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emma wrote a new blog post: Reminder: Sit for a portrait this Friday and Saturday

Alone and Together: Tintype Portrait Studio at Gallery Aferro October 3 + 4th, 1-7 PM
email ewilcox@aferro.org for an appointment, or walk in.
Photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley is inviting the public to have their portrait taken at Gallery Aferro on October 3 and 4th from 1-7 PM. Sitters can come solo or with a loved one. The sittings [...]

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emma wrote a new blog post: Tintype Portrait Studio coming to Downtown Newark

Alone and Together: Tintype Portrait Studio at Gallery Aferro
October 3 + 4th, 1-7 PM
Photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley is inviting the public to have their portrait taken at Gallery Aferro on October 3 and 4th from 1-7 PM. Sitters can come solo or with a loved one. The sittings are free. A print of the image is [...]

  1 year, 6 months ago · View

emma wrote a new blog post: Aferro Studio Residency Program for 2009

Gallery Aferro Studio Residency
Now Accepting applications for 2009 artists in residence
Due December 15, 2008 (not postmark)
For more details:
http://www.aferro.org
About the Residency:
Several of the 06-07 Aferro Studio residents have commented that the chance for informal networking with peers afforded by residency in the building was one of the best aspects of their experience. [...]

  1 year, 6 months ago · View

emma wrote a new blog post: Networked at Aferro 4/19/08

Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ http://www.aferro.org
Networked curated by Donna Kessinger, New Media Room
April 19 – May 17, 2008
Opening Reception Saturday April 19, 7-10 PM
According to independent curator and video artist Donna Kessinger, the world of networked art is expansive and constantly evolving daily with new technology and applications. Networked is an effort to [...]

  1 year, 11 months ago · View

emma wrote a new blog post: Normative Behaviors: New Video by Michael Paul Britto, 10/27

Normative Behaviors: New Video by Michael Paul Britto
Aferro New Media Room
October 20-November 17, 2007
Opening Reception Saturday October 27, 6-9:30 PM
Gallery Aferro proudly presents Michael Paul Britto’s solo show, Normative Behaviors, in the New Media Room. New and unseen work will be premiered, in addition to acclaimed works such as Ghetto Games, Authenticity of [...]

  2 years, 4 months ago · View

emma wrote a new blog post: In the Country of Last Refuge at Gallery Aferro, 10/27

In the Country of Last Refuge
A Mashup curated by Emma Wilcox and Evonne M. Davis

October 20-November 17, 2007
Opening Reception Saturday October 27, 6-9:30 PM

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  2 years, 4 months ago · View

emma wrote a new blog post: Justice OutLOUD performance

Dear Friends,
We’re excited to bring you the latest updates on the Race Still Matters Conference happening Saturday, October 20th at Essex County College – Newark, NJ. You can register at http://www.racestillmatters.org.
Our introductory speaker, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill of Temple University and empowering morning workshops will explore the many reasons why Race Still Matters . The [...]

  2 years, 5 months ago · View

emma wrote a new blog post: Build your own audible alarm – free workshop

The Aphrodite Project’s audible alarm demo is Sept. 29 at 4pm, at Gallery Aferro in Newark.
We will hold a live demonstration to show how you can build your own personal audible alarm system for around $10. The system is easy to assemble and uses parts available from RadioShack. No soldering or special skills are required. [...]

  2 years, 5 months ago · View

emma wrote a new blog post: Desiderium at Gallery Aferro (also, GPS-enabled shoes)

Desiderium
September 8 – October 6, 2007
Opening Reception September 8, 2007 6-9 PM
Curated by Evonne Davis
Gallery Aferro 73 Market Street Newark NJ http://www.aferro.org
Desiderium (n.) Deep, unfulfilled longing. Yearning. Desire without hope.
29 Artists explore this theme, including Newark born-and-residing talents Les Ayre and Kelly Pinho. There are numerous interactive elements to the show, including a motion- [...]

  2 years, 6 months ago · View

emma wrote a new blog post: Guernica

The Spanish civil war is the inspiration for this Saturday’s event at Gallery Aferro. A sneak preview can be seen here. Many members of the close-knit artist community of Newark contributed time, skill, grunt labor, props, original artwork, and themselves as performers to create this spectacle. There has been a spirit of [...]

  2 years, 7 months ago · View

emma wrote a new blog post: For 2 Nights only at Gallery Aferro

1938
August 11 + 18th, 2007 at Gallery Aferro
Instigated by Sebastian Patane Masuelli
Performance by American Watercolor Movement at 8 PM

1938 is a site-specific installation instigated by Aferro studio resident Sebastian Patane Masuelli with musical collective American Watercolor Movement.  1938 is also an original film created by Masuelli and filmmaker Michelle [...]

  2 years, 7 months ago · View

emma wrote a new blog post: Newark, NJ, Ireland and Being Home

Conor McGrady, one of the artists I invited to show at Gallery Aferro this month, was born and raised in Northern Ireland during the 70’s and 80’s. His large (4×8 and 4×15 foot) drawings are done from memory, and depict the neighborhoods, blocks and housing structures of his childhood. The [...]

  2 years, 9 months ago · View

emma wrote a new blog post: Leave the lights on

Gallery Aferro’s contribution to the Newark Arts & Music Festival was a film projection onto the back of the old Hahnes building, above the sculpture park. We have had mobile, outdoor film events in development for some time at Aferro, and are soon going to be able to start ofering them to the people of [...]

  2 years, 9 months ago · View

emma wrote a new blog post: Over the Rainbow (in Newark)

Gallery Aferro has donated our space to Newark-Essex Pride for the weeklong events– film screenings, discussions, a fashion show– that began this Monday with the first-ever raising of the rainbow flag at City Hall.
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On Monday night during a professional meet and greet, a rainbow appeared in the sky over the old burlesque theatre [...]

  2 years, 9 months ago · View

emma wrote a new blog post: June 16 at Gallery Aferro: reflecting on change in the landscape

Someday This Will All Be (something else) June 16-July 14, 2007
Curated by Emma Wilcox
Please join us for the opening reception on June 16, 2007 from 6-9, at Gallery Aferro 73 Market St in downtown Newark NJ.
On being a local. Locally or otherwise.
With essay by Tim Maul
Dylan Chatain
Evonne Davis
Tim Maul
Conor McGrady
Laurinda Stockwell
Gallery Aferro presents 5 [...]

  2 years, 10 months ago · View