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To the Editor: Tips for Spring Garden Care

Now that we are finally settling into spring, what are some best practices for tending our gardens and lawns? Hopefully your garden includes the wonderful native plants that support our native pollinators and birds! For those, you can cut back those long stems that have been providing a creature habitat and gently see how the young plants are beginning their new life cycle. You may not need any new mulch as perennials love to spread out. If you do mulch, only use the natural brown mulch as the black and red usually contains some very strong chemicals — example of one is arsenic. Remember to keep the mulch away from the stems and bark. Otherwise it creates a wonderful atmosphere for disease and pests to flourish and that shortens the life of your plants and trees.

Using native beautiful flowers, bushes, and trees is our best choice for creating a necessary opportunity for our pollinators to travel from one oasis to another — supplying them with a diversity of food within their limited traveling stamina. Planning a garden that has an arc of blooming throughout the spring,

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Summer Fiction Returns in 2023!

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U.S. 1 Newspaper extends its annual invitation to all writers and poets to present original short fiction, short plays, or poetry for our special issue to be published on Wednesday, July 26 This is an opportunity to have your work published in hard-copy form and to be recognized in public for your effort.

To participate in the U.S. 1 Summer Fiction issue, submit your previously unpublished short story, play, or poem. All work must be received no later than Friday, June 30, by email to fiction@princetoninfo.com. Authors retain all rights.

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MENTAL HEALTH

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The Daily Commute Revisited

Ajourney from work to home is about more than just getting there: commuting provides psychological benefits that remote work doesn’t, say Kristie McAlpine, assistant professor of management at Rutgers University, and Matthew Piszczek, assistant professor of management at Wayne State University, in the following article that originally appeared in the online journal The Conversation.

For most American workers who commute, the trip to and from the office takes nearly one full hour a day — 26 minutes each way on average, with 7.7 percent of workers spending two hours or more on the road.

Many people think of commuting as a chore and a waste of time. However, during the remote work surge resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, several journalists curiously noted that people were — could it be? — missing their commutes. One woman told The Washington Post that even though she was working from home, she regularly sat in her car in the driveway at the end of the workday in an attempt to carve out some personal time and mark the transition from work to nonwork roles.

As management scholars who study the interface between peoples’ work and personal lives, we sought to understand what it was that people missed when their commutes suddenly disappeared.

In our recently published con-

ceptual study, we argue that commutes are a source of “liminal space” — a time free of both home and work roles that provides an opportunity to recover from work and mentally switch gears to home.

During the shift to remote work, many people lost this built-in support for these important daily processes. Without the ability to mentally shift gears, people experience role blurring, which can lead to stress. Without mentally disengaging from work, people can experience burnout.

We believe the loss of this space helps explain why many people missed their commutes.

Commutes and Liminal Space

In our study, we wanted to learn whether the commute provides that time and space, and what the effects are when it becomes unavailable.

We reviewed research on commuting, role transitions and work recovery to develop a model of a typical American worker’s commute liminal space. We focused our research on two cognitive processes: psychological detachment from the work role — mentally disengaging from the demands of work — and psychological recovery from work — rebuilding stores of mental energy used up during work.

Based on our review, we developed a model which shows that the liminal space created in the commute created opportunities for detachment and recovery.

However, we also found that day-to-day variations may affect whether this liminal space is accessible for detachment and recovery. For instance, train commuters must devote attention to selecting their route, monitoring arrivals or departures and ensuring they get off at the right stop, whereas car com-

muters must devote consistent attention to driving.

We found that, on the one hand, more attention to the act of commuting means less attention that could otherwise be put toward relaxing recovery activities like listening to music and podcasts. On the other hand, longer commutes might give people more time to detach and recover.

In an unpublished follow-up study we conducted ourselves, we examined a week of commutes of 80 university employees to test our conceptual model. The employees completed morning and evening surveys asking about the characteristics of their commutes, whether they “shut off” from work and relaxed during the commute and whether they felt emotionally exhausted when they got home.

Most of the workers in this study reported using the commute’s liminal space to both mentally transition from work to home roles and to start psychologically recovering from the demands of the workday. Our study also confirms that day-to-day variations in commutes predict the ability to do so.

We found that on days with longer-than-average commutes, people reported higher levels of psychological detachment from work and were more relaxed during the commute. However, on days when commutes were more stressful than usual, they reported less psychological detachment from work and less relaxation during the commute.

