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April ARTS is bringing local residents together to embrace the arts The Princeton Piano Project, which is the first component of April ARTS, began on April 1
By Andrew Harrison Staff Writer
The joy and appreciation of creating art will take center stage in Princeton as April ARTS continues. In 2022, April ARTS is a monthlong celebration of the arts and culture hosted by the Arts Council of Princeton through April 23 throughout Princeton. With support from Princeton University, April ARTS takes the place of Communiversity, which was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After meeting with municipal officials several months ago, Princeton University representatives,
who the Arts Council partners with for Communiversity, and the Arts Council’s artist team, the Arts Council created April ARTS. “Speaking with Melissa Kuscin [Arts Council’s program and marketing manager] and Maria Evans [Arts Council artistic director] within a few days we had come up with the idea of April ARTS month,” said Adam Welch, executive director of the Arts Council of Princeton. “A whole month of activities, arts engagement and building community through the arts, April ARTS would be more socially distanced, safe and something the community can get behind.” Some of the activities would be events the Arts Council of Princ-
eton planned, are hosting and also a part of, while other activities will be to promote additional arts space organizations in Princeton and their activities. Activities throughout the month included an exhibition opening for artist Joe Kossow and his “Still Lives from a Mostly Stilled Life: Oil Paintings from 2019-2022” on April 2; a spoken word celebration for Paul Robeson 124th birthday; Cabernet Cabaret 10th Anniversary Extravaganza; and a Princeton University Art Museum gallery-onthe-go. “The reason why a month-long event was appealing to us goes back to our history. Back in 1968 when the Arts Council published its first
annual report they mentioned their interest in hosting a celebration to celebrate the merry month of May,” Welch added. “Having that in mind that was the connection to what we are now calling April ARTS. The big reason for April is our sense of spring and the university can be much more engaged with the community and be apart of this event as compared to May.” Unlike how Communiversity gathers thousands of people to Nassau Street there is a decentralized approach to April ARTS. The launch of the first component of April ARTS, which is the Princeton Piano Project, began on April 1. See ARTS, Page 6A
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“The Princeton Piano Project was inspired by things that we observed in Hightstown and I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and in Brooklyn they had a similar program where pianos would be put outside for people to play out in public,” Welch said. “This reason why it is the kickoff to April ARTS is because it is something that is going to last the full month. It combines both the visual art with the music.” The Princeton Piano Project is seven pianos, all of which have been donated, on which the Arts Council commissioned artists to paint designs or images. The artists who have painted the designs and images on the pianos
are Leon Rainbow, Ronah Harris, Albelardo Montano, Susan DeConcini & Lisa Walsh, Marlon 7oveChild Davila, and Stephanie and Naomi Nazario. “They will be placed throughout basically the Central Business District (CBD) and goes a little bit to Jugtown. This is an opportunity for public art and public performance,” Welch said. “People can stroll by and play the piano at their convenience. We are also going to have planned performances throughout the month at the pianos at various times.” The piano locations include 185 Nassau St., Palmer Square, the Arts Council on Witherspoon See ARTS, Page 14A
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First-ever Princeton Porchfest delivers live music performances from neighbors’ front porches
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Throughout Princeton the sounds of live music and band performances will be heard straight from 11 porches in Princeton’s first-ever Porchfest during April ARTS. The free shows for residents and visitors from noon to 6 p.m. April 23 are set to occur on front porches mostly in the central business district as part of April ARTS, a monthlong celebration of the arts. “We saw Porchfest as the epitome of building community through the arts. The communities are helping us by opening up their porches,” said Adam Welch, executive direc-
tor of the Arts Council of Princeton (ACP). “Porchfest is a way for people to sit and enjoy the neighborhood feel and neighborhood event. We see this as the perfect culmination of our mission all through the vehicle of art.” Organized by ACP, with the support of Princeton University, there are 11 porch locations for the live shows. “We received 37 porch applications for Porchfest. When we set out to promote this we talked about 10-plus and our goal was to have approximately 10 locations,” Welch said. “We then installed a large-scale map on our wall and put pushpins in on the map of every
location that applied. We decided we needed to group them based on location and proximity to other locations.” The locations are the Arts Council at 102 Witherspoon St., 54 Leigh Ave., 230 Birch Ave., 2 Mt. Lucas Road (Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad), 300 Witherspoon St. (former home of the Princeton Packet), 71 Wiggins Ave., 185 Nassau St. (Lewis Center for the Arts program in visual arts building at Princeton University), 11 Willow St., 15 Maple St., 45 Linden Lane, and 30 Murray Place. “I am truly excited about all of the porch locations. The fact that nearly 40 people signed up to
