10th Annual Highlands Juried Art Exhibit

10th Annual Highlands

Juried Art Exhibit

On View October 20, 2023 – November 26, 2023

The Highlands is a geophysical province, a component of the Appalachian Mountains, spanning western Connecticut, southern New York, northern New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. In New Jersey, the region has an astonishing diversity of landscapes. The NJ Highlands includes the rolling farm fields of Warren and Hunterdon counties, communities along the Delaware River, a vast, ecologically healthy forest rich in biodiversity to the north of highway I-80. Both rural and urban communities are rich in pre-Revolutionary history.

Several factors have protected these landscapes from the uncoordinated development that much of New Jersey has experienced, including the passage of the 2004 Highlands Act, the state’s focused investment in Highlands open space and historic and farmland preservation, and the century-old development of reservoir systems which serve New Jersey’s eastern cities. The natural settings of the Ramapo Mountains that once inspired artists of the mid-nineteenth century Hudson River School look very much the same today – just one example of the incomparable natural beauty protected in the NJ Highlands. The Annual Highlands Juried Art Exhibit is a celebration of the region’s natural beauty and the artists who are inspired by it.

Artists whose works are on display in this exhibit include:

Peter Allen Seth Ruggles Hiler Karcsi George Piedl
Peter Aldrich Mary Hodgson Erica Engfer Pizza
George Aronson Benjamin Janis Tom Stillman
Jane Biron Marv Kaminsky Elie Porter Trubert
Nancy Boney Joe Kazimierczyk Jeremy Travers
Mitchell Brozinsky Judith A. Lieberman Miroslav Vrzala
Jessica Cavaliere Lisa Madson Debra Wallace
Charles Dexter Rich McGuigan Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt
Todd Doney Michael McFadden J. Michael Williams
Doris Ettlinger Jack R. Moore Michael Wolf
Bruce Frazier Elaine Norman Barry Zawacki
Quinn Haltmeier Ardys Pedersen

The exhibit is curated by Donna Compton, gallerist and Art Program Curator for the NJ Highlands Coalition with Anne Ricculli, Ph.D., Director of Exhibits and Collections for the Morris Museum. A panel of prominent local arts professionals served as jurors for this anniversary show, including exhibit founder Dwight Hiscano, Ginny Butera, Ph.D., Donna Compton, Elliott Ruga, Dick Eger, Mitchell Rosenzweig, Paul Jach, Kristy Brucale Jach, and John Castronovo.

For exhibit information visit Highlands Art.

The Highlands Art Exhibit is a program of the New Jersey Highlands Coalition.

Image Caption: Michael McFadden, Golden Hour (2023). Flashe vinyl on linen, 24″h x 30″w. Image used with permission. On loan courtesy of Michael McFadden.
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