CALL FOR TRENTON MAKES SUMMER SHOW IN NEW YORK AND TRENTON

The Trenton Artists Workshop Association (TAWA) invites regional visual artists to participate in “Trenton Makes” a juried 2012 summer exhibition to be held in Trenton and New York City.

The simultaneous two-city show is a first for the 30 year old company that has been an important part of New Jersey’s capital city’s cultural life. 

While know for exhibitions at the Trenton City Museum, New Jersey State Museum, and Artworks, TAWA has also produced the ground breaking Eyes on Trenton festival, created artists exchange with the Soviet Union, and launched other city arts initiatives and programs.

            “Trenton Makes” will be held at The Trenton City Museum and The Prince Street Gallery in New York City. 

The project reflects TAWA’s interest in creating exciting opportunities to bring regional artists together to create, excel, strengthen the arts community, and find new venues for expression.       

            The “Trenton Makes” juror is New York City based art critic and artist Gerard Haggerty.

Haggerty has written hundreds of reviews, articles and monographs for ARTnews and other venues.  He is also the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Ford Foundation.

Artists wishing to submit work for “Trenton Makes” will find the prospectus and guidelines on the Trenton Artists Workshop Association Web site tawa-nj.org. 

Submissions are accepted to May 31.

Selections will be made and announced in early June.  The exhibition begins later that month.

The Trenton Artists Workshop Association, founded in 1979 to promote the arts in the greater Trenton area, is supported in part by the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission through funding from the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment of the Arts.