Post Tagged with: "Art"
Residents Win At Senior Art Show
Three Verona residents were among the 30 Essex County artists who received awards this week in the annual Essex County Senior Citizens Juried Art Show. Kay Luzzi won first place in the professional acrylic painting category for “1787 Chateau Lafite”, Bill Wood won first place in the professional print category for “Egret”, and Ronnie Horn [...]
Watercolor Painting Class
The Essex County Environmental Center in Roseland is holding another class on painting with watercolors on Tuesday, July 27 at 7 p.m. Geared for people ages 16 and up, the class will teach you about a seasonal flower and how to draw and paint it. You’ll get to take home the picture you create, fully [...]
Summer Options! Art Camp
Summer is a great time to try new things- especially things that take time and patience to learn, but don’t interfere with homework. Art is one of those things. Art camp however, is not easy to come by. We have a couple of options in the area though and here are some places to start. [...]
Patrick McCann Displays Paintings
Patrick McCann, a 7th grader at H.B. Whitehorne Middle School recently participated in the Arts Unbound Youth art exhibit. He displayed four of his paintings at the Arts Unbound Gallery in Orange. Arts Unbound is a platform for adults and youth with disabilities to create and display their art.
Week In Review: Mayoral Elections, Bloomfield Shooter Dies
Voters went to the polls in West Orange this week and made their first change of mayor in 12 years. Robert Parisi, the new mayor, had been a councilman. West Orange’s current mayor, John McKeon, had opted not to run for a fourth term. There were also elections in Newark, and Mayor Cory Booker easily [...]
Verona Artists Featured In Livingston Exhibit
Six works by Verona residents Ann C. Taylor and Allen L. Taylor are being featured in “Innovations, 2010″ a new exhibit at the ACL Gallery in Livingston that runs through March. Ann Taylor is first vice president of the New Jersey Water Color Society and a popular watercolor instructor with the Community Centers of Livingston [...]
Montclair Art Museum Offers Adult Painting Classes
The Yard School of Art at the Montclair Art Museum has announced a series of weekend classes for adults that begin this Sunday, February 21, with “Action Painting.” The class, which runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., isn’t about painting sports or moving figures. Instead it promises to encourage spontaneity by teaching students to [...]
He Drew The Horrors Of D-Day
The father of Verona resident Mark Giannini was among the first group of soldiers to land on Normandy Beach on D-Day. Ugo Giannini was one of only 6 of his band of 31 soldiers to survive onto the beach. The young man, who had been an art student in Newark prior to the war, managed [...]