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April				May (con’t.)
9 ARTAKE’S NEW " JERSEY SALON 601 Bangs Ave., Suite 903 Asbury Park, NJ 8:00PM Create Your Own Magic Leather Pouch with Midge Guerrea $5 Members, $10 Non-Members Call 732-775-3837 NOTE: It is a security building and you must arrive between 8:00 and 8:15PM to get in or call	14 thru 30 APRIL in ASBURY Exhibit 601 Bangs Avenue Ninth Floor Gallery Asbury Park, NJ 9:00AM to 5:30PM Monday - Friday		23 ARTAKE’S NEW YORK SALON 548 W. 22^nd Street Manhattan (bet. 10 & 11Ave.) 7:00PM Poetry Reading ($5) Visit the Dia Center for the Arts FREE from 5 to 7PM before the Poetry Reading. RVSP: Penny Poor 212-645-0962	14 ARTAKE’S NEW " JERSEY SALON Marge Chandler 3 Lilac Place Howell, NJ (5 minutes off the Garden State Parkway) 8PM Trash to Treasure $5 Members, $10 Non-Members Call Marge at: 732-785-0372 to RSVP
9 APRIL IN ASBURY EXHIBIT ARTAKE artists - deliver art work to: 601 Bangs Ave., Suite 903 Asbury Park, NJ 8:00PM	16 Art Alliance Open Board Meeting Monmouth Street Red Bank, NJ 7:00PM-9:00PM Pot Luck Dinner – bring A dish Jeff Bottger will do a Slide Presentation of trip to Paris, France RSVP: 732 842 9402		]	21 ARTAKE’S NEW YORK SALON Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave at 82^nd St. Manhattan Meet in Lobby to go to nearby café 8:45PM Chamber Music 5:00 to 8:00 PM RSVP: 212-645-0962
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13 LENAPE LEGENDS Mount Carmel School Asbury Park, NJ FREE Performance - Lively Learning - 45-minute learning adventure for children 10:30AM For more information contact: Guerrera Huber Group, Inc. 732 775 3837	23 Reception - NEW JERSEY CENTER FOR THE HEALING ARTS exhibition: 23 Mechanic Street Red Bank, NJ 5:30-7:30PM All Things Bright and Beautiful Participating artists: Colleen Lineberry Melissa Bronwen from March thru end of May		5 >>>>DEADLINE<<<< for June-July Issue Please send information to: Ingrid Spears 131 Marina Bay Court Highlands, NJ 07732	22 ARTAKE ADVENTURES La Mano Pottery 237 W. 18th Street Chelsea TIME: 10:00PM Make a piece of pottery Cost $10 ($5 if enough people sign up) Call: 212-645-0962
+ Greetings! As I take the train back to Manhattan from my March trip to NJ for the ARTAKE Salon, snow is rapidly covering the ground and giving us a bit of Winter before Spring. Change was the theme of the March Salon at Christine Gizzi’s house and we talked of moving and death. Christine just sold her house, and lately so many people have died. In the last two weeks, 4 people I know have died including ARTAKE member, Jane Scott at 85 years. She was a renowned bonsai artist. After 50 years of perfecting the art, she said the more important ingredient in her work was to “sit and study” - good advice for all of us. With death comes the idea of birth and re-birth and birthdays. Al Zanetti collects birthdays. He has over 30,000! He has agreed to do something creative with ARTAKE birthdays. Please call Al at 732-821-4848 if you want to be part of this art work. (The birth year isn’t necessary) We will also most certainly cook up some kind of fun celebration for all those who come forth…perhaps a monthly Birthday Bash!?! I got the NJSCA grant in with life saving help from my friends. THANK YOU ALL!! I learned a lot in the process including that its time to move forward on the proposed projects whether or not we get the NJSCA dollars. A MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY is in the works. Please let me know if you have any creative and/or practical ideas and suggestions. What you think is important. Fun ideas for fundraising are also needed. As you can see Al has generously offered to donate proceeds from the sale of his “Love” Serigraph. So help get the word out! Midge Guerra is hosting the APRIL SALON in ASBURY PARK. She has most of the ingredients for making magic leather pouches but you will need to bring special objects to add plus your own scissors and glue or sewing materials. Midge is also generously promoting our APRIL in ASBURY exhibit at 601 Bangs Avenue in her Ninth Floor Gallery. A reminder for those artists who are participating in the show: Bring you art on that evening (unless you’ve arranged otherwise). Jane Warren is creating the labels and master list so call her at 732-741-8105 with art work specs, contact information and your artist’s statement. The APRIL NEW YORK SALON will be at the Dia Center for the Arts. Their current exhibit includes Robert Irwin: Excursus: Homage to the Square; “Stan Douglas & Douglas Gordon Double Vision; Andy Warhol: Shadows; and Thomas Schutte: Scenewright. On the 23^rd, there will also be a poetry reading by Peter Reading and Sonia Sanchez. Because of that, there is a small 2 hour window of opportunity to see the exhibits for FREE from 5 to 7PM.		The reading is $5 which we can stay for and then go to a nearby café for refreshments. Call me * if you plan to attend so I know whom to expect. Call the Dia Center at 212-989-5566 for more information about the exhibits. The MAY SALON in NEW JERSEY will be at Marge Chandler’s home and studio in Howell. Recycle your TRASH TO TREASURE! Bring some of those mysterious things that you’ve been collecting but are not sure why. Marge teaches art and will have all the necessary supplies to put things together. For fun and inspiration, we will probably work together in small groups. She lives an easy 5 minutes off the Garden State Parkway. See you there! The MAY SALON in NEW YORK will start at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The current exhibits include: Picasso: Painter & Sculptor in Clay; Mirror of the Medieval World; Anselm Kiefer: Works on Paper, 1969 - 1993; and The Treasury of St. Francis of Assisi. The museum is open until 9PM on Friday night and features live chamber music from 5 to 8PM. Afterwards, we will sit and talk in a nearby café. Suggestions as to where are welcome! Otherwise, we’ll just wing it. Again, if you know in advance, please call me* so I will know who’s coming and we can coordinate connecting. We will definitely gather in the lobby from 8:45PM until they close as 9PM – so we can at least leave together. Call the Met for more exhibit information at 212-879-5500. If you have any suggestions for future NEW YORK SALON destinations, including artist studios, we could visit, please let me know for June and July especially. Also, we are going to start having additional ARTAKE ADVENTURES. The first will be a very special visit to LA MANO POTTERY in Chelsea at 237 West 18^th Street. We have been invited to come on Saturday morning, May 22^nd, to make a piece of pottery in their garden. If we get enough people together, it will be only $5; otherwise $10. Both are very reasonable – so sign up for an adventure! Refreshments are included. Please call me* if you are interested. For those of you who are interested in being more involved in ARTAKE and discussing future possibilities, there will be a weekend retreat this summer (probably the end of July) on a beautiful 500 acre property on Long Island – only about one hour out of New York City. There are rules because of the Coast Guard presence but Property Manager, Curator and Hostess, Merri Ferrell, will guide us in exploring the woods and miles of pristine Northshore beach. It’s a beautiful environment in which to envision ARTAKE’s future as a living system. Call me * for further details. Penny Poor, ARTAKE Director *212-645-0962

