writers, and submissions by writers with disabilities are especially encouraged. Selected works will be showcased at the New Jersey Readers’ theater event in the spring of 2014. Please contact VSA/NJ for submission guidelines. The deadline for submissions is September 30. VSA Arts of New Jersey, 703 Jersey Ave., New Brunswick, 732.745.3885, email info@vsanj.org, TTY line 732.745.5935.

METAL CASTING WORKSHOP AT ARTWORKS
Three 4-hour classes with artists from the AbOmInOg International Arts Collective (whose works are currently on exhibit at Artworks) on consecutive Saturdays Aug 31, Sept 7 and 14, 10am—2pm. For information and to register, artworkstrenton.org/class-description-schedules.

SUMMER ARTS CAMPS • SOUTH BRUNSWICK
Filmmaking Flix, entering grades 6—8, Aug. 5—9, 9:15am—12:15pm, Crossroads North Middle School; Animation Flix, entering grades 6—8, Aug. 12—16, 9:15am—12:15pm, Crossroads North Middle School;  brochure, www.sbschools.org, online registration required: https://register.communitypass.net. For questions, call 732.297.7800×3148.

SUMMER ARTS CAMPS • WEST WINDSOR ARTS CENTER
Filmmaking, ages 7—14 (two weeks), August 5-16; Studio Art: Time Travelers, ages 5—10 (morning or full day),  August 5-9; Studio Art: Animal Kingdom, ages 5—10 (morning only or full day), August 12-16; Multi-arts: Reuse, Recycle, Re-imagine, ages 5—14, August 19-23; Multi-arts: Around the World in Five Days, ages 5—14, August 26-30; Multi-arts: Treasure Island, ages 5—14, September 3-6. West Windsor Arts Center, www.westwindsorartscenter.org/Camps.html, 609.716.1931, 952 Alexander Road, Princeton Junction.

SUMMER ART CAMPS • ARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON
Week-long classes, The ART of Summer, through Aug. 30 (ages 5—9), Summer Art Studios, Visual and Performing Arts, through August 23, 2013 (ages 10—16); classes.artscouncilofprinceton.org/classes.php, 609.716.1931, 952 Alexander Road, Princeton Junction.

ART WORKSHOPS & CLASSES • WEST WINDSOR
Fall classes begin September 16. Drawing, Dance, Storytelling and Improv, Multimedia Figure Study, www.westwindsorartscenter.org, West Windsor Art Center, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor.

ART WORKSHOPS & CLASSES • PRINCETON
Classes for adults in photo essay, sculpture studies, intro to abstraction, monotype printmaking 1-4 pm & 6:30-9:30 pm; for young people in digital cartoons & comics, art of the Renaissance and portfolio prep; and for kids in painting for kids, art & classical lit and theater of imagination. Arts Council of Princeton, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 609.924.8777, classes.artscouncilofprinceton.org.

PRINT MAKING OPEN STUDIO • ARTWORKS
Tuesdays, 6:30pm—9:30pm, $20/per session; call Susan Freeman 609.468.4127, the Studio Monitor before coming to confirm that the studio will be open; Artworks, 19 Everett Alley, Trenton, 609.394.9436, www.artworkstrenton.org.

ARTIST RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITIES
For current and future opportunities for artist residencies all over the country, see artistcommunities.org/residencies

JERSEY HARMONY CHORUS
Women who love to sing are invited to visit the chorus any Monday evening at 7:15pm. Griggstown Reformed Church, 1065 Canal Road in Princeton.  For information call Carole at 732.236.6803, mail jerseyharmonychorus@hotmail.com or visit www.harmonize.com/jerseyharmony.

UNCOMMON NJ HISTORY • FREE MONTHLY WEBCAST
Available on iTunes, 26 webcasts on the bizarre, rare and unknown of NJ, including events, people and places. At the beginning of every month go back in time to learn new and interesting facts at http://co.middlesex.nj.us. Sponsored by Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission. Contact us with feedback, rare and unknown history, 732.545.4489 or culturalandheritage@co.middlesex.nj.us.

ART SUPPLY RESOURCES
Jerry’s Artarama
, Route 1 Plaza, 2901 US Highway 1 (Route 1 South), Lawrenceville (south of 95/295 interchange), 609.530.8972, www.princeton.jerrysartaramastores.com; Utrecht Art Supplies, free shipping on orders $150+, 6 Corporate Drive (off Cranbury Road), Cranbury, 800.223.9132, 609.409.8001 x163, http://www.utrecht.com.

 

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