The Ewing Arts Commission meets the first Tuesday of every month unless otherwise indicated. (no meeting in August). All meetings start at 7:00 pm at the Hollowbrook Community Center. We are currently meeting only in person.
March’s Featured Artist Janet Mclaughlin
Opening Reception March 6, 2025 5-7:00pm
The Ewing Arts Commission will feature former Ewing resident Janet McLaughlin with “Serendipity Part 2”as its Featured Artist for the month of March. This will be the second part of the “Serendipity” show featuring three Ewing friends.
Janet McLaughlin is one of the three women, all born 5 years apart, who lived, played, learned, grew up in Ewing, then eventually moved away. Now, sixty years later, by chance, the three live near each other and are drawn together by their love of art. The other two friends, Linda Robinson and Ellen Wylie Smith, were the Ewing Arts Commission’s (EAC’s) Featured Artists for the month of January with their show “Serendipity Part 1.” The three have reconnected, compared notes, and shared MANY Ewing memories and stories together. Their love for art binds them together as well as a shared past of growing up in the same wonderful Ewing Township. Fate or Serendipity? Either way, they have come together in the halls of the Ewing Township Municipal Building through EAC’s Featured Artist Program.
Janet Skwara McLaughlin grew up in the Prospect Heights area of Ewing, then purchased a home on the same street as her childhood home to be near her family. Eventually moving to the Mountainview section of the township with her husband, Brian, they remained in Ewing until several years ago when they moved to Burlington County. While in Ewing Jan served on the Ewing Township Redevelopment Agency as well as the Zoning Board.
Janet’s “Serendipity Part 2” show is featured for the month of March and will also be on display through the end of April. Join us for the Opening Reception for “Serendipity Part 2” and meet the artist – Thursday, March 6 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM. All three artists still have work on display as part of EAC’s “Love…Is All We Need” group show, which remains on display through March 27. Most works by Serendipity artists will be available for purchase with 10% of all proceeds going to EASEL, Ewing’s animal shelter.
The Ewing Municipal Building is located at 2 Jake Garzio Drive, Ewing, NJ 08628. Art may be viewed when the Municipal Building is open: Monday – Friday 8:30 – 4:00 (closed from 12-1 for lunch). The Ewing Arts Commission and Art Has No Boundaries partnered in 2018 to establish a monthly art installation on the second floor of the Ewing Municipal Building. Please check the Ewing Arts Commission’s website and social media pages for more information on EAC’s Featured Artist Program and upcoming shows.
January’s featured artist Linda Robinson and Ellen Wylie Smith as well as March’s featured artist Janet Mclaughlin
Opening Reception January 19, 2025 1-3pm and March 6, 2025 5-7pm
February’s EAC EVENT
Let’s take a chance to share what love means to us, AGAIN! Good or bad, had or have, lost or found. Love is a great connector. It can be romantic, platonic and unconditional. We have the capacity to love so many things: our friends, our family, our pets, colors, flowers, cars, traveling, playing. It isn’t just one thing, it is everywhere.
The EAC is looking for love in all places. If you have a work of art, a song, a poem, a short story whatever it is, submit it! With so much division going on right now wouldn’t it be nice to share some positive vibes?
During the month of February we will display the work at the Ewing Municipal building. On February 13, 2025 we invite you to come and celebrate love at the opening reception.
Check our facebook, and instagram accounts for additional information and updates. Please complete the google form to submit your piece. This show is open to anyone who is willing and able to submit.
If it’s artwork make sure it has a wire on the back, if it is a written piece, email it and we will print out & hang it up. Or you can give it to us ready to hang. Come to the opening on February 13th & read it out loud, sing about it or tell a story about it. All forms of creative expression are welcome, from all local communities. Entries will be accepted until January 28th. Questions can be sent to ewingartscomm@gmail.com
October’s Featured Artist Kerry Mairie Depraida
Opening Reception October 3, 2024 6-7:30pm
My art entwines with my spirituality, and the stories that inspire me. I am a polytheist painting from a modern Pagan worldview. My work celebrates mythology, folklore, the cycles of the moon and sun, the natural world, and the deepest secrets of magic. My goal is to inspire wonder and curiosity; I am offering the viewer a door. Step through, Seeker, if you dare, and learn more about each of these stories for yourself, and what each of these spirits has to teach you.
I work traditionally, mixing different media in each piece. While I paint scenes and symbols from ancient stories, I blend Fine Art and Illustration. Some think there’s a dividing line between the two, I like to use that line as a jump rope. I find joy and meaning in rich color, bold contrasts, dynamic movement, and fine detail. I work on my paintings in many layers. Extra materials mixed with the paint often have spiritual and/or thematic significance. Melt water from the first snow of the year, copper wire for moving energy, salt distilled from ocean water. My material lists can be read as ingredients in a cauldron. Stir it with a brush and the spell is made.
So mote it be.
For commission inquiries, please contact me through my website, DrawingDownLore.com
Marissa Bosley April’s Featured Artist
Opening Reception April 17, 2024 6-7:30pm
Ewing artist, Marissa Bosley, has had a love for art as long as she can remember. She started off with just an interest in drawing, “I never really loved painting. I could never get it to look the way I wanted it to,” Marissa recalls. It wasn’t until she was enrolled in the art program at Mercer County Community College that she gained the control over paint as a medium. Her professor would encourage her to push her boundaries. His support helped her grow as an artist. Oil paint is now her preferred medium. Marissa would like to display her work in a museum in the future.
