The Somerset Art Association in Bedminster invites you to join us for an evening of iconic pop art time-travel back to the silvery surrounds of The Factory, Andy Warhol and his Superstars, the Velvet Underground and the infamous red couch.
Come as cool as you are on Saturday, Oct. 9, at 7 p.m. to support the art center and its educational visual arts programming on our 40th anniversary and our transition toward a bright future as the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA). Tickets are $75 each and available at www.thecenterforcontemporaryart.org/ls_index.php.
Enjoy your 15 minutes of fame with live jams from Strange Brew, fine foods and the hippest live deejay playing the tunes from the groovy Sixties clique of Andy Warhol and The Factory. Graffiti, raffles and magic will all unfurl over this unforgettable evening in support of a great cause.
The CCA is driven by the desire to broaden, deepen and diversify participation among audiences. Our goal is to challenge and inspire students, teachers, artists, enthusiasts and members of the community.
For more information, please contact Special Events Coordinator Ellen Rannels at (908) 234-2345 or erannells@somersetart.org.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
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Transitioning from Traditional
to Abstract
June 18, 15, 22, 29
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Using a photograph as a basis, students will learn how to transition a realistic image into an abstract one. Students may use either oil, watercolor, pastel or acrylic. The choice is yours. Instructor Wanda Blake will show how to simplify and create exciting compositions.
$72 members; $90 non-members
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One-Day Oil Landscape Workshop
June 17
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
This workshop will focus on composition, color values, structure and form. Heavy emphasis will be placed on the effect that light has on all painting and how to create a 'painter's eye.' A still life will be set-up by the instructor or you are welcome to bring your own subject matter to paint. A brief demonstration by Instructor Frank Ferrante will precede the workshop.
$75 members; $95 guests
To Register
Call SAA (908) 234-2345
We Sure Could Use Your Help!
The Somerset Art Association has received a matching pledge of $5,000 from a private donor.
Every dollar you donate will be matched 1:1 up to $5,000!
Please help SAA realize this goal by making a tax deductible donation today.
Donate on-line
Click the 'hot link donate box' on the lower left of the home page
Somerset Art Association
2020 Burnt Mills Road
Bedminster, NJ 07921
All funds raised will benefit the
Somerset Art Association's non-profit visual arts programming.
Art Time Machine
Take A Magic Carpet Ride!
Summer Art Camp for Kids
Register now for Discovery Week 3
ART TIME MACHINE
July 19-23 
This camp is for kids who like to draw and paint.
While developing their skills in the use of acrylics, pastels, charcoal, watercolors, colored pencils and other art media, students will have fun learning about famous artists and artwork of the past and present including 19th century France, 16th century Italy, ancient Greece and Egypt. Students will then create their own imaginative interpretations while learning basic art principles such as color mixing, perspective, shading, composition etc.
members $365 non-members $390
Summer Art Camp for Kids
Register now for Discovery Week 3
ART TIME MACHINE
July 19-23
9:30 am -2:00 pm
Ages 6-8 and 9-12
While developing their skills in the use of acrylics, pastels, charcoal, watercolors, colored pencils and other art media, students will have fun learning about famous artists and artwork of the past and present including 19th century France, 16th century Italy, ancient Greece and Egypt. Students will then create their own imaginative interpretations while learning basic art principles such as color mixing, perspective, shading, composition etc.
members $365 non-members $390
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Somerset Art Association
is partnering with
The Wellness Community of Central NJ
to promote
"Wings of Hope"
on
Saturday, June 12
10:30 am - 12:00 noon
at
The Wellness Center
3 Crossroads Drive
Bedminster, NJ 07921
(across the street from SAA)
Please help us in this effort by volunteering to help. Volunteer responsibilities include:
Meeting once prior to Saturday, June 12 with SAA's Executive Director who will demonstrate the art project. Prep work may be necessary (ie. cutting out forms, gathering art supplies etc.)
Demonstrating and assisting children as necessary with the art project.
Two to three volunteers are needed. Great opportunity for teens (age 14+) needing community service hours.
