Not Yo Mama's Craft Fair CALL for SUBMISSIONS!

Tuesday, January 19th - Friday, February 12, 2010
Location: Parlay Studios, 161 2nd Street

WHAT IS “NOT YO MAMA’S CRAFT FAIR”?
Not Yo Mama’s Craft Fair is an exclusive and unique event where the best and brightest creatives from the Jersey City metro area (& beyond) can hock their DIY wares to the coolest cats in Chill Town.

WHEN AND WHERE WILL IT BE HELD?
Saturday, April 17 from 11am to 6pm at Parlay Studios, 161 2nd Street @ Provost, in Downtown Jersey City,
just a few blocks from the Grove Street PATH station.

HOW TO APPLY?
go to www.megangulick.com to download the application


(www.notyomamasaffairs.com coming soon!)
Links

African Echoes Recent Ceramic Works by David MacDonald

The Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery

2039 Kennedy Blvd. Jersey City, NJ 07305 (Hepburn Hall Room 323)

February 4 – March 5, 2010

Opening reception: February 4, 4:30p.m. - 7:00p.m.

Participating the NJCU African Heritage Month celebration.

David MacDonald, potter and Syracuse University ceramics professor, creates a wide variety of work including vessels for daily use and one-of-a-kind pieces for exhibition. He draws much of his inspiration from the myriad examples of surface decoration that are manifested in the many ethnic groups of sub-Saharan Africa (such as pottery decoration, textiles, body decoration, and architectural decoration). MacDonald's work spans the complete spectrum of ceramic forms of a utilitarian nature. For the NJCU exhibition, MacDonald presents a couple of dozens of stoneware platters, vases, casseroles, and jars that have been recently created.


For more on the artist, please visit: www.davidmacdonaldpottery.com

Gallery hours: 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. *
* For other days and times, please contact us to schedule an appointment.

For further information, contact Midori Yoshimoto Gallery Director at (myoshimoto@njcu.edu) or 201-200-2197.

STUMBLE Stephen Schofield

NJCU Galleries are pleased to present new exhibitions for the 2010-2011 season.

The Visual Arts Gallery
100 Culver Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07305

January 26 - February 23, 2010

Opening reception: Tuesday, January 26, 5:00p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Artist Talk at 7:00p.m. in the B07 auditorium (next to gallery)

NJCU's restored Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present a site-specific installation of inflated fabric sculptures by Montreal-based artist Stephen Schofield. Measuring about one and a half life size, his figures were mapped from the male model and then expertly tailored out of old clothes. These figures were partly inspired by Pliny the Elder's tale of Dibutade, a Corinthian woman who traced her lover's shadow on the wall to remember and fix his form even after he had gone abroad. Schofield also pays homage to Dibutade as the legendary muse who invented drawing by his intimate act of tracing a human figure and turning it into a three-dimensional form. Soaked in sugar water, which stiffens the fabric, Schofield's patchwork men come alive each time when soaked again, inflated and then dried. The fabric membranes allow the artist to "explore the porosity, vulnerability and resistance of a person as a theatre of one" and symbolize "the transience, contingency and suppleness of intense personnel feelings."


Gallery hours: 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. *
* For other days and times, please contact us to schedule an appointment.

For further information, contact Midori Yoshimoto Gallery Director at (myoshimoto@njcu.edu) or 201-200-2197.

Every 1st Sunday Kelly Saint Patrick

Made with Love (530 Jersey Ave): Singer, songwriter Kelly Saint Patrick's music has been compared to "Jewel" but with an edgier "Ani" lyric. Kelly will be live at Made with Love to play some new tunes, as well as songs from her debut album, "In the Margins."

Kelly is a Pennsylvania native who moved to the NYC/Jersey City area to work on her craft almost five years ago. You can hear Kelly the first Sunday of each month at Made with Love from 1:00 - 3:00 pm.

February 7th & March 7th

201.451.5199
www.myspace.com/kellystpatrick

Every 1st Friday Ace Case

Made with Love (530 Jersey Ave): We've all been having so much fun with Ace at Made with Love that we decided to make it a regular event. Unwind on a Friday night with great baked goods but also soups, empanada, pizza and the ever popular BYOB aspect. It's the kind of a gig where we definitely encourage folks to get up and do a song from the black book, or join in on a chorus.

