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An exhibition of works by artist Vittorio Sciolli, a painter, printmaker and sculptor whose work focuses on the human figure, will open with a reception at 5 p.m. Friday, May 18, at 171 Broadmead St. The exhibition is sponsored by the Princeton University League.

West Windsor, NJ: Rutgers University Art Professor Judith Brodsky will discuss the contemporary art world at Mercer County Community College on Tuesday, April 17, at noon in the Communications Building, Room 110. The talk, entitled, “My Life in Art,” is the fourth in the college's Spring 2012 Distinguished Lecture Series, and will be held at the college’s West Windsor Campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road.

Professor Brodsky is an artist, printmaker and arts advocate. In her talk, she will draw from her own experience as an artist as well as from her projects as a curator and activist.

West Windsor, NJ: Yevgeniy Fiks, professor of visual arts at Mercer County Community College (MCCC), will discuss some of his recent art projects as they relate to Soviet and Post-Soviet history in a talk “Soviet and Post-Soviet Art,”on Thursday, April 5, at noon in the Communications Building, Room 109, at MCCC’s West Windsor Campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road. The talk is the third in the college's Spring 2012 Distinguished Lecture Series.

"Bodies of Rights & Medicines" will be the topic of a panel discussion at the Wilson School at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 001, on Tuesday, March 27, 2012. The discussion is being held in conjunction with an exhibition on the "judicialization of health" featured in the Bernstein Gallery in the lower level of Robertson Hall. Combining photography and life stories, Danish artist Torben Eskerod and Princeton anthropologist João Biehl document how a growing number of patients across Brazil are suing the government to obtain medicines in the name of their constitutional right to health.

Three new paintings by acclaimed artist Mel Leipzig, professor of art and art history at Mercer County Community College, will be unveiled at a special event on Wednesday, March 14.

The college and Leipzig are co-hosting the free event at the Conference Center at Mercer from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. to help raise funds for a student art gallery planned at the Trenton campus on North Broad Street. Guests will enjoy hors d’oeuvres and the opportunity to meet the artist.

Acclaimed artist Mel Leipzig, professor of art and art history at Mercer County Community College, will discuss two great painters as part of the college's Distinguished Lecture Series, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 12 noon in the Communications Building, Room 110, at the West Windsor Campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road.

Karen Yama - Artist's video screening and discussion of works in progress.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Location of Place". Free

This workshop is held annually in memory of Princeton artist Betty Ruth Curtis.  Participants can express their love for friends and family by creating homemade Valentines. Two workshops are available. Children under seven must be accompanied by an adult. Space is limited, and pre-registration is required. Registration is $10 for non-members and $7 for ACP members.

Princeton native, Lonni Sue Johnson, whose work appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times, contracted encephalitis in 2007 and suffered severe amnesia as well as a complete loss of artistic productivity. This fascinating show explores the artistic evolution of her work from her pre-professional career through her astounding "recovery art."

Celebrate Morven’s newest exhibition, Puzzles of the Brain: An Artist’s Journey through Amnesia, a fascinating show exploring the artistic evolution of Princeton artist Lonni Sue Johnson, from her pre-professional career through her astounding “recovery art.”

D&R Greenway Land Trust invites the public to an artist lecture presented by local artist, Aylin Green on Thursday, January 19, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. at the Johnson Education Center, D&R Greenway Land Trust, One Preservation Place, Princeton, NJ 08540 (located off Rosedale Road). There is no charge to attend the lecture, reservations are required and can be made at www.drgreenway.org or by calling (609) 924-4646. Light refreshments will be available.  
 

Eva Mantell loves teaching art.  “When students aren’t expecting to come up with anything good, and they are engaged and surprised by what they’ve created, it feels great. I find it very energizing.”

The Programs in Visual Arts and Dance present the first in a series of fall lectures titled Muscle Memory with artist Suzanne Bocanegra on Oct. 4 at 7:30 pm in the Dance Studio of Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street in Princeton. For more information, please call (609) 258-1500; princeton.edu/arts.

Princeton Borough residents are one step closer to walking down a rejuvenated Alexander Road in twenty years, after the Borough Council agreed to formally introduce for public discussion the zoning for the Arts, Education and Transit Neighborhood at a meeting on Tuesday night.  

In the newly-published book, Spark: How Creativity Works by Julie Burstein, Joyce Carol Oates, the prolific Princeton author, reveals aspects of the impulse that keeps her writing, often for 12 hours a day when working on a first draft, as well as the thinking and dreaming in which she immerses herself when preparing a novel.  “It’s an intense and ineffable experience which is difficult to talk about,” says Oates, who doesn’t begin to write until she has “the whole thing in my head like a movie.”

Womanspace will honor renowned artist Faith Ringgold at the 17th annual Barbara Boggs Sigmund Award.

View ticket pricing and reserve your seat at www.womanspace.org or call (609) 394-0136. You can also purchase a GRAND PRIZE RAFFLE ticket to win an all-inclusive trip for two to Cancun or Punta Cana.

Proceeds benefit victims of domestic and sexual violence served by Womanspace, a Trenton non-profit dedicated to improving women’s lives.

Saturday, MARCH 12 | 7:30 pm | Solley Theater | $5/$3.14
Picasso at the Lapin Agile

February 25, 2011—NUMINA GALLERY, Princeton High School presents ”Artist–Teacher Show”, an exhibition showcasing for the first time, twenty-two local artists who teach in Princeton and the surrounding area. Artists come from the Arts Council of Princeton, Grounds for Sculpture, Princeton High School, Stuart Country Day School, and Princeton Day School. Some artists also teach independently in the community. Media includes painting, sculpture, photography, prints, stained glass, and mixed media.