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Castle: “Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag” runs through November 6, 2016. From Civil War-era flags and Native American moccasins to political campaign buttons and original flag art, the exhibit assembles thousands of flagrelated artifacts and images that comprise their own genre of folk art and represent a unique part of our American heritage. Included with museum admission. The museum is at 84S. Pine St., Doylestown, PA. General admission: $14adults, $12seniors, and $8youth (ages 6-17) For more information, call (215) 345-0210, or visit www.mercermuseum.org. A Stage In Time Gallery: New works of Ramón Robledo along with earlier works on exhibit at the gallery. Hours: Monday to Friday, noon to 6p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, from 10a.m. to 6p.m. A Stage In Time Gallery is at 9 Lambert Lane, Lambertville, NJ. Call (609) 397-3690or www. ramonrobledoart.com The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University: The exhibition, “Thinking Pictures”: Moscow Conceptual Art in the Dodge Collection will introduce audiences to the artists and work that defined the development and evolution of conceptual art in Moscow in the 1970s and 1980s. Featuring nearly 50 artists and approximately 100 works, Thinking Pictures brings work that is formative to the development of contemporary art practices and yet has been little known or shared as part of the global dialogue. The exhibition will remain on view through December 31, 2016. Free admission. The museum is at 71Hamilton Street (at George Street) on the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick. The Zimmerli is a short walk from the NJ Transit train station in New Brunswick. For more information, visit the museum’s website www. zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu or call (848) 932-7237. The Meredith Havens Fire Museum: The museum was founded in 1959by non-retired Fire Captain Edward Gore and Meredith Havens. It houses one of the largest collection of fire helmets on the East Coast and now proudly displays, courtesy of the NJ Department of Parks & Forestry, a Philadelphia-style, double-decker hand pumper originally purchased in 1850for the Goodwill Volunteer Fire Company of Trenton. The museum is attached to a working fire station. Groups of 10or more, call (609) 989-4038to schedule a visit. The museum is at 244 Perry Street, Trenton. Park in the rear parking lot on Allen Street to reach the museum’s entrance. Gourgaud Gallery: Cranbury digital Camera Club (CdCC) photographers are on display at the Gourgaud Gallery, located at Cranbury Town Hall, 23-A North Main Street (the old schoolhouse) through October 28. The photos selected by the photographers for the show depict various themes and subject matter. The artwork is for sale with 20% of each sale going to support the Cranbury Arts Council and its programs. For information www.cranburyartscouncil.org. Roebling Museum: The New York World’s Fair of 1939was an international celebration of technology, design, consumerism and fun. Its theme, “Building the World of Tomorrow,” gave the John A. Roebling’s Sons Company a perfect opportunity to showcase its work building steel wire cables for the world’s longest suspension bridges. “Roebling Goes To The Fair,” displays artwork commissioned by the Roebling company for its exhibit at the New York fair. The exhibit will remain on show through the end of the year. Unusual circular paintings depict the Brooklyn Bridge (1883) and the George Washington Bridge (1931). A series of panels shows scenes of workers in the Roebling wire mills, including men drawing wire, testing wire strength and spinning wire rope on vertical stranding machines in the company’s Trenton rope works. The museum is located at 100Second Ave. in Roebling. For more information, call (609) 499-7200or visit www.roeblingmuseum.org Sidetracks Art Gallery, New Hope: Sidetracks Art Gallery presents its Tenth Annual Naked in New Hope exhibition running through October 29. The show celebrates the facts and foibles of the human body in all its pain and, glory. New Hope Sidetracks Art Gallery in its latest incarnation remains adjacent to the New Hope Arts Center, 10Stockton Ave., where Bridge Street meets the New Hope-Ivyland Railroad. For more gallery information visit (215) 862-4586; sidetracksart@ gmail.com or Sidetracks Art on Facebook African American Heritage Museum of Southern NJ: The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey (AAHMSNJ) will explore the publishing empire of John H. Johnson through an exhibit showcasing its collection of over 3,000issues of his publications. The exhibit, “Jet, Black, Brown and Tan Legacy of John H. Johnson” will be on display to December 30at the “Country Light” a 30x 40oil by Cindy Baron is part of her exhibit titled “Coast to Coast” on view through November 13at Highlands Art Gallery at 41N. Union Street, Lambertville, NJ.

museum in the Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University, 2200 Fairmount Avenue, in Atlantic City. Museum hours Wednesday to Saturday 11a.m. to 6p.m. and Sunday 11a.m. to 5p.m. For more information visit AAHMSNJ. org. or call (609) 350-6662. The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey, Inc. is a non-profit organization with facilities in Atlantic City and Newtonville, New Jersey. Free admission. Philadelphia Museum of Art: “Creative Africa,” a vibrant season of exhibitions and activities is now on exhibit in the galleries of the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The museum is presenting five exhibitions and a series of related programs that feature a broad spectrum of the arts from across the African continent. The museum is located at 2600Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19130. Call (215) 763-8100or visit www.philamuseum.org. Hours: Tuesday–Sunday: 10a.m.– 5p.m.; Wednesday and Friday: Main building open until 8:45p.m.; and closed Monday except for some holidays. Alfa Art Gallery: The New Brunswick Art Salon 2016: Oil Color and Mixed Media, “L’Appel Du Vide,” highlighting artists who excel in their work manipulating oil and mixed media pieces. The 14featured artists are prominent local figures whom have exhibited their work in gallery shows throughout the greater New York area or have worked with Alfa Art Gallery in

