The work of Trenton-based photographer Jon Naar encompasses photojournalism, portraiture, architecture and design, street art and fine art. Naar was born in 1920 in London, educated at the Sorbonne, the University of Vienna, London University and Columbia University where he earned an MA in political science and international relations and a Certificate from the Russia Institute. During World War II, he served as a Major in British Intelligence and Special Operations.

More info: New Jersey State Museum

For over fifty years Pat Witt has captured the light, wind, sense of place and time in her profound wetlands paintings. Pure in art, pure in spirit Witt embraced, encouraged and inspired four generations in the creation of art. This exhibition is a celebration of Pat Witt and what it is that makes us human

Opening Reception: February 8

Artist Talk with Pat Witt: April 16 1:00 pm
Film: "The Art Spirit – The Story of Pat Witt and the
Barn Studio of Art,"
April 25 6:30 pm

More info: Noyes Museum of Art

In the century following Pyle’s 1911 death, American illustration has diversified into a creative empire that includes a wide range of exciting art forms. From animated feature movies and computer images to graphic novels and conceptual art, America’s storytelling artists use the latest technologies and the newest media to tell an ever-richer blend of stories to ever-broader audiences. For this exciting contemporary exhibition, Guest Curator David Apatoff, an illustration author and blogger, has gathered over 60 artworks from eight important illustrators: story illustrator Bernie Fuchs; graphic designer Milton Glaser; MAD caricaturist and comic artist Mort Drucker; The New Yorker cover artist and character designer for animated films, Peter de Sève; editorial artist John Cuneo; painter and book artist Phil Hale; painter and magazine illustrator Sterling Hundley; and Pixar production designer Ralph Eggleston.

More info: Delaware Museum of Art

With a rare group of paintings, decorative arts, and sculptures from the collection of Roberta and Richard Huber, Journeys to New Worlds explores the artistic exchanges between Spain and Portugal and their colonies in the Americas and Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This unique combination of rich visual traditions offers viewers a glimpse into the fascinating history and global influence of Iberian colonial art.

More info: Philadelphia Art Museum

This exhibition features over 40 works by Alexi Natchev and represents the range of his career, highlighting his body of work as a children’s book illustrator. Natchev’s techniques are wide-ranging, conjuring up an imaginary world of playful creatures, unlikely animals, and fairy-tale places.

More info: Delaware Art Museum

The portrait collection of the New York Chamber of Commerce, assembled over a two-hundred-year period, captured with aesthetic and symbolic power the giants of American business to become an example of institutional portraiture in the nation's history. Picturing Power: Capitalism, Democracy, and American Portraiture brings together approximately fifty of the collection’s three hundred portraits in a dense, Salon-style installation evoking their original majestic setting in the Great Hall of the Chamber’s elaborate Beaux-Arts headquarters.

More info: Princeton University Art Museum

This exhibit will feature the unique sculptural work of two of the Philadelphia Dumpster Divers. Moloney is an assemblage artist working with mixed media and found objects. Ulrich creates abstract, semi-abstract and representative mixed media as well as metalworks.

More info: Riverfront Renaissance for the Arts

The Golfers (1847), an iconic work by Scottish painter Charles Lees (1800–1880), is the centerpiece of The Art of Golf, an exhibition celebrating what has been called “a game of considerable passion” on the occasion of the U.S. Open Championships, which will be played in June at the Merion Golf Club, in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. This installation explores the creation of Lees’s complex and ambitious masterpiece, bringing together related works, including sketches, a photograph, and an engraving, alongside golf equipment and clothing that illuminate the sport.

More info: Philadelphia Museum of Art

With this exhibit, glass artist Paul J. Stankard unveils his most recent work in addition to early work from the 1970's and 1980's. Paul's newest work will include exciting new Orb, Column and Dyptych designs focusing on botanicals and honeybees native to southern New Jersey. Paul has been honored with the James Renwick Alliance 2013 Masters of Medium Award for Glass. His glass mastery can be found in his creation of lifelike honeybees, delicate blossoms and ripe fruit that appear to be floating in the clear glass.

More info: Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center

Works by Jacob Landau from the Monmouth University permanent collection will be on display. Jacob Landau (1917-2001), printmaker, painter, humanist and teacher was an artist whose works explored the basic themes of human existence and morality with an insight that was both passionate and indignant. Throughout his lifetime, Landau’s art increasingly addressed the self-inflicted human turmoil of the 20th Century. He grew up during the Great Depression and was profoundly affected by the Holocaust.

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 11 4 - 6 p.m.

More info: Monmouth University

The ArtC Gallery at Shore Medical Center’s new exhibit includes work by local artists Kim Weiland, Jan Bendyna, Steve Kuzma, Jacqueline Boyd, John Harris among the over 40 pieces of art. The exhibit is a collaboration with Accent Gallery of Ocean City, NJ and the William Ris Gallery of Stone Harbor. The gallery is located on the second floor of the new Shore Medical Center Pavilion in Somers Point and it is open to the public.

Opening reception: May 9th 4 -6 pm.

Smell the Flowers and See the Art, while experiencing the magic, music and moments of a day in Millville's Downtown. Colonial Flowers, our local florist, will put out a splendid interactive display alongside other flower experts, farmers markets, craftspeople, artists and merchants who will join vendors in transforming the entire Downtown into a Springtime Sidewalk Flower Fest!

More info: Millville Glasstown Arts District

Marie Natale, signature member of both the New Jersey Watercolor Society and Philadelphia Water Color Society, has painted a vast array of landmarks and landscapes in Cape May, Ocean City, Millville, Hammonton and throughout southern New Jersey. Leslie Martel, who has studied under Marie Natale, is a watercolor artist who first began her art career designing and painting sisal rugs for the interior design industry. Carol King Hood, a Cape May artist, works in watercolors, oil, pastel and charcoal drawing, mixed media or sculpted ceramics.

More info: SOMA NewArt Gallery

Arts in Bloom”, the free two-day art event will happen on May 18 and 19, and will span over 30+ locations throughout Salem County NJ. Visitors will enjoy open studios and gallery tours featuring local artists and activities including pottery demonstrations, leatherworking, stained glass, puppetry, and much more.
This year features more than 70 artists in a wide variety of media. This increasingly popular event offers visitors an opportunity to see the spaces where local art is created while exploring Salem County’s beautiful countryside.

More info: www.artsinbloomnj.com

Glass Weekend is an international symposium and exhibition of contemporary glass featuring artist demonstrations, lectures, panel discussions, hands-on glass making opportunities, social events, and gallery exhibitions. Beth Lipman, Davide Salvadore and Hiroshi Yamano will be the guest demonstrating artists, and Judith Schaechter will be the keynote speaker.

More info: Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center