COMMUNITY OUTREACH
On Tuesday, February 19, SAA Faculty member Billie Marie Aber met with 20 Seniors of the Bedminster-Far Hills Senior Citizen Organization at the Clarence Dillon Public Library in Bedminster to teach them how to make a one-color watercolor seascape using wet-on-wet and dry brush techniques. The workshop was generously sponsored by the Bedminster Township Recreation Department under the aegis of Robin Ray.
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The Somerset Art Association’s community outreach partnership projects are a new initiative to share the visual arts with other Somerset County non-profit organizations and schools. Partnership projects are designed to provide exposure to the arts and enrich the lives of their constituents by involving them in the creative process.
It is expected that the organization will achieve an artistically enhanced environment and, through its involvement in the planning and completion of the project, attain a greater appreciation of the visual arts.
SAA’s faculty, member artists, and volunteers facilitate each project, tailoring it to the specific needs of the partner organization. SAA will provide the artist(s), instructor and design. The partnering organization is to pay other associated costs of the project.
To inquire about a possible partnership project for your non-profit organization or school, please call SAA’s Executive Director Robyn Tromeur at 908-234-2345.
Carrier Clinic Partnership Project
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Teen Artist Molly Kunzman created this mural using paint and collage elements for the Carrier Clinic in Belle Meade, New Jersey. The mural is located in the facilities new Teen Library, the first of its kind in a psychiatric hospital. As one of New Jersey’s largest, not-for-profit, behavioral healthcare organizations, the Carrier Clinic’s is dedicated to providing the best care and treatment to teens and adults struggling with emotional and behavioral distress and addictive and psychiatric disorders. Holistic Art Educator and SAA Faculty member Jane Kunzman supervised the project.
Delight & Decay: Rendering Words and Forms
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A second Community Outreach Program Delight & Decay: Rendering Words and Forms took place last year. It was a collaboration between creative writing and the visual arts. Basking Ridge AP Studio Art Seniors and Writers at Ridge High School spent a day at the Reading Terminal Market and the Eastern State Penitentiary sketching and capturing their impressions in prose.
