Artist Marie Natale shares a moment with her painting.

"I WILL SURVIVE" An art exhibit by breast cancer survivors and caregivers sponsored by The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, South Jersey Cultural Alliance, and The Noyes Museum of Art was held last night in Atlantic City. Over 600 guests participated in the Fifth Annual Breast Health Signature Event. Seventeen artists who are survivors and caregivers participated. This is part of The Healing Arts at AtlantiCare.

The Noyes Museum of Art-Hammonton participated in Hammonton's downtown Halloween event. Family and friends visited the Noyes for treats. While children created their own art on the sidewalks with chalk, parents visit the Noyes gallery.

Casciano Coffee Bar and Sweetery

http://www.cascianocoffee.com/

is hosting an exhibit of "pop culture" - inspired artwork by local artist, Mike Bell, --- something not to be missed, especially as we approach the Halloween season!

Whether it¹s his interpretation of classic monsters or his painterlydepiction of retro robots, Mike blends an aura of pop sensibility and humor in his work. Inspired by a diverse range of influences ­ from pop culture tosci-fi to typography ­ Mike¹s canvases are filled with anything but conventionality.

Mr Bell's exhibit will be displayed from October 17 through November 2 at Casciano's. A reception to meet the artist will be held Thursday, October 23rd, from 5:30 to 8:30 pm. Come and enjoy our spiced hot cider -- spiked w/ buttered rum if you like -- and fall treats-- sweet and savory. The music will put you in the mood for this retro display of characters and you will be glad you were able to experience this vibrant exhibit by such a talented artist. Mr. Bell's works are displayed in many galleries throughout the U.S, but you need only to come to Downtown Hammonton to view 15 pieces of his unique collection. For more information or directions, please call 609-561-2600.

Family Fun Day
Oct. 25, 10am-2pm

Our exciting annual fall family event features pumpkin painting, a Halloween costume parade, hands-on arts and crafts, face painting and kayaking on Lily Lake.

New activities include: a drum-building workshop presented by The International House of Blues Foundation, a group bamboo sculpture project led by artist Harry Bower, a marine-life touch tank from the Atlantic City Aquarium, artist demonstrations and a pond discovery walk.

Get your tickets to this event by calling (609) 652-8848 or visiting http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001ELCR3GL6FjwMrWCAnjHSyYy3xLv0J0gHxr1sRr4vipLgJ4cYILKDh5BGXoe7aNTbU306tmQgfJ9uLKrs_-k7-W9JyYdlYpoxgcdXJ7_Sdle5sCkhS5bSexVrbge1jWV-. ALL ACTIVITIES ARE FREE with regular admission of $4 adults, $3 seniors and students (children 3 & under, free), Noyes Museum members are free. Food and beverages will be available for purchase.

Creative destiny
Posted by South Jersey News Online October 14, 2008 7:56AM

Artist Katherine Staneck is featured in a recent story. Katherine currently has work at The Noyes Museum Sculpture Garden and The Noyes Museum of Art-Hammonton. Please click on the link for more information.

http://blog.nj.com/southjerseylife/2008/10/creative_destiny.html

Michael Waters, a former fashion illustrator in from New York City, exhibits his work at the Noyes Museum of Art - Hammonton. Influenced by the beauty of nature, his paintings consist of images derived entirely from imagination. Now a resident of Ventnor, NJ, Michael invites the viewer to look closely at his compositions and absorb the landscape of shapes and colors.

Huge success for the opening of The Noyes Museum of Art - Hammonton on October 3rd.

Ilona Sochynsky Opens a Solo Exhibition

at the Noyes Museum on Oct. 14

Moving to abstraction by unraveling and deconstructing, Ilona reconstructs images by combining them into one surface. Fragments captivate the viewer to reveal something familiar but yet unknown. Her work pushes the boundaries of the canvas in an exploration of spatial and sculptural possibilities.

Ilona Sochynsky: Abstract Intrigue
October 14 - November 30, 2008
Artist Opening Reception: November 14, 5-8 pm

Get more information about the artist at www.ilonasochynsky.com
Get your tickets to this exhibition by calling (609) 652-8848 or visiting www.noyesmuseum.org/exhibitions.htm.

The Noyes Museum of Art

Join us this Friday for our opening in Hammonton from 5-8pm!