Creating Liminal Space

Our findings suggest that remote workers may benefit from creating their own form of commute to provide liminal space for recovery and transition — such as a 15-minute walk to mark the beginning and end of the workday.

Our preliminary findings align with related research suggesting that those who have returned to the workplace might benefit from seeking to use their commute to relax as much as possible.

To help enhance work detachment and relaxation during the commute, commuters could try to avoid ruminating about the workday and instead focus on personally fulfilling uses of the commute time, such as listening to music or podcasts, or calling a friend. Other forms of commuting such as public transit or carpooling may also provide opportunities to socialize.

Our data shows that commute stress detracts from detachment and relaxation during the commute more than a shorter or longer commute. So some people may find it worth their time to take the “scenic route” home in order to avoid tense driving situations.

For more from The Conversation, visit www.theconversation. com.

Business Meetings

Wednesday April 12

Networking, BNI Falcons, East Windsor, 877-264-0500. www. bninjpa.org. Meeting takes place online. Call the BNI Office or the chapter president to attend. 7 to 8:30 a.m.

Instagram Marketing Essentials for Your Business 2023, Princeton SCORE. princeton.score.org. Patty Ross leads a free webinar that covers Instagram statistics; stories vs. posts; using Instagram Live; Instagram ads basics; how to create a content calendar to lessen the overwhelm and build engagement; how to create social media graphics; and publishing tools to make your job easier. Register. 6:30 p.m.

Thursday April 13

Networking, BNI Tigers Chapter, West Windsor, 609-356-5001. www.bninjpa.org. Meeting takes place online. Call the BNI Office or the chapter president to attend. 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

Networking BNI Top Flight Town Diner, 431 Route 130, East Windsor, 609-443-8222. www. bninjpa.org. 7 a.m.

Monthly Membership Luncheon, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce, Princeton Marriott at Forrestal, 100 College Road East, Princeton, 609924-1776. www.princetonmercerchamber.org. Don Musso, president of FinPro, Inc., discusses key issues in banking and their impact on local business.Register. $85, $60 members. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Friday April 14

Networking BNI Driven, Robbinsville, 877-264-0500. www. bninjpa.org. Meeting takes place online. Call the BNI Office or the chapter president to attend. 7 a.m.

Mercer ELC Monthly Breakfast, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce, Americana Kitchen + Bar, 359 Route 130, East Windsor, 609-9241776. www.princetonmercerchamber.org. Assemblyman Wayne DeAngelo (D-14) discusses what’s happening at the intersection of business and government. Register. $45. 8 to 10 a.m.

JobSeekers, Professional Service Group of Mercer County, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. www. psgofmercercounty.org. Presentation by executive recruiter Janelle Razzino. 9:45 a.m. to noon.

How to Speak to Anybody about Anything, Successfully Speak Up Toastmasters, Princeton Fitness & Wellness Center, 1125 Route 206, Skillman. www.facebook.com/SSUToastmasters. Nationally acclaimed public speaker and communications coach Isaak Gelbinowich takes your questions. Free. Register to smatson123@comcast.net. 7:30 to 9

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Monday April 17

Uncomfortable Conversations: Stories and Strategies to Better Support Trans and Non-Binary People in the Workplace, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce, Mountain View Golf Course, 850 Bear Tavern Road, Ewing, 609-924-1776. www.princetonmercerchamber. org. Learn how you can support the current and future workforce by installing inclusive hiring practices and education for your employees. Discussion facilitated by Kristopher Oliveira of Princeton University with Deidre Belinfanti of Garden State Equality and Jamie Zug of McCarter & English. Register. $45; $40 members. 7:30 to 10 a.m.

Tuesday April 18

Growth Zone Lunch & Learn, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce, 609924-1776. www.princetonmercerchamber.org. Join us to learn more about the Chamber’s new user experience. We’ll walk you through the system and show you some tips and tricks for maximizing your membership. Via Zoom. Register. Free. Noon to 1 p.m. Growing Pains for Nonprofits and How to Navigate Them Princeton SCORE. princeton. score.org. As nonprofits grow in the number of supporters and individuals/organizations they support, there will inevitably be growing pains in providing services, and meeting operational challenges. Lunch ‘N Learn webinar identifies the potential issues and provide ideas for addressing them. Presented by Marty Siederer. Register. Free. 12:15 p.m.

