NJ State Teen Arts Festival
October 1 - November 8, 2024
The Art of Storytelling
July 5 - September 29, 2024
Opening Reception: July 13, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University
Storytelling is the interactive art of using words and active to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener's imagination. Storytelling forges connections among people, and between people and ideas. Stories convey the culture, history, and values that unite people.
Artists have been using art to tell stories since the first caveman drew a hunter killing a mammoth on a cave wall. When religion became a core experience in more modern humans, we used art to bring to life stories in religious scripts. Stories can be told visually and artists use color, line, gesture, composition, and symbolism to tell a story. A picture does tell a thousand words.
A group exhibition featuring:
Christina Johnson - www.leeway.org/artists/christina_e_johnson
Elsa Wachs - www.elsawachs.com
Linda Dublin Garfield - www.lindadubingarfield.com
Marcie Mehrman Ziskind - www.feltedstones.com
Sandi Neiman Lovitz - www.sandineimanlovitz.com
Susan Leonard - susanleonardquilts.com
Valetta - valettaartist.com
Abhijeet Shrivastava
July 5 - September 29, 2024
Opening Reception: July 13, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University
Hailing from the heart of India, Bhopal, where Abhijeet first kindled his profound passion for self-expression through charcoal drawings on paper, the exhibit will challenge perceptions. Charcoal, a time-honored and eco-conscious art medium once used to craft ancient cave drawings worldwide, has deeply inspired me. However, this traditional form of artistic expression is waning in today's fast-paced world, yielding to environmentally harmful alternatives emitting excessive carbon.
Driven by a mission to preserve this historic art form and champion sustainable artistry, his work balances environmental consciousness and visual serenity. Recognized through publications and exhibitions globally, now based in New York City, serving as a Climate Change and Sustainability Consultant. Abhijeet’s art aspires to awaken reverence for our environment and galvanize a shared commitment to safeguarding our planet for future generations.
Video 1- Abhijeet Shrivastava, Exhibition at the Noyes Arts Garage, July 5 - September 29, 2024
Video 2- Abhijeet Shrivastava's Exhibition, Noyes Arts Garage, July 5 - September 29, 2024
Clay in Mind
A juried student exhibition
May 25 - June 15, 2024
Reception: June 15, 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Noyes Arts Garage
Clay in Mind is a juried exhibition of outstanding three-dimensional ceramic artworks, functional and non-functional, created by high school students throughout New Jersey. This is Clay in Mind's 17th competition, and it was created in dedication to the memory of James Colavita, ceramic sculptor, and former teacher at Mercer County Community College. The exhibit was designed to give a venue to high school students' ceramic artworks and to promote professional development in the medium for teachers and students. Annually, each school may enter artworks, either functional or non-functional, whose primary medium is clay. The works must be original in concept and executed solely by the student. The blind jurying is held at Sayreville War Memorial High School. Teachers and their students participate in a variety of clay related activities while awaiting the judge's decision. A total of 20 pieces are selected by the judge and moved on to a gallery for public display and a closing ceremony.
Kambel Smith
April 6 - June 23, 2024
Opening Reception: April 13, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Noyes Arts Garage
Kambel Smith is a self-taught artist and published author based in Philadelphia, PA, who builds large-scale sculptures of historical buildings out of primarily found materials such as cardboard and foam. With no formal training in art or architecture, Smith uses a natural ability to gauge perspective and scale without measuring tools. This ability to see and recreate scale quickly propelled him into the world of fine art where he has done various solo and group exhibitions. Smith was diagnosed with autism as a teenager and began making art to express his worldview.
Joseph Podlesnik:
"The Pain, Boredom and Euphoria of Looking"
April 6 - June 23, 2024
Opening Reception: April 13, 2024, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Noyes Arts Garage
For the “The Pain, Boredom and Euphoria of Looking” exhibition, my intent is to select color and black and white photographs which involve some personal physical discomfort (while capturing photographs - namely the photograph titled “Cliff Face”), degrees of boredom (tolerating, organizing and capturing a world full of redundant, irrelevant visual information) and the euphoria I experience while capturing photographs and exploring their effects in post- processing. The intent is to arrive at formal order, unity, mood, complexity, ambiguity, and in many cases engage the viewer in frame edge-to-frame edge visual activity.
In addition: For me, the camera lens depicts perspective too easily, which is why I capture and develop photographs which often frustrate readable perspectival space, through glass and light reflections and refractions and spatial ambiguity, bringing the viewer’s eye stubbornly back to the surface of the image, so the mind is not allowed to linger in readable/navigable space too long. For me, the photographic image is not only a window through which to see the visible world, but also a maker of flat surfaces which stunt or block logical space. I see photography and pictures not only as documentation, but as commenting on or reenacting visual perception itself.
-- Joseph Podlesnik
Maryn Olson: My Story with a Traumatic Brain Injury
Pop-Up Art Exhibition
April 10 - May 17, 2024
Opening Reception: April 13, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Stockton University student Maryn Olson shares the artwork she created as part of her healing journey after a traumatic brain injury. This exhibition is produced in partnership with the Disability Studies program at Stockton University. Disability Studies is an interdisciplinary field of study that examines the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability, as a social, cultural and political construct. In contract to educational, clinical, medical, or therapeutic perspectives on disability, DS focuses on how disability is defined and represented in society.
COMPLEX PLANET
Contemporary Art
Electroacoustic Music International Exhibition with MUSLAB
Noyes Arts Garage
January 17 - March 17, 2024
Opening Reception: January 20, 2024, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Ducktown: An Atlantic City Immigration Story
January 10 - March 31, 2024
Opening Reception: January 20, 2024, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Closing Reception: March 16, 2024, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Image: Janice Merendino, Ducktown Grocery series, work in progress, mixed media, 2023.
‘Ducktown, an Atlantic City Immigration Story’ is a two-year collaborative art project that focuses on what has changed, and what has remained the same for the various families that have lived in the Ducktown neighborhood over the past hundred years.
The Links, Inc. present: MICHELE FOSTER LUCAS
February 2 - March 24, 2023
Reception Date: February 4, 2024, 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Michele Foster Lucas is a folk artist who speaks of people and culture through her contemporary works. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she now resides in Pennsauken, New Jersey. She received a degree in science after attending Burlington County College and Philadelphia City College. Michele has always had the spirit of an artist. Working in mostly soft pastels, Michele’s subjects evoke a spiritual grace and yearning reflective of her God-given talents. Highly received, her works have been shown at the Woodbine exhibition (in Phila, PA), The Galleria (Manayunk, PA), Galería 500 (Washington, DC), Essence of Africa Fashion Show, Rittenhouse Square, The African American Museum in Phila, PA., October Gallery, and the well-known historical Athenaeum in Phila. PA, where she is on the Board.
