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Past Events

A look back at this fall’s contemporary art exhibitions and events across the state.

Aidan Mirowsky

Oct 18th 3 to 6pm

Flemington DIY

FLOCK TOGETHER!

Hunterdon

26 Stangl Rd, Flemington, NJ 08822, USA

Let's celebrate our feathered friends all month long! Join us for FLOCK TOGETHER! an art show all about birds, open all month.

GSAG

Oct 24th 7 to 11pm

Princeton University Art Museum

Museum for All Ball

Mercer

45 Elm Dr, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

The Museum for All Ball is the Princeton University Art Museum's annual celebration for local arts and culture lovers! Join the Museum for an evening of art, dancing, food, and fashion. By supporting the ball, you further their mission of providing access to world-class art for all.

GSAG

Oct 10th to Oct 24th

The 1978 Maplewood Arts Center

Proof of Existence: Artifacts made in community

Essex

1978 Springfield Ave, Maplewood, NJ 07040, USA

Join artist and Oakland Road Art Club founder Katey Darago for a month-long community artist residency exploring creativity, sculpture, and the possibilities of found materials.

GSAG

Oct 24th 6 to 8pm

ArtYard

Fall Exhibitions Opening Reception 2026

Hunterdon

13 Front St, Frenchtown, NJ 08825, USA

Join ArtYard for the opening of three new exhibitions and a celebration of its 10th anniversary season.

GSAG

Oct 24th 10am to 4pm

Grounds for Sculpture

MEB Open Studio

Mercer

80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton Township, NJ 08619, USA

Meet the artists who call Grounds For Sculpture their creative home. Step inside their studios, ask questions, learn about their processes, and discover the stories behind their artwork.

GSAG

Oct 3rd to Oct 24th

Watchung Arts Center

Tatyana Kazakova: Symphony for the Unnoticed

Somerset

18 Stirling Rd, Watchung, NJ 07069, USA

Tatyana Kazakova’s new drawings and paintings are inspired by the plants, weeds, and small details of nature that surround us every day, but that we often walk past without noticing.

GSAG

Oct 3rd to Oct 24th

Watchung Arts Center

Anna Shukeylo: Entropic Flora

Somerset

18 Stirling Rd, Watchung, NJ 07069, USA

An exhibition of floral paintings by New Jersey-based artist Anna Shukeylo.

GSAG

Oct 23rd 12 to 6pm

MORA Museum of Art

Artist Meet & Greet: Principle Material

Hudson

80 Grand St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA

Join Principle Material artists and curator to see and learn about the exhibition on view featuring work by the Sculptors Guild.

GSAG

Sept 18th to Oct 23rd

Studio Montclair Leach Gallery

We the People

Essex

641 Bloomfield Ave, Montclair, NJ 07042, USA

Reflecting on America’s 250-year experiment in democracy, this exhibition invites artists to explore core constitutional ideals: justice, domestic tranquility, the general welfare, and liberty for present and future generations.

GSAG

Sept 18th to Oct 23rd

Sfumato Gallery

Between Forms

Bergen

24 Booker St, Westwood, NJ 07675, USA

Between Forms brings together women artists whose practices inhabit the space between abstraction and representation, memory and imagination, structure and intuition.

GSAG

Oct 20th 7 to 9pm

Montclair Art Museum

Book Talk: Becoming Roy Lichtenstein: The Path to Pop by Avis Berman

Essex

3 S Mountain Ave, Montclair, NJ 07042, USA

Join art historian Avis Berman, author of the forthcoming Becoming Roy Lichtenstein: The Path to Pop, as she explores Roy Lichtenstein’s journey from an obscure artist to a defining figure of American Pop art.

GSAG

Oct 19th 6 to 8pm

Pierro Gallery

Artist Talk with Judy Targan

Essex

5 Mead St, South Orange Village, NJ 07079, USA

Join the Pierro Gallery for an artist talk with South Orange artist Judy Targan, who will discuss her current exhibition, "A Life in Art."

GSAG

Oct 18th 11am to 6pm

Art City New Brunswick

Art City New Brunswick

Middlesex

New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Outdoor festival celebrating contemporary art, culture, and community in New Brunswick, featuring visionary artists alongside immersive installations, live performance, and large-scale creative experiences.