Wednesday April 19

Networking, BNI Falcons, East Windsor, 877-264-0500. www. bninjpa.org. Meeting takes place online. Call the BNI Office or the chapter president to attend. 7 to 8:30 a.m.

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Milbank Memorial Concert: Pass Over, Pass Through

with the Princeton Girlchoir, Dr. Lynnel Joy Jenkins, Artistic Director

Milbank Memorial Concert: Pass Over, Pass Through

with the Princeton Girlchoir, Dr. Lynnel Joy Jenkins, Artistic Director

Saturday, April 15, 2023

7:00pm: Pre-Concert Lecture | 8:00pm: Performance

Princeton University Chapel

Saturday, April 15, 2023

7:00pm: Pre-Concert Lecture | 8:00pm: Performance

Princeton University Chapel

The Princeton Girlchoir joins the Chapel Choir for a performance of Andrea Clearfield’s astonishing cantata on Tibetan texts and melodies, Tse Go La (At the Threshold of This Life). The composer will present a pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm, describing her treks to the Lo Monthang region of Nepal to study and document this music.

The Princeton Girlchoir joins the Chapel Choir for a performance of Andrea Clearfield’s astonishing cantata on Tibetan texts and melodies, Tse Go La (At the Threshold of This Life). The composer will present a pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm, describing her treks to the Lo Monthang region of Nepal to study and document this music.

Lesley Junlakan - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

By Lesley Junlakan - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

Ten Questions with Hopewell Artist Tatiana Oles

by Thomas Kelly

One of the secular traditions related to this past week’s Easter Sunday is the Easter Parade — or a time a time to dress impress on the street or in house of worship. For many that includes a special hat. So, it wasn’t unusual start thinking about hatmakers in the region. One such individual is Tatiana Oles, a Hopewell/Princeton area multi-discipline artist.

Recently, Community News Service contributing writer Thomas Kelly conducted a Q&A with the artist where she shared the following thoughts about her background and work:

When did you begin in the arts?

I began at a very young age, in pre-school. I was born in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova. In 1979, I graduated from Academic School of Fine Arts “Igor Vieru” in Chisinau and thus began my creative life as a decorator and pictorial artist. All the schools I went to had a special place for the visual arts.

Which media do you work in?

I love working with different media such as watercolors, oil paints, acrylics, I also like mixed media using additional materials, colored paper, fabric, wool, wood, metal, glass, clay, etc. I feel I am most natural using watercolor paint.

What are some of your inspirations or influences?

I am inspired my many things including nature, music and traditional European art. I studied all the artists and copied all the masters. I studied Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, all the Old Masters and all the Impressionists. I used to paint a lot of Russian icons. People really liked those in Europe and some do here too.

Tell us how your journey brought you to the U.S.

When my parents passed away in Moldova, I already had a sister here in the U.S., since 1994, begging me to come to America. I was comfortable and spoke no English,

so I resisted.

I finally relented and came to the U.S. I landed in Minnesota and got involved in the art community. I showed my work in different galleries and had good success. I still have good collectors in Minnesota, and all over the U.S. by now. Your work shows very colorful patterns, florals, religious themes and animals. What got you interested in this style?

I do not have a specific style in my work, I work with different materials and in my life I have tried different styles, techniques. I like to experiment, not develop some kind of style. For me, the main process is in which I put a part of my

soul and the positive energy of love. I love the process of making art and the outcome of the art itself. What fight/struggle do you have regarding your art?

I try to solve the artistic difficulties and problems as they come. Of course, the perpetual artist problem of keeping a studio, being able to buy materials. I use expensive material to make the apparel and jewelry, because I wish it to be of high quality. And, of course, I always like for my works to be collected. Do you make many sketches for the paintings you make? I do not make sketches. I start to paint and you see how it comes out.

For me painting is just like breathing. It is totally natural.

Have you found that U.S. art lovers enjoy the traditional Moldovan styles?

I do not know if Americans know much about traditional Eastern European styles. I don’t think of it like that. I just see it as my style. I paint with energy feeling in the moment and find that I am always inspired by something.

Do people approach you for commissions?

People do approach me for commissions, but to be honest I am trying to taper down on those. My background allows me to paint in

any style and mostly any subject. I am at the point where I wish to paint what I like.

