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We invited you to visit one of the participating museums this October and celebrate
Discover Jersey Arts Month
by sharing your favorite experience with us!
Entries were submitted at any of the museums or sent to us online.
Congratulations to Isabel Noqueira of Montclair, who submitted the following entry at Montclair Art Museum
and has won the contest!
Being from Brazil, we are born to follow and worship the sun…I’ve come to realize in one of my trips to a specific Brazilian spot -- though beautiful -- that I was always looking to see the moon. The sun was no longer my “magnet.” The moon, in its majesty, got me for life. Therefore, seeing George Inness’s “Winter in the Moonlight” made me smile, and I recognized another moon follower. It became my favorite piece in the museum and I feel lucky that I got to see it. And knowing that he is a local, and that I am taking beautiful pictures of Montclair “moons,” I felt one with him.
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(1) Absecon Lighthouse - Atlantic City
New Jersey's tallest lighthouse awaits you. Take an amazing journey into time as you ascend the 228 steps of the Absecon Lighthouse, one of the oldest lighthouses in the country. You'll see breathtaking views of the Atlantic City skyline and, up top, you'll come face-to-face with the original first-order Fresnel Lens, first lit in 1857. The lighthouse's recent multi-million dollar restoration also includes a stunning replica of the Lightkeeper's dwelling, an educational museum, charming gift shop, and expansive grounds.
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(2) Barnegat Bay Decoy & Baymen's Museum - Tuckerton
Discover the Jersey Shore's unique maritime heritage and the interaction between culture and nature on the Barnegat Bay. Experience the rich traditions of the Jersey Shore and its Baymen through recreated and historic buildings, demonstrations, interpretive exhibits, events, festivals, live aquatic displays, and more to educate and delight visitors of all ages.
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(3) Grounds for Sculpture - Hamilton
Featured Exhibit: Aerial Roots by Steve Tobin
Opening October 1, 2011
A New Jersey treasure, this outdoor sculpture park offers 42 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds, showcasing over 200 contemporary sculptures, in addition to two indoor galleries with rotating seasonal exhibitions. The Meadow -- GFS's new seven-acre outdoor gallery -- opens October 1. Featuring Aerial Roots by internationally acclaimed artist Steve Tobin, this exhibit portrays a dramatic interplay of art and nature that transforms the new meadows and groves into a magical landscape.
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(4) Hunterdon Art Museum - Clinton
As the region's premier showcase of contemporary art and design, the Hunterdon Art Museum's changing exhibitions feature the works of emerging and established artists. The museum's growing permanent collection emphasizes prints, but also includes drawings and paintings. Dating from the 1930s to the present, the collection consists of work by internationally recognized artists as well as artists from the region.
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(5) Monmouth Museum - Lincroft
Featured Exhibit: NJ Water Color Society 69th Annual Open Juried Exhibition
Opening October 1, 2011
The Monmouth Museum's changing exhibitions, featured in the Museum’s Main Gallery and the newly created Nilson Gallery, present a wide variety of art in all media. The Museum welcomes back the New Jersey Water Color Society for the 69th Annual Open Juried Exhibition. The public is invited to watercolor demonstrations at the Museum on Sundays from 2 to 4:00 p.m. throughout the duration of the exhibition, offered free with museum admission.
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(6) Montclair Art Museum - Montclair
Featured Exhibit: Marina Zurkow: Friends, Enemies, and Others
On view throughout October
The Montclair Art Museum engages a diverse community through its distinctive collection of American and Native American art, exhibitions, and educational programs. The featured Marina Zurkow series is comprised of works on paper, digital animation videos, and related prints about humans and their relationship to animals, plants, and the weather. Zurkow seeks to spur a conversation around the relationship between nativist views toward invasives and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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(7) Morris Museum - Morristown
Featured Exhibit: On the Road: 100 Years of Motorcycles in America
On view throughout October
The Morris Museum excites the mind through the enjoyment of the visual and performing arts, natural and physical sciences, and humanities. On the Road offers an exhilarating look at the motorcycle – its origins, engineering innovations, customization, and, of course, its culture, spanning the last 100 years of American history. From a 1901 Thomas Auto-Bi to motorcycles owned by celebrities such as Steve McQueen and Malcolm Forbes to contemporary choppers, the exhibit examines milestones of motorcycle history in the United States and includes motorcycle memorabilia, fashions, and vintage posters.