“Marvelous Life in the Salt Marshes”

Sunday, Oct. 5: 2 – 4 pm

A talk and walk with award-winning children’s book author, nature photographer and
naturalist Doug Wechsler

A FREE program presented by the Atlantic County Library System and the Noyes Museum of Art

Atlantic County residents are lucky to have huge areas of salt marsh nearby. But, have you looked closely to see what lives in these flooded meadows? Doug Wechsler has and he will give you an up-close look at salt marshes and their residents. He will explain why they are so important to us, as well as to the wildlife that inhabit them. Wechsler will also talk about the process of creating, writing and photographing his new book, Marvels in the Muck: Life in the Salt Marshes. Afterwards we will walk with Wechsler to a real salt marsh at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. (continued on next page)
Doug Wechsler is Director of VIREO (Video Resources for Ornithology) at the Academy of Natural Sciences. VIREO is the most comprehensive bird image bank in the world. Contributors to the collection include some of the world's most talented wildlife photographers. (www.ansp.org/research/vireo/)

Doug has written 22 books for children, entirely or partly illustrated with his photographs. His most recent book, Frog Heaven: The Ecology of a Vernal Pool, was a finalist for the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru/SBF award and received the Green Earth Book Honor. For his next book, Marvels in the Muck: Life in the Salt Marshes, Doug paddled into numerous tidal marshes with his wife, Debbie, and his camera, photographing diamondback terrapins, clapper rails, and hoards of fiddler crabs. The book will be published in November 2008. He is also developing the web site, http://www.saltmarshlife.com/.

Doug’s photography can be seen in Audubon, National Wildlife, Natural History, and in numerous other publications ranging from National Geographic to The National Enquirer, and in hundreds of books, exhibits, web sites, and calendars around the world. ( from http://birdcapemay.org/times/2008/05/01/doug-wechsler/ )

Where can you find unique handmade gifts for everyone on your list?
The Annual Crafts Marketplace!

November 1 & 2
10am - 5pm

Talented crafters from our region will fill the Museum with their wares for the entire weekend. This is your opportunity to purchase one-of-a-kind ceramics, jewelry, glass, baskets, brooms, soaps, leather, wearables, prints and much more for gift-giving or your own enjoyment. Meet the artists and hear their stories, which makes your purchase even more meaningful. Don't miss it!
Free with regular admission, members free.

Click on http://www.noyesmuseum.org/craftsmarketplace.htm for more details!

The Noyes Museum of Art was represented at Hammonton's first Green Day event on September 21st! Children enjoyed standing in front of their easels and creating beautiful watercolors. Green Day was a great way to connect to the community of Hammonton. The Noyes Museum of Art-Hammonton opens on October 3rd. The reception will be from 5-8pm. Click on http://www.noyesmuseum.org/hammonton.htm for more details!

Standing room only for the Monet Lecture at the Noyes with the Galloway Cultural Arts Center as the major partner.

Explore contemporary fashion at the

Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville

If fashion is your thing and you're going to be taking a last-minute summer trip down to the Jersey Shore this weekend and spending all day at the beach has gotten a little stale, you might want to check out the "Seams: Contemporary Art to Wear" exhibition at The Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville - 15 minutes from Atlantic City. The exhibition only runs through Aug. Sunday. Co-curated by Toms River mixed media and textile artist Joanie San Chirico, "Seams" presents the works of 12 established and emerging artists from New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachussetts, Iowa and Canada, who create pieces using experimental textile techniques and cutting-edge technologies as well as traditional sewing and weaving.
"Seams" considers the idea of clothing as expression, identity and as a form of communication. The creative intersection of art, fashion and design is explored using a variety of materials and conceptual presentations. It highlights works in which the artist go beyond the everyday utility of clothing to confront a range of important themes such as self-expression, social connection and domestication. Included are the works of New Jersey artists Marisa Dipaola, Diana Savona and Kerr Grabowski.

Click below for the full story!

http://blog.nj.com/fashiontoday/2008/08/explore_contemporary_fashion_a.html

Reception is September 12th, 5-8pm. Join us and meet the artists!

The Noyes Museum of Art is Expanding!

The Noyes Museum of Art will be opening a satellite gallery in Hammonton, New Jersey for October 3rd on South 2nd Street. The NMA is now at a juncture of reinventing itself as not only a place for primarily an adult audience to passively view art, but a place for the community to have an experiential visit. This satellite would provide an exciting opportunity for the community to delve into stimulating exhibitions which will attract a diverse audience from western Atlantic and neighboring counties.

