I just wanna know: Katie House and Cindy Gosselin at ArtYard
Presented at ArtYard’s Courtyard Gallery are works by two artists who cover found objects in color. For Gosselin; an embrace, pulling together into integration, boundaries merging inside the cocoon to make a new color-texture-shape structured on things whole, separate, and now part. For House, bringing color to the photographs is a curious hand extended towards the people pictured, framing them in intense chromatic surface and submerging specific moments into buoyant light.
Katie House is an artist and jeweler living and working in Frenchtown, NJ.
Cindy Gosselin is an artist and musician working from the Center for Creative Works in Philadelphia, PA.
Opening reception February 17th 6-8pm at 13 Front St. Frenchtown NJ 08825
Vinetta Miller at Beauty Gallery
In their own finery, and now in the finery of their painted representation, these queens look levelly out at us, regarding us as we regard them. And because they are so lusciously painted we are so lusciously invited to take a good long look. In mark-making full of wander and expression Miller scoops these figures up from the dust of their epochs, fixes them up with the exciting material excess of her paint, and, now presentable, presents them to us here new with the vestigial shapes of their times and places ghostily about. Queens are tragic, are thoughtful, are quick, careful, fabulous, time-travelers (as is paint itself!), are lofty, physical, tender, curious, sparkling.
Vinetta Miller was born on November 11th, 1973 at Philadelphia’s JFK Memorial Hospital. She graduated from Penn Wood High School and Wynnewood High School before starting to make artwork at Oasis, an art studio in Philadelphia. Vinetta has worked at the Center for Creative Works in Wynnewood, PA since 2013.
Vinetta's artwork has been exhibited at the Outsider Art Fair (New York, NY), Woodmere Museum (Philadelphia, PA), ArtYard (Frenchtown, NJ), and Haverford College (Haverford, PA)
Films for Friends 13
This month is Films for Friends 13: The Artist in the World!
We’ll watch interviews with artists we love, as well as strange and delightful portrayals of art and artists on the silver screen.
Doors at 6, show at 6:30 in the Little Theater as always.
Films for Friends 12: Karaoke
This months Films for Friends is Songs for Friends!
Thursday December 14: Doors at 6pm and we’ll turn on the mic shortly afterwards. We can’t wait to receive all your heart wrenching ballads, jumpers, pumpers, slow bops and bratty hits!
Refreshments served and popcorn as always. We’ll be here till 8:30pm.
Holiday Market
Join us at the Studio for our Holiday Market! Fresh local produce, local craftspeople, prepared foods, hot drinks, and artworks from the studio.
Films for Friends 10
Show TBD: The next installment of our Films for Friends series, bringing together video, audio, and performance work from artists in the studio, as well as outside films and videos, and conversations curated to respond to current staff and studio artist interest. Films for Friends is every second Thursday of the month. Please see our social media a week in advance of the show to learn what's on this month.
Films for Friends 9
September’s Films for Friends will screen the documentary film Crip Camp, followed by a recorded interview with Director Jim Lebrecht conducted by Studio Route 29 artist Theo Baransky.
In the early 1970s, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination and institutionalization. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped” (a term no longer used) in the Catskills, exploded those confines. Jened was their freewheeling Utopia, a place with summertime sports, smoking and make-out sessions awaiting everyone, and campers experienced liberation and full inclusion as human beings. Their bonds endured as many migrated West to Berkeley, California — a hotbed of activism where friends from Camp Jened realized that disruption, civil disobedience, and political participation could change the future for millions.
Everybody Shows
August 27th - October 7th
Opening reception: Sunday, August 27th, 3-5pm
In giddy celebration of being open for almost a year, we bring you an exhibition of works by all the current Studio Route 29 artists. To many more magical years like this one!
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All the artworks here remind you that these are the best masterpieces ever made in Frenchtown. Studio Route 29 is more fabulous and everyone should make art as magnificent as it looks. Just like Kermit the Frog said back in the 70’s “We have a lot of friends here who have the same dream and that kinda makes us a family."
- Mick McDonough
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With work by:
BJ Armour, Rich Auth, Theo Baransky, Jeff Bill, Will Blaikie, EJ Collins, Bill Eppinger, Diego Horberg, Katie House, Kathy Kovacs, Sam Leatherdale, Michael Mangino, Mick McDonough, Matthew Miller, Steven Nedozsytko, Alex Ocampo, Tim Roehm, Daisy Rodriguez, Hailey Schumacher, Bernadette Simone, Karyn Tettemer, Timber, Christian Turner, and Daniel Urrego
Films for Friends 8
August’s Films for Friends will launch Studio Route 29 artist Sean Bodine’s comic C.A.T. with a lovely video version. Printed comics will be available! We will also show 3 episodes from Pee Wee’s Playhouse in celebration of the magical life and work of Paul Rubens. Bring your bow ties!!