What are you working on now?

Now I am making jewelry, necklaces, and bracelets with embroidered beads, ceramic elements and gemstones. I had the idea to make big jewelry that is a pleasure to make and wear. I hope my collectors will like it too. Then I will switch to sewing and making apparel. I like to make coats, hats, and dresses.

For more on Tatiana Oles, go to artoles.com or instagram.com/tatianaolesart.

Viewing the dreamlike landscapes of Elizabeth (“Liz”) Roszel-Aubrey — they can been seen in the Gallery at Pennswood Village in Bucks County through May 7 — you might not easily guess her source of inspiration. These paintings seem to portray a quaint village, perhaps in the French countryside or an imaginary world. There are gently rolling hills, orange roofs, stucco facades, pink skies, and idiosyncratic architecture whose lines are never straight.

Before the pandemic, Aubrey commuted daily on the New Jersey Turnpike. It was the sprawl of warehouses and development that inspired these scenes, she recently told a packed house in the auditorium at the Newtown, Pennsylvania retirement community where the gallery is located. She would make sketches out the window of her car, she said. “Someone else was behind the wheel,” she quickly assured her audience.

Aubrey — if the name sounds familiar, it is because she is married to U.S. 1 arts editor Dan Aubrey — categorizes her body of work into “townscapes,” “landscapes,” “New Jersey roadway studies,” and “urban art studies.” Even the urban art studies seem to suggest an area at the outskirts of town, when there is not much density.

It is a long road from the views along the Turnpike to the enchanting world created by the Bordentown-based artist. After enlarging her sketch in a process using Mylar, Aubrey toys with the composition, sometimes for up to a year, before she is satisfied.

A native of the Dutch Neck area of West Windsor, Aubrey grew up a stone’s throw from the 116 acres on which her grandparents operated a dairy farm. On land they purchased in the 1920s, her grandparents raised chickens, turkeys, potatoes, and soy. Subsequent to their lives, the farm was turned into the Princeton Oaks housing development.

“Everywhere you looked there was farmland,” she recollects. She remembers being able to smell the manure from Walker Gordon Farm in nearby Plainsboro, where as a child she visited the Rotolactor, or cow merry-go-round — a mechanized system for milking cows that became a popular tourist attraction. The odor of manure would be comingled with the scents of perfume being developed at Firmenich, also in Plainsboro. A funky result, for sure.

“West Windsor was very different back then,” she says. One senses that that world, or a fond memory of that world, is still alive in her head. It is channeled in her paintings, suggested by the barns and silos.

“We’re surrounded by the disappearance of natural places that are rapidly being replaced by new homes and warehouses,” she writes in her artist’s statement. “I like to show natural elements competing with the constant conflict of industrial influences. Before the pandemic, I drove down the Turnpike each day. Along the way, new warehouses were being built at an alarming pace. Yet no matter what, there is evidence of nature still working to maintain a balance.”

Her father, Malcom Roszel, a

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one-time mayor of West Windsor, was a contractor involved in the development of Carnegie Center. His numerous civic engagements included the Princeton area YMCA Board of Directors, Princeton United Fund, West Windsor Board of Education, and the American Legion; Roszel Road in West Windsor is named for him. Aubrey’s mother, a teacher and reading specialist, encouraged her to become an artist, as did the art teachers at Dutch Neck School. “The teachers recognized my strength” in art, she said.

After graduating a semester early from Princeton High School (West Windsor didn’t yet have its own high school), Aubrey went to Mercer County Community College before starting at the University of Colorado. Her bachelor’s

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degree in liberal arts, with a special in art history, came through Thomas Edison State College. She had earned enough credits prior to that but needed to present a thesis. It was feminist art scholar, artist, and curator Judith K. Brodsky who gave Aubrey’s thesis the approval it needed.

From there, she studied printmaking and graphic arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York and at The College of New Jersey, where she availed herself of the printmaking studio.

“I would layer colors on one plate, using different media in each ink” so the colors would react with each other in the process. “I loved it, it was hard to give up when I no longer had access to a printmaking studio, but I made up for it by taking up acrylic.”