Guest stars and collaborators will join the fun. Please mark it in your calendars and assorted gizmos: February 5th & March 5th 8:00 - 10:00 pm

201.451.5199
www.acecasemusic.com
www.myspace.com/acecasemusic

sarah james sings

@ Made with Love artisan bakery & cafe, (530 jersey ave)
jazz standards accompanied by Nick Spidaletto guitar and Phil Butler on bass.
Sarah James is our diva of Jazz Galore West of the Hudson.
Don't miss the experience.
8 - 10 pm, byob

JC for Haiti@ Lex Leonard gallery

Come out and party for a good cause!

InnerTemple Music joins hands with Grassroots Community Space and Lex Leonard Gallery to raise money for the Haiti Earthquake Relief. 100% Proceeds go to YELE Haiti.

Come share a night of DJ's, MC's, Dancers, Live Music Raffle Prizes and more!

Admission: $5 with rsvp $10 w/out

Raffle Prizes Donated By:
Grassroots Community Space, Broadway Production FELA!, IndraNYC Salon, Upscale Fitness, Wine.com, Hello Again Vintage Store and more...

Special Performances by:

-Emeline Lavender (Middle Eastern fusion dance)

-Shakti http://www.shaktionline.com

-Sirena http://sirenamari.com

-The Boogielady

-CUDA Culture - The Community for Urban Dance & Art

and more...

DJ sets by:
Lex Leonard
Serenade
DJ Purple Stuff
and more...

Projection visuals donated by Anna Almquist

RSVP: innertemplestudio@gmail.com before Fri. Jan 22, 5pm

artnculture201

Local Artists showcased on youtube.com - Films and Interviews by Dontique and the Legomaster. Interested in getting the word out about your Art?

Visit us online and SUPPORT LOCAL ART.


www.youtube.com/artnculture201

figure drawing @ JC art school thursdays

every thursday the Jersey City art school on 326 5th street is having
a figure drawing session with live model.
$10, byob, paper and crayons, markers or pencils or whatever you draw with
7.30 - 10.30 pm
their site is www.jcartschool.com

African Echoes, David MacDonald

The Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery (JCU, Jersey City University)

African Echoes
Recent Ceramic Works by David MacDonald

February 4 – March 5, 2010

Opening reception: February 4, 4:30p.m. - 7:00p.m.

Participating the NJCU African Heritage Month celebration.

David MacDonald, potter and Syracuse University ceramics professor, creates a wide variety of work including vessels for daily use and one-of-a-kind pieces for exhibition. He draws much of his inspiration from the myriad examples of surface decoration that are manifested in the many ethnic groups of sub-Saharan Africa (such as pottery decoration, textiles, body decoration, and architectural decoration). MacDonald's work spans the complete spectrum of ceramic forms of a utilitarian nature. For the NJCU exhibition, MacDonald presents a couple of dozens of stoneware platters, vases, casseroles, and jars that have been recently created.

For more on the artist, please visit: www.davidmacdonaldpottery.com.

Stumble, Steven Schofield

Stephen Schofield with "Stumble"
jan 26 - feb 23
The Visual Arts Gallery@ JCU, 100 Culver ave (hours 11 - 5 weekdays)

opening reception jan 26, 5 - 8 pm


www.njcu.dept/art/galleries

art talk 7 pm
NJCU's restored Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present a site-specific installation of inflated fabric sculptures by Montreal-based artist Stephen Schofield. Measuring about one and a half life size, his figures were mapped from the male model and then expertly tailored out of old clothes. These figures were partly inspired by Pliny the Elder's tale of Dibutade, a Corinthian woman who traced her lover's shadow on the wall to remember and fix his form even after he had gone abroad. Schofield also pays homage to Dibutade as the legendary muse who invented drawing by his intimate act of tracing a human figure and turning it into a three-dimensional form. Soaked in sugar water, which stiffens the fabric, Schofield's patchwork men come alive each time when soaked again, inflated and then dried. The fabric membranes allow the artist to "explore the porosity, vulnerability and resistance of a person as a theatre of one" and symbolize "the transience, contingency and suppleness of intense personnel feelings."

a paper landscape ( - feb 20, 2010)

Jin Lee: A Paper Landscape
Project Gallery
September 17, 2009 – February 20, 2010

Carefully cutting her installations from individual sheets of paper, Jersey City-based artist Jin Lee has created this dramatic work specifically for the Museum’s project gallery. The artist is principally inspired by the cycles of life seen in nature, in which a seed becomes a network of roots, which then becomes a growth of other organic forms. Her work is also indebted to the history of cut paper and to Asian landscape drawings and paintings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, though Ms. Lee has translated them into twenty-first century environments.

