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Parkside Avenue. Free admission but donations are accepted. Free parking. Princeton University Art Museum: “A Material Legacy: The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection of Contemporary Art” through Sunday, October 30. The exhibit features artists from North America to Chile and India. “Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives” through Sunday, January 22, 2017. Featuring major works by five internationally renowned artists, this exhibition explores the continuing power and role of narrative in the art of South Asia. The Princeton University Art Museum is located on the Princeton University campus. To find the museum, enter the campus on foot from Nassau Street, University Place, or Washington Street and look for the museum’s banners to lead the way to the front entrance. Museum hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 10a.m. to 5p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; and Sunday, from 1to 5p.m. Closed Mondays and major holidays. Call (609) 2583788or visit www.artmuseum. princeton.educ Stuart Country Day School’s Considine Gallery: Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, the girls independent day school for PS-12, announces the fall gallery exhibition in Stuart’s Considine Gallery will include new work by local artists and faculty members Deborah Land, Phyllis E. Wright, and Andrew Wilkinson. The public is invited to view the art faculty show on display in Stuart’s Considine Gallery, through November 22, 2016. The gallery is open from 8a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, when school is in session. Gallery Talk with the artists is Tuesday, October 18, from 1to 2p.m. The public is welcome. Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart is located at 1200Stuart Road in Princeton. For more information, visit www.stuartschool.org Grounds For Sculpture: Grounds For Sculpture presents “Paul Henry Ramirez: Rattle” through January 8, 2017. Artist Paul Henry Ramirez has created a site-specific installation in Grounds For Sculpture’s West Gallery. This installation will treat the entire West Gallery as a blank canvas. Through a combination of direct paint pours on the wall, canvas wall installations, sound, and colorful window film, Ramirez will transform the West Gallery into a whimsical fantasy of color and energy, playing with and against the architecture of the space. Grounds For Sculpture is located at 80Sculptors Way, Hamilton, NJ 08619. Hours are Tuesday to Thursday, from 10a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. For more information and admission visit www. groundsforsculpture.org. or call (609) 586-0616. TCNJ Art Gallery: “Stay: A Survey of Horses Think Press” on exhibit at The College of New Jersey to December 11, 2016. A comprehensive installation of the Brooklyn based publishing project Horses Think Press (2009-2016) that will present a complete inventory of their publications, print ephemera, research materials and artist projects. Free and open to the public. Gallery hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from noon to 7p.m. and Sunday, from 1–3p.m. at The College of NJ AIMM Building, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, NJ 08628. For more information visit tcag@ tcnj.edu or call (609) 771-2633. Rider University Art Gallery: The Rider University Art Gallery will present an exhibition of works by Judith Brodsky titled “The Twenty Most Important Scientific Questions of the 21st Century” opening Thursday, October 27through Sunday, December 11. The exhibit will include an opening reception on Thursday, October 27from 5to 7p.m. and an artist’s talk on Thursday, November 3at 7 p.m. Admission is free. Inspired by a New York Times article addressing this topic, the exhibit includes images that address such questions as “How many body parts can be reproduced? Why do we sleep? How does the brain work? Will we ever settle on Mars?” Judith Brodsky is currently chair of the Board of Directors of the New York Foundation for the Arts, one of the largest organizations in the nation that supports artists in all disciplines. She is a distinguished professor emerita in the Department of Visual Arts at Rutgers University and founding director of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, which was renamed the Brodsky Center in her honor. The Rider University Art Gallery is located in the Bart Luedeke Center on Rider University’s campus, 2038 Gennie Darisme, “City of Love,” acrylic on canvas, 2015is part of the “Meanings of Home” that features original works of art, poetry and sewing by homeless women and children. on view in the Anne Reid ’72Art Gallery of the Princeton Day School from November 21through December 15. Lawrenceville Road, in Lawrenceville, done in oil, acrylic or watercolor. N.J. It is open Tuesday Along with scenes in and around through Thursday from 11a.m. to New Hope/Lambertville, there 7p.m. and Sunday from noon to will also be small watercolors 4p.m. To learn more, visit www. done during extensive travelsmost rider.edu/arts. recently in Malaysia and HomeFront: HomeFront artists Sri Lanka. His works are colorful and Lawrence-based Creative and lively and are done in a style Collective artists will present a combining impressionism with joint exhibit at Artspace from realism. The exhibition will open November 11, 2016to January daily, from 11a.m. to 6p.m., and 3, 2017. The exhibit’s theme is runs until the closing party that “Gratitude,” which is timely for will be held Sunday, December the season of Thanksgiving. A 11, from 1to 6p.m. Contact the share of all sales of art will benefit artist for more information at Artspace. A reception for all (609) 439-9978. the artists, families and friends, West Windsor Arts Council: will be held on Sunday, December STEAM Series: The Art of Discovery 11, from 1to 3p.m. The gallery is runs through November at HomeFront’s campus at 101 4. The focus of this exhibit is Celia Way, Ewing. The exhibit will to present a visual expression be open to the public by arrangement of the scientist’s concept of with the director, Ruthann work as art, as well as an artist’s Traylor who can be contacted at work in mediums that open new, email: ruthannt@homefrontnj. exploratory opportunities. This org or by phone: (609) 8837500, juried exhibit will focus on the ext. 316. discovery process of learning Constantine Art & Jewelry: from both scientific and artistic Mike Mann presents “Fall Into angles. This is the first in a series Winter,” a solo show and sale of of STEM-related juried shows his recent paintings at Constantine that will explore the relationships Art & Jewelry, 2a Stockton of each discipline of the Ave, New Hope, PA, 18938. acronym (Science, Technology, Opening with a gala reception on Engineering, and Math) with art. Friday, November 11from 5to 10 The West Windsor Arts Center is p.m., this exhibition focuses on located in the historic Princeton local scenes of Fall and Winter Junction Firehouse, 952 Alexander

The mission of the Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of NJ is to educate the general public about New Jersey’s unparalleled 220+ year contribution to the development of human flight and to encourage young people to consider a career in the aerospace industry. This is accomplished through the display of aircraft, engines, artifacts, models and other NJ aviation-related exhibits (many interactive) ranging chronologically from the 18th Century to the present day. The Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of NJ is located at 400Fred Wehran Dr., Teterboro, NJ. Hours: 10 a.m.- 4p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. Admission: $8adults and $6 seniors/children. Visit website at njahof.org; e-mail: njahof@verizon.net or call (201) 288-6344. Monmouth Museum: When does a population reach a point of pivotal change? When does a group go from being an element of a community to being a leading voice in its future? These are questions examined in “Neo-Latino: Critical Mass,” a group art exhibition presented at the Monmouth Museum to November 6, 2016. Critical Mass will feature artists with roots in or ties to Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Portugal and Spain. Monmouth Museum is located at 765Newman Springs Rd, Lincroft, NJ. (732) 747-2266. For more information visit www. monmouthmuseum.org or call (732) 747-2266. Find them on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Mercer Museum & Fonthill