Sept 2nd to Oct 18th

TCNJ Art Gallery

Out of the Studio: The TCNJ Biennial Faculty Exhibition

Mercer

2000 Pennington Rd, Ewing Township, NJ 08628, USA

Featuring works by faculty and staff across fine art, interactive multimedia, and graphic design, this biennial exhibition celebrates creative practice and pedagogy at TCNJ.

Danielle Cartier

Oct 18th 12 to 2 pm

DC Gallery & Studio

Pumpkin Carving Linocut Print Workshop

Cumberland

508 N High St, Millville, NJ 08332, USA

Get into the spooky spirit and learn the art of block printing by creating your own custom pumpkin inspired art prints!

Michael Mazzeo

Sept 19th 6 to 9pm

Galerie Lucida

Scott Harbison, Recent Sightings

Monmouth

18 Wallace St.

New paintings by outsider artist Scott Harbison.

GSAG

Sept 11th to Oct 18th

Evening Star Studios Gallery

Eat It!

Hudson

11 Monitor St, Jersey City, NJ 07304, USA

Evening Star Studio presents Eat It!, an exhibition of ceramics that explores food, eating, and community through ceramics.

Michael Mazzeo

Oct 18th 4 to 6pm

Galerie Lucida

Closing Reception - Scott Harbison - Recent Sightings

Monmouth

18 Wallace St, Red Bank, NJ 07701, USA

This is the final weekend to see these works in person.
After a successful, five week exhibition, many of the creatures have found new homes, here and abroad. We’ll close the show with a reception for the artist and an artist talk with Scott and gallery director, Michael Mazzeo. We’ll also be giving out door prizes, one of which is an original painting by Scott Harbison! Don’t miss out!

Annie Norbeck

Oct 17th - 18th 12 to 5pm

Manufacturers Village

Manufacturers Village Artists Fall Open Studios

Essex

340-364 Glenwood Ave, East Orange, NJ 07017, USA

Manufacturers Village Artists Fall Open Studios showcases more than 35 artists and makers including painters, sculptors, printmakers, photographers, and installation artists, all housed in a 19th-century factory complex typically closed to the public.

Dan Swern

Oct 18th 11am to 6pm

coLAB Arts Studios

Art City

Middlesex

6 Kirkpatrick St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA

Join coLAB Arts and 100 art vendors, activations, and installations as Art City transforms Downtown New Brunswick into an open-air celebration of art, culture, and community.

Mary Salvante

Aug 24th to Oct 17th

Rowan University Museum of Contemporary Art

Diane Burko: Extraction, A Dialogue of Extremes

Gloucester

301 High St W, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA

Spanning painting and sculpture, artist Diane Burko examines the theme of extraction through three interconnected bodies of work, exploring Arctic climate research to Amazon deforestation.

GSAG

Oct 3rd 2 to 4pm

One River Englewood

Saul Chernick

Bergen

49 N Dean St, Englewood, NJ 07631, USA

Saul Chernick's solo exhibition, I speak in Birdsong, invites viewers to engage through feeling, symbolism, and personal interpretation, embracing the mystery of communication that cannot always be articulated.

Danielle Cartier

Oct 16th 6 to 8pm

DC Gallery & Studio

Effect of Entropy Opening Reception

Cumberland

508 N High St, Millville, NJ 08332, USA

DC Gallery & Studio is pleased to present visual artists Sarah Balough and Hanna Vogel in our brand-new exhibition, EFFECT OF ENTROPY.

GSAG

Oct 15th 5 to 6:30pm

The Noyes Arts Garage

Opening Reception: Disturbing the Surface Contemporary Printmaking by the American Color Print Society

Atlantic

2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401, USA

Showcasing work by members of the American Color Print Society, this exhibition spans traditional and contemporary approaches, from etching and lithography to cyanotype, risograph, digital printmaking, relief, and screenprint.

GSAG

Oct 15th 5 to 9pm

The Newark Museum of Art

DREAMTIME IN NEWARK Book Launch & Opening Reception

Essex

49 Washington St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

Join The Newark Museum of Art for the opening of their newest exhibition Dreamtime in Newark: Aljira and the Making of Global Contemporary Art.