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ARTAKE HAPPENINGS & GATHERINGS

Fundraiser To help with fundraising for ARTAKE, Al Zanetti has donated a number of his limited edition “LOVE” Serigraphs. They are 16” X 20” printed by hand on archival quality paper from an original painting. They are available in three colors: · Light Blue on French blue · White on Pearl Gray · Magenta on Purple for a cost of $25.00 (unframed) plus $5.00 shipping and handling. The $25.00 will be donated to ARTAKE FUNDRAISER. Prints can be ordered directly from Al at: 137 Hardenburg Lane East Brunswick, NJ 08816 Call 732-821-4848 for more information. The prints are great for yourself or as a gift for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries or “just because”.
		JJJJJJJ I’m happiest when most away I can bear my soul from its home of clay On a windy night when the moon is bright And the eye can wander through worlds of light-- --Emily Bronte JJJJJJJ
October Salon Pictured is Colleen Lineberry painting Jeff Bottger’s face at a fun-filled evening which took place at Merry and Tom Brennan’s in October.
Asbury Park FREE PREVIEW of Children’s Show for PTA Cultural Chairs Lively Learning, an educational theatre company based in Asbury Park and led by Midge Guerrera, is providing children’s programming coordinators with the opportunity to see and enjoy their production of Lenape Legends before booking it. The show brings the tales of New Jersey’s first people to life. Scheduled is a free preview performance of the participatory show. Reservations are required for the show to be held on Tuesday, April 13 at 10:30AM at Mount Carmel School in Asbury Park Lenape Legends, a 45-minute learning adventure leads young audiences back in time. Student volunteers join the cast on stage or interact from their seats. The show, workshops and mini-exhibit encourage children to think about their heritage and the heritage of others.	One workshop explores petroglyphs – those early picture drawings created by native peoples in stone and are recreated by students. Booking discounts are available to preview participants! For more information about Lively Learning or to make your reservation, contact the Guerrera Huber Group Inc. at 732-775-3837. Red Bank Red Bank landscape architect, Jeff Bottger, recently helped design a conceptual master plan for a sports complex in the Republic of Guinea, Africa. The plan was prepared metrically, and was labeled in French! Other projects Jeff is designing include streetscapes in Avon and Bradley Beach, and numerous parks throughout New Jersey.

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