If interested, please e-mail Robyn Tromeur, SAA's Executive Director, at rtromeur@somersetart.org
Cleaning up at the end of the event
If possible, volunteers should also be available on the rain date of Sunday, June 13 from 3:00-4:30 pm.
Two to three volunteers are needed. Great opportunity for teens (age 14+) needing community service hours.Friday, May 7, 2010
The Art of the Horse @ SAA
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Learn the Elegant Art of Cake Design
In Search of the Perfect Gift for Mother's Day?
Treat the mom in your life to
"The Art of Cake Design"
Celebrated area pastry chefs showcase their incredible talents and compete for honors.
Celebrated area pastry chefs showcase their incredible talents and compete for honors.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
11-3:00 pm
Fiddler's Elbow Country Club, Bedminster
11-3:00 pm
Fiddler's Elbow Country Club, Bedminster
Competition judged by
Sylvia Weinstock
known as the 'Queen of Cakes' for her revolutionary and impeccable designs & named New York's reigning cake diva by In Style magazine. Her creations have been featured on WeTV's "Platinum Weddings"
&
Colette Peters
Owner of Colette Cakes, NYC, Ms. Peters has delivered her award winning cakes throughout the world. Celebrity clients include Sting, Bette Midler, Whoopi Goldberg, Al Pacino and the Rolling Stones among others. She has been featured on Food Network and TLC's cake challenges.
Guests will enjoy
cocktail reception & luncheon
basket boutique & silent auction
door prizes
the opportunity to view the cakes, listen to judges'comments and sample the cakes
$80 per person
proceeds to benefit the Somerset Art Association
Seating is Limited!
Reservations
Call Ellen Rannells at SAA (908) 234-2345
Cake: Anne Khoobiar Heap, owner, Pink Cake Box, Denville, NJ
Winner 2008 "Showstopper"
Correction on Ferrante Workshop
Our apologies, the below image is by SAA instructor Gary Godbee and not Frank Ferrante. Mr. Ferrante's work is shown at the bottom of this e-mail 
Register Now
"One Day Workshop with Frank Ferrante"
Wednesday, May 12
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
This workshop will focus on the formal elements of painting such as composition, color values, structure and form. Heavy emphasis will be placed on the effect that light has on all fine paintings and how to create a 'painter's eye." A still life will be set up by the instructor or you are welcome to bring your own subject matter to paint. A brief painting demonstration will precede the workshop. All levels.
Fee
$75 members; $95 guests
To Register
Call SAA (908) 234-2345
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Summer Art Camp Student Volunteers Needed!
High School students ages 15 to 18 needed to assist instructors in Somerset Art Association's's Summer Art Camp Program.
High School students ages 15 to 18 needed to assist instructors in Somerset Art Association's's Summer Art Camp Program.
July through August.
Each week features a different camp. Volunteers may assist one week only or several weeks, from 9:30 to 2:00 Monday through Friday. Volunteers will help by assisting teachers in setting up each day's project, distributing art materials, assisting students to assemble their projects if needed, supervising students during lunch break, and cleaning up at end of each day. It's a fun way to do Community Service.
For more information or for an interview, email nrahn@somersetart.org
or call Norma Rahn, Education Director
Monday through Thursday
(908) 234-2345
Each week features a different camp. Volunteers may assist one week only or several weeks, from 9:30 to 2:00 Monday through Friday. Volunteers will help by assisting teachers in setting up each day's project, distributing art materials, assisting students to assemble their projects if needed, supervising students during lunch break, and cleaning up at end of each day. It's a fun way to do Community Service.
For more information or for an interview, email nrahn@somersetart.org
or call Norma Rahn, Education Director
Monday through Thursday
(908) 234-2345
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Somerset Art Association
in partnership with
Art Educators of New Jersey
celebrates
YOUTH ART MONTH
Part II: 6-12
March 18-28
Public reception Sunday, March 28
2:00-3:30 pm
Endorsed by the National Art Education Association, Youth Art Month, is a national observance each March to emphasize the value of art education for all children and to encourage support for quality school art programs.
