Events

5th Annual Benefit Art Auction and Party
June 15, 2013, 7-10 PM (VIP Preview 5:30-7)

Regular Advance Tickets $25 / Regular Tickets at Door $30
Advance VIP Tickets $100 / VIP Tickets at Door $150
On Sale Now Here: www.aferro.org
and  by mail to PO Box 5668 Newark NJ 07105

 

Gallery Aferro is thrilled to announce the 5th Annual Benefit Art Auction and Party on June 15th. This festive event features hundreds of artworks and experiences by emerging and established artists, live jazz by the William Spaulding Quartet, seasonal foodstuffs, strong signature cocktails as well as icy beer from Hunterdon Brewery, and many, many wonderful door prizes including but not limited to fine dining experiences, theatre tickets, and gifts from McCarter Theatre, Stencil1, Shy Brothers Farm and others.

All proceeds from tickets and purchases make possible Gallery Aferro's year-round exhibitions, award-winning artist residencies, publications and expanding education program. Gallery Aferro is a nonprofit alternative arts space founded by artists Evonne M. Davis and Emma Wilcox in 2003, offering engaging exhibitions that connect new audiences in a welcoming environment that builds community and reflects a positive image of Newark.  The gallery has received two back-to-back Citations of Excellence from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and has been described by Inside New Jersey magazine as offering "a dizzying array of contemporary art." The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation has praised our “expansive vision, impact in Newark as well as regionally and even internationally”, and our “exemplary mentoring opportunities for young artists.”

For one night only unique artworks by emerging and established artists will be available for sale at prices that will enlarge or establish your collection. Delight a friend, colleague or loved one with the gift of artwork. Bring someone who's never been to the gallery, or to Newark, or someone you come with every year. Bask in the knowledge that you've supported downtown vibrancy, the free exchange of ideas, and arts access for the next generation. Dance and have fun.

Gallery Aferro has exhibited over 500 local, national and international artists, granted workspace to more than 60 artists, created 21 publications including a sound art CD and feminist art history handouts, collaborated with dozens of other community-based organizations, galleries and museums, hosted and created talks, screenings and demonstrations for high schools, colleges, universities, professional and senior groups, created off-site exhibition opportunities for NJ artists and expanded our educational offerings, starting with our program connecting Newark’s young women with creative experiences and computer literacy

Sponsors: AMC, Cabot, Canvas on Demand, Canvas4Life, Clearview Cinemas, Field Station Dinosaurs, Fresh Direct,Hunterdon Brewery, Larry Litt, McCarter Theatre, Minted, NJ State Theatre, Old Sturbridge Village, Panera Bread, Portrait Innovations, Redbox, Remco Press, Shy Brothers Farm, Spanish Tavern, Stash Tea, Stencil1, Tom Binh, Two River Theatre.

Thanks for your support! We can't wait to see you on June 15th!

If you are interested in volunteering, donating art or sponsoring this event, please let us know at info@aferro.org! 

The Children's Games Project: Louisa Armbrust
A Visual Dictionary to Bruegel's Children's Games
 

Children's Games, painted by Pieter Bruegel in 1560, shows over 80 games being played in a town square. For the Children's Games Project I have created a set of drawings cataloging the individual games shown in the painting. These drawings serve as a guide for participants to pick their favorite game to re-enact. Participants may play the game, or simply re-create the pose as shown in the painting. In either case the results are captured on camera and shared via the project website: http://www.childrensgamesproject.com/

 The goal of the CGP is to create a contemporary archive of re-enactments and reinterpretations of the play in Bruegel's painting. The CGP examines, playfully, the humanism and wit of an early Renaissance masterwork that is still current today.


Carbon Corpus: Michelle Wilson

Carbon Corpus is an ongoing project examining environmental issues and alternative economies. This project aims to examine the choices inherent lessening a carbon footprint, and also to critique the difficulties therein in modern society. For Carbon Corpus, Michelle Wilson is offering for sale the animal-based carbon credits to her body to purchasers. For the initial public offering (IPO), a share, defined as one week of purchased time, are offered at $50/shareIn exchange for their purchase, Michelle will eat a vegan diet for the period of time purchased. Buyers will also receive certificates to the authenticity of her commitment and the amount of carbon offset, approximately sixty pounds of carbon dioxide per share. To get involved and for more information please visit carboncorpus.blogspot.com or email michelle@michellewilsonprojects.com


Homegrown Security
10 free window boxes for Newark residents from artist Moira Williams

Through May 31, 2013

For an ongoing work that will be in Gallery Aferro’s front windows at 73 Market Street. You can be a part of Homegrown Security! Homegrown Security is about celebrating heritage, cultural beliefs and knowledge through and about plants. Homegrown Security are window boxes as an invitation to share plant knowledge, folklore and recipes that have been handed down from generation to generation and meant to secure the lively vitality of plant knowledge and language. To secure, share and continue a culturally rich and diverse plant knowledge each person who wishes to participate will receive a custom made window box that will be fitted into their window. In exchange, I will ask people to share their knowledge about the plants they choose to grow.
Please contact: Moira Williams (631)-891-9144



Urban Foraging to Urban Table with artist Moira Williams
April 7, 1-4 PM

Do you like Nature?
Do you want to learn how to forage?
Do you want to learn how to cook what you forage?