GSAG

Sep 9th to Oct 15th

James Kerney Campus Gallery

No Invite: Ten Years of Capturing Fashion Week by Any Means Necessary A Retrospective by Dan Bassini

Mercer

137 N Broad St, Trenton, NJ 08608, USA

No Invite is a unique look into the fashion world captured on 35mm by Jersey City-based photographer Dan Bassini.

GSAG

Oct 14th 5:30 to 7:30pm

Karl and Helen Burger Gallery- Kean Galleries and Collections

Opening Reception: Twisting Wool into Thread: Works by Marcy Chevali

Union

1000 Morris Ave, Union, NJ 07083, USA

In Marcy Chevali’s work, glass expands and contracts. Thin and transparent borosilicate glass rods are bent into shape with a torch and adjoined to form an irregular grid. These grids appear to swell, as if cast around an invisible, dimensional form. Chevali refers to the structures she makes out of glass, metal, and sometimes mohair as “nets.” No matter the material, the treatment is similar; wire and mohair are likewise knotted or interlaced. This solo exhibition presents fifteen works by the artist.

Sep 9th to Oct 14th

Berrie Center

Translucence of Time: Jonathan Lipkin

Bergen

505 Ramapo Valley Rd, Mahwah, NJ 07430, USA

A solo photography exhibition by Jonathan Lipkin meditating on the infinite, time, and perception.

GSAG

Oct 2nd to Oct 12th

Wooden Walls Project

PlusOne

Monmouth

Asbury Park, NJ 07712, USA

Enjoy a three-weekend art party in Asbury Park, with large-scale murals, installations, immersive experiences, and a lineup of artist talks, tours, and workshops.

GSAG

Sep 12th-Oct 12th

Jawbone Gallery

Phil Courtney: Beyond the Moment

Cape May

31 Perry St, Cape May, NJ 08204, USA

Phil Courtney transforms everyday encounters into paintings that feel at once familiar and wonderfully unexpected, incorporating coastal scenes, wetsuit-clad surfers, and seaside life.

GSAG

Jun 27th-Oct 11th

ArtYard

David Bailin: A Divine Comedy

Hunterdon

13 Front St, Frenchtown, NJ 08825, USA

Experience David Bailin’s large-scale drawings on milk carton overstock of humans mired in sinkholes of their own making.

GSAG

Oct 11th 12 to 4pm

Open Doors Studio Tour

Open Doors Studio Tour

Essex

Newark, NJ, USA

A Newark Arts Festival tradition, Open Doors invites you inside Newark’s studios and creative spaces to meet artists and discover new work.

GSAG

Oct 11th 4 to 8pm

Halsey Art Center

Opening Reception: In Memoriam: Daniel Kitchen's Art Collection

Essex

119 Halsey St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

A lifetime of collecting fills the walls of Halsey Arts for this memorial exhibition dedicated to the late Daniel Kitchen.

GSAG

Jun 27th-Oct 11th

ArtYard

Rebecca Reeves: At Rest

Hunterdon

13 Front St, Frenchtown, NJ 08825, USA

At Rest explores the fragile space between life and death through hand-beaded flowers that embody decay and preservation.

GSAG

Sept 12th 6 to 9pm

Drawing Rooms

TORN

Hudson

926 Newark Ave t101, Jersey City, NJ 07306, USA

Group exhibition exploring the concept of "torn" through works shaped, in whole or in part, from the action of tearing.

GSAG

Jun 27th-Oct 11th

ArtYard

Michael Angelo Mangino: Vanishing Point Forever

Hunterdon

13 Front St, Frenchtown, NJ 08825, USA

Mangino’s latest text paintings layer mysterious, poetic phrases onto vibrant abstract color fields, inviting new strategies of comprehension and reverie.

GSAG

Oct 11th 1 to 5pm

Index Art Center

Index Open Studios

Essex

89 Market St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

Featured Artist Studios: Jeanne Brasile, And/Or Films (Colin Shields), Sunil Garg, Juno Zago, Jaz Graf, and Mark Hartmann (Mark the Spark).