April’s Featured Artist Chandini Powar
On Display Now
Chandini was born in Mysore, India, a royal city famous for art and culture. The city is studded with palaces and temples, and resplendent with scenic splendor. Under its benevolent rule, Mysore became the cradle of fine art, music and dance in India. It was within this environment that Chandini began her journey of self expression. She began painting at a very young age and studied under some of the well known artists of India. Her confidence, style and imagination in painting became increasingly sought after and were highly acclaimed for their originality and depth. She graduated with degrees in Ancient History, Painting and Classical Dance from Mysore University. Chandini traveled extensively and exhibited in a number of countries before moving to New York to continue her artist evolution and refinements.
To date, Chandini’s works have garnished a number of awards, and she is recognized as making important contributions to the changing dynamic of the visual world. Her works are housed in important collections globally. She continues to produce diverse and significant pieces which have universal embrace. Her solo exhibitions of paintings routinely attract accolades for their often intense use of colors and images which never fail to stir emotions.
Ms. Powar says of her work, “My work portrays pure aesthetics, a sense of presence and completion without having an explanation. Thereby, it is meant to communicate deeper insights into all the enchantments and the mysteries that exist in the broken walls, crumbling plaster, empty house, fearfully lonely existence of many human lives. The arrangements are systematic, inviting the viewer to move into a space of speculation of the beauty, poetry and seduction. Art is a fundamental need, a need that defines human lives and their contributions in the time and space of the universe.”
You can more of her work at www.chandiniart.com
January’s Featured Artist Karl J Clark
Opening Reception January 4, 2024 6-8pm
Karl was a lifelong resident of Trenton, New Jersey, and graduated from Trenton Central High School (TCHS). It was here that a course in photography piqued his interest in this art form. You could see him nearly each day transiting school halls with his camera snapping classmates and teachers. Many of Karl’s school photographs were included in his class’s yearbook, The Boba Shela.
Upon graduation, Karl joined the United States Navy and served the better of 12 years in Japan. He retired after 20 years of service and returned to Mercer County, New Jersey, residing in Ewing Township.
Although photography wasn’t in the forefront of Karl’s interest while serving, the interest in photographic art was there waiting for a rebirth. That rebirth returned as an employee of Educational Testing Service (ETS). That interest in this art form took hold again and blossomed. Karl held his first impromptu exhibit in 2016 at the ETS Ewing office during the Advanced Placement (AP) administrations, which highlighted various AP Art subject tests that year.
The exhibit was well received by everyone. It rekindled his passion.
Karl truly enjoys photographing New Jersey’s beautiful state parks and old buildings. He photographed a vast number of models for various fashion events: Atlantic City Fashion, Philadelphia Couture Fashion, Capital City Fashion, & other events. Also, he was published in Everyday Melanin Magazine. He is the owner of KJCImages & Photography, (link: https://kjcimagesphotos.com/kjcimages-%26-photography) located in Lawrence, NJ.
Karl says often, “I want the person who views my images to envision being immersed in the scene, have the illusion of being in the scene themselves, and interpret or see differently what others may interpret. I believe black & white images express true honesty; that images of nature reflect God’s gift; and portraits tell stories of humanity with interactions between people and man-made structures. Photography captures a moment in time. Yet it could provide a lifetime of memories. Ask yourself, what do you see?”
To see more of his work, follow him on instagram @kjcimages_n_photography or via email: Info@kjcimagesphotos.com
Let’s take a chance to share what love means to us. Good or bad, had or have, lost or found. Love is a great connector. It can be romantic, platonic and unconditional. We have the capacity to love so many things: our friends, our family, our pets, colors, flowers, cars, traveling, playing. It isn’t just one thing, it is everywhere.
The EAC is looking for love in all places. If you have a work of art, a song, a poem, a short story whatever it is, submit it! With so much division going on right now wouldn’t it be nice to share some positive vibes?
During the month of February we will display the work at the Ewing Municipal building. On February 6, 2023 we invite you to come and celebrate love at the opening reception.
More details can be found on our website, on facebook, and instagram. Please complete the google form to submit your piece. This show is open to anyone who is willing and able to submit.
If it’s artwork make sure it has a wire on the back, if it is a written piece, email it and we will print out & hang it up. Or you can give it to us ready to hang. Come to the opening on February 6th & read it out loud, sing about it or tell a story about it. All forms of creative expression are welcome, from all local communities. Entries will be accepted until January 20th. Questions can be sent to ewingartscomm@gmail.com
About Ewing’s Featured Artist Program
The Ewing Arts Commission and the Art Has No Boundaries organization partnered to showcase Ewing Township artists at the Ewing Municipal Building in 2016. Establishing a monthly display of local art work, the art installation features two to three dimensional art on the second floor of the Municipal building. Participating artists are affiliated with the Ewing Arts Commission, a municipal body that seeks to promote the arts in our community, and the Art Has No Boundaries organization, a group that provides art programming at the Ewing Senior Community Center.
Local artists interested in having their art showcased at Ewing Municipal Building should contact the Ewing Arts Commission at ewingartscomm@gmail.com.
Virtual Artist Talks
In April of 2021 we hosted our first virtual featured artist event with print-maker and Ewing Native, Amanda Thackray. This past November we hosted our second virtual artist event with Ewing sculptor, Jim Hendricks. The third of the installment of the series with folk and silhouette artist, Beverly Keese-Kelley was broadcast on February 24, 2022. In May of 2022, the EAC hosted The Arc Mercer visual artists & the Central Jersey Performing Arts Academy at the Municipal building. All these talks can be seen on our YouTube channel. Please subscribe to our channel & watch live, or view the videos at your convince at a later time.
Student Art Exhibit
We are hopeful for the return of the K-12 Student Art Exhibition in 2023.
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The Ewing Arts Commission is an appointed municipal body constituted as a non-profit organization. The focus is to support, develop and expand the Arts. The goal is to foster freedom in expression of artistic growth and enjoyment within the community of Ewing Township through commitment and dedication.