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!

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

Oil Landscape Demonstration February 19th

Oil Landscape Demonstration

by Frank Ferrante

Friday, February 19

10:00 -12:00 noon

Mr. Ferrante will be using a palette often referred to as a 'prismatic palette' set up according to the way our eyes perceive color values at different distances when painting a landscape.

Fee

$5 members; $15 guests

To Register

Call SAA: (908) 234-2345

seating is limited; reservations required

Spring Lecture Series at SAA

2010 Spring Lecture Series
Generously Sponsored by

Merrill G. & Emita E. Hastings Foundation

American Realism

Winslow Homer, Fairfield Porter, Andrew Wyeth & Philip Pearlstein

Monday, March 8

7:00-9:00 pm

Speaker: Mel Leipzig

Mel Leipzig will discuss the tradition of American realism as expressed in the works of Winslow Homer (1836-1910), Fairfield Porter (1907-1975), Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) and Philip Pearlstein (b. 1924).

Mel Leipzig is a Professor of Art at Mercer County College which he has taught fine art and lectured on art history for over 35 years. He is also a nationally recognized artist whose works are in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; The White House Collection, Washington D.C.; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ; and Cooper-Hewitt Museum for Decorative Arts, NYC among others. In 2006, Mr. Leipzig was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Design, NYC.

Treasures from The National Gallery in London
Thursday, April 15, 2010
7:00-8:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Barbara Tomlinson

Unlike the Louvre or the Hermitage, the National Gallery in London does
not consist primarily of the remains of a formerly Royal collection.
This museum was deliberately assembled to be a course in Western
painting for a democratic society. Starting at one end and walking
through to the other, the visitor not only enjoys a succession of
masterpieces rom every period in Western art, but can easily trace the
development of painting from the Renaissance to the Impressionists.
This talk offers a virtual tour of this stunning collection.

Dr. Barbara Tomlinson received a B.A. from Barnard College, her Masters from Harvard University and her Doctorate from Rutgers University. Having retired from Kean University in 2000, Dr. Tomlinson now devotes her time to offering adult education courses on art and culture.

The Isenheim Altarpiece
Thursday, May 13
7:00-8:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Gretchen Atwater

The magnificent Isenheim Altarpiece, painted between 1510 and 1515 by Matthais Grünewald for the Abbey of Saint Anthony in Isenheim, is one of the masterpieces of German Renaissance art. This exceptionally complex and emotionally moving work will be considered in its cultural and historical context.

Dr. Gretchen D. Atwater, is an art historian who specializes in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Kansas where she wrote her dissertation on the influence of trade by the Dutch East India Company on Netherlandish art.

Cost per lecture
Free to SAA members
$15 per lecture, non-members.

To Register

Call SAA (908) 234-2345; Seating is limited

*All lectures to be held at the Clarence Dillon Public Library, Bedminster*

Join SAA for a Great Night of Music and Art!

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

You're Invited!

You are cordially invited to the unveiling of

"Michael Graves"

a five panel painting by

MEL LEIPZIG

Wednesday, February 17

6:00-7:00 pm

The Johnson Gallery at the

Somerset Art Association

2020 Burnt Mills Rd.

Bedminster, NJ

Gallery reception followed by an intimate dinner

at the Pluckemin Inn

with

Mel Leipzig & Michael Graves

Proceeds to benefit the

Somerset Art Association

and

Somerset Medical Center Foundation

For information, contact

Somerset Art Association

(908) 234-2345