The following schools are participating in
Youth Art Month 2010, Part I & II
Cedar Hill
Gill St. Bernards
Mount Prospect
Oak Street
Liberty Corner
Adamsville
Woods Road
Bound Brook H.S.
Montgomery Lower Middle
Montgomery Upper Middle
Robert Morris School
Somerville High School
Purnell
William Annin Middle
Branchburg Central Middle
Bridgewater-Raritan
Is Your Child's School Not Represented?
Encourage your school's art teacher to become a member of the Art Educators of New Jersey, a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of art education in New Jersey. All Somerset County art teachers who are members of AENJ are invited to participate.
For more information
Call SAA (908) 234-2345
Spring Studio Classes
Evening & Saturday
Spring Studio Classes
Starting in March
Perfect for Teens & Adults
*see special offer at the bottom of this e-mail*
Drawing Figures & Faces
class #207
Mondays 3/22, 29, 4/5, 12, 19
6:30 - 9:00 pm
Students will study the human machine and learn how to reduce this seemingly complex form into manageable simple shapes. Learn basic drawing principles and how to apply them to drawing human figures and faces. Proportions, anatomy, facial features, foreshortening and much more will be discussed and demonstrated. Regardless of your level of proficiency, everyone will enjoy this course and walk away a better artist because of it. Beginners will learn how to approach the figure through gestures and basic shapes. More experienced students will learn how to take their figures and push them further with more dynamic poses and greater understanding of anatomy, structure and rendering.
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class #217
Pastel Painting
3/23, 30, 4/6, 13, 20, 27
6:30-9:00 pm
The focus of this class will be to train students in the basic skills of this vibrant medium with particular attention to the use of color, light, shadows and composition. Students may work from either photographs or a still life set up by the instructor. Demonstrations will be given.
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Class #218
Oil Painting
Tuesdays 3/23, 30, 4/6, 13, 20, 27
6:30-9:00 pm
Learn the techniques of painting in oils in a fun, hands-on environment with particular attention to the use of color, light , shadows, composition, brush handling and materials. This course is designed for the beginner or intermediate student who would like to brush up on the basics. Students may work from either a photograph or still life set up by the instructor. Demonstrations will be given.
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Class #230
Realistic Painting in Acrylics
Wednesdays 3/24, 31, 4/7, 14, 21, 28
6:30-9:00 pm
Working with acrylic paints, beginning students will learn how to set up the palette, mix colors, understand realistic and imaginative uses of color, and get the results of an oil painting without the drying time. Emphasis will be on composition, proper use of materials and value/color relationships. Students may work from either a photograph or still life set up by the instructor.
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Class #241
Exploring Photography
Thursdays 3/25, 4/1, 8, 15, 22, 29
6:30 - 9:00 pm
This course will explore the technical aspects of photography,allowing students to feel confident using the manual mode in their cameras. Students will learn how to make a photograph tell a story and how to approach a photograph as an artist, making choices about everything such as color, lighting, backgrounds, angles, reflections and more.
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Class #252
Exploring Watercolor
Saturdays 3/27, 4/3, 10, 17, 24, 5/1
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Beginning and advanced students alike will come away with a new understanding of how to achieve variety of approaches to the medium of watercolor. Students will be encouraged to explore various techniques from painterly washes to linear dry brush. More experienced watercolor painters will enjoy the freedom to work in their own style at their own pace. Beginners will be taught the basics by working from a still life set up. Layering color, blending large areas, the use of white space to create reflection and highlights will all be covered. Individual critiques will take place during each session.
Per Class Fee
$161 members; $136 guests
To Register
Call SAA (908) 234-2345
*Need to miss one class?
Upon registration, let us know which one class you'll be missing and we'll pro-rate you the difference.
Must mention this e-mail to receive discount.
Offer valid through March 26, 2010 only.
