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PRESS COVERAGE
The latest press coverage mentioning ArtYard
Fake Whale: Beyond The Ashes: Inside Where There’s Smoke by Lance Weiler
(October 5, 2023) Featuring haunting remnants of mysterious blazes, cutting-edge technology, and a culmination of Lance Weiler‘s ongoing exploration of memory and truth, “Where There’s Smoke” expands the boundaries of form, narrative, and artistic expression.
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Getaway Mavens: Romantic Things to do in Hunterdon County NJ
(August 2023) ArtYard, a contemporary museum gallery and performance space, has basically reshaped small Delaware River towns on the New Jersey side, by adding a world-class, yet intimate art institution to this farm region.
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Broad Street Review: 'Access artists' ignite new languages in dance, theater, and visual art
(July 17, 2023) A sea change is underway across the arts, propelled by people with disabilities who are defying a deficit mentality and generating new languages in dance, theater, and visual art. Fresh ways of experiencing the arts are also emerging, such as haptic vests that translate music into body vibrations and lyrical audio descriptions of visual media.
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No Proscenium: Where There's Smoke a stunningly personal exhibit that continues to resonate with audiences
(July 14, 2023) For anyone who’s suffered the slow loss of a parent, or struggled to truly know them as evidence of who they were fades into the mists of time, there’s a lot to relate to. The photography is beautiful, and a few of the new tactile elements were highly resonant.
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NJArts.Net: Firefighter’s son Lance Weiler blazes own trail in unusual ‘Where There’s Smoke’ exhibition at ArtYard
(6/26/2023) This troubling, rewarding, emotionally exhausting project draws the gallery-goer into a blaze-threatened home, bit by bit, shot by shot, and flame by beckoning flame.
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Art Spiel: ArtYard & Paul Bowen: Drift
(5/14/2023) Paul Bowen: Drift "a beautifully installed exhibition with some magical moments." Some works suggest a narrative and seem to be in a moment of arrested movement. Flyer, hung just above eye level, confronts us with a muscley vertical element that slices the space into tilting and leaning towards us. It gives a little jolt and uplift and a slight sense of menace like the feeling one gets standing at the bow of a very large ship at dock, foreboding and majestic as it bobs with the waves
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American Theatre Magazine: TyLie Shider Receives ArtYard Playwright Fellowship
(5/11/23) ArtYard has selected TyLie Shider as the inaugural recipient of the ArtYard Playwright Fellowship. Shider will spend nine months in residency at ArtYard developing new work, working closely with ArtYard artistic and technical staff and guest theatre curator Deonté Griffin-Quick.
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Broad Street Review: Shoes, A Love Story reveals curator Jill Kearney’s special journey
(4/27/23) Shoes, A Love Story invites viewers to consider footwear as autobiography, activism, and socioeconomic commentary. The well-worn shoes range from embroidered silk slippers to steel-and-leather polio braces, from oversized clown feet to woven straw clogs
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Philadelphia Inquirer: From Paris to NJ: Isabella Rosselini’s ‘Darwin’s Smile’ comes to Frenchtown
(3/9/23) The actor-model-author-farmer plays “dogs, cats, chickens, peacocks, and, of course, Charles Darwin,” in a comedic meditation on art and science. It plays at Frenchtown's ArtYard this weekend.
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Isabella Rossellini to speak on animal behavior, acting at ArtYard in Frenchtown
(3/8/2023) You can learn a lot from Isabella Rossellini’s new one-woman show. But “Darwin’s Smile” — the Emmy nominee’s meditation on empathy and its intersection with acting and the study of animal behavior — is certainly not a lecture.
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NJ INDY: Studio Route 29 presents new opportunities for artists with disabilities
(3/9/23) “It’s really nice for people with disabilities to have a place where they’re celebrated for who they are instead of trying to fix them or make them fit into society in a way that they’re not."
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TAPInto: Flemington artist's artwork coming to ArtYard
(2/18/23) A Flemington resident's artwork will be featured at a new exhibition at ArtYard, in Frenchtown, this season, beginning Saturday. Valerie Huhn, of Flemington, and David Horowitz, of Frenchtown, have created works in "Shoes, A Love Story."
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State of the Arts: Alexandre Arrechea at ArtYard
(October 2022) A founding member of the Cuban Collective, Los Carpinteros, international artist Alexandre Arrechea creates a new exhibition at ArtYard in Frenchtown, NJ. We meet the artist during his residency there as he creates monumental work, including a watercolor made with water drawn from the nearby Delaware River. Curator Elsa Mora describes how growing up in Cuba affected Arrechea’s work.
