JC FRIDAYS MARCH 3rd Features Art Exhibitions, Open Studios, Live Music Performances, and More

Art House Productions announces the lineup for our upcoming JC Fridays on Friday, March 3. Jersey City’s premiere quarterly arts festival will showcase a variety of happenings free to the public including visual art exhibitions, music performances, studio tours, and more hosted at local businesses, galleries, and arts organizations. Visitors are encouraged to travel place to place to discover art and to support the local arts scene. Full event listings and the event map are available on the JC Fridays website - www. jcfridays.com.

JC Fridays is a seasonal multi-arts festival featuring arts-related events that take place in all 6 wards of Jersey City. All events are free and open to the public. As one of the preeminent art scenes in the tristate area, Jersey City is abound with visual and performing artists of all types, musicians, and individuals with unique talents. JC Fridays is one of the best times for them to share their newest projects and works.

Printable event listings can be found here. An interactive map is available online (www. jcfridays.com) to help patrons easily find artists and venues and create their own schedule.

The Current Lineup Includes…

175 2nd St., &CO, X Rita Jimenez Collab, the Art House Gallery, Bill Rood, Bruno

Nadalin, Drawing Rooms, Dvora Art House, Elevator Open Studios, Evening Star Studio, Grayscale Studios x Golden Light Poetry, Green Pear Heights, Guaicora Studios and The Juice Box, Hamilton House, Irma’s Cafe, McGinley Square Pub, NJCU, The Oakman, Outliers Gallery, Pro Arts Jersey City, Project Greenville, Saint Peter’s University, Sharon (sharex) Sinton, SMUSH Gallery, Speakeasy Studios JC, The Statuary, Theda Sandiford, & More!

JC Fridays Highlights by NeighborhoodMarch 3rd, 2023

The Heights Green Pear Heights 93 Franklin Street, Jersey City, NJ 07307

Lauren Sansaricq - Landscapes

Friday, March 3, 5:30pm-9:30pm

Green Pear Heights invites you to experience Lauren Sansaricq’s visual arts exhibit Landscapes. This exhibition features landscapes exposing beauties of the Hudson Valley. Miss Sansaricq received academic training in drawing and painting at the Grand Central Academy of Art in NYC.

Bergen-Lafayette

Grayscale and Chill in collaboration with Golden Light Poetry

430 Communipaw Ave unit D-4D, Jersey City, NJ Friday, March 3, 6pm-9pm

Grayscale and Chill in collaboration with @ goldenlightpoetry is an Open Mic night, art show, and shopping event with 10 available open mic slots for any live art medium. Guests will be able to shop with local JC vendors, view art from multiple local artists, and take photographs in Grayscale’s gorgeous Studio A while networking and creating connections that could last for a moment or a lifetime. Light refreshments will be served!

Greenville

Good To Be Back Home

128 Winfield Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07305

Project Greenville

Friday, March 3, 4pm-7pm

After recently being invited to host a show in Downtown Jersey City, it’s good to be home again; and Project Greenville welcomes everyone back to Greenville at their Winfield Avenue location! Come visit their turn of the century home on Friday March 3rd during their annual indoor, salon-style group art show with live music and neighborhood treats from local Greenville businesses. Check out Project Greenville on social media for full lists of participants!

Historic Downtown

Fabric Rope Making Workshop

150 Bay Street Studio 231, Jersey City, NJ 07305

Theda Sandiford

Friday, March 3, 6pm-8pm

Learn to use old textiles or scrap fabric and turn it into rope. The process is easy, slightly addictive, and most definitely meditative. Join Theda Sandiford in making rope for an installation at Governors Island in the Summer of 2023 which is about hair. Materials will be provided.

Journal Square

Tiny Scenes of Everyday Things and More

755 Montgomery St, Jersey City, NJ 07306

McGinley Square Pub

Friday, March 3, 6pm-10pm

Check out this amazing art collection at McGinley Square Pub. Each artist captures a specific medium of common activities or feelings of living in an urban environment. Items are renditions of feelings or emotions creating a unique interactive experience for each participant.

West Side Firoz Mahmud: Early Episodes II Exhibit

100 Culver Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07305

NJCU Visual Arts

Gallery

Friday, March 3, 4pm-7pm

This solo exhibition of mixed media works on paper by Bangladeshartist Firoz Mahmud, born, New York-based engages his cultural and political heritage, touching on themes like war and conflict, legacies of the Bengal region, and dreams of immigrant families in new lands. Most of these works depict the social past, evidence of things left behind, Islamism, history, myth, and beliefs of the past.

Art House Productions is committed to accessibility and inclusivity in all the public programming presented by our organization. A list of wheelchair accessible events can be found here: www.jcfridays. com/blog/categories/ wheelchair-accessible

About Art House Productions

Art House Productions is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to the development and presentation of the performing and visual arts in Jersey City, NJ. Art House Productions presents theater, performing and visual arts festivals, arts events, visual art exhibitions, and adult and youth art classes. For more information about our programs, please visit www.arthouseproductions.org or stop by the Arts Center at 345 Marin Boulevard in Jersey City. Follow on social media @arthouseproductions @ arthouseprods To sign up for Art House’s mailing list, please click here: http://eepurl.com/ hd1FCj.

