Why Montclair is Montclair
A historical lecture presented by the Friends of the Bellevue Avenue Library at the Montclair Art Museum in October 2014, focusing on the history of Montclair, and the Nolan Plan. Frank Gerard Godlewski moderates the historical discussion with panelists, Gail Stavitsky, Mark Porter, Ulysses Grant Dietz, and Diane Lewis.
The New Spirit: American Art In The Armory Show, 1913 At Montclair Art Museum
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NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS CULTURAL MAP @ MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM
NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS CULTURAL MAP @ MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM
Music @ Montclair Museum | Montclair, NJ
SNM pops up and puts on a show in Montclair, NJ @ The Montclair Museum.
Fresno Art Museum (bonus footage)
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REASONS TO INVEST IN MONTCLAIR OR UPPER MONTCLAIR NJ PROPERTY FOR SALE
Are you looking for an eclectic art scene mixed with world cuisine and a funky downtown? Then Montclair NJ is the town for you! Located in Essex County New Jersey USA, Montclair NJ is a New York City preferred commuter's community. Your Montclair Home will be only Twenty minutes from Newark Airport making Montclair New Jersey and Upper Montclair NJ Realty perfect for New York workers who travel a lot for their jobs or pleasure. Access to quality reliable fast moving public Transportation; buses, trains, jitneys as well as convenient exits on and off all the major NJ highways feeding into NYC sets Montclair NJ above the rest of the suburbs as far as being in the top choices of locations for NYC commuters.
Did I mention the Montclair school system is one of the best in all of New Jersey, the crime rate is low and the community is civic minded, educated, artsy and politically and socially responsible. What better place to raise your children. Enjoy tree lined streets and scenic parks, diverse neighborhoods, boutique in-town walkable shopping areas. Montclair NJ is an oasis from the concrete jungle of NYC. But, when you feel the Big Apple calling you, Manhattan is less than a fast 60 minutes train ride away!
Here are just a few of the extra perks that come with Buying a Home in Montclair New Jersey. The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair State University, Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center, The historic Wellmont Theatre, The Presby Memorial Iris Gardens, 18 public parks and two nature preserves, great youth and junior sports league, the Montclair Farmers Market, many art galleries and tons of kid friendly shopping and restaurants.
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You may recognize the town and streets of Upper Montclair NJ from some of the many very famous movie scenes in which the town was featured. Upper Montclair had a huge role in the popular filming of the HBO television special series 'the Sopranos'.
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The Art Loft Montclair Village & Piedmont
Tom opened The Art Loft 38 years ago in 1973. He and his staff provide the finest in custom picture framing design, encouraging the use of conservation materials and techniques. Design and Quality You're Going To Love!! Ask your neighbors.
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Montclair Public Library, Upper Montclair Branch, NJ
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Exploring New Jersey: Eagle Rock Reservation and Montclair | Cinematic DJI OSMO Action
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The Eagle Rock Reservation is a 400+ acre park along the Watchung Mountains ridge line located between West Orange, Montclair and Verona. The 40 mile Lenape Trail (yellow blazes) skirts the eastern edge of the park. The hiking trails and footpaths that crisscross the woodland (and sometimes boggy) areas of the park are friendly for hikers of all ages and abilities. The main entrance to the park, located on Eagle Rock Avenue, is home to a large green, as well as the Essex County 9/11 Memorial and overlook to the east with extraordinary views of the New York City Skyline.
If you’re looking for an eclectic arts scene mixed with world cuisine and a funky downtown, Montclair is the place for you. This urban suburb is home to a unique group of writers, artists and musicians, whose presence is felt in the vibrant downtown and on the campus of Montclair State University, home of the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center, and in the theaters and arts venues around town. What’s more, the New Jersey Jackals professional minor league baseball team plays at Yogi Berra Stadium. Art lovers will enjoy a walk through the Montclair Art Museum, offering a host of permanent and unique changing exhibits, concerts and films. The walk able downtown centers on Church Street are lined with locally owned shops. Stop into Amanti Vino for delectable wines, tasting parties and private events or Ruby (27 Church St.) for chic women’s clothes and accessories. On nearby Bloomfield Avenue, Mesob Ethiopian Restaurant is a favorite for both vegans and meat lovers boasting authentic Ethiopian food. While enjoying the town, you can’t miss the grand Victorian mansions. Several, including the Israel Crane and Nathaniel Crane Houses are available for tours as part of the Montclair History Center.
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Sandi Haber Gallery Talk, October 5, 2013
The Sheldon Art Galleries presented Sandi Haber Fifield: Between Planting and Picking.
