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Belmar Arts Center Newsletter - March 2023

Arts and Entertainment

March 1, 2023

From: Belmar Arts Council

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Rhythm Exhibition

Submissions due March 15 at Midnight

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 25, 3:00-5:00pm

Rhythm can be a dancer, and our soul's companion. If you only observe, you can see, hear and feel rhythm everywhere . . .

Rhythm, usually achieved through repetition of lines, shapes, colors, and more, creates a visual tempo in artworks and provides a path for the viewer's eye to follow. But don’t let that limit you! All forms of art can be submitted; lyrics, short story, poetry, etc.

Written word should be typed or neatly written and mounted or framed for hanging like a piece of art.

To learn more about all BAC classes & to register

New! Water-Mixable Oils Course

Date: March 4, Time:? 12:30am - 2:30pm

Date: March 11, Time:? 1:30 - 3:30pm

2 Sessions total 5 hours

Water-Mixable Oils are a perfect balance – the blending time of oils with the super easy clean up of water.

Water-mixable oils are real oils, they are water mixable.

Brushes and palettes Clean up with soap and water rather than using a solvent.

They have a lovely buttery consistency, a long working time which enables you to make changes over a longer period of time, blending colors, adjusting shapes, or working wet-into-wet with nice thick marks.

This is open to ALL Student Levels

Pysanky: Ukrainian Egg Decorating

Instructor:? Jenny Santa Maria

Date: Saturday March 4

Time:? 10:00- 12:30pm

This workshop at BAC is a unique opportunity to learn a skill that is traditionally passed down by the Matriarch of the family. Pysanky, also known as Ukrainian eggs, is a folk tradition that is both art and prayer.

Explore Watercolor Painting

2 Separate Sessions

Tuesdays April 4, 11, 18, 25 - or-

Thursday April 6, 13, 20, 27

A guaranteed painting with each class!

Instructor Susanna Anastasia comes to Belmar Arts having spent 30 plus years teaching the basics of watercolor painting.

Students will begin to explore the mechanics of this medium along with the properties of paint, paper and water.

Beginner’s welcome!

FINE ART PRINTING SEMINAR

Date: Monday, March 27

Time:? 6:30 - 8:30pm

The goal of this presentation is to introduce and inspire you to the process of fine art printmaking. Learn how to take your images from the immediate and fleeting digital world to creating an enduring fine art print.

Some of the topics to be discussed and demonstrated are:

  • Creating a solid digital workflow environment
  • Choosing a monitor (display)
  • Color management using calibration tools
  • Choosing a printer that’s right for you
  • Paper choices for the highest quality prints
  • ICC profile matching

Live @ the BAC

Saturday, March 4

Doors at 6:30 Music at 7:00pm

George Wirths Words and Music with Leah Thompson, and Tony Tedesco

Local Singer-Songwriter George Wirth is bringing back his acoustic music series. Words and Music will return to the BAC on the first Saturday of every month. Enjoy a different set of artists every month. Each artists diverse and different from the last.

Meets Weekly at the BAC on Tuesday nights 7:00pm - 10:00pm

CHANGE IN TIME FOR TUESDAY MARCH 14TH

START TIME IS 9:00 PM

This open mic is designed for collaborators and experimentalist's alike, to try new things, and be open to different possibilities.

Gaia Raga: Live in the Dark Room.

Saturday 3/18 at 7:30 pm

Free -- $13 Suggested Donation

Gaia Raga is an Experimental Folk ensemble out of Asbury park. Led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Niki Arrowsmith, the band uses unique instrumentation and very delicate playing style to turn songs into their own mediative world. Playing tunes from Cat Stevens, the Mama and the Poppas, Coldplay, and Radiohead.  They specialize in Kirtans, which are like Indian ragas, that take a chant and or a phrase and meditate on it with the goal of transcendence.  Niki herself sings and plays mostly harmonium. She is joined by Karsyn Wagner on vocals , Andy Demos on sitar, percussion, and saxophones, and Matthew Trice on Bass, and alto saxophone.

Glass Garden Live at the BAC

Saturday 3/25 at 7:30 pm

Belmar Arts is proud to have Hip Hop band Glass Garden playing two sets in the gallery. A fairly new band out of Central Jersey, and the greater Philadelphia region. It is composed of Faye Fadem on drums, and Cody McCorry on bass from Thank You Scientist and We Used to Cut the Grass. Alden Slack on horn and wind instruments. Maeve Schallert on lap steel guitar and electronics. Idris, aka Bob the Botanist is known as a prolific rapper and is the lead vocalist of the group. The band was founded and is led by John Kadianon on Keyboards and vocals.

There is a minimum cover of $10

Free food and beverage will be provided

The Monthly Open Mic Jam Vol 10.

FRIDAY 3/24 for Free

This month's Open Mic and Jam will be on a Friday. Yes, it is usually on a Saturday. but this month we needed to change it up. This night is both an Open Mic and a Jam.  You can sign up and have the option of other musicians playing with you or not. The house band will play a short set to start and will call some tunes for participants to join in. This is an opportunity for performers to play together with other people, practice, listen, jam, and hone their craft. All styles and instruments welcome.

Shared Interest Groups

There will be NO Photo meeting in March.

Next meeting will be April 3

The Fiber Friday shared interest group.will be meeting at the BAC galleries from 1-2:30 on Friday March 31st. Please bring something to share for show and tell