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Arte Al Dia: A shared and optimistic future in Landscape and Hierarchies
(September 2022) ArtYard inaugurated the new exhibition by Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea. LANDSCAPE AND HIERARCHIES explores the relationship between the individual and the collective, and the domino effect that human actions may have on society and nature.
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Artlyst: Art Search August 2022 Diary
(8/1/2022) Peter Schumann's philosophy has been explored recently at ArtYard in Frenchtown, New Jersey, through an installation of masks, puppets, books, paper mâché relief work, and paintings conveying his deep commitment to the creative and political work which unites artists and communities in celebration and protest. The installation featured historic never-before displayed woodcuts, brand new giant books, and paintings in black and white plus giant paper mâché sculpture, sweeping multi-chrome paintings, masks and objects.
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Bucks County Herald: ArtYard’s fifth anniversary Hatch steps off in Frenchtown
(7/21/2022) The Hatch, a raucous and exuberant celebration of creative incubation and community, featured the brass band Ocean Avenue Stompers, a dozen artists led by Laura Bernstein who unfurled their 100-foot-long Miracle Tapestry Project, and a parade of friendly locals dressed as birds bringing merriment through downtown Frenchtown
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NJArts.Net: Film festival at ArtYard in Frenchtown is a cinematic ode to joy
(7/7/2022) ArtYard is hosting a Film Festival of Joy, July 13-17, featuring a diverse selection of shorts, features, silent films, cartoons and documentaries. Filmmakers will be there to answer audience questions, and the fest wraps up with a gospel performance by the Paterson-based group Anointed Friends.
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American Theatre Magazine: 3 Black Theatremakers at Play and at Work in NJ’s ArtYard
(6/13/2022) A recent reading of TyLie Shider’s play ‘Whittier,’ about the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, brought together artists intent on sustaining the energy of the past 2 years of protest.
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Edible Jersey: Visit Frenchtown
(6/3/2022) These days, Frenchtown is in the midst of a major revival, with an active budding art scene anchored by ArtYard, a contemporary art and performance center that opened in May of last year. While this is bringing in a new wave of visitors, Frenchtown has enjoyed a huge underlying current of local hometown pride right from the start. From annual events like Bastille Day, to River Fest, to the Frenchtown Mermaid Parade, it’s a town brimming with love for their river, community, and visitors alike.
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NJArts.net: Lots of drama in Bread and Puppet Theater co-founder Peter Schumann’s exhibition
(5/27/2022) ArtYard was designed for immersion. The galleries in this Frenchtown arts center are big enough to dry-dock a boat in. It’s the sort of place that encourages installations, rather than exhibitions. Instead of an array of pictures on a wall, waiting there to be apprehended, the Yard brims over with art. Its curators invite visitors to plunge in. The refurbished theater is impressive to behold — it’s right on the banks of a beautiful bend in the Delaware River — and it requires visions to match its dimensions. The ArtYard whispers to creators: Use every square inch of these galleries. Take advantage of the wide walls and high ceilings. Make a fantasy world.
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Jersey Arts Podcast: “Whittier,” New Docudrama by TyLie Shider
(5/15/2022) This Saturday, May 21, theatergoers are invited to join ArtYard in Frenchtown for a reading of Whittier, a new docudrama by TyLie Shider. Whittier is a neighborhood in Minneapolis, close to where the murder of George Floyd took place. Shider’s new play follows residents of Whittier grappling with that tragedy, as well as the stresses of life during the lockdown of 2020.
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WBGO: Drummer, composer and bandleader Arthur Vint brings his unique jazz-influenced cinematic sound to ArtYard
(4/9/2022) Arthur Vint & Associates bring a unique jazz-influenced cinematic sound to ArtYard Frenchtown Saturday, April 9 at 8pm. Arthur Vint and ArtYard concert curator and owner of the Frenchtown Bookshop Scott Sheldon join WBGO Journal host Douglas Doyle to talk about the multi-media event that will feature sounds from the late composer Ennio Morricone, including The Good The Bad and The Ugly starring jazz lover Clint Eastwood Fans.
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Courier News: ArtYard's McDonnell Theater opens in Frenchtown
(3/7/2022) With experience hosting more than 250 theater, poetry, dance, music and film events, ArtYard in Frenchtown has become a cultural epicenter since it opened five years ago along the Delaware River. But now, the curtain is up at 13 Front St.
