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

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

Newark Arts Festival

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.

Newark Arts Festival - 2026 Festival Kickoff

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

Art, Memory, Immigration and Plants with artist Jimena Vega

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

Newark Grounds FALL NIGHT FEST

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.

Newark Arts Festival - Art Night Out

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

Opening Reception: Bisa Butler Presents

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

Affordable Art Market

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

Opening Reception: Tatyana Kazakova: Symphony for the Unnoticed

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.

Opening Reception: Voices of the Diaspora

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

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

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

Opening Reception: ALL OF US

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

Cryptid Mountain Live

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

Opening Reception: Anna Shukeylo: Entropic Flora

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

PlusOne

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.

Project for Empty Space Open Studios

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

Index Open Studios

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

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

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

Open Doors Studio Tour

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

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

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.

DREAMTIME IN NEWARK Book Launch & Opening Reception

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

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

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.

Effect of Entropy Opening Reception

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

Manufacturers Village Artists Fall Open Studios

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.

Art City

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.

FLOCK TOGETHER!

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

Art City New Brunswick

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

Fall Exhibitions Opening Reception 2026

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

Museum for All Ball

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.

MANA Contemporary Fall Open Studios

Open to the public, this venue-wide event invites visitors to explore 100+ artist studios, special exhibitions, and site-specific installations.

Artist Walk & Talk: Root System 2026

Join Wildflower Sculpture Park to celebrate the exciting new work of 10 local artists and hear from them and curator Doris Cacoilo.

Artist Talk: Lonnie Holley

Join artist Lonnie Holley for a conversation inside How We Got Over, his new exhibition at ArtYard.

Artist Talk: Dean Millien & Jude Tallichet

Join artists Dean Millien and Jude Tallichet for an informal conversation inside Gleam, their newly opened exhibition at ArtYard.

Opening Reception: Fraction, Refraction

Join for an Opening Reception and Curator Talk exploring the Ramapo Curatorial Prize exhibition, curated by Zuhra Amini featuring artists who work with fraught histories.

Jin Jung Open Studio and Gallery Opening

Jin Jung is a visual artist based in Jersey City, whose work combines historical and scientific research with personal narratives, focusing on the untold stories of marginalized individuals through grassroots community outreach.

ART UNCORKED

Join the Montclair Art Museum for its annual ART UNCORKED party, where you can bid on original artwork, mix and mingle with featured artists, and get your party on with an unlimited bar and live DJ.

Garden State Watercolor 2026 Members Exhibition

Garden State Watercolor Society: Annual Members’ Exhibition Call for Art: September 1 – October 16, 2026. Online Exhibit Dates: November 6 – December 31, 2026.

ArtYard’s Tin Anniversary Gala

Join ArtYard for its Tin Anniversary Gala, celebrating a decade of creative experimentation and community building, and help lay the groundwork for the next decade of impact.

Studio Tour SOMA

Visit 100+ Artists in their studios, homes, and group venues in South Orange and Maplewood, NJ.

Closing Event: Ghost Optics & Portals and Passages

Join the Museum of American Glass for the closing event of its current exhibitions, Ghost Optics and Portals and Passages.

Fall Open Studios

Artist Open Studios

Closing Reception: Cat, Stick, Easel, Moon: Surrealist Paintings by Rachel L Bedder

Chock full of surrealist landscapes rendered in rich elemental hues, the paintings in Rachel L Bedder’s atmospheric solo show are deliberately ambiguous, and resist easy categorization.

Opening Reception: A Sense of Place

This photography exhibit, “A Sense of Place”, curated by Bob McKay and Dan Epstein, brings the work of exemplary photographers and their images into view.