previous exhibitions. “L’Appel Du Vide” focuses on the everlasting flow of life, matter, and nature. runs through November 20, 2016. Alfa Art Gallery is located at 108 Church Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11a.m. to 6p.m. For information visit www.alfaart.org Princeton Day School: Princeton Day School parents and students are teaming up with HomeFront, a local non-profit whose mission is to end family homelessness, by hosting an art exhibition, “Meanings of Home” that features original works of art, poetry and sewing by homeless women and children. Their joint mission is to bring about greater awareness to the plight of homeless families who live in close-by neighborhoods. The exhibition will be on view in the Anne Reid ’72Art Gallery from November 21through December 15, and there will be an artists reception on Thursday, December 1, from 12:30to 1:30 p.m., which is free and open to the public. “Meanings of Home” is open to the public, from 9a.m. to 5p.m., Monday through Friday when the school is in session, and by appointment on weekends. For more information about the Anne Reid ‘72Art Gallery, call Jody Erdman, Art Gallery Director, at (609) 924-6700, extension 1772 or visit www.pds.org The Princeton Doll and Toy Museum: The museum displays the evolution of dolls and toys from the 1600s to the present and shows miniature rooms, Bliss doll houses and doll accessories. It also features a research library of over 400volumes on dolls, toys and antiques which is available to the public without any charge. The museum is located at 57 Hamilton Ave., Hopewell. Hours are 10a.m. to 5p.m. Monday, Friday

Civil War and Native American Museum: The museum, located at 2202Kuser Road, Hamilton, is open the second and third full weekend of each month, from 1 to 4p.m. Displays include the Swamp Angel, a retrieved cannon from the Civil War, primitive medical devices used during the 1860period and artifacts from NJ troops, many dug from the Camp Olden Civil War training grounds. In the Native American museum section are items found in and around Hamilton Township. School trips and groups by appointment. Free admission, donations appreciated. For more information, www.campolden.org. The Cranbury Museum: The Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society presents a new exhibit featuring a collection of costume jewelry from the 20th century. The exhibit continues through January 22, 2017. The museum is located at 4Park Place East, Cranbury. Open Sundays, from 1-4p.m. For more information about exhibits, call (609) 655-2611. Millstone River Gallery: Millstone River Gallery presents “Art from the Heart,” Works by Lillian Ciuffreda, Illene Dube, Marc Falzon, Rhoda Kassof-Isaac, and residents and staff of Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center through November 4. Millstone River Gallery is located at Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center, 100Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro, NJ. The exhibit is sponsored by the Princeton Photography Club. To purchase an image on display, email carlgeiser@gmail. com or call (732-422-3676. For directions to Merwick, call (609) 759-6000. Artists’ Gallery: “Memories of Change,” the new paintings by Alla Podolsky and Laura Rutherford Renner. The spaces and people that enable us to grow and thrive, the settings that are beset by transformation or neglect, are the focus of the work by Alla Podolsky and Laura Rutherford Renner at the Artists Gallery in Lambertville, NJ, to November 6, 2016, with the closing on Sunday, November 6, from 3to 6p.m. Artists’ Gallery is located at 18 Bridge Street in the heart of historic Lambertville, NJ and open Thursday through Sunday, from 11a.m. to 6p.m., or by appointment. More information about the gallery can be found at: www. lambertvillearts.com. ABstract EXpressions Contemporary Art Gallery: ABstract EXpressions Contemporary Art Gallery is located, at 70High Street, in Mount Holly, NJ. Gallery hours are Friday, from 1to 9p.m.; Saturday, from noon to 9p.m. and by appointment. For more information, call the Gallery at (609) 267-7513; by email at ABstractEXpressionsGallery@comcast. net; visit the Gallery’s website at www.ABstractEXpressionsGallery.com; or follow the Gallery on Facebook. D&R Greenway Land Trust’s Johnson Education Center: “Decoys — Timeline: From Craft to Art,” an exhibition from the Jay Vawter world-class Decoy Collection on view through November of 2016. Gallery hours Monday-Friday, 10a.m.-5p.m. D&R Greenway Land Trust’s Johnson Education Center is located at One Preservation Place, Princeton, For more information on the exhibits, call (609) 924-4646or visit www. drgreenway.org Gallery 14Fine Art Photography: “Cuban Tapestry” by Martin Schwartz and “Who Knew?” by Greta Jacobsen. Exhibits run to November 13, 2016. Gallery 14is located at 14Mercer St. Hopewell. For more information, call (609) 333-8511or visit www.photogallery14.com Plainsboro Public Library Gallery: West Windsor artist and teacher Aparajita Sen. will display contemporary abstract oil and acrylic paintings titled “Lyrical Muse” at the Gallery at Plainsboro Library through November 30. Art reception on Sunday, November 6, from 2to 4p.m. The library is located at 9Van Doren Street, Plainsboro, NJ. Hours are 10a.m. to 8:30p.m. Monday to Thursday, and 10a.m. to 5p.m. Friday to Sunday. For more information, call (609) 275-2897. Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum: Just in time for the upcoming presidential election, the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum opened a new 2,000square foot exhibition on The American Presidency. The American Presidency Exhibit will remain on display during regular Museum hours of Tuesday-Saturday, 10a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays, noon to 4p.m. The Museum is located at 432 W. Walnut Street in Allentown. Parking is available in the rear of the Museum, on the street, and in nearby lots. Visit www.lehighvalleyheritagemuseum.org Stover Mill Gallery: The Tinicum Civic Association’s Stover Mill Gallery presents “The Fifth Juried Art Exhibition.” The season concludes with this year’s exhibit of juried art. The show is open from 1to 5p.m. on the following weekends: Oct. 29-30; Nov. 5-6. Opening reception is Sunday, Oct. 16, from 1to 5p.m. The 184-yearold Stover Mill is located on the Delaware River at 852River Road