Sandi Haber Fifield provides an overview of her work from the past 30
years and discusses influences that led to Between Planting and
Picking.
Connecticut-based photographer Sandi Haber Fifield photographed
family-owned farms across the United States from 2009 to 2010.
Her lyrical images use the agricultural landscape to create a complex
vocabulary of visual associations that speak equally about the humanity of these places and about artistic self-discovery.
Haber writes: “I’m drawn to the authenticity of small farm life that congregates along the margins in myriad cast-off moments: sunlight on muslin seed bags, wooden crates, plastic mesh, buckets, pots, hoses, a lunar planting calendar, quirky signage. As I made more
and more pictures, the candid beauty and improvised quality I discovered in the unkempt edges of these small farm environments became a focus. I hope it is within the banal details, unsuspecting and unnoticed, that a narrative unfolds, showing the beauty in the randomness and the re-purposing. To me, there is a metaphor in
the unending cycle of growth and harvest for my own image making.”
Sandi Haber Fifield received her MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. She has widely exhibited her photographs in
galleries throughout the United States and been included in exhibitions at museums such as The Art Institute of Chicago, The
DeCordova Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of
Contemporary Photography, The Oakland Museum, The
Southeast Museum of Photography and The St. Louis Museum. Her work is held in several private and public collections, including The Brooklyn Museum, The George Eastman House, The High Museum, The Library of Congress, The Los Angeles County Museum, The Museum of Modern Art and The New Britain Museum.
In 2009 Charta published Haber Fifield’s first monograph of grids and multiple image installations, Walking through the World. Between Planting and Picking (also Charta), was released in March 2011.
Additionally, Haber Fifield’s work has appeared in Fabrications: Staged, Altered, and Appropriated Photographs (Anne Hoy, Abbeville, 1988), Picturing California (Therese Heyman, Oakland Museum/Chronicle Books, 1989), Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century (Olivia Lahs-Gonzales,the Saint Louis Art Museum), The Photography of Invention (Joshua P. Smith,
Merry Foresta (MIT Press) and her recently released monograph, After the Threshold (Kehrer Verlag, 2013, Vicki Goldberg, essayist).
Sandi Haber Fifield’s work is represented in New York by Rick Wester Fine Art and in Boston by Gallery Kayafas.
The not-for-profit Sheldon Art Galleries exhibits works by local, national and international artists in all media.Over 6,000 square feet of the galleries’ spaces on the 2ndfloor are permanently devoted to rotating exhibits of photography, architecture, jazz art and history, and children's art. A sculpture garden, seen from both the atrium lobby and the connecting glass bridge, features periodic rotations and installations, and the Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Gallery on the lower level features art of all media. The Sheldon actively supports the work of St. Louis artists in all mediums and features a dedicated gallery with museum-quality exhibits by St. Louis artists, past and present.
The exhibition was made possible in part by Barbara and Arthur McDonnell.
2014 Montclair Jazz Festival
Montclair Jazz Festival, August 16, 2014 at Nishuane Park in Montclair NJ. Sponsored by City National Bank, North Coast Brewing Company, Arctic Glacier, United Airlines, Pinnacle, Art Works, The National Endowment for the Arts, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Park Ave Auto Group, PNC Wealth Management, Barnabas Health, The Pig & the Prince.
Alyssa Monks 艾莉莎·漫斯 (1977) Photorealism American
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Alyssa Monks (born 1977) is an American painter currently based out of Brooklyn. She specialized in large oil paintings and is recognized both in the United States and Europe for her pieces including figures obscured by water, steam, and vinyl. Her most notable series of works is centered around figures in bathrooms, tubs, and showers.
A native of New Jersey, Monks was born in 1977 as the youngest of eight children (six older brothers and one sister). Her mother, being a potter and artist herself, was supportive and found ways to help Monks cultivate her love for the arts. By eight years old, Monks was taking general art and painting classes. She is based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Monks went on to attend The New School in New York and Montclair State University before earning her B.A at Boston College in 1999. After receiving her degree, Monks went on to study painting at Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence, Italy and then returned to the United States to earn her M.F.A from the New York Academy of Art, in their Graduate School of Figurative Art in 2001. In 2006, Monks completed an artist in residency at Fullerton College in California.
Monks’ earliest works are meticulous figure studies where her use of merging back and foreground layers is only beginning to emerge. Instead, these pieces are much more open but are still make use of framing the composition within itself by use of extraordinary angles, lighting, or the construction of the room. These figures are more complete than their portrait counterparts, as Monks felt that she needed to be “…as realistic as possible; It had to be specific and believable” as “this was the place where (she) was isolated and in total control.”
