The Daily Newarker — Press Wire

Art Shop is on the ground floor of Gallery Aferro in the main gallery, and offers seasonally curated artist multiples and one of kind items from around the world. Here are some new items, some Newark-centric.

"EWR"

A portion of proceeds from sales of this Necklace go to the Susan G. Komen fund for women, to support breast cancer research.

The selections of record bowls is always changing. All genres are represented, and “musical requests” can be made to artshop@aferro.org

"Panther Mix" signed

Sold out, now restocked!

"Newark Rings"

"NJ"

And finally, the onesie:

"Heart and Tools"

is in this case, 73 Market Street, between Washington and University. Please join us this Saturday 3/13 for the spring opening reception  for three new exhibitions, “Tek’tanic,” curated by Evonne M. Davis, “The Identity Project” by ‘08 Aferro Studio Resident Beatrice Coron, and “Nothing to See/Hear” by ‘08 Aferro Studio Resident Ryan Schroeder.

From 7-10, have a glass of wine, check out the waterfall cascading down the front platform of the gallery, built by Kai Vierstra or rearrange the city built by Lisa di Donato. Lisa Elmaleh’s wet plate images are made in a mobile car-trunk darkroom on long trips on back roads throughout the US. Stephen Mishol’s exquisite large scale prints depict the “Jersey Barrier.”

Beatrice Coron has recently given several papercutting workshops in the Essex county area, and her public art can be seen currently in NYC subway cars.  She has filled the Liminal Space with large tyvek sheets from floor to ceiling, cut into thousands of tiny figures depicting a dense, busy world inspired in part by contemporary literature, but recognizable and engaging to even the youngest of visitors.  This is a great show to take kids to!

Ryan Schroeder spent much of his residency working with experimental casein and beeswax sculptures, but his culminating exhibition in the Project Room is all new work. Come to discover what he brought back from his most recent residency in Virginia.

Contact: info@aferro.org

175 Jobs for Youth Planned for Summer 2009

The All Stars Project of New Jersey is launching in partnership with the New Jersey business community including Dun & Bradstreet, PSEG, Investors Savings Bank, Hollister Construction, Ernst & Young, and Latham & Watkins an economic job stimulus program providing summer jobs for Newark youth worth $500,000.

The All Stars Project of New Jersey, Development School for Youth, created nine years ago, in partnership with the New Jersey business community, acts as a bridge for inner city youth from Newark, helping them to acquire skills to professionally develop, and placing them in summer paid jobs. “We believe in economic stimulus and development stimulus, and we are thrilled to be partnering with private sector New Jersey businesses which are sponsoring our youth to the tune of $500,000 in summer internships for 2009. This gives young people of Newark business and professional opportunities otherwise not afforded to them and enables them to enrich their communities,” said Gloria Strickland, Director of All Stars Project of New Jersey.

One hundred eighty-five young people from Newark will be participating in the program receiving much needed professional skills and summer jobs in 2009. “By sponsoring internships over the last few years, we learned that this program is working and that our investment of time and energy benefits not only these young people, but also our team members and our workplace environment.” said Steve Alesio, Chairman and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet. D&B sponsors internships at its Short Hills corporate headquarters and other New Jersey facilities.

The All Stars Project, Development School for Youth, one of the country’s leading outside-of-school programs, was featured in Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s documentary America: Beyond the Color Line. This year, the All Stars Project, Development School for Youth is partnering with over 85 corporations nationwide reaching inner city youth in Chicago, New York City and Newark, NJ. Summer jobs will be provided for 300 young people in 2009 who graduate from the program in the three cities. The program will expand to four cities and place 500 youth in summer jobs in 2010.

The All Stars Project, www.allstars.org, now in its 28th year is 100% privately-funded and builds partnerships with the private sector to produce outside-of-school development programs for inner-city youth using an innovative performance-based approach.