Her interest in cycles of nature and of the relationship of one organic object to another is constant.

museum hours wed - fri 11-5pm,
sat 12 -5 pm

Game Nite

Relaxed and fun benefit for the LGBT center in Hudson county New Jersey, and the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

New and Old School Video Games: Smash Brothers Brawl, Pac-Man Vs, Street Fighter II, Mario Kart, and more...

Twister, Apples to Apples, board games.

Cash Poker: No Limit Texas Hold 'em. 5 cent/10 cent blinds that never increase. Buy in or buy out whenever you like. There is no rake - when you buy out we round down to the nearest dollar, and keep the change as a donation.

Drinks and merriment.

We have three rooms upstairs. Downstairs that evening, Hudson Pride Connections presents: The Next Top Model talent search. Members of the Youth Services Program at the Center will participate in trying to be crowned Jersey City's next top model.

Five dollar suggested donation at the door, or bring canned goods.

www.hudsonpride.org

Van Vorst Park Association Monthly Meeting - Jan 19th

Van Vorst Park Association Monthly Meeting
19th January 2010 Tuesday PM 7:30 - 9:30

Van Vorst Park Association
Barrow Mansion
83 Wayne Street, Jersey City

always presenting interesting speakers, cultural presentations, community politics,
participate!
Email: mail@vvpa.org
VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.vvpa.org

We meet the 3rd Tuesday of each month.
Everyone is welcome!

The 6th Annual African Diaspora Film Series 2 DAYS – January 29 & 30

The 6th Annual African Diaspora Film Series
2 DAYS – FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

Dates/Times:
January 29 2010 1:30pm – 5pm
January 30, 2010 1pm – 5pm

Overview:

Jersey City Museum is pleased to present the 6th Annual African Diaspora Film Series on Friday, January 29, and Saturday, January 30, 2010. The African Diaspora Film Series features a selection of films from emerging and established filmmakers of color. Highlights from the series include five premiere film screenings, DVD release, a two-for-one double feature, Q&A's, and more.

more info:

http://www.jerseycitymuseum.org

Kelly St. Patrick

she sings every first sunday of the month @ Made w Love
coming up Feb 7th, march 7th
1 - 3 pm at the Made with Love brunch

Made with Love Bakery & Cafe
530 jersey Ave (betw Newark and C Columbus)

soup swap

The Great Jersey City SOUP SWAP 2010


Sunday, January 24, 2010
3:30 p.m. to meet and mingle
(BYOB - Feel free to bring wine. Snacks available for purchase from Made with Love)
4:00 p.m. SHARP - SOUP SWAP begins

WHERE: Made with Love Artisan Bakery & Café
530 Jersey Avenue (between Columbus & Newark), Jersey City, NJ 07302

Bring 4 Quarts of Your FROZEN Homemade Soup
(divided into single quart containers)
*PLUS*
one or more non-perishable items to donate to the St. Matthew's Food Pantry (canned soup, one-can meals, cereals, peanut butter, tuna, canned tomatoes or sauces, canned fruits or vegetables, and non-perishable milk are all appreciated)

What exactly is a SOUP SWAP?
You bring FOUR single-quart containers of your homemade frozen soup. (Plus your donation to the food pantry.) We will then draw numbers and take turns picking out different soup. You will leave with FOUR 1 quart containers of a wonderful mix of homemade soups. Bring whatever soup you cook best. This can include chili, stews, chowders, and gumbos. Can't be here? You can always assign a proxy to do your soup swapping for you!

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS! We can never have too many soups to choose from!

The St. Matthew's food pantry serves persons in our community living with HIV/AIDS and other serious illnesses through the Hyacinth Foundation.