Monks then preferred to alter the audience’s sense of space and immersion in her artworks. While her representation of the figure is often almost perfectly photographic in its depiction, she blurs and fuses layers of space to create immersive abstraction that feels uniquely intimate and provocative; she often includes the use of glass, clear vinyl, water, steam, and shallow spaces to distinguish a nearly invisible line between the foreground and backgrounds of her pieces. Monks’ most famous pieces come from her decade long water series, where the aforementioned elements are the most prevalent and recognizable.
However, this specificity and photorealistic detail would not last. On October 8th, 2011, Monks’ mother was diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread throughout the rest of her body, succumbing to it a year and three weeks after her diagnosis on October 26th, 2012. When she returned to painting, Smear was one of her first pieces. “It’s like a release of everything that was unravelling in me,” she stated. “That safe, very, very carefully rendered safe place that I created in all of my other paintings was a myth; it didn’t work.” This tragic loss caused Monks to re-evaluate her process entirely, moving from the enclosed space of the bathroom to outside in the woods and integrating a chaotic, abstraction of nature into her work instead of the pristine and controlled layering of space. She even left paintings outside, exposed to the woods over night, just to see what kind of affect it would have -anything to inspire her to paint again and rekindle her love for art.
Monks has had numerous exhibitions, including her latest one Resolution from March to April 2016 at the Forum Gallery in New York City. Other notable shows and collections that include her work are the Kunst Museum in Ahlen, Germany, the National Academy Museum of Fine Arts’ show Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820–2009, as well as the private collections of Eric Fischl, Howard Tullman, Gerrity Lansing, Danielle Steele, Alec Baldwin, and Luciano Benetton.
Alyssa Monks（1977年出生）是一位美國畫家，目前在布魯克林市。她專門從事大型油畫，在美國和歐洲被認可，包括水，蒸汽和乙烯基遮蓋的數字。她最著名的系列作品集中在浴室，浴缸和淋浴間的數字。
新澤西州的一名土著人，僧侶於1977年出生，是八個孩子中最小的孩子（六個哥哥和一個姐姐）。她的母親作為一個陶匠和藝術家本人，是支持和找到方法來幫助修士培養她對藝術的熱愛。八歲時，漫斯正在進行一般藝術和繪畫班。她總部設在布魯克林的威廉斯堡。
漫斯在1999年在波士頓學院獲得學士學位之前，繼續參加紐約和蒙特克萊爾州立大學的新學校。獲得學位後，漫斯繼續在意大利佛羅倫薩的Lorenzo de Medici學習繪畫，然後返回美國從紐約美術學院獲得她的美術學院，2001年在他們的形象藝術研究生院。2006年，漫斯在加利福尼亞州的富勒頓學院完成了一位藝術家駐地。
漫斯最早的作品是細緻的數字研究，她的合併和前景層的使用才剛剛開始出現。相反，這些作品更加開放，但仍然通過使用非凡的角度，照明或房間的構造來利用自己的構圖。這些數字比他們的肖像對手更完整，因為漫斯覺得她需要“盡可能現實”;它必須是具體和可信的“，因為”這是（她）孤立和完全控制的地方“。
然後，漫斯更傾向於改變觀眾的空間感，沉浸在她的作品中。雖然她的身分錶現通常在描繪中幾乎完全是攝影，但她模糊和融合了空間層次，創造出身臨其境的抽象感，獨特的親密和挑釁;她經常包括使用玻璃，透明的乙烯基，水，蒸汽和淺的空間來區分她的片段的前景和背景之間幾乎看不見的線條。漫斯最著名的作品來自她十年的長水系列，其中上述元素是最流行和最可識別的。
然而，這種特殊性和照片寫實的細節不會持續下去。 2011年10月8日，漫斯的母親被診斷患有肺癌，遍布全身其餘部位，於二零一二年十月二十六日診斷一年零三個星期後死亡。當她回到畫畫時，她的第一件。她說：“這就像釋放一切在我裡面解散的東西。” “我在所有其他繪畫中創造的安全，非常，非常仔細的安全的地方是一個神話;它沒有奏效。“這個悲劇性的損失使得Monks完全重新評估她的過程，從浴室的封閉空間轉移到樹林外面，將自然的混亂抽象整合到她的工作中，而不是原始和受控的分層的空間。她甚至在外面畫畫，過夜的樹林，只是為了看看它會有什麼樣的影響 - 任何東西都可以激發她再次畫畫，並重新喚起她對藝術的熱愛。
漫斯舉辦了許多展覽，其中包括她在紐約市論壇畫廊的3月至4月的最新決議。包括她的作品在內的其他著名的展覽和收藏都是德國阿倫的藝術博物館，1820-2009年美國國家美術學院藝術美術展覽重新設計美國藝術博物館，以及Eric Fischl，Howard Tullman ，Gerrity Lansing，Danielle Steele，Alec Baldwin和Luciano Benetton。
Saint Louis Art Museum | Self-Taught Genius
Self-Taught Genius explores American folk art through the concept of a self-taught genius, an enduring term that has changed dramatically over time. Framed within a context of seven principles from which people are compelled to create—achievers, encoders, messengers, improvement, reformers, ingenuity, and guides—this exhibition highlights more than 100 remarkable works by self-taught artists.