Hammonton’s Downtown is going through a renaissance! New specialty stores, cafes and restaurants have been an almost instant success. The Hammonton Art Center has been the back bone and hub for the visual arts. New streetscapes, façade improvements and a new city hall has been part of this catalyst for this economic revitalization. The proximity of major highways and passenger train station is facilitating more people to visit Hammonton. Given these monumental improvements, in a time when many downtowns are falling apart, The Noyes Museum is proud and honored to be a part a great community. To help insure its success, the gallery space will have an advisory committee composed of the museum’s board, the president of Hammonton Art Center’s Board, and community members of Hammonton.

2008 Summer Garden Party Gala

Guests view the work of artist Marie Natale, who offered demos throughout the night

Potter Susan Van Dine offered pottery demonstrations

As seen on the Invitation! A special appearance by the Garden Lady.

Talk on fashions of 1800s complements fanciful new exhibit

OCEANVILLE — A lecture on fashion in the Victorian Age on Sunday at the Noyes Museum of Art added another dimension to the museum's newest show, "Seams: Contemporary Art to Wear," which opened Friday and will run until Aug. 25.
On Sunday, Kristina Haugland, assistant curator, Department of Costumes and Textiles, Philadelphia Museum of Art, examined fashion of the Victorian age in her presentation, "Perfect Ladies: The Art of Dress, Beauty and Etiquette in the Victorian Age," the evolution of fashion as the social ideals of the Victorian times. Click on the link below!

http://www.app.com:80/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080521/COMMUNITY/805210321

Seams: Contemporary Art to Wear
May 16- August 24, 2008

“Seams: Contemporary Art to Wear” investigates the idea of clothing as expression, identity and a form of communication. The creative intersection between art, fashion and design is explored using a variety of materials and conceptual presentations. The exhibition highlights works in which the artists go beyond the everyday utility of clothing to confront a range of important themes such as, self-expression, social connection and domestication. “Seams” presents the works of 12 established and emerging artists who are creating pieces using experimental textile techniques and cutting-edge digital technologies as well as traditional sewing and weaving. The exhibition includes New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow Marian Schoettle, Marisa Dipaola, Diana Moore, Diane Savona, Harry Bower, Ann Clarke, Marina Dempster, Sandra Golbert, Daryl Lancaster, Jean Parsons, Jil Weinstock and Kerr Grabowski.

Please check out http://joaniesanchirico.blogspot.com/ for great photos of the exhibition.

"Art in Bloom" a two day floral design display inspired by paintings from the exhibition "The Nature of W. Carl Burger" was a huge success. Thank you to the following exhibiting NJ Garden Clubs: Garden Club of Long Beach Island, Garden Club of Toms River, Holly Club of Sea Girt, Navesink Garden Club and Oceanport Garden Club.

Artist Jennifer Burke conducted an afternoon pastel and charcoal workshop at Seashore Garden Living Center last week. This weeks class will feature artist Liz Nicklus and she is doing a workshop in mixed media.

Meet Artist Leonard Wilkinson
And see him demonstrate for you
“How to Mat and Frame Your Art Work”
This very special program is being co-sponsored by the Galloway Cultural Arts Center (GCAC) and the Noyes Museum. Here are the details:

Date and Time: Friday, May 9, 2008 at 7pm.
Place: The Noyes Museum
733 Lily Lake Rd. in Oceanville

Leonard Wilkinson, educated at Parson School of Design, majored in illustration. From there, he studied art at the Art Students League and Newark School of Design and Industrial Arts.
He works in pen and ink, pastel, acrylics and watercolor. He has shown his work throughout North and South Jersey, in Chicago and at the Philadelphia Black Art Expo and Atlantic City Art Center. He did a one man show at the Ocean City Art Center and has been commissioned to paint many well-known local landmarks and people.
He pursues his art on a full time basis and currently does custom framing at the local AC Moore. His presentation promises to be both interesting and informative.
Come out for an enjoyable evening of art, practical information, and refreshments.
This program is free to GCAC members and members of the Noyes Museum. Others will pay $5 at the door. Look for more information at www.noyesmuseum.org or www.gallowayculturalartscenter.org

Michael Cagno at Cape May County Art League General Meeting April 18

On Friday, April 18, beginning at 6:30 p.m., at the Old Historic Court House on Rt. 9 North in Court House, the Cape May County Art League (CMCAL) will hold its 2008 General Meeting.