For a complete listing of spring studio classes and summer art camps, visit
Thursday, March 11, 2010
MoMA Director of Photography @ Clarence Dillon Library
The Somerset Art Association
&
The Friends of The Clarence Dillon Public Library
invite you to join us for an evening with
Peter Galassi
Chief Curator of Photography
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
"Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century"
Sunday, April 18
5:00 pm cocktails & book signing
6:00 pm presentation
Fiddler's Elbow Country Club, Bedminster
$75 per guest
RSVP
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is one of the most original, accomplished, influential and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography, and his uncanny ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with "the decisive moment" -the title of his first major book. After World War II (most of which he spent as a prisoner of war) and his first museum show (at MoMA in 1947), he joined Robert Capa and others in founding the Magnum photo agency, which enabled photojournalists to reach a broad audience through magazines such as Life while retaining control over their work. In the decade following the war, Cartier-Bresson produced major bodies of photographic reportage on India and Indonesia at the time of independence, China during the revolution, the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, the United States during the postwar boom, and Europe as its old cultures confronted modern realities. For more than twenty-five years, he was the keenest observer of the global theater of human affairs -and one of the great portraitists of the twentieth century. MoMA's retrospective, the first in the United States in three deaces, surveys Cartier-Bresson's entire career, with a presentation of about three hundred photographs. The exhibit will be on view through June 28, 2010.
Bus Trip to MoMA
A bus trip has been organized to see the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit at MoMA on Thursday, April 22, 2010. The motor coach will leave the Clarence Dillon Public Library at 9:00 am and depart from MoMA at 3:00 pm. Tickets are $45 per person on a first come first served basis and include round trip transportation and entrance to the museum. Lunch on your own. To register, call Robyn Tromeur at SAA (908) 234-2345
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Come Celebrate Youth Art Month @ SAA
Please note: Gill St. Bernards school is also participating in this year's Youth Art Month celebration. Our apologies for inadvertently leaving GSB off of the list of participating schools.
Gill St. Bernards
Is Your Child's School Not Represented?
Call SAA (908) 234-2345
Become a Volunteer at SAA!
The Art of Cake Decorating - Coming Soon!
Save the Date!
"The Art of Cake Design"
Celebrated area pastry chefs showcase their incredible talents and compete for honors. Tuesday, May 11, 2010
11-3:00 pm
Fiddler's Elbow Country Club, Bedminster
Competition judged by
Sylvia Weinstock
known as the 'Queen of Cakes' for her revolutionary and impeccable designs & named New York's reigning cake diva by In Style magazine. Her creations have been featured on WeTV's "Platinum Weddings"
&
Colette Peters
Owner of Colette Cakes, NYC, Ms. Peters has delivered her award winning cakes throughout the world. Celebrity clients include Sting, Bette Midler, Whoopi Goldberg, Al Pacino and the Rolling Stones among others. She has been featured on Food Network and TLC's cake challenges.
Guests will enjoy
cocktail reception & luncheon
basket boutique & silent auction
door prizes
the opportunity to view the cakes, listen to judges' comments and sample their cakes
$80 per person
proceeds to benefit the Somerset Art Association
Reservations
Call Ellen Rannells at SAA (908) 234-2345
Cake: Anne Khoobiar Heap, owner, Pink Cake Box, Denville, NJ
Winner 2008 "Showstopper"
Thursday, February 25, 2010
POSTPONED!!!!
Tomorrow's pARTicipate event is postponed due to the snow storm. I will post an update in the upcoming week to let you know when the event is rescheduled.
Until then, stay warm and dry!
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
DON'T FORGET!!!!
Join us at the Somerset Art Association for a night of LIVE MUSIC, ART, FOOD, and FUN!
When: Friday, February 26, 2010
7:30-10:30pm
Where: Somerset Art Association
2020 Burnt Mills Rd
Bedminster, NJ, 07921
What: Live music with The Doctor's Fox
and opening with local group My Pet Yak
Enjoy a night filled with collaborative art, mural painting, videos, featured caricature artist Charlie Churchill, oil painter Anne Kullaf, and more!
B.Y.O.B. for those 21+ with id
Light fare and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided
Cost: $20 suggested donation
Proceeds go toward children's programs and scholarships for
SAA's Summer Art Camps for Kids
Bring your friends, your family, your neighbors to this special event!
Any questions please call 908.234.2345
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