Aubrey seems to have an innate sense for using color, often favoring pairing blues and oranges. Among her influences are “Edward Hopper, for his reflections and lighting; Henri Matisse for the colors and forms he employed; and Milton Avery and Marsden Hartley, who also have excellent color and solid forms,” she told writer/ artist Thomas Kelly in 2019.

Liz and Dan Aubrey met when, early in their careers, they worked as counselors in the children’s unit at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital. “I was interested in social work, so I tried it,” Aubrey says of the job she held for four years. “It was the best job I ever had but it was emotionally exhausting. Those were the dark ages for the psychiatric field.”

After freelancing in production work and pasteup of mechanicals, Aubrey held a career with IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) as a manager for publications. It was for that job, in Piscataway, that she spent all those

hours absorbing the scenery along the Turnpike.

Along with her husband and their son, Byron, Aubrey moved from Hamilton to Bordentown two years ago, during the height of the pandemic. “It’s a nice town with connections to mass transit and has a burgeoning art community,” says Aubrey, adding that she has yet to fully engage with that community because of the pandemic lockdowns. “I hope to start getting out more.”

The first thing she did in their new home was to convert the attic space to her studio, adding insulation and track lighting, and partitioning an area for art storage. The result — viewed through a video call — is a light, airy space.

In addition to being an artist, Aubrey, along with her husband, is a collector. The walls of her studio include the works of Roosevelt artists Jacob Landau and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with whom Aubrey was in an exhibition (“Realism/ Surrealism” at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, curated by Mel Leipzig in 1995). There are also works by noted Trenton painter Tom Molloy.

When not making her own art, in her role as president of TAWA (Trenton Artists Workshop Association), Aubrey curates the gallery at the Trenton Free Public Library. She first became involved with the nonprofit, founded in 1979 by Latta Patterson and Dr. Mary Tatum Howard, through her husband.

“Dan was friends with (artist) Mel Leipzig, who had a lot of resources and energy. There weren’t many art organizations at the time,” and TAWA was founded to help artists get their work exhibited. Aubrey has served as the organiza-

tion’s president since 2012, and among the highlights were two exhibitions she brought to the Prince Street Gallery in New York, in collaboration with Trenton’s SAGE Coalition.

Aubrey serves on the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie exhibitions committee. TAWA will have an exhibition there in fall 2023 celebrating its 45-year history. In a nice bookend, the exhibition will include work by Judith Brodsky, among many others.

“I thought I’d share a footnote about my experience growing up,” Aubrey says at the end of the interview. “My grandparents’ house was eventually bought by a couple named David and Harriet Kaplan, and they changed that quaint little farmhouse into an art gallery.”

She was 8 years old when the Kaplans began inviting her to visit. “Their door was always open to me. They were nurturing to me as a budding artist. He was a world traveler, spoke seven languages, and worked as economic advisor for developing countries. He collected art, and it transformed the house. A lot of the work was from South America and Africa. I wasn’t seeing this kind of work at Dutch Neck School.”

Elizabeth Aubrey, Pennswood Art Gallery, Pennswood Village, 1382 Newtown-Langhorne Road, Newtown, PA, through May 7, Vaccinated outside visitors may visit the gallery from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. More information at 215-968-9110 or pennswood.org/ art-gallery.

For more information on the art of Elizabeth Aubrey, visit www. ejaubrey.com.

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Artist Liz Aubrey, above, and her painting ‘Trip to Hays,’ right.

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Live music for meditation and introspection

Wednesday April 12 5:30pm Princeton University

Wednesday September 14 5:30pm Princeton University Chapel

Wednesday September 14 5:30pm

University Chapel

Wednesday September 14 5:30pm Princeton University Chapel

Wednesday September 14 5:30pm Princeton University Chapel

Ruth Cunningham, a founding member of the world-renowned vocal ensemble Anonymous 4 and a sound healing practitioner, offers composed and improvised music for meditation, contemplation, and prayer.

Ruth Cunningham, a founding member of the world-renowned vocal ensemble Anonymous 4 and a sound healing practitioner, offers composed and improvised music for meditation, contemplation, and prayer. The program continues monthly: 5/10

Ruth Cunningham, a founding member of the world-renowned vocal ensemble Anonymous 4 and a sound healing practitioner, offers composed and improvised music for meditation, contemplation, and prayer.