Speaking at the event will be Michael Cagno, Executive Director of the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville. Cagno has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fine Art with a concentration in painting and Art History, and a Masters Degree in Museum Studies, as well as several Graduate Certificates.
Cagno will bring his extensive and varied background into play as he speaks on “Inside a Judge’s Mind.” He will focus on the key elements of art, but also will give importance to that first impression of a work of art, which hopefully engages the viewer in further discovery.
CMCAL Board members will be introduced, scheduled events will be announced, and there will be opportunity for suggestions regarding Art League future activities.
Light refreshments will be served and all are welcome.
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Please click on http://shorefirenj.com/flash/home.php to get a preview video about the Noyes!

SAVE THE DATE

Tickets:

Members: $100

Non-Members: $125

Seashore Gardens Living Center, a nonprofit home for the aged, located in Galloway Township, NJ just 20 minutes outside of Atlantic City is excited to announce its collaboration with The Noyes Museum of Art. This alliance affords a unique opportunity for artists to exhibit their work at the Living Center.

Beginning Sunday, May 18-Tuesday, May 20, 2008 artists living in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware or New York are invited to present two works (that can fit on an easel). This program is open to all artists working in fine art disciplines. Artists will also have the opportunity to sell their work to the public without sales commission.

Application Deadline: May 1
Notification: May 12
Delivery: May 14, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; May 15, 10 a.m.- 6 p.m.
Open House: May 18, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; May 19-20, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Reception: May 18, 1 p.m.- 3 p.m.
Pick-up: May 21 & 22, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; May 23, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

This is an open exhibition with juried prizes. At the reception,
Seashore Gardens Living Center will present three cash prizes:
1st place $300, 2nd place $200, and 3rd place $100.

To participate, please e-mail the following requirements to mcagno@noyesmuseum.org,
and list the subject as Seashore Gardens.

REQUIREMENTS:
1. Provide the following general information:
· Artist Statement
· Contact Information including county of residence, phone number & email

2. Visual material: Supply two digital images of work that would be in the exhibition. Work submitted must have been created within the last two years.
· Digital image must include description sheet with artist’s name, medium, dimensions, title of artwork, selling price and year created

A special exhibition focusing on the arts and healing is coming to
the Noyes in late August. Stay tuned!

The Noyes Museum of Art ● 733 Lily Lake Road, Oceanville, NJ 08231 P 609.652.8848 ● http://www.noyesmuseum.org/

The Noyes Museum of Art and the
Galloway Cultural Arts Center will present

The Noyes Museum of Art and the Galloway Cultural Arts Center will present an evening with local artist Ken Woodard at the Noyes Museum on Friday, March 28 at 7 p.m. Woodard will speak about how his life, challenges and mixed heritage influence his art work. This program is free to Noyes Museum and Galloway Cultural Arts Center members and $5 for non-members. Space is limited and pre-registration is required by calling (609) 652-8848.

Woodard, a resident and native of Atlantic City, worked as a commercial artist for many years, traveling the world and living in France. Now retired and visually impaired, he spends his time painting scenes of the American Southwest, reflecting his Native American heritage. He is the recipient of many national and international awards, including the Donald Sykes Award, which is given to artists who continue to create work despite their physical challenges.

WHAT: Meet the Artist - Ken Woodard

WHEN: Friday, March 28 at 7 p.m.

WHERE: The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, N.J.

COST: FREE Noyes Museum and Galloway Cultural Arts Center members, $5 non-members

DETAILS: Reservations required. For information call (609) 652-8848 or visit www.noyesmuseum.org.

The Tony Day Quartet celebrated Black History Month at The Noyes Museum of Art by providing an afternoon of Jazz this past Saturday, the 23rd.

Tony Day Quartet at The Noyes Museum of Art

The Noyes Museum of Art presents an evening of jazz, gospel, soul and blues with The Tony Day Quartet on Saturday, February 23, 2008 from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Tony Day Quartet features California native and current Atlantic City resident, Tony Day on drums, trombonist Will Clark, organist Daniel Kostelnik and guitarist Pat Martino.

Day began his musical career at age 15 occasionally playing professional gigs in Los Angeles. By age 17 he was the principle percussionist with the Compton California Youth Symphony and won a scholarship to study privately with Don Peason, a distinguished professor at the Los Angeles Music Conservatory. Day has played at the prestigious Parisian Room, shared the stage with Barbara Walker, Pete Madsen and Charles Fambrough and toured with the classic recording group The Platters. Most recently, Day is a featured performer at the Somers Point Jazz Festival and various venues and festivals from New York to Washington, DC. Day continues to be a key musician at the Mount Zion Baptist Church in Pleasantville, where his versatile style includes jazz, pop, classical, R&B, fusion, gospel, rock and Latin.

