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This ongoing Museum of American Glass exhibition honors 50 years of glassmakers at WheatonArts! Discover collaborations that artfully combine vision, artifacts that serve as muse, and the tools that connect skills across time.

See themes of creativity reflected through people, place, and process. Combined, they showcase the exploration of creativity specific to WheatonArts. Through these tangible pieces, experience the intangible qualities that make WheatonArts a creative sanctuary – the people who allow creativity to flourish, the place steeped in the glassmaking tradition, and the process of balancing skill with vision.

Open April through December 2022. For current hours, tickets, and visitor guidelines, visit https://www.wheatonarts.org/tickets/

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In the WheatonArts Down Jersey Folklife Center, this exhibition provides a visual comparison between traditional textiles of two indigenous communities of Latin America—the Chilean Mapuche people and the Guatemalan Maya. Both Mapuche and Maya artists create artworks about identity and cultural heritage in a modern interconnected world, weaving ancestral knowledge and wisdom into present-day ways of life. The story of the spider who taught the first woman how to weave in the mythological past is present in both cultures. Many designs and motifs are interpreted in similar ways. However, the creative process reflects differences in techniques and materials employed in the two different geographic regions. Revealed in the exhibition are the complex characters of Mapuche and Mayan garments with weaving patterns interpreted in the context of a broad spectrum of regional, social, ritual, and aesthetic meanings and viewed from the perspective of our shared humanity.

The exhibition also features Chilean horsehair (crin) miniatures of religious and secular objects—flowers, animals, or human figures—that aim to engage viewers in a conversation about the dynamics of living traditions over time, their social, artistic, and ritual messages conveyed by the artworks and by the nature of the creative process. For current hours, tickets, and visitor guidelines, visit https://www.wheatonarts.org/tickets/

Developed in partnership with the Embassy of Chile to the United States, the Foundation of the Folk and Traditional Artists in Chile, the “Friends of the Ixchel Museum” (FOIM), and local collectors and artists.

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The mission of the Museum of American Glass at WheatonArts is to preserve and continue the tradition of glassblowing in South Jersey. The Museum gathers historical artifacts and contemporary artworks tied into the South Jersey glass tradition and the WheatonArts Glass Studio in its acquisitions. The Collecting & Connecting exhibit displays a variety of techniques, concepts, and materials, including glass gramophone horns, biological materials encased in glass, and artisan glass directly from South Jersey designers. These recent acquisitions help expand the Museum’s current collection and our understanding of glass history and provide insight as to where the future of glass is heading.

Open April through December 2022. For current hours, tickets, and visitor guidelines, visit https://www.wheatonarts.org/tickets/.

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Fresh from last June’s trio appearance with Joe Holt, TSJS veterans Joe and Paul Midiri rejoin the pianist, in addition to guitarist Pat Mercuri, bassist Jack Hegyi, and drummer Jim Lawlor for an afternoon of mostly swing. The Midiri Brothers draw largely on the music of Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and the Dorsey Brothers, while Holt is inspired by such Swing Era keyboard legends as Teddy Wilson, Thomas “Fats” Waller, Art Tatum, and Jess Stacy. Today's concert is made possible, in part, by funds from the Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission at Camden County College, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

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Gospel Duo in Pennsville Park The “Heirs of Glory” Gospel duo will join John Keith Davis for a free concert in the Riverview Beach Park on Broadway in Pennsville NJ on Saturday August 27, 2022 from 6-7:30pm. The duo, songwriters Kim Viola-Speer and Bobby Hunsberger, is noted throughout South Jersey for their unique songs and beautiful sounds. This is a free event and open to all. A love offering will be received for the Cornerstone Women’s Resource Center of Salem County. For more info about “Heirs of Glory” visit joachimaspeer.com. For event info visit pantinghart.org or call (856) 935-6376.

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CAMDEN, NJ – On Saturday October 1st, 2022 from 12pm - 5pm; The IDEA Center for the Arts along with their partners, the Rutgers-Camden Digital Studies Center (DiSC) and the Cooper Grant Neighborhood Association proudly presents the Second Annual Johnson Park Music and Arts Festival. The event will be held at Johnson Park on Camden-Rutgers Campus and will feature live musical performances, art exhibits, artistic vendors, food, family fun and more. The theme for the festival is: "For the healing of the nation, city and tribes - A day of reflection into our past, as we create a solid foundation of hope for the future!" The festival is the culmination of a project funded by the Independent Public Media Foundation that developed projects documenting, sharing, and preserving people’s experiences and stories, fostering community connections through creative media making, and strengthening community-owned and community-led media. Click the link to learn more information about the event and to see images from last year: https://ideacfta.org/about-the-festival. Please feel free to contact us for more information. 856.210.9394 idea-arts@comcast.net

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