Ruth Cunningham, a founding member of the world-renowned vocal ensemble Anonymous 4 and a sound healing practitioner, offers composed and improvised music for meditation, contemplation, and prayer. The program continues monthly:

program continues monthly:

The program continues monthly: 10/5, 11/2,

Ruth Cunningham, a founding member of the world-renowned vocal ensemble Anonymous 4 and a sound healing practitioner, offers composed and improvised music for meditation, contemplation, and prayer. The program continues monthly: 10/5, 11/2, 1/11, 2/1, 3/1, 4/12, 5/10

Jane Zamost and the Art of Healing Through Art

Remember art class in school, that special few hours every week when we reveled in paint and paper and felt-tipped pens?

Or maybe you used to doodle in the margins of your lesson book when you should have been absorbing algebra? Drew on the sidewalk?

What happened to that spirit?

So many of us have left the paint-splashed, ink-stained soul behind, to attend to work and family and the household, the daily grind.

But if we dig down, shrug off the inner and outer critics, and learn to play again, we become re-energized and discover that the natural artist is still alive inside.

That’s the main message behind artist and healing arts instructor Jane Zamost’s popular workshops — that we’re all creative.

She invites those who feel stuck in a rut, bereft of creativity, to gather our pads of paper, pencils, scissors, crayons, paints, and brushes, and just play for half an hour or even 15 minutes every day.

“Creativity should be part of our daily life,” says the Pennington resident. “I believe that everyone is creative, but they just don’t recognize this characteristic in themselves. That doesn’t just include art; it’s how a person dresses or gardens, or even does math. The way in which we process life is, in fact, a form of creativity.”

“When life is going well, our spirits and freedom can blossom through creativity in exponential ways,” Zamost says. “When life is challenging, creativity offers us a

respite from the day and the ability to find our flow. In my opinion, it’s a necessity in our lives, no different from nourishing ourselves well and staying fit.”

The former Healing Arts Program Coordinator for Capital Health in Hopewell, Zamost says it’s physically and psychologically healing for people to recognize their special gifts and adds that artistic enjoyment encourages our innate optimism.

“I am continually amazed by the restorative impact that art holds for both its maker and audience,” she says in her artist’s statement. “The

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weeks. I couldn’t dress, drive, sleep properly, do much for myself — in other words, I was fairly miserable.”

“One day a couple of weeks post-accident, I decided to see if the power of art could offer me solace,” she adds. “I gathered easy art supplies — a small-sized paint pad and watercolors. I put on my favorite music and tested myself. Would my body comply? I was amazed that when my right, dominant hand could no longer function, ‘lefty’ would come to my rescue, if I just asked.”

Zamost says because she was so focused on the process, she found that her pain lessened, and her frustration and depression subsided, too.

“I shocked myself and thought, ‘this is exactly what you teach,’” she says. “I had never been on this side of the situation. I forgot about my misery. Creativity quite honestly saved me.”

heart slows, the mind focuses, and the room transforms.”

About a year ago, Zamost needed to apply what she advises, and remember the “glass half-full” attitude that normally carries her through life.

“In March of 2022, I fractured my shoulder in three places,” she says. “I learned first-hand what I’ve been advocating for years, the power of art in healing. It was a time of great pain for me as my dominant arm was in a sling for six

Indeed Zamost’s “Lefty” series, the left-handed work from her healing period, as well as other freespirited, color-filled creations, are on view at the Arts Council of Princeton’s new exhibit, “Inspired by Optimism.”

The two-person show also includes works by Trenton-based photographer C.a. Shofed, and will be up through Saturday, May 6.

“The call from the Arts Council for works for ‘Optimism’ came during the pandemic,” she says, noting that simply surviving the COVID-19 years is a reason to cheer.

Zamost’s road to running her

own healing-through-art workshops began with her time volunteering at Capital Health.

“I started on the ‘art cart,’ (a mobile cart filled with art supplies for the patients to play with) and managed it for a time. I loved it so much,” she says. “I saw people of all ages, with all kinds of illnesses. When you go into their rooms and see them, you try and assess what they might be able to do.”

She would see that a person was bedridden and seemed immobile, and would assume they wouldn’t want to sit up and paint or draw — probably wouldn’t even want to pick up a brush.

Zamost was pleasantly surprised when the opportunity to create re-

juvenated so many of the patients she interacted with. Hospitalized children especially came alive given the chance to make art.