David LaMorte

Oct 10th-11th 6 to 8pm

SMUSH Gallery

Cryptid Mountain Live

Hudson

340 Summit Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306, USA

Cryptid Mountain is a live multimedia reimagining of the Jersey Devil myth, think Jersey Devil meets Dante’s “Inferno.”

GSAG

Oct 7th - 11th

Newark Arts

Newark Arts Festival

Essex

Newark, NJ, USA

Celebrate 25 years of Newark Arts Festival, New Jersey’s largest and longest-running arts festival, with five days of citywide art exhibitions, live performances, workshops, and more.

Noelle Lorraine Williams

Jun 19th-Oct 11th

Project for Empty Space

Black Revolutionary Women: 250 Years of a Colony Within a Colony

Essex

800 Kenneth Gibson Boulevard, Newark, NJ 07102

Through installation, performance, and collage, Noelle Lorraine Williams uses a multidisciplinary approach through her project Black Power! 19th Century, exploring how Black women and their descendants lived under systems that treated them as property within expanding Colonial economies.

GSAG

Sep 10th-Oct 11th

Drawing Rooms

Alcove Gallery

Hudson

926 Newark Ave t101, Jersey City, NJ 07306, USA

Group exhibition of mixed-media works by Ellen Martin, Madison Rocap, and Richie Vicencio.

GSAG

Oct 11th 1 to 5pm

Project for Empty Space

Project for Empty Space Open Studios

Essex

800 Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

Explore four floors of artist studios and community workshop spaces while enjoying a warm brunch and breakfast cocktails.

GSAG

Sep 10th -Oct 11th

Drawing Rooms

Paul Santoleri

Hudson

926 Newark Ave t101, Jersey City, NJ 07306, USA

In this immersive solo exhibition, Paul Santoleri presents room-scale drawings based on emotions, patterns, movement, and instinct, where the viewer experiences the work by walking through it.

GSAG

Oct 10th 2 to 4pm

Watchung Arts Center

Opening Reception: Anna Shukeylo: Entropic Flora

Somerset

18 Stirling Rd, Watchung, NJ 07069, USA

An exhibition of floral paintings by New Jersey-based artist Anna Shukeylo.

GSAG

Oct 10th 6 to 8pm

NOVADO GALLERY

Opening Reception: ALL OF US

Hudson

110 Morgan St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA

In “All of Us,” Johan Wahlstrom explores the human figure as a vehicle for examining identity, social interaction, and the experience of contemporary life.

GSAG

Oct 10th 9 to 11am

Parq930

David Rios Ferreira + Eirini Linardaki: New Murals Celebration + Tour!

Essex

930 McCarter Hwy, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

Join David & Eirini for a morning celebration to experience their new murals, commissioned by the City of Newark and Boraie Development.

GSAG

Oct 10th 6 to 9pm

Akwaaba Gallery

Opening Reception: Voices of the Diaspora

Essex

509 S Orange Ave, Newark, NJ 07103, USA

Group exhibition featuring work by 10 artists exploring the voices, experiences, and histories of the African diaspora.

GSAG

Oct 10th 2 to 4pm

Watchung Arts Center

Opening Reception: Tatyana Kazakova: Symphony for the Unnoticed

Somerset

18 Stirling Rd, Watchung, NJ 07069, USA

Tatyana Kazakova’s new drawings and paintings are inspired by the plants, weeds, and small details of nature that surround us every day, but that we often walk past without noticing.

GSAG

Oct 9th 5 to 9pm

Makerhoods Courtyard

Affordable Art Market

Essex

601 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

Browse and shop original artwork from local artists and makers, with pieces priced at $500 or less.

GSAG

Oct 9th 6 to 10pm

Newark ArtSpace

Opening Reception: Bisa Butler Presents

Essex

355 Broad St, Newark, NJ 07104, USA

Step inside Bisa Butler Presents, a signature Newark Arts Festival exhibition curated by internationally acclaimed artist Bisa Butler.

GSAG

Oct 9th 6 to 10pm

NICO Kitchen + Bar

Newark Arts Festival - Art Night Out

Essex

One Center St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

Explore Downtown Newark during Art Night Out, a neighborhood art crawl filled with exhibitions, performances, pop-ups and more.