Dance Party!
Join us under the tent at 50 Trenton Avenue to dance the night away. Tickets include entrance to a hot dance floor with DJs, delicious handmade pizza from the wood fired oven, and a cocktail.
Rich Auth and Matthew Miller in 'Ticonderoga' at Europa Gallery
Works by Rich Auth and Matthew Miller will be included in an upcoming exhibition of graphite works at Europa Gallery in New York City. Join us for the opening reception to hear Mick McDonough read a new poem, and to celebrate the artists.
Ira Karp & Bread and Puppet Theater present 'The Honey Lets Go Home Circus' Friday Evening Showing (click for tickets)
The Honey Let’s Go Home Circus stars and is directed by 15 year old Ira Karp, who grew up in the Bread and Puppet Theater. Ira, who has Down Syndrome, uses the language of Bread and Puppet to construct a brightly colored and whimsical puppet circus. Purple cabbages sing and dance. A lion conducts an orchestra. Cardboard businessmen complain that their heads ache: the solution? Bake a gingerbread man!
Ira Karp & Bread and Puppet Theater present 'The Honey Lets Go Home Circus' Thursday Evening Showing (click for tickets)
The Honey Let’s Go Home Circus stars and is directed by 15 year old Ira Karp, who grew up in the Bread and Puppet Theater. Ira, who has Down Syndrome, uses the language of Bread and Puppet to construct a brightly colored and whimsical puppet circus. Purple cabbages sing and dance. A lion conducts an orchestra. Cardboard businessmen complain that their heads ache: the solution? Bake a gingerbread man!
Second Five of Color Wonders
Our Second Five of Color Wonders opens Saturday June 10th at Early Bird Cafe in Frenchtown. Swing by for a cappuccino and to see five works from artists BJ Armour, Bernadette Simone, Theo Baransky, Bill Eppinger, and Tim Roehm.
Films for Friends 7
Films for Friends 7: See our social media a week in advance of the show to learn whats on this month.
Films for Friends 6
ATTN: FFF6 is on TUESDAY April 18th. Please See our social media a week in advance of the show to learn whats on this month.
Calendar Club Second Day
Mark your calendars! Our first Calendar club is this Wednesday the 14th and next Wednesday the 21st from 4-7pm at the studio. We’ll be thinking about time passing and the ways we mark time. We’ll look on towards what things we want to do in the new year. We’ll be fans since calendars are a classic place to fan out. We’ll get out the supplies- you get out the kooky ideas and we’ll make calendars together. Come all. This is a free event with a donation jar out if you’d like to help us out with supplies.
Calendar Club
Mark your calendars! Our first Calendar club is this Wednesday the 14th and next Wednesday the 21st from 4-7pm at the studio. We’ll be thinking about time passing and the ways we mark time. We’ll look on towards what things we want to do in the new year. We’ll be fans since calendars are a classic place to fan out. We’ll get out the supplies- you get out the kooky ideas and we’ll make calendars together. Come all. This is a free event with a donation jar out if you’d like to help us out with supplies.
Films For Friends #2
"BEYOND i wanna go" by Cheryl Dunn
With filmmaker Cheryl Dunn in person
Wear your fanciest funnest fashions and participate in a red carpet runway walk
Thursday, December 8th, 6:30pm
Films For Friends #1
Films for Friends #1, curated and introduced by Theo Baransky
Program:
Theo's Tour of Studio Route 29
Into the West
Films for friends is a film series every second Thursday at Studio Route 29
Doors 6:30, film 7:00
Popcorn available
Please bring your own sealable water bottle
Open to all
Donations welcomed
Studio Route 29 is a creative community space in Frenchtown NJ centering artists experiencing intellectual and developmental disability
Wheelchair accessible, other accommodations available by request
See you there!
Fall Open House
This will be a chance to take a tour of our studio and gallery, view collages from our collage party and FIERCE workshop, eat some popcorn, and meet new friends. From 4-5pm we will host an information session for potential studio artists and their support networks. This will be a chance to learn more about the program, ask questions, and to answer a survey about interests, schedule availability, and more. The vision for our program is evolving and we would love to include you in the conversation.
For those who came to our inaugural collage and pizza party last month, this is also your chance to pick up your piece.
See ya there!
Collage + Pizza Party #1
Our very first community event.
All materials provided but more magazines, calendars, wrapping paper, and other 2d scraps are very welcome!
Riverfest
Studio Route 29 will be tabling at Riverfest 2022. Come say hi! We’ll have info about our new program, a fun art project you can join in, and we’ll also be accepting donations of collage supplies for our upcoming collage party and of clothing and textile materials for our fashion studio.