WHAT: Jazz Concert with The Tony Day Quartet

WHEN: Saturday, February 23, 2008 from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

WHERE: The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ

COST: $5 Noyes Museum members, $8 non-members. Reservations strongly suggested. Price includes desserts and refreshments.

Noyes Museum of Art, Signature Artists, Steve Kuzma has 18 works on display at AtlantiCare Hospital's Mainland Division off of Jimmy Leeds Road in Galloway. All works are available for sale.

The Noyes Museum has created a new Patron Circle Membership with added value benefits. Our first event is a studio tour and lunch with world renown glass artist Paul Stankard on May 16th. For more information, please contact: Michael Cagno, Executive Director.

Thank you to all our volunteers for a great job well done in 2007!

Hello Art Supporters,

The Noyes Museum will present the entire Herbert Pullinger Collection of Watercolors and Drawings that were donated by the Cape May County Art League, in a special opening tonite from 5-8PM

The works represent Cape May from 1948-53 and offer an amazing pictoral vantage of the town we all love.

Click on the Noyes link for directions, (about 45 minutes from Cape May). The museum also is having two other shows so it's quite a treat. There is link to todays AC Press article and some images on the leagues website below too.

If you've never been to the Noyes, this would be a great time to visit.

http://noyesmuseum.org/

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/life/story/7529198p-7430811c.html

http://www.capemaycountyartleague.com/retro.shtml

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/atlantic/story/7528265p-7429989c.html

Inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, The Princeton Artists Alliance presents visual interpretations as contemporary works of art in a new exhibition at the Noyes Museum opening January 11 and continuing through April 13, 2008. Poseidon’s wrath, Penelope’s tears and Odysseus’ escape from the Cyclops are among the struggles and triumphs captured in this exhibition. Homer’s Odyssey is a collaboration with The Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. The public can meet the artists at the Opening Reception on Friday, January 18 from 5 to 8 p.m.

In addition to the exhibition, The Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey will offer two free lectures at the Noyes Museum. On February 1 professor Kate Ogden will present The Continuing Classical Influence in Western Art from noon to 1:00 p.m. and on March 23 professor Rob Nichols will discuss How Greek is Greco-Buddhist Art from noon to 1:00 p.m.

The Princeton Artists Alliance members read Homer’s Odyssey, translated by retired Princeton University literature professor Robert Fagles, and created art inspired by passages in the classic tale. Princeton artist Marie Sturken’s handmade paper piece entitled “Outwitting the One-Eyed Giant,” which portrays men hanging from the underbellies of rams, was created after the artist read Book 9: Lines 477-487, which talks about escaping from the giant Cyclops as he slept. The exhibition is full of symbolism and contemporary views of the great literary work. Homer’s Odyssey was first exhibited at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Gallery in Princeton in 1999 and has since traveled to the Newark Museum, the Foundation for Hellenic Culture in New York and the Art Gallery at the College of New Jersey.

Founded in 1989 by professional artists, the Princeton Artists Alliance is a non-profit organization that holds various educational events to enrich the community through visual art. The Princeton Artists Alliance holds workshops, exhibits, artist talks and open art studios. The artists work with a wide range of techniques, mediums and subject matter. Each member has an extensive list of both individual and group exhibitions shown regionally, nationally and internationally. More information on the Princeton Artists Alliance can be found at http://www.princetonartists.org/. The Princeton Artists Alliance Opens Exhibition Based on Homer’s Epic

Visit the Noyes Holiday Train now till January 3rd!

New Jersey artist W. Carl Burger opens a solo exhibition of his work on January 18 at the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, N.J. The self-titled exhibition includes artwork that celebrates the natural environment of southern New Jersey. Created exclusively for this exhibition, Burger’s large-scale expressionistic works were painted in some of southern New Jersey’s most treasured natural sites including Batsto Village, the Pinelands and the Edwin B. Forsythe Wildlife Refuge.

The public will have a chance to meet the artist at the Opening Reception on January 18 from 5 to 8 p.m. The exhibition will be on display through May 9.

Burger, of Califon, N.J., is one of the state’s most notable artists with a career that spans over five decades. Working mostly in watercolors, he paints plein air, or on location, throughout the year on large sheets of watercolor paper held down on a table with bricks. Wetting the large-scale paper often means using a bucket of water or a garden hose, depending on his location. “If something goes wrong (with the painting) I attack it with a flood of water from the hose,” says the artist, “I build up the colors and then soften it with the hose.” Burger’s work is inspired by Cezanne, Braque and Picasso, artists who Burger believes to be the innovators in 20th century. He is also inspired by the Gothic and Renaissance imagery and architectural layouts of American and European landscapes. He has traveled throughout New Jersey and around the world to capture the natural images that give him his greatest inspiration.