GSAG

Oct 9th 5 to 9pm

Mulberry Commons

Newark Grounds FALL NIGHT FEST

Essex

Mulberry St, Newark, NJ, USA

Newark's evening makers festival returns, transforming Mulberry Commons into an evening filled with art, music, food, and hands-on creativity under the night sky.

GSAG

Oct 9th 5 to 9pm

Newark Grounds

Newark Grounds FALL NIGHT FEST

Essex

Mulberry St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

Newark's evening makers festival returns, transforming Mulberry Commons into an evening filled with art, music, food, and hands-on creativity under the night sky.

GSAG

Oct 8th 6:30 to 8pm

The Newark Public Library

Art, Memory, Immigration and Plants with artist Jimena Vega

Essex

5 Washington St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

Join the Newark Public Library for an artist talk with Jimena Vega, presented with the Price Institute at Rutgers-Newark.

Annie Norbeck

Sept 23rd 5 to 8pm

The Mueller Gallery at Caldwell University

Annie Norbeck: Afield

Essex

120 Bloomfield Ave, Caldwell, NJ 07006, USA

In Afield, painter Annie Norbeck explores the visual and emotional landscape of being far from home, treating the land as a shifting record of distance, transience, and memory.

GSAG

Oct 7th 5 to 10pm

Express Newark

Newark Arts Festival - 2026 Festival Kickoff

Essex

54 Halsey St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

Kick off the 25th Newark Arts Festival with three floors of art, live music, performances, open studios and more at Express Newark.

GSAG

Oct 7th 6:30 to 8pm

Express Newark

Newark Arts Festival - Artist Talk: Bisa Butler On Purpose.

Essex

54 Halsey St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

Bisa Butler joins Salamishah Tillet for an intimate conversation exploring purpose, artistic practice, and the ideas behind her work.

GSAG

Oct 6th 5:30 to 7:30pm

Nancy Dryfoos Gallery- Kean Galleries and Collections

Opening Reception: Scratch and Tear: Works by Winifred McNeill

Union

1003 Morris Ave Unit 2, Union, NJ 07083, USA

Spanning three decades, this solo exhibition presents works from five of Winifred McNeill’s series, featuring drawings on challenging surfaces like pipes and shells.

Meghan Cummings

Oct 5th to Dec 27th

Midland Park Memorial Library

UNDERSTORY

Bergen

250 Godwin Ave, Midland Park, NJ 07432, USA

The Midland Park Memorial Library is pleased to showcase Understory, an exhibition by local artist Geraldine Abdoo.

GSAG

Oct 4th 12 to 4pm

The Sperlak Gallery & Sculpture Gardens

Opening Reception: Jacqueline Boyd: In the Making

Cape May

521 NJ-47, Cape May Court House, NJ 08210, USA

In the Making, presented through Stanek Gallery’s OUTSIDE THE BOX programming, marks the debut of Jacqueline Boyd’s Ephemeral series, a new body of mixed media works that lingers in the space between making and memory.

GSAG

Oct 2nd - 4th

ARTS 14C

JCAST at 150 Bay

Hudson

150 Bay St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA

For the 37th Annual Jersey City Art & Studio Tour, 150 Bay Street opens all its doors for a weekend of open studios, exhibitions, performances, installations and more.

Lindsay Springer

Oct 3rd - 4th 10am to 5pm

Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center

Festival of Fine Craft

Cumberland

1501 Glasstown Rd, Millville, NJ 08332, USA

Celebrating 27 years of artistic excellence at the Festival of Fine Craft at WheatonArts! At this crowd-favorite South Jersey two-day event, engage with a diverse collection of 150+ artists exhibiting and selling their handcrafted works of art.

Oct 1st - 4th Check for times.

Jersey City Art & Studio Tour (JCAST)

Jersey City Art & Studio Tour (JCAST)

Hudson

Jersey City, NJ, USA

Celebrating Jersey City's vibrant creative community, this citywide festival highlights over 200 artist studios, 100 gallery exhibitions, hands-on workshops, and live performances.

