With our new year beginning, we look forward to upcoming events - meetings and exhibits which will take place at the Middletown Township Public Library. Here is a summary of meeting and exhibit dates for Fall 2017 through Spring 2018:

MEETINGS 2017-2018:

Wednesdays from 10:30-1pm

September 20: Linda Roemer; Art of the Silhouette

October 18: Linda DeNicola: Discovering Alcohol & Ink Paintings

November 15: David Levy, President, Guild of Creative Art: Juries for Artists, Critiques

January 17, 2018: David Byrne, A lifetime of drawing

February - no meeting

March 21, 2018: Asja Jung, Art Space 88 -- Open Door

April 18, 2018:Vicki DeVico, Creating artistic effects in Photoshop

May 16, 2018 Gina Torella, An Artist's Life - Working with different mediums

EXHIBITS 2018: 

January 3-27

Toni Wilczewski Memorial Winter Break Photography Exhibit

Receiving Wed. Jan 3, 10am-noon

Reception/TakeDown Saturday January 27 from 1-3pm

February 1-24

H&E Luhrs Exhibit

Two chairpersons needed; contact Lucille Dellert 732-523-5762

Receiving Thursday Feb 1, 10am-noon

Reception/TakeDown Saturday February 24 from 1-3pm

March 1-31

Oldies but Goodies Show (NFS permitted)

Receiving, Thursday March 1 from 10-noon

Reception/TakeDown Saturday March 31 from 1-3pm

April 2-28

Ruth Crown Memorial Exhibit

Receiving/Thursday, April 2 from 10am-noon

Reception/TakeDown Saturday, April 28 from 1-3pm

Enjoy photos on last tab: Photos from Demonstrations and Receptions.

Also, take a look at some of our artists' paintings and photographs on the tab: Upcoming Exhibits & Art Galleries

Please join us at our lively meetings with lectures and demonstrations by professional artists. We meet on the third Wednesday of the month during the Fall and Spring. For information on upcoming meetings, click on the tab:

As a member, you may participate in any of our four major Art Exhibitions (January, February, March, and April). Click on the tab:

Upcoming Exhibits & Art Galleries.

For a nominal donation, artists may link their websites from our

Artists and Supporter Links page.

Join us! Membership Information is available herel

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ART SCHOLARSHIP FOR BROOKDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ART MAJOR

The Art Society of Monmouth County is pleased to announce a $500 Grant to the Brookdale Community College Foundation for an Art Scholarship to a Monmouth County art student with 24 credit hours and a 3.0 GPA.

The Scholarship will be administered in the name of the Art Society of Monmouth County during the upcoming academic year. This replaces the ASMC's Annual High School Merit Award.

Our 2017 award recipient was Christina Berndt. Congratulations, Christina!

MARCH 2016 UPDATE:

Congratulations to the winners who received their awards at the May 16 member meeting:

Oil/Acrylic: 1st: Mary Kliauga; 2nd: Nancy France-Vaz; 3rd: Rose Marie Kelly

Watercolor: 1st: Janet Furlong; 2nd: Frank Colaguori; 3rd: Janice Voorhees

Pastel: 1st: Sol Hara; 2nd: Leonia Mroczkowski; 3rd: Ernest Antholis

Photography: 1st: Vince Matulewich; 2nd: Marilyn Baldi; 3rd: Fran Geroni

Mixed Media/Other: 1st: Vicky Culver; 2nd: Paul Clark; 3rd: Ken Klohn

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February 27 AWARDS RECEPTION: Winter Break Photography Exhibit at Monmouth Beach Cultural Center

At Saturday's lovely reception, awards were presented to our talented photographers. Here is the awards list for the 2016 Winter Break Photography Exhibit:

First Place: Lois Wilkes, "Getting a Ticket to Ride" 
Second Place: Joan B. Myers, "Apple Sorbet"
Third Place: Anthony Porto, "Pebble Beach"
Honorable Mention: Vince Matulewich, "Barn & Stable, Allaire Village"
Honorable Mention: Linda Hart, "Prickly Flight"

Thirty-one entries were submitted by 18 photographers. Congratulations to all! It was a great show! Special thanks to Vince Matulewich for chairing the show, Jill Kaiser for judging the works, and to the members who helped with registration and mounting the exhibit - Stephanie Frank, Irene Matulewich, Sol Hara, Ernie Antholis.

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Blakes's Bowls by Blake Patterson demonstrated this bowl-making process on September 17 at our General Membership Meeting and Demonstration at the Monmouth Beach Cultural Center.

Artist Demonstrations from 2013-2015:

Roberta Carter Clark painting a live watercolor portrait of Norma Wokas

Liz Schippert shows members how to gild with gold

Jim Kent shows how to paint in an abstract expressionism style.

Photos by Doug Frank and Helen Antholis