TAWA Launches First Web Project

The Trenton Artists Workshop Association announces the electronic publication of a blog novella by Trenton area writer and TAWA member Daniel Aubrey.

            To be released in weekly installments on the TAWA website at the start of the Halloween weekend on October 28, the novella “crashtrenton.blog” is a science fiction tale that uses a blog site to tell the story of the aftermath of a space craft crash in the Delaware River.   The story’s tag line, “Government isn’t the only monster in Trenton,” provides a clue as to what will happen.   

            Although TAWA has a history of visual art related activities at museums in and out of Trenton, it also has a history of involving other art forms and artists.  Past TAWA activities have included participation in the creation of the city’s first professional theater company; hosting events featuring internationally known writers Paul Muldoon, Yusef Komunyakaa, and William Mastrosimone; and producing concerts featuring musicians such as jazz artist Orrin Evans.

This is the first Web specific venture for the thirty year old organization.

            In addition to creating this work, Aubrey was a professional dramatist, a writer for The Times of Trenton, a staff writer for the New Jersey State Museum and Franklin Institute, and the recipient of a New Jersey Governor’s Award for Arts Education.   He is also a long time advocate for and producer of arts events in Trenton. 

             

TAWA, founded in 1979 to promote the arts in the greater Trenton Area, is funded by the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission through a State/County Block Grant Partnership with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment of the Arts.