Join Forager Dan Farelle and Artist Moira Williams for an urban foraging walk. Where we will discover wild edible and medicinal plants living with us in Newark! We will learn how to identify many plants revered in the herbal traditions for healing and how to forage for nutritious wild food from Branch Brook Park! Following our urban foraging we will go to Gallery Aferro where Moira will cook up a meal from our foraged foods.

Where: Branch Brook Park – Please meet us on the corner of Bloomfield and Lake St. across the street from Meineke. Additional parking is located in the Branch Brook Park. We will leave promptly at 1pm! Please contact Moira 631.891.9144 or moira670@gmail.com

Please bring a camera and notebook for recording the plants we find. We will make a foraging map together to leave in Gallery Aferro!

Dan Farella is a Forager, Herbalist, and Musician dedicated to working with Nature to further the healing of the planet and the soul. Dan teaches foraging, how to make medicinal products from wild herbs, fire making, and survival in the wild through Return to Nature. He also sells his own wild herbal products, teaches music, yoga, chanting, and meditation.




4th Annual Holiday Potluck & Closing Party

Gallery Aferro invites you to the 4th Annual Holiday Potluck & Closing Party on December 15, 2012 from 2-8 PM.

Open Studios from 2-4
Artist Talks from 4-6
Potluck & Party from 6-8

Bring something to share and sip on a very festive Nutella(!) hot chocolate cocktail and scarf down a bangin’ potluck spread. Those who have attended before can attest to the amazing array of yumminess that will ensue.

Join the artists for the closing reception of our current shows: Seth Ellis: Estimated Distance, Newark Scene and Heard: Narratives of an Artists’ Community curated by Bianca Monet, Steve Rossi: Sidewalk Alchemy, Lane Cooper: What Persists (Lillian).

Resident artist talks will commence at 4PM, featuring Dahlia Elsayed, Anne Q McKeown, Ibrahim Ahmed, Alexandra Desipris, James Horner, Bud McNichol, Jacob Mandel and Ken Weathersby.

A fun selection of hand made gift items will be for sale at our Art Shop Pop Up Craft Sale! Artisans include Vasquez, Blue Moon Creations and the extended Davis family including new, masculine crafts.

All proceeds, including your generous end–of-the-year donations will help benefit the community arts program of Gallery Aferro, a 501 (c)3 nonprofit!

We can't wait to see you and celebrate the end of another terrific year.



Winter 2012 Artist Talks

December 15, Open Studios 2-4, Artist Talks 4-6

Meet the artists and learn about their motivations, approach, and the trajectory of their current projects. Each artist will speak for 10 minutes only, leading to a compact taste of contemporary practice.


Participants:

Ibrahim Ahmed, Alexandra Desipris, Dahlia Elsayed, James Horner, Jacob Mandel, Anne Q McKeown, Bud McNichol and Ken Weathersby.




Fall 2012 Open Studios and Community Conversations
October 7, 11-5, with NBA artists in conversation from 12-2

As part of Newark Open Doors, current resident artists at Gallery Aferro will open their studios from 11-5. Meet the artists and learn about their projects.

Exhibiting residency program alumna Lane Cooper will be giving a talk about her work, currently on view in the Project Room.

As part of the Newark Black Artists Oral History Project, select artists from the project will be creating a community conversation in the New Media Room from 12-2.

Refreshments from Hunterdon Brewery and the artists will be supplied. Please join us and explore the vibrant community within the 4 floors of Gallery Aferro's exhibition and studios spaces.

Studios Open:

3rd Floor

Jacob Mandel
Ken Weathersby
Bud McNichol
James Horner
Polina Zaitseva
Alexandra Desipris

4th Floor

Dahlia Elsayed
Anne Q. Mckeown
Evonne M. Davis
Emma Wilcox





The 4th Annual Benefit Art Auction and Party
June 16, 2012 7-10 PM

 

Advance Tickets on sale now online/by mail**  

Regular Tickets are $20 now or $25 at the door

VIP* Tickets are $100 now or $150 at door


*VIP Tickets include advanced preview and auction bidding options, free hand delivery within the tri-state area of artwork purchases over $200, and private tour of Gallery Aferro studio resident's studios.


