Fall Art Guide

Sep 27, 2026
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Frontline Arts
Make Your Mark: Frontline Arts Community Day
Somerset
Join us for a family-friendly community arts event, including paper-crafting activities, printmaking, and papermaking! Participate in a public art exhibit in our gallery, tour our building, and meet our staff of artists and creative thinkers.

Sep 15, 2026
Dec 11, 2026
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Montclair State University Galleries
Maria Yolanda Liebana: A Place to be Held
Essex
A Place to Be Held is the first solo museum exhibition by NYC-based artist Maria Yolanda Liebana. Inspired by the birth of her daughter, Liebana explores motherhood as both a physical and spiritual terrain. Through her immersive installations and mixed-media works shaped by mythology, Tarot, Catholic imagery, art history, and popular culture, she creates a vibrant world of care, transformation, and belonging.

Aug 15, 2026
Jan 10, 2027
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Art@Bainbridge
Joyce J. Scott: Declarations
Mercer
Spanning the career of Baltimore artist Joyce J. Scott, this exhibition showcases her intricate sculptural beadwork to create compelling, timely “declarations” connecting past and present themes of gun violence, misogyny, and racial injustice.

Sep 27, 2026
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Monica Schneider
Beyond the Paper: Building Dynamic Mixed Media Collages
Essex
Heidi Gallery is an art venue dedicated to the practice and belief that creative endeavors enrich lives and communities. The gallery is committed to showcasing the highest quality visual art created by established, emerging, and underrepresented artists. The current Exhibit filling this space features the work of the WAE Studio Artists, a progressive art studio located in the same building as Heidi Gallery. Workshops are offered to the public in a fully ADA compliant space.

Sep 10, 2026
Oct 3, 2026
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Arts Council of Princeton
Charles Evans Scholars Exhibition
Mercer
This annual exhibition celebrates the artistic achievements of exceptional Princeton High School students. Made possible by the Charles Evans Foundation, the scholarship program was established in 2011 to support young artists through a partnership with the Arts Council of Princeton.

Sep 8, 2026
Sep 4, 2026
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Liberty Hall Academic Center Gallery - Kean Galleries and Collections
Unfolding: Early American Accounts from Liberty Hall
Union
Unfolding: Early American Accounts from Liberty Hall considers how paper functioned in the eighteenth-century, transferring knowledge and conveying social obligations. These stories emerge from paper records held by Kean Galleries and Collections and the adjacent Liberty Hall Museum, home to William Livingston—New Jersey’s first elected governor and a signer of the U.S. Constitution—and the Kean family into the twentieth century.

Sep 8, 2026
Dec 4, 2026
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Nancy Dryfoos Gallery- Kean Galleries and Collections
Scratch and Tear: Works by Winifred McNeill
Union
Winifred McNeill’s work almost always starts with drawing. McNeill often draws on unexpected and demanding surfaces, including pipes and shells. McNeill’s feat of conquering material is matched by her equally challenging choice of subject matter: Hands, private parts, and perfect circles. This solo exhibition presents work from five series over the span of three decades, leading to the present.

Sep 8, 2026
Dec 4, 2026
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Karl and Helen Burger Gallery- Kean Galleries and Collections
Twisting Wool into Thread: Works by Marcy Chevali
Union
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.

Aug 24, 2026
Oct 17, 2026
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Rowan University Museum of Contemporary Art
Diane Burko: Extraction, A Dialogue of Extremes
Gloucester
August 24 - October 17, 2026
RUMOCA at 301 High Street
Intersections of Art and Science panel discussion with reception to follow September 16th, 4 - 7pm - Let us know you are coming!
In collaboration with the Arctic Radium Isotope Observing Network (ARION) research project led by Rowan Associate Professor Dr. Lauren E. Kipp, with Dr. Matt Charette and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Diane Burko: Extraction, A Dialogue of Extremes is the community engagement component of the National Science Foundation grant that has funded the research.
Pulling from scientific drawings and maps provided by the research team, artist Diane Burko has depicted in her paintings the chemical changes and flow of elements recorded in the Arctic. Rendered as markings and data-like graphs, these flows circulate within and around recurring spherical forms that anchor the paintings. The compositions feel distant and restrained, their cool detachment echoing the region’s vast isolation, yet they remain quietly captivating, amplifying the Arctic’s environmental extremities.

Oct 1, 2026
Jan 8, 2027
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The Noyes Arts Garage
Disturbing the Surface Contemporary Printmaking by the American Color Print Society
Atlantic
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.

Aug 29, 2026
Oct 3, 2026
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Arts Council of Princeton
Echoes in Our Bones: The Empowering Legacy of Black Women Artists in American Art and Culture
Mercer
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.

Aug 24, 2026
Oct 17, 2026
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Rowan University Museum of Contemporary Art
Diane Burko: Extraction, A Dialogue of Extremes
Gloucester
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.

Sep 2, 2026
Dec 30, 2026
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Zimmerli Art Museum
Hank Willis Thomas: LOVERULES — From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Middlesex
Surveying nearly 90 iconic works, this retrospective highlights conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas, connecting historical moments of resistance to contemporary life.




