Joe Kazimierczyk

Sep 10th to Oct 4th

Artists' Gallery

Vibrant Views

Hunterdon

18 Bridge St, Lambertville, NJ 08530, USA

Recent paintings by TingTing Hsu and Michael Schweigart, highlighting the beauty and contemplation found in landscape art.

Alyce Gottesman

Oct 3rd 12 to 5pm

Alyce Gottesman Studio

JCAST Open Studios: Alyce Gottesman and Donna Bassin

Hudson

225 New York Ave #2, Jersey City, NJ 07307, USA

Open Studios with Alyce Gottesman and Donna Bassin. This event is part of Jersey City Art Studio Tour

Fiona Clark

Aug 29th to Sep 3rd

Arts Council of Princeton

Echoes in Our Bones: The Empowering Legacy of Black Women Artists in American Art and Culture

Mercer

102 Witherspoon St, Princeton, NJ 08542, USA

Pairing works by artists from past and present generations, such as Faith Ringgold and Bisa Butler, this exhibition explores how themes of identity, history, and cultural resilience have endured and transformed over time.

Michael Mazzeo

Oct 3rd 11am to 5pm

Galerie Lucida

The Photo Reimagined with Gerald Slota

Monmouth

18 Wallace St.

A one-day, hands-on, creative photography workshop led by Gerald Slota.

Fiona Clark

Aug 29th to Sep 3rd

Arts Council of Princeton

Rooted in Bloom

Mercer

102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ 08542

Using bold color and gestural forms, Prajakta Joshi’s paintings move beyond traditional depictions of flowers and landscapes, seeking instead to translate the invisible pulse of living things.

GSAG

Oct 3rd 11am to 3pm

Fort Lee Historic Park Visitor Center

Ceremony for Revolutionary Seeds: Fort Lee Historic Park Visitor Center

Bergen

2018 Hudson Terrace, Fort Lee, NJ 07024, USA

Ceremony for Revolutionary Seeds is a traveling installation and participatory ritual series by Idlewild Experiential and Nandi Jordan as part of Monument Lab's "Revolutionary Acts" performance and public art series. By activating historic locations across the state, Ceremony for Revolutionary Seeds invites residents and visitors to reflect on memory, resilience, and the stories that continue to shape civic life.

GSAG

Oct 3rd 4 to 8pm

MORA Museum of International Art

Opening Reception: Principle Material

Hudson

80 Grand St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA

Sculptors Guild presents Principle Material as part of the 37th Annual Jersey City Art & Studio Tour (JCAST), a citywide celebration of art across Jersey City.

GSAG

Oct 2nd 6:30 to 8:30pm

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

Fall Exhibitions Opening

Union

68 Elm St, Summit, NJ 07901, USA

Join the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey for the opening of its four fall exhibitions.

GSAG

Oct 2nd 6 to 9pm

Project 14C

Opening Reception: You Again

Hudson

157 1st St 2nd fl, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA

Selected works from Project 14C's Special Project Residencies 2025-2026.

GSAG

Oct 2nd 5 to 8pm

coLAB Arts Studios

Misha Tyutyunik Open Studio and Gallery Opening

Middlesex

9 Bayard St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA

Misha Tyutyunik is a Ukrainian-born, Brooklyn-based painter, muralist, street artist, illustrator, and virtual reality artist who collaborates with communities around the world to create public art.

SMUSH Gallery

Oct 2nd 6:30 to 9pm

SMUSH Gallery

Meet the Artist: Cat, Stick, Easel, Moon: Surrealist Paintings by Rachel L Bedder

Hudson

340 Summit Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306, USA

Meet Rachel L Bedder, the artist featured in Cat, Stick, Easel, Moon: Surrealist Paintings on view at SMUSH Gallery during JCAST.

Fiona Clark

Oct 2nd 6 to 8pm

Arts Council of Princeton

ACP BYOB: Wheel Ceramics

Mercer

102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ 08542

Beginner-friendly intro to wheel ceramics!

GSAG

Oct 2nd 6 to 8pm

The Art Generators Gallery

Opening Reception: Delightfully Strange

Essex

14 Newark Way, Maplewood, NJ 07040, USA

Featuring work by local and regional artists, Delightfully Strange invites visitors into a collection that steps outside the expected, leaning into the unusual, curious, surreal, eccentric and wonderfully weird.