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(8) Newark Museum - Newark
Featured Exhibit: Patchwork: from Folk Art to Fine Art
On view throughout October
As the largest museum in New Jersey, the Newark Museum invites you to enjoy unforgettable experiences in the arts and natural sciences. Take an inspirational journey through 80 galleries of world-class American, Asian, African and Classical art. The Museum has amassed one of the most comprehensive quilt collections in the nation, both stylistically and historically, with more than 150 pieces. Patchwork tracks the evolution of quilts, from functional masterpieces of women’s folk art to self-conscious artworks intended for display rather than practical purposes, many of which have never before been on public view.
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(9) New Jersey State Museum - Trenton
Featured Exhibit: Trenton: Crucial Crossroads
On view throughout October
The New Jersey State Museum explores the natural and cultural diversity of New Jersey, past and present. Designed as both a history of Trenton and an orientation for visitors planning to visit historic sites in the city, including the New Jersey State Capitol, Old Barracks Museum, Trenton Battle Monument, War Memorial Theater, Masonic Lodge, and 1719 William Trenton House Museum, the Trenton exhibit ranges from the beginnings of European exploration through colonial occupations to the more recent industrial and political history.
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(10) Noyes Museum of Art at Richard Stockton College - Oceanville
Featured Exhibit: Paul Stankard: Poetry in Glass
On view throughout October
The Noyes Museum of Art of Richard Stockton College invites art lovers of all ages to learn about, explore, and experience the arts in South Jersey. In an homage to Walt Whitman, Paul Stankard creates nature's intricacies, blossoms, and insects suspended perfectly in glass.
Internationally acclaimed as a leader in the contemporary art world, Stankard has been working tiny miracles for more than thirty years.
His work illuminates the beauty of nature through glass.
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(11) Perkins Center for the Arts - Moorestown and Collingswood
Featured Exhibit: Invitational Oils
Opens October 15
This community arts center provides visual and performing arts classes and music lessons for people of all ages and levels of ability in addition to presenting exhibitions, concerts and special events throughout the year. Invitational Oils features works by Paul Dusold, Bruce Garrity, and Allan Gorman. Meet the artists and curators at a free opening night reception on October 15. The exhibiting artists will also lead gallery talks during the reception and share their personal insights and stories about works included in the exhibition.
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(12) Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts - Millville
Featured Exhibit: New Jersey American Artist Professional League
On view through October 15
Celebrating 10 years, the RRCA creates a sense of community and fosters artistic awareness in Millville's Glasstown Arts District. The center's fall exhibition season includes one of the largest artist member organizations in the state: The New Jersey Chapter of the American Artists Professional League. This group specializes in traditional realism with media covering two- and three-dimensional design.
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(13) Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center - Millville
Featured Exhibit: Festival of Fine Craft -
October 1 & 2, 2011
Featured Exhibit: Cycles and Symbols: Nature in Glass -
On view through Oct. 16
Visit WheatonArts and watch world-class art created in the Glass Studio, tour the Museum of American Glass with its notable collection, and walk through the Craft Studios to see skilled artists at work. Be sure to catch the Festival of Fine Craft as over 125 juried artists from across the country present studio art glass, stained glass, creative jewelry designs, unusual metal sculptures, sculptural and functional clay pieces, woodcarvings and turned vessels, handcrafted furniture, and more. Cycles and Symbols: Nature in Glass showcases some of the many ways that contemporary artists working with glass use nature as a source of their work and an inspiration.
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(14) Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
Featured Exhibit: Two Venetian Masters: Canaletto and Domenico Tiepolo Etchings from the Arthur Ross Foundation
On view throughout October
The Zimmerli Art Museum's collections total 60,000 works of art, with concentrations in Russian and Soviet, French nineteenth-century, and American nineteenth- and twentieth-century art. Two Venetian Masters features etchings by Canaletto and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, great Italian artists who made Venice an artistic capital during the 18th century.
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