The very seed for the idea of healing through creativity was planted when Zamost was studying fine art at Rutgers in the 1980s.

“I was thinking about art therapy, but it wasn’t offered as a major back then, so I studied psychology

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and took communications as a minor,” Zamost says.

After graduation, she continues, “I fell into public relations in the medical area, then fell into project work, then medical education programs, and that’s how my career blossomed.”

But after a few years of long commutes and raising four little ones Zamost had strayed from art and was feeling burnout. Just in time, her husband (urologist Dr. Gary Karlin) gifted her with an easel and paint box.

“It was one nicest gifts I ever got,” Zamost says. “I started with classes at Artworks (in Trenton) and was doing a lot of realism, but then shifted toward more expressive painting.”

The real “aha” moment came when she saw a tiny ad for art study with Lambertville-based teacher Kate Appel, who almost immediately suggested that Zamost learn techniques of meditation.

“We started with tempera paints, like you use in kindergarten, and very large paper,” Zamost says. “There were no critiques, which was very unlike what I experienced in college. Kate said, ‘It doesn’t matter whether I like it or not.’”

“That was my departure toward (embracing) flow, and I continued from there, taking all kinds of workshops, exploring everything — mosaics, cold wax, collage, adding whatever I wanted, allowing myself to be free,” she says.

At some point, Zamost realized she had the skills to lead workshops in the curative powers of art. “When not in the studio, I lead individuals and groups on workshops so that they, too, can discover the restorative power of making art,” Zamost says.

She recalls leading one particularly exceptional workshop at the Peddie School during finals.

“I did a ‘flow’ kind of thing, no theme, just some down time for the students during a stressful week,” she says. “One student wouldn’t, actually couldn’t start without instruction. So I said, ‘the instruction is no instruction, just start with a mark or a color or something.’ She did it and said the experience was really freeing.”

“Later on, I got a note from their teacher who said, ‘they’ll think about that workshop for a long time,’” Zamost says. “It gave them a break to just ‘be,’ to not just be concerned about hitting all those achievement marks.”

Originally from Highland Park, Zamost was encouraged to be artistic by her parents, but only to a certain point. Her father was in the lumber business and her mother was a stay-at-home mom, and both were born during the Great Depression. Making a living as an artist did not seem practical to them.

“My parents bought me art supplies, but they were both Depression babies and hesitated when I said I wanted to be a fine artist and ‘paint the world on fire,’” she says.

“Although my mom was artistic in her own way, for example, she used to make hats, and also baked the most amazing cakes, and would decorate them so creatively,” Zamost recalls.

While at Rutgers’ Mason Gross

School of the Arts, Zamost had the opportunity to take a semester abroad at the Sir John Cass School of Art and London Polytechnic in London, England.

After graduating from Rutgers, Zamost combined her talents for both art and writing into a career in public relations. She first worked for Burson-Marsteller (division of Young & Rubicam at the time) in New York City, followed by Projects in Knowledge, a medical communications/project company, first in New York, then Secaucus.

Zamost’s works have been exhibited in five solo and more than 65 two-person and group exhibits based in the United States and Can-

says.

One of the most rewarding experiences for Zamost in making art that heals was creating “Hope Rises,” the first in a series of vibrant works that is now permanently on view in the Infusion Room at Capital Health Hopewell.

“My ‘Hope Rises’ series of mixed-media artwork began during a challenging time in my life when my cousins, brother-in-law, and childhood friend were losing their battles with cancer, and they were all so young,” Zamost says. “I started ‘Hope Rises’ to grace the wall of the Infusion Room at Capital Health Hospital. It was my way of completing the conversation with my cousin, (who asked), ‘Why must I lay for hours with only a blank ceiling before me?’”

Currently, both Capital Health hospitals in Mercer County have artwork from this series in their permanent collections, and the Lefcourt Family Cancer Treatment and Wellness Center at Englewood Health has just received “Hope Rises V” for display.

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ada. Her works can currently be seen at the Copelouzos Family Art Museum in Athens, Greece, on the TV show “Househunters,” the film “Hide,” and in private, corporate, and hospital collections including both Capital Health hospitals (Pennington and Trenton) and Englewood Health.

She also founded LUX Gallery in Hopewell, with artists Mic Boekelmann, Kathleen Varga, Donna Blachford, and Margaret Miller.