Gallery Aferro is delighted to announce that our 4th annual silent auction and unsilent party, with live jazz by William
Spaulding Quartet, will be held on June 16th. This festive event, quickly becoming a local tradition, features hundreds of artworks for bid, novel entertainments, yummy foodstuffs and strong signature cocktails as well as icy beer from Hunterdon Brewery.


All proceeds make possible Gallery Aferro's year-round exhibitions, award-winning artist residencies, publications and expanding education program. More than 80 local, national and international artists have donated artworks and experiences, including a custom 140-character letterpress "tweet," a USB drive of sound art from Finland, artist-led tours from Iron Maiden Artist Tours and other offerings impossible to classify but sure to thrill.

Gallery Aferro has exhibited over 500 local, national and international artists, granted workspace to more than 60 artists,
created 19 publications including a sound art CD and feminist art history handouts, collaborated with dozens of other community-based organizations, hosted and created talks, screenings and demonstrations for high schools, colleges, universities, professional and senior groups, created off-site exhibition opportunities for NJ artists and expand our education program connecting Newark’s young women with creative experiences and computer literacy. Work by Gallery Aferro students will be included in the Newark Museum’s major exhibition, “Angels and Tomboys: Girlhood in 19th Century American Art,” on view in September 2012.

 

Donating artists:


Alicia Ackerman
Josef Albers
Ben Altman
Ruby Amanze
Kenseth Armstead
Les Ayre
Raymond Bally
Anonda Bell
Katrina Bello
Gianluca Bianchino
Terry Boddie
Sam Bornstein
Justin Borucki
Nicole Helen Brunner
Maria Buyondo
Karlos Carcamo
Patricia Cazorla
Marcy Chevali
Lane Cooper
Christine DaCruz
Kevin Darmanie
Andrew Demirjian
Florine Demosthene
Dahlia Elsayed
Alyssa Fanning
Jerry Gant
Doron Gild
Tai Hwa Goh
Allan Gorman
Christopher Guerra
Malik Hardaway-Whitaker
Christine Heller
Daniel Patrick  Helmstetter
James Horner
Lisa Iglesias
Joe  Iurato
Darren Jones
Mona Kamal
Suzanne Kammin
Hiroshi Kumagai
Rob Lach
Valeri Larko
JC  Lenochan
Ann LePore
Laura Lou Levy

Nancy Mahl
Nadja Marcin
Karen Margolis
Anne McKeown
Maria Driscoll  McMahon
Bud  McNichol
Vikki Michalios
Geoffrey Owen Miller
Naomi Miller
Traci Molloy
Alex Morel
Kate  Okeson
Marshall Okin
Yoko Ono
Nell Painter
Meera Lee Patel
Sarah Nicole Phillips

Jon Rappleye
Ryan Roa
Angela Rossi
Steve Rossi
Seth Ruggles Hiler-Destino

Henry G. Sanchez
Liz Sales
Tania Sen
Lee Sherry
Abigail Simon
Laurinda Stockwell
Stan Sudol
Calla Thompson
Kai Vierstra
Christine Wagner
Joe Waks
Barbara Wallace
Emma Wilcox
Andrew Wilkinson
Bahar Yurukoglu
Polina Zaitseva

 

Sponsors:


Hell's Kitchen Lounge

Hunterdon Brewery

Jerry's Artist Outlet

Krug's Tavern

Robert's Pizzeria

Seton Hall University

Spanish Tavern

StepOn To Design LLC


 

*Please send checks to PO Box 5668 Newark NJ 07105
Gallery Aferro Studio Residency Artist Talks: Fall 2011
December 3, 1 PM

Featuring Katrina Bello, Marcy Chevali, Dahlia Elsayed, Nadja Frank and Jomar Statkun, Elizabeth Gilfilen, Vikki Michalios,
Nell Painter and Ken Weathersby.

Artists will be talking about past or current projects, processes, material, memory, scale, history, (missed) collis
ions, self representation and creation. Hot cider and Baklava will be served. Studios will be open after the talks for questions and mingling with the artists.


The 3rd Annual Holiday Party/ Sale / Potluck / Shindig
December 17, 5-9 PM

Gallery Aferro invites you to the 3rd Annual Holiday Party on December 17 from 5-9 PM. Join us for a killer potluck spread with hot drinks and shop for (heavily discounted) artist-made items for all your holiday gifts.

All proceeds, as well as your generous end-of-year donations benefit the community arts programs of Gallery Aferro, a
501 (c)3 nonprofit!

Art Shop's selection of unique artist-made items includes jewelry, gift items, art, prints and cards, pottery, artist books, pillows, decor and housewares, wallets and bags, tees, clothing and accessories for men, women, kids and babies, plus, of course, the famous record bowls!

10% off everything in shop with nothing held back
and 50% off on many items!

Join the artists for the closing reception for three shows on 2
floors: Relexification, Vital Signs: Eve + Bowie, Two Moons: Elizabeth Gilfilen.

What will you bring to share? See you soon.



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