Hudson Happenings

Jersey City Office of Cultural Affairs and Poet Laureate of Jersey City, Ann Wallace

Present Poetry of Crisis and Community for Earthquake

Jersey City’s Office of Cultural Affairs and Poet Laureate of Jersey City, Ann E. Wallace present Poetry of Crisis and Community on March 2, 2023 at 7PM at Froth on Franklin in Jersey City Heights. This benefit event is part of National Women’s History Month. The admission of $10 will benefit the Earthquake Relief Efforts in Turkey and Syria by Doctors Without Borders. Register for this event at: http://bit. ly/3Em8VG5.

A Women’s History Month Poetry Reading featuring Jersey City Poet Laureate, Ann

Wallace, Theta Pavis, Madhuri Pavamani, and Crystal Letters.

The month of March is Women’s History Month, which highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. Poetry of Crisis and Community serves as an event bringing together our community while benefiting the Earthquake Relief Efforts in Turkey and Syria during their time of crisis.

RSVP in advance for this event: http://bit.ly/3Em8VG5

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Upcoming Events

Sunday, March 5, 4pm, Exhibit Event: Pastor Elaine Thomas, Rector of All Saints Episcopal Parish. Author of “The Mile Square Cathedral: The Church as Community Healer.”

Thursday, March 9, online only, livestreamed at 7pm: Hoboken Talks. Pastor Shirley M. Dennis of Go Ye Therefore Ministries, Inc. is interviewed by La Trenda Ross. The Hoboken Library is hosting a live Watch Party in their main branch at 500 Park Ave, in the large programming room on the lower level.

Sunday, March 12, 4pm, Exhibit Event: Janet Ayala, survivor of the fire on April 30, 1982 at the Pintor Hotel at 151 14th St that killed 13 people, including 7 children. “The Fires” exhibit curator Christopher López will be present.

Sunday, March 19, 4pm: Remembrance ceremony and dedication of plaque for museum founder Jim Hans.

Sunday, March 26, 4pm, Exhibit Event: Bill Bayer, photographer for the Hudson Dispatch newspaper during the time of the fires.

In conjunction with our Main Gallery exhibit, “The Fires: Hoboken 1978-1982,” the Museum is pleased to present the work of Pierce Logan of QWERT Poetry in our new Upper Gallery exhibit, “From a Yuppie’s Typewriter,” from February 26 through Sunday, April 2.

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THE ART HOUSE GALLERY PRESENTS “MOMENTS AND MEASURE” NEW WORK BY MARK KURDZIEL

Art House Productions (Executive Director Meredith Burns, Gallery Director Andrea McKenna) is proud to present new work by Mark Kurdziel in the Art House Gallery, March 3 through March 26, 2023. Kurdziel is an artist based in Jersey City using oil paint and oil distemper. His work combines plastic pictorial ideas and personal poetic concerns by using form, color, and space through metaphor to express the poetry, mystery, and melancholy of our shared existence. The upcoming exhibition at the Art House Gallery represents Kurdziel’s newest work from the last several years. The exhibition runs from March 3 through

March 26 with a reception on Saturday, March 4, 5:00pm to 8:00pm.

A brief preview for the show will be held on March 3 for JC Fridays from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. More information at www.jcfriday.com

Curator Andrea McKenna says, “When looking at Mark’s work, the first thing I notice is his use of color. The deep saturation of hues draws you into a mythical narrative made up of everyday objects, creating a beautiful view into the artist’s personal world.”

All works will be for sale in the Art House Gallery at The Hendrix at 345 Marin Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07302. Art House Gallery exhibitions are always free and open to the public. Large print for all literature regarding our exhibitions and tactile and descriptive tours are available upon request. Email Andrea McKenna for more information at gallery@arthouseproductions.org.

To stay up to date on all Art House events, sign up for the mailing list here here: http://eepurl.com/hd1FCj

About Mark Kurdziel

“Mark Kurdziel’s new paintings reveal the mythological in the ordinary: a party, a fish tank, a domestic cat. His women are hieratic. The flatness of their appearance on the canvas makes them Egyptian goddesses, or Greek Kouroi, or the formal erotic shapes of the sculptures of Khajuraho. These women are his link with the past- his own painterly past and the roots of painting. But just in case you thought to get too serious, there’s a touch of Fat Freddie’s Cat sniffing in the old fish store: mischief amongst the mystery. The ruling goddess is desire Like all of Mark Kurdziel’s unique work, the imagist language is his own while being deeply rooted in painterly traditions from the papyri through abstract expressionism. Mark Kurdziel is an American painter true to global roots. This current show is a step into territory that combines the traditional and the contemporary in a way that acknowledges the alienation of the modern without losing touch with the richness of the past. This is powerful work.” ----Desmond Barry, author of: The Chivalry of Crime, A Bloody Good Friday, and Cressida’s Bed. His shorter prose has appeared in The New Yorker and Granta. For more information about Mark and his work, go to his website - www.markkurdziel. com