Marlon Rajan

Oct 2nd 3 to 4:30pm

Creative Arts Center

Teen Open Studio

Hudson

242 10th St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA

Teen Open Studio is a free drop-in after-school artmaking program for ages 12 and up. Each week has a different core focus while remaining a space for teens to experiment with new art mediums and hang out.

GSAG

Oct 1st 6 to 8pm

GALLERY491

Opening Reception: Paulina Olivares: Memories

Essex

491 Bloomfield Ave, Montclair, NJ 07042, USA

A solo exhibition of paintings by New Jersey-based artist Paulina Olivares rooted in her personal journey from Chile.

Ricardo Roig

Oct 1st 6 to 9pm

Roig Collection Art Gallery x Ria Gallery

Frame Your Space

Essex

204 Bellevue Ave, Montclair, NJ 07043, USA

Ricardo Roig welcomes you to his new Art Gallery in Upper Montclair for his hand-cut prints on paper, with an opening hosted by DWELL NJ.

Fiona Clark

Oct 1st 5 to 6:30pm

Arts Council of Princeton

In Conversation | “Silks” by Laura Wheeler Waring

Mercer

102 Witherspoon St, Princeton, NJ 08542, USA

Come listen to an intriguing art detective story about a painting by Laura Wheeler Waring, an African American artist whose portraits of Black Americans are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, that has been hidden in an attic for 110 years.

GSAG

Aug 5th to Sep 30th

Barsky Annex

Brendan McEvoy: DON'T LOOK! KALEIDOSCOPE

Hudson

46 Newark Street Ground Floor Lobby, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA

A solo exhibition of paintings by New Jersey-based artist Brendan McEvoy.

Danielle Cartier

Sep 29th 7 to 9pm

DC Gallery & Studio

September Artist Meetup

Cumberland

508 N High St, Millville, NJ 08332, USA

Join us for a monthly networking event and get the scoop on new & local art opportunities!

GSAG

Sep 28th 5:30 to 8:30 pm

Kean University

Opening Reception: Human Family: Works on Paper by Otávio Roth

Union

1000 Morris Ave, Union, NJ 07083, USA

Human Family: Works on Paper by Otávio Roth shares the artist’s 1978 series of prints illustrating all thirty articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a statement of self-determination inspired by our nation’s founding documents.

GSAG

Sep 27th 2 to 4pm

Hunterdon Art Museum

Fall Exhibition Opening Reception

Hunterdon

7 Lower Center St, Clinton, NJ 08809, USA

Join the Hunterdon Art Museum for a shared Opening Reception celebrating three dynamic fall exhibitions that explore cultural heritage, contemporary narrative, and creative experimentation.

Ingrid Harbour

Sep 27th 12 to 4pm

Frontline Arts

Make Your Mark: Frontline Arts Community Day

Somerset

440 River Rd, Branchburg, NJ 08876, USA

Join Frontline Arts for a family-friendly community arts event, including paper-crafting activities, printmaking, and papermaking.

Monica Schneider-Brewer

Sep 27th 11am to 1pm

Heidi Gallery

Beyond the Paper: Building Dynamic Mixed Media Collages

Essex

310 Eisenhower Pkwy, Livingston, NJ 07039, USA

In this 2-hour workshop, you will learn the basics of color theory, proper collage techniques, and how to make a composition that has visual interest and cohesion.

GSAG

Sep 11th to Sep 27th

Pro Arts Jersey City

Curators Choice 2026

Hudson

157 1st St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA

Pro Arts’ annual Curators Choice exhibition presents the work of eight artists from Pro Arts' Meet The Curators portfolio reviews.

Jessica Goldstein

Sep 27th 2 to 4pm

Heidi Gallery at JSDD

WAE Studio Art Sale & Exhibit 2026

Essex

310 Eisenhower Pkwy, Livingston, NJ 07039, USA

Experience the work of WAE Center Studio Artists across a rich range of mediums, textures, and colors. Fall in love with a piece? Take it right off the wall and bring it home with you!

