the ART HoUSE, open mic, 1st thursdays

Art House Productions presents
THE ART HOUSE
Poets * Musicians * Performance Artists
Coming together in Jersey City

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2011
8-11PM * $5 admission

Featuring poet
CRIS NYNE

*5 minute open mike for poets, actors, comics and musicians
*Taped for television

Fresh baked goods by JUDY’S GOODIES

DJ mEgan spins all night!

Art House Productions
Hamilton Square
1 McWilliams Place, 6th Floor
Jersey City, NJ 07302
(SE Corner of Hamilton Park near Erie St./8th St.)

About CRIS NYNE
poet, urban nomad, alternative historian & psychedelic trailblazer. (cris nyne) wants beautiful, brutal honesty and the death of monsanto in his lifetime...

Art House Productions presents ART IS A FEELING LANGUAGE

A Group Show Featuring Students from St. Joseph’s School for the Blind

OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15th,  5PM-8PM

Come to Art House to celebrate the vibrant works of art created by St. Joseph’s students in Bojana Coklyat’s art class!

Art House Productions
Hamilton Square
1 McWilliams Place, 6th Floor
Jersey City, NJ 07302
(SE Corner of Hamilton Park near Erie St./8th St.)

ABOUT THE SCHOOL
Concordia Learning Center at St. Joseph's School for the Blind is committed to the educational, psychological, social, and physical development of persons with special needs in an environment of caring, acceptance, and respect for each individual's rights and dignity.

Concordia Learning Center at St. Joseph's School for the Blind, the only school for the blind in New Jersey, provides comprehensive services to students with visual impairments and/or multiple disabilities from birth to 21 years of age. The Center is a New Jersey Department of Education Approved Private School for the Disabled. For more information, please visit www.sjsnj.org.

JC Craft Mafia, handmade arts event

Art House Productions
presents

JERSEY CITY CRAFT MAFIA
Handmade Arts Event with Live Demos
...and an Artisan Spotlight

Artwork by
KAYT HESTER

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2ND AND SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3RD
12PM – 6PM FREE!

PART OF THE
2010 JERSEY CITY ARTISTS STUDIO TOUR

Sponsored by Bust Magazine, Burda Style, and The Stockinette Knitting Cafe

Art House Productions
Hamilton Square
1 McWilliams Place, 6th Floor
Jersey City, NJ 07302
(SE Corner of Hamilton Park near Erie St./8th St.)

ABOUT THE EVENT
Art House Productions, a leader in collaborative events within the arts community and organizer of JC Fridays, will be hosting the Jersey City Craft Mafia stop on the Jersey City Artists Studio Tour with a two-day handmade arts event with tutorials, demos, and other initiatives geared towards bringing crafts out of the home and forefront into the public's hands.

The event will feature 20 artists with the best in local handcrafted wares, in mediums that include jewelry, accessories, clothing, and soap. Shop the wares of Metal, Cloth and Wood, Damaged Wear, Lady Lucas, Bennyville, Cecile Raley Designs, Kiva Ford, Pink Velvet Bird, Lollibomb Beauty, and more!

Learn how to make pop-up cards, transfer images onto canvas, make your own earrings, and discover high fashion tie-die techniques with interactive tutorials led by participating artists Katherine Ramos, Joanne Simmons, Damarys Cuevas, and Anjelika Krishna.

The event will also include the Artisan Spotlight, with framed photos of local crafters at work in their studio space alongside their handmade story. Framed photos and story will be shared on the walls of Art House Production for the duration of the Jersey City Artists Studio Tour.

The work of Kayt Hester will be showcased for the duration of the show with her latest surreal creations made entirely of hand-ripped masking tape.

aisha shandrise martinez, poetry at art house

april 1st, art house: Musician, Poet and Memoirist
AISHIA SHANDRISE MARTINEZ

8 - 10 pm, $5 admission

Baked goods by JUDY’S GOODIES!
DJ mEgan spins all night!

5 minute open mic for
poets, actors, comics and musicians

THE ART HOUSE is held on the 1st Thursday of every month

About AISHIA SHANDRISE MARTINEZ
Aishia Shandrise Martinez is a musician, poet and memoirist born in Jersey City, New Jersey to parents of Puerto Rican descent. Brought up in a large close knit family Aishia was surrounded by a strong sense of identity, culture, and music. The mix of American and Latino influences has had a definite affect on both the aim of Aishia’s writing and the style and tone of her singing.

She gained her first poetic acclaim at age 14, receiving an honorable mention award in the National High School Poetry contest. Since then she has been published in two literary magazines (Chimera and The Idiom) and her work is also slated to appear in the book Paths a book of collected writings that will be published in the spring of 2011 by New Jersey City University, where Aishia is currently a sophomore. She has performed at her poetry at The Bowery Poetry Club, was a featured musical performer on the main stage at Jersey City’s Pride Festival 2009, and has read her memoirs in venues throughout Hoboken and Jersey City.

art house open mic, poetry every 1st thursday

Art House Productions
presents
THE ART HOUSE
Poets * Musicians * Performance Artists
Coming together in Jersey City

Featuring Poetry by Jersey City’s Own
BETH ACHENBACH

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010 * 8:00PM-10:30PM

$5 admission

Baked goods by JUDY’S GOODIES!

DJ mEgan spins all night!

5 minute open mic for
poets, actors, comics and musicians

Art House Productions
Hamilton Square
1 McWilliams Place, 6th Floor, Jersey City, NJ
(SE Corner of Hamilton Park near Erie St./8th St.)

THE ART HOUSE is held on the 1st Thursday of every month