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Call for Art
Arts Unbound is often approached by organizations seeking to give fine art or prints as awards to their employees and volunteers. We would like to update our award catalog with new work. Arts Unbound is seeking submissions of original artwork from individual artists with disabilities to add to our catalog of work available for purchase as awards. We present the works framed with a plaque to the purchasing organization. Submitted art does not have to be framed; Arts Unbound will arrange for the framing of the work as part of the sale.
Artwork in all two-dimensional mediums will be considered. Artists may submit up to six images for consideration.
There is no fee to submit.
How to submit:
Send your contact information, brief information about your disability, and up to 6 images for consideration.
By email: send jpegs to mmikkelsen@artsunbound.org
Subject line: (your name) / OPEN CALL
For artwork by e-mail: please tag each jpeg with your name, title of work, medium and dimensions. Prices for work can be included as a list in the email.
By regular mail:
You can also submit by sending a disc with your images to the gallery.
For submissions by disc: Tag each jpeg with your name, title of work, medium and dimensions. Please include a printed list with the following information: Your name, address, phone number and email address. Please also include a list of pieces with prices for each piece.
Arts Unbound
542/544 Freeman Street
Orange, NJ 07050
The Gallery promotes sales and retains a commission of 40% of the retail price. The artist receives 60%.
For more information:
(973) 675-2787 or mmikkelsen@artsunbound.org
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— Arts Unbound (@artsunbound)January 17, 2018
Who Are We After All?
I am in a reflective mood with a respectful tone and a grateful gesture, thinking about all of the artists whose work has come to define Arts Unbound. We are no longer an organization of a few but rather one of many gifted talents whose work line the walls of our gallery each and every month. From our veteran stars such as the prolific Tracy Reinhardt, Nicolenanina, Christian Markovic, Tom Yezza, Colleen Creedon, Laura Kaufman, Beverly Kohn, Justin Canha, Stanley Winarsky, Debbie Davidson, Tom Wade, Sara Sanders, Robert Otterbine and Mary Drylewicz to the many newer artistic voices – Amy Charmatz, Chris Miller, Renaldo Byrd, Ellen Angelastro, Jon Gabry, Elizabeth Crelin, Brad Friedman, Lisa Dornfeld, Dashir Johnson, Anie Knipping and Cheryl Wulfers.
Works of art emanating from our classroom are equally strong and appealing and include beautiful creations from the students in our many classes (Jespy, Groovers and more) and a strong and capable team from the Fiddle Foundation classes whose work will be exhibited this month of February, as well as young artists from local schools including the city of Orange, Bloomfield and West Orange. And then there is the volume of work created by those on the other end of the age spectrum, our senior citizens who participate in the Generations program to produce lovely pieces of jewelry, fine art and craft that continue to sell strongly during the course of the year. We are grateful to a group of foundations who continue to support us during strong and lean times – The Kessler Foundation, Grotta Fund, Wallerstein Foundation, Bass Foundation, Newark Diocese, Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation, The NJ Council on Developmental Disabilities, The Sklaw and Chancy Foundations as well as several prominent banks – PNC, Wachovia and Columbia. We are proud to have a group of art teachers with uncommon abilities in instruction – Program Coordinators Kathleen Heron and Stefanie Garwin as well as Barbara Folts, Billie Aber, Sherri Zuckerman, Susan Lisbin, Richard Toglia and Jason Robinson – also Jody Blatman, Teri Furr and TerryAnn Bligen . In addition to a wise and generous Board of Directors and Board of Governors and a dedicated staff (Tashea Patterson keeps the organization ticking and together), we continue to gain strength from a group of volunteers who bind us with their wisdom and skill – Joe Ruggiero, our IT Coordinator, Russell Klein and Kai Cole, Marketing and Sales, Karen Miller and Cheryl Mayo, Bernie Searle, Diane Klein, Fabienne Daniel, Hanie Warshaw and Katherine Decotiis to name but a few.
Coming to work each Monday morning and seeing new works of art drying on the studio tables or newly hung in the gallery by our gallery director, Robert Ramos, makes me smile. I bow to all those who are gifted with a brush or a lump of clay, a camera or objects combined uniquely and colorfully on a canvas. I am equally grateful to those who have joined our family because of their commitment to the arts and to the disability community. You are Arts Unbound.
Many thanks…..
Gail Levinson, Director
We’re popping up in Closter!
Closter, NJ: Arts Unbound, a nonprofit visual arts organization that promotes the work of artists with disabilities and emerging senior artists, has worked with artists in Bergen County for years, but has never had a physical location in the area. That is about to end, if only temporarily.
Arts Unbound is opening a pop-up shop in Closter Plaza the weekend of June 1-3. Local artists on their roster, including Andrew Weatherly of Closter, will be exhibited, along with fellow artists from across New Jersey. A selection of gifts, unique jewelry, accessories, and cards will be available, including great items for Father’s Day. Artists will be on hand throughout the weekend to discuss their work.
The shop will officially open on Friday, June 1 at 1pm. The public is invited to join artists, volunteers, and staff that evening for an opening celebration from 5-7pm.
The shop will remain open Saturday, June 2 from 10am-6pm, and Sunday, June 3 from 10am-4pm. The store is locatedin the Closter Plaza shopping center between Carditure and Ruby and Jenna, facing Vervalen Street. Volunteers from the Belskie Museum of Art and Science will be helping to install the art and staff the shop over the weekend. Jazz musician Joel Zelnik will perform for shop visitors on Saturday, June 2 from 11am to 12pm.
Arts Unbound’s main studio and gallery are in the Valley Arts District, a neighborhood of Orange and West Orange, N.J. It also has a retail store called The Showcase in Montclair. Its team of teachers provide art instruction in communities from Bergen County south through Monmouth County. Thanks to a partnership with the Art Center of Northern New Jersey in New Milford, area residents can take advantage of Arts Unbound’s inclusive, adaptive approach to individual art instruction by signing up for lessons held at the center.
Weatherly is a painter, poet, and photographer. “I believe that artwork is a tool I can use to advocate for people with disabilities. I do not let the fact that I was born with Down Syndrome deter me from developing my passions.”
A nonprofit organization launched in 2000, Arts Unbound provides vocational coaching and income-generating opportunities to people of all ages with mental, developmental and physical disabilities as well as seniors with and without disabilities. Its art education programs are open to everyone. Its work is made possible in part by funds from the NJ State Council on the Arts a partner of the National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more at www.artsunbound.org.