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participate in this was eye-opening,” Welch said. “People are opening up their front yards and porches to total strangers. I am particularly excited about the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad. A department of first responders that has done so much before and since the pandemic and that they wanted to join and partake in Porchfest is a pretty exciting thing.” Other locations Welch is particularly excited about are 185 Nassau St. at Princeton University and 230 Birch Ave. “We love that university is opening up its lawn. The university has See MUSIC, Page 12A
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picked a prime location that is truly accessible to the entirety of tourism and the town,” he said. “Our Councilman Leighton Newlin has put his house up on Birch Avenue as a porch that too is pleasing for us. A couple council members had put up their porches. Leighton’s was the one that fit in the geographical circle we were looking for.” The Arts Council wanted the locations for Porchfest to be close enough to walk, but not close enough to hear. “Every location we chose would be just a brief couple minute walk to the next location, so that people who attended Porchfest could flow between all the different locations during the day,” Welch said. “We
did not want a situation where things were destination locations. Meaning, we did not want there to be one isolated place that would take everyone out of the mix. Our goal here is to have some fluidity.” To avoid any safety issues the Arts Council met with municipal officials, traffic and police departments to review the plans. At the 11 front porch locations, there will be five bands scheduled to perform at each location. The bands will have a 40-minute set with a 20-minute break between sets. “Because it is our first year we wanted to minimize any setup and takedown issues,” Welch said. “There is a pretty good mixture of
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music genres. There is a little bit of blues, R&B, a lot of rock, some a cappella groups, and Princeton University students will have bands that they put together and coordinated.” Porchfest is from noon to 6 p.m., but outside of the Arts Council’s porch location all the other porch performances end at 4:45 p.m.. At 5:15 p.m. the very last performance will be taking place at the Arts Council on 102 Witherspoon St. “We are encouraging everyone to come back to the central business district for one final performance, so we can thank everyone our hosts, our sponsors and thank the bands,” Welch said. “Then give the one final performance and encourage everyone to get dinner
and drinks in the central business district.” People can bring lawn chairs, blankets, and sit on their bike, walker and skateboard or stand during Porchfest. Princeton’s Porchfest was inspired by Asbury Park, which has its own Porchfest. “We reached out to Asbury, who has been doing this successfully for five years,” Welch said. “There the ones we based a lot of out information on and we used them as a guide. They were the ones who said to avoid destinations that lead to issues.” For more information on Porchfest or April ARTS events, visit www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
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Street, and Hinds Plaza. There is a culmination of the events for April ARTS that occurs with the Arts Council and Princeton’s first-ever Porchfest. On April 23, Porchfest is scheduled for noon to 6 p.m. “Porchfest is not unique to Princeton. It is going to be Princeton’s first-ever Porchfest. The model we are using is inspired by Asbury Park,” Welch said. “The concept is quite simple people in the community offer their porches and we coordinate bands to play on those porches. The idea we are going forward with is five bands at each of the 11 porches.” Each one of the bands for Porch-
fest will be listed, there will be a map of all of the locations of the various porches, and where the bands are playing and when they play on a certain day. All of the porches will play simultaneously. “So, you have to look at this map and determine in advance which porch you are going to walk to during which set. There were about 40 applicants who offered their porches for Porchfest,” Welch added. “We looked at all of the porches and determined which groupings made sense, because we need to have the porches at a certain proximity from one another to really have the best and most successful Porchfest.”
The porches decided on will not be in earshot of one another, but are still within walking distance between each other. “The goal with that is to have participants stroll through the neighborhoods to see more of Princeton that they may not normally see. Also for neighbors to get out and stroll around town and meet their neighbors and people in the community,” Welch said. “This is all around the idea of art.” There will be a Porchfest guide on the Arts Council of Princeton website that will be constantly updated and accessible to people’s phones. Maps will also be in the Princeton Packet newspaper.
Various activities will be highlighted and promoted on a centralized calendar throughout the month that will be available on the website. Organizations have been submitting content so that their events can be promoted by the Arts Council throughout April. Welch urged that people also follow the Arts Council on Instagram and Facebook for updates during the month. “I think we ultimately want people to have as full and rich a cultural experience that they can. We want a community based experience and remind people of the deeply human experience that is art,” he said.
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