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WDVR: Creative Conversations with ArtYard's Meghan Van Dyk
(3/7/2022) Mandee Hammerstein interviews with ArtYard’s Communications Manager Meghan Van Dyk. Mandee and Meghan dive into the opening act for ArtYard’s much anticipated McDonnell Theater opening on March 3rd, headlining with Multi-Award-Winning Hip Hop Artist Supaman.
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Bucks County Herald: Art Yard's exhibition 'Invisible'
(1/20/2022) ArtYard in Frenchtown, N.J., opened its first exhibition of the new year, “Invisible,” on Jan. 15. Curated by Jill Kearney, “Invisible” explores what the author Svetlana Alexievich calls “the missing history – the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.”
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WFMZ: ArtYard's new building, growth expected to bring more artists, visitors to Frenchtown
(1/13/2022) ArtYard in Frenchtown has been around for five years, but 2022 is set to be its most exciting year yet. The nonprofit has expanded to become a hub for creation and collaboration.
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Star Ledger: Former chicken hatchery will now incubate N.J. arts and entertainment scene
(5/3/2021) The founder and executive director of a renowned contemporary arts center in New Jersey is guided by an overarching mission: to incubate creative expression and catalyze collaborations that reveal the transformational power of art to the greatest extent that she can.
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(Star Ledger) Frenchtown mayor looks to ‘finish what he started’ in second term
(11/8/2019) “It’s going to be a major transformational item for our downtown," Myhre said. “I think it’s going to be a big driver of tourism and visitors, and it’s going to really revitalize a whole area of town that was previously occupied by two vacant buildings that they took down.”
Philly Voice: Artists turn everyday objects into art for New Jersey exhibit
(6/23/2017) The exhibition "Ordinary Obsessions" will feature drawings, sculptures, installations and video works. Both artists looked at everyday objects for inspiration in creating thought-provoking work.
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Philly Voice: New Jersey community helps create art installation
(3/17/2017) For the past three months, members of the Frenchtown, New Jersey community have been sharing their wishes anonymously with the neighborhood gallery ArtYard. An art installation made from the collected wishes will be on display in the exhibit "Through the Unfrequented Sky." Those who view the piece, which resembles a cloud, are asked to look for repeated wishes.
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PRESS RELEASES
Recent press announcements about exhibitions, events, and more.
Announcing eight new concerts in ArtYard’s McDonnell Theater
This year’s lineup, which kicked off this weekend with a rousing performance by Pardon My French!, includes a powerhouse of talented artists whose music styles range from soul to Western swing and classical to indigenous roots.
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Four new exhibitions open this winter at ArtYard
ArtYard is excited to announce four unique exhibitions that open this winter — Paul Bowen: Drift, featuring sculptures of wood and found materials; As Is, a selection of unauthored objects from the world of art without intent; Shoes, A Love Story, an assembly of shoes that hint at mysterious and beguiling narratives; and Michael Mangino: Paint, a solo exhibition of recent works by a Studio Route 29 artist.
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Studio Route 29 set to launch this fall to serve artists with disabilities
ArtYard is delighted to support the launch of Studio Route 29, a progressive art studio for artists with developmental and intellectual disabilities, which opens this fall at our former gallery at 62A Trenton Ave.
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ArtYard and Baryshnikov Arts Center partner to expand residency program
ArtYard is pleased to announce its partnership with the Baryshnikov Arts Center for a residency program to support the development of new work that launches in March with Company SBB // Stefanie Batten Bland.
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‘Invisible’ exhibition explores missing histories
ArtYard is pleased to present Invisible, an exhibition curated by Jill Kearney featuring the work of twelve artists whose practices examine omitted histories, imperceptible forces, and unspoken narratives which render that which is apparent, misleading, or incomplete.
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ArtYard announces opening of arts center housing exhibition space and theater
ArtYard, a nonprofit contemporary art center, is set to open its newly completed 21,000-square-foot home with two floors of exhibition space and a 162-seat state-of-the-art theater at a ceremony on May 1. This interdisciplinary art center is located in Frenchtown, NJ, a beguiling small town perched at the Delaware River’s edge within a little more than an hour’s drive of Philadelphia and New York that features bike paths, hiking trails, historic hotels, farm-to-table restaurants, and an emerging art scene.
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