The exhibition considers the shifting implications of self-taught and outsider art in the United States, from an established movement of self-education to artists working outside traditional frameworks who defy our understanding of what is normal. Yet these artists have managed to establish lively artistic traditions and influence younger generations to create. Self-Taught Genius features a variety of objects including textiles and needlework, ceramics, sculptural and carved figures, drawings, paintings, decorated furniture, and more, dating from the 18th century to the present.
Organized by the American Folk Art Museum, Self-Taught Genius was brought to the Saint Louis Art Museum by Melissa Wolfe, curator of American art.
Karen Mullally: SHINE -- Live at the Montclair Cultural Arts Club, Oakland, CA -- 09/17/09
[click on more info for the complete scoop on Karen Mullally!] Shine is the title cut from Karen Mullally's second incredible CD (actually titled Watch You Shine), and it's become an audience favorite in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's about time the rest of the country found out about this gifted guitar virtuoso who writes amazing lyrics to go with those riffs. Originally from L.A., she's been taking the Bay by storm and amazing audiences everywhere she plays. Please visit Karen on her website at and do feel free to comment on and rate this video if you enjoy her work! There will be other songs by Karen coming to YouTube very soon!
2014 Montclair Jazz Festival
Montclair Jazz Festival, August 16, 2014 at Nishuane Park in Montclair NJ. Sponsored by City National Bank, North Coast Brewing Company, Arctic Glacier, United Airlines, Pinnacle, Art Works, The National Endowment for the Arts, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Park Ave Auto Group, PNC Wealth Management, Barnabas Health, The Pig & the Prince.
Montclair History Center - Montclair 150 Years Ago
Montclair Village Restaurant Walk 2011
The first Taste of Montclair was held in April 2009 and it was a sellout! We have repeated it yearly, making it an eagerly-anticipated event. Those who have purchased coupon books for this event have been treated to great food and beverages, an evening of strolling the Village streets, visiting with neighbors and shopping.
Our next Walk is Tuesday, April 26, 2011, from 6 PM - 8: 30 PM, rain or shine.
The MVA and Lions Club are working together to make this event happen. Participating restaurants and food/beverage outlets are providing tastings of their best offerings to all who purchase a $25 Passport
for the event. The Lions Club and local charities are selling the Passports with all proceeds going to local charities. Any unsold (or returned) Passports will be available from the Lions Club the night of the event.
The Village Parking Garage at the top of La Salle Ave. will be open and free from 6PM - 9 PM for the Walk, so parking should not be a problem.
Passports will be available from any Lions Club member or at these Village merchants beginning in March 2011:
Montclair Book Tree 6121 La Salle Ave.
Safeway Stores, Inc. (ask for Bill, Store Mgr.) 2096 Mountain Blvd.
US Bank 1998 Mountain Blvd.
Viewpoint Optometric Practice 2069 Mountain Blvd.
Wheels of Justice 2042 Mountain Blvd.
Special thanks to
Roger Vickery
Dr. Richard Jue
Adriana Cerrillo
Araceli Cerrillo
Nayelly Medina
Music Provided by Skyline High School Jazz Band
“All Arts” Launch
Are you ready for “ALL ARTS” all the time? If so, you’re in luck. A new channel from WNET and WLIW devoted to the arts has launched, and the results are a delicious treat for viewers. Correspondent Maddie Orton reports.
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Paradise City Press: Summer of Love Art Exhibit
Aprile Gallant, curator at Smith College Museum of Art, discusses the museum's new exhibit, Summer of Love, a collection of art and music posters from California's prominent poster artists of the 60s.