Burger was born in Pforzheim, Germany in 1925. Six months later, his parents moved to the United States and settled in Irvington, N.J. Burger attended a grammar school that offered art programs and he was immediately intrigued. During high school, a watercolor demonstration by artist Maurice King inspired Burger to use the medium in the bulk of his artwork. Since the age of 15, Burger has created more than 700 oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and collages.
Burger received his master’s in fine arts education from New York University where he studied with the renowned Hale Woodruff, Tony Smith and Reginald Neal. During this time he was inspired both by the innovation of his professors and the momentum of the abstract expressionist movement. In an interview with Harry I. Naar, professor of fine arts and gallery director at Rider University, Burger explains, “I found a deep respect for the energy, sensuality and spontaneity of abstract expressionism. I realized that I could, in fact, create an image about reality and especially the landscape using dramatic colors with stronger brush strokes that captured my true inner feelings about the site.” Burger continues, “I realized that I did not have to be so literal in my depictions to create an image of a landscape. To me, the landscape is always changing and I feel that my style and technique tries to reveal that feeling.”

Burger took postgraduate classes at Columbia University and Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. Burger exhibited work throughout the country including the Lincoln Center and the National Academy of Design in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institute and the Butler Institute of Art in Youngstown, Ohio. His artwork can be seen in various corporate collections including Johnson & Johnson, British Airways, and Nabisco World Headquarters. He taught design and drawing for over 40 years at Kean University in Union, N.J and is now Professor Emeritus.

The Noyes Museum of Art was founded in 1983 to collect, preserve and exhibit American fine art, crafts and folk art with an emphasis on New Jersey artists and folk art forms, reflecting the area's long traditions, history, landscape and culture. General funding for The Noyes Museum of Art is provided by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Arts; the Mr. and Mrs. Fred Winslow Noyes Foundation; the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; the Odessa F. and Henry D. Kahrs Charitable Trust and the Shop Rite LPGA Classic. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday,10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 5:00 p.m. and closed on Mondays and major holidays. For more information, please call (609) 652-8848 or visit http://www.noyesmuseum.org/ .

EXPERIENCE SCULPTOR JONATHAN SHAHN HEAD ON AT THE NOYES
The New Jersey Artist Opens New Exhibition at the Oceanville Museum
New Jersey sculptor Jonathan Shahn opens a solo exhibition on November 16 at the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, N.J. The exhibition, titled Jonathan Shahn: Imaginary Portraits, includes sculpted heads, human forms and figures. Working primarily in wood, Shahn literally creates expressions of life - drawing inspiration from classical busts and sculptures, which he merges with faces of people he knows. The sculptures will be on display through January 6, 2008.

Shahn has been creating sculptures and drawings representing the human figure since the early 1960s. His life-sized sculptures, carved from enormous wood blocks or formed from plaster, express the honesty and simple elegance of the human figure. Suggestive of Picasso and Giacometti, Shahn’s oversized heads, often perched on elongated or thick neck-like pedestals or placed within boxes, function as portraits of common people. He prefers to work with wood because it is a “slower, more resistant” material that allows his figures to evolve naturally, but he is also known for his smooth plaster sculptures. Most of his wooden sculptures are completed over months. The rough-hewn figures sometimes receive a paraffin coat or brush marks that the artist describes as “directional patterns” and “anatomical suggestions,” implying African, Egyptian and medieval art that is both classical and clean.

CRAFTS MARKETPLACE

THIS WEEKEND!
Regional artists and their unique crafts take center stage at The Noyes Museum of Art’s annual Crafts Marketplace on Saturday and Sunday, November 3 and 4 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The annual event features hand-made objects including jewelry, ceramics, fiber and other fine crafts made by over 30 artists from New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Crafts Marketplace features many of New Jersey’s best artists and handmade crafts including beautifully silk-painted scarves created by Leeds Point artists Alex Alessi and Carmel Verrasto, unique gemstone and silver jewelry by Anthony Niglio of Egg Harbor Township and extraordinary one-of-a-kind baskets crafted by Niki Giberson of Port Republic.

WHAT: Crafts Marketplace
WHEN: Saturday and Sunday, November 3 and 4, 2007 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
COST: Adults $4, Seniors and Students $3
DETAILS: For information or to register call (609) 652-8848 or visit www.noyesmuseum.org