GSAG

Jun 27th to Sep 27th

ArtYard

Cassie Arnold: Mom Bras

Hunterdon

13 Front St, Frenchtown, NJ 08825, USA

Mom Bras celebrates the natural curves, scars, wrinkles, hairs, and textures of breasts and helps us tell the story of who we collectively are as women.

Elaine Shor

Sep 12th to Sept 26th

Art Alliance of Monmouth County

Imagine

Monmouth

33 Monmouth St, Red Bank, NJ 07701, USA

“Imagine” is an Art Alliance of Monmouth County members exhibition.

GSAG

Sep 26th 11am to 3pm

Johnson Cemetery Memorial Park

Ceremony for Revolutionary Seeds: Historic Johnson Cemetery Memorial Park

Camden

S 38th St & Federal St, Camden, NJ 08105, USA

Ceremony for Revolutionary Seeds is a traveling installation and participatory ritual series by Idlewild Experiential and Nandi Jordan as part of Monument Lab's "Revolutionary Acts" performance and public art series. By activating historic locations across the state, Ceremony for Revolutionary Seeds invites residents and visitors to reflect on memory, resilience, and the stories that continue to shape civic life.

GSAG

Sep 25th 6 to 8pm

The Center for Contemporary Art

Opening Reception: Fired En Masse

Somerset

2020 Burnt Mills Rd, Bedminster, NJ 07921, USA

An exhibition of large-scale ceramic works by eight New Jersey artists.

GSAG

Sep 10th to Sep 25th

IMUR

Moment / Memory | Traces of Presence

Hudson

67 Greene St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA

A collaborative exhibition by Fine Art Academy of Montclair and IMUR, presenting works that reflect personal recollections, family histories, cultural narratives, changing environments, or the subtle evidence of human presence.

Aidan Mirowsky

Sep 24th 6:30 to 8:30pm

Flemington DIY

Small Works Artist Talks

Hunterdon

26 Stangl Rd, Flemington, NJ 08822, USA

FOUR ARTISTS TAKE ON SMALL WORKS. Exploring ideas, techniques, and creative processes in creating impactful small works and an informal + fun critique.

GSAG

Sep 24th 4 to 7pm

Kean Jersey City Campus

Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Milcah Bassel: Imaginal Cells

Hudson

100 Culver Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07305, USA

Imaginal Cells presents highlights of Milcah Bassel's recent work exploring the relationship between geometric and human patterns.

Katelyn

Sep 24th 7 to 8:30pm

Katelyn Halpern

Artist Talk - Cat, Stick, Easel, Moon: Surrealist Paintings by Rachel L Bedder

Hudson

340 Summit Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306, USA

Join artist Rachel L Bedder, SMUSH gallerist Katelyn Halpern, and fellow artist Buttered Roll in conversation about the gently strange world of Cat, Stick, Easel, Moon. Happening at SMUSH Gallery in Jersey City, NJ!

GSAG

Sep 4th to Sep 24th

coLAB Arts Studios

Dennis RedMoon Darkeem Open Studio and Gallery Opening

Middlesex

6 Kirkpatrick St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA

Dennis RedMoon Darkeem is a New York-based, Afro-Indigenous interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, photography, film, collage, public murals, and socially engaged practice.

Fiona Clark

Sep 24th 5:30 to 7:30pm

Arts Council of Princeton

Re-visioning America Gallery Crawl

Mercer

Princeton, NJ, USA

A community collaboration showcasing art about the past, present, and future of the nation.

GSAG

Sep 23rd 5 to 8pm

The Mueller Gallery at Caldwell University

Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Annie Norbeck: Afield

Essex

120 Bloomfield Ave, Caldwell, NJ 07006, USA

In Afield, painter Annie Norbeck explores the visual and emotional landscape of being far from home, treating the land as a shifting record of distance, transience, and memory.

GSAG

Sep 23rd 6 to 8pm

Pierro Gallery at The Baird Community Center

Opening Reception: Judy Targan: A Life In Art

Essex

5 Mead St, South Orange Village, NJ 07079, USA

Spanning work from the 1940s through the present day, the exhibition traces South Orange artist Judy Targan's artistic evolution over her eight-decade career.

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