Her children are now grown (ages 27 through 34), and Zamost has a granddaughter who seems to be a budding artist. “Kids have no reservation, they just go and make art, they don’t judge, they just do,” she

“My conversations beckoned me to create a view of hope and beauty, to lift the spirits of those facing challenges and the professionals providing their care — as well as myself who was grieving,” Zamost says. “Following the making of (the first ‘Hope Rises,’) I couldn’t stop at one mixed-media piece. There was so much more to say, and thus ‘Hope Rises’ grew from one project to a series.”

“(Through my paintings), may you feel my joy and sadness, excitement and frustration,” she says. “Know that each of these emotions is touched by my belief that hope always exists in this imperfect world of ours.”

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Life in the Fast Lane

Management Moves Glenemede Princeton

Glenmede, an investment and wealth management firm, has appointed Elizabeth Protage Walsh as the regional director of the company’s Princeton office. Walsh is an experienced wealth professional who was hired as Glenmede’s director of business development in 2021. She will continue to oversee the relationship management team as well as the establishment and maintenance of client connections throughout the region.

As a graduate of Princeton University, Walsh is also on the advisory board of the institution’s Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, which supports “policyrelated research in the Department of Economics,” according to the educational entity’s page. Walsh is currently on the Board of Trustees for both the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and the Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad.

She was previously the senior vice president and wealth director at Bryn Mawr Trust’s Princeton office, which she helped launch and lead on Hulfish Street in 2017. She also served on the boards of the Princeton Public Library Foundation, Corner House Foundation, and the New Jersey State Museum, as well as the Princeton Area Community Foundation’s asset building and professional advisors committees.

Prior to that, the southern California native worked for PNC

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Wealth Management and its predecessor firms for about 29 years, with 25 of those being in Princeton; there, she received one of the YWCA Princeton’s annual “Tribute to Women” awards in 2016.

More information: www.glenmede.com.

Lawrence Rehabilitation

Dr. Priti S. Gujar will be the new medical director of Lawrence Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center and The Meadows at Lawrence in Lawrenceville, which are two of the nursing facilities on the 40-acre Lawrence healthcare campus at 1 Bishops’ Drive.

Gujar is a certified medical director affiliated with Capital Health System Hospitals who started her own Lawrenceville-based practice, Geriatric Treatment Resources LLC, in 2009. Gujar’s hiring comes on the heels of the site’s February purchase by Tryko Partners, LLC, from the Diocese of Trenton. Since then, the property has been undergoing a thorough renovation for modernization and programming expansion.

“Dr. Gujar is widely respected in the area for her expertise in geriatric medicine and her warm manner,” says Erin Popelak, the regional director of market development at Marquis Health Consulting Services, the healthcare administrative and consulting services provider that supports the Lawrence

campus from its location in Brick. “The teams at Lawrence Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center and The Meadows are thrilled to have Dr. Gujar play a leadership role as they embark on this new chapter.”

Out of the four senior care options offered onsite, the Lawrence Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, known formerly as St. Joseph’s, has 120 beds for the “transition from hospital to home,” providing “post-hospital, short-term rehab, and long-term residential care.”

The Meadows at Lawrence, previously known as the Morris Hall Meadows, feature 60 beds for long-term care, such as six residential long-term care cottages that implement the model developed by the Green House Project, according to the press release.

The Green House Model of Nursing Home Care, as described in a 2015 Health Services Research journal article available on the National Library of Medicine website, is part of an industry shift centered on the three key values of a “real home, [a] meaningful life, and empowered staff,” as achieved through community-oriented communities that prioritize the older populations within them.

The campus also houses the Lawrence Rehabilitation Hospital, a medical facility that has been in operation “for more than half a century,” as well as The Terraces at Lawrence, which provides living arrangements in three styles tailored to those in need of assisted living, memory care, and respite

care.

“It’s certainly an exciting time to join Lawrence Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center and The Meadows at Lawrence,” Dr. Gujar says in a quote. “I look forward to working closely with the clinical teams in providing progressive skilled nursing care to ensure the best possible outcomes for those in our care.”

After graduating from Topiwala National Medical College in Mumbai, India, Gujar had her residency at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and then a fellowship at Temple University Hospital. She is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Medical Directors Association, and the American Geriatric Society, as well as a fellow with the American Professional Wound Care Association.

More information: lawrencerehab.com.

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