BLUE CRUSH: ‘Ala Moana’ by Surf Town artist Lori Bonanni is a painting carried out with coloured wax. Her artworks and much more are on exhibit at Solace Studio and Gallery in Surf City. (Artwork by Lori Bonanni)

Summertime Opener: Solace Studio and Gallery, at 2312 Extended Beach front Blvd. in Surf Town, is open up. See new operates by artists Linda Ramsay, Lori Bonanni, Jen Kelly, Franny Andahazy, Sandra Anton and many others.

In purchase to present a more particular working experience and make sure your basic safety and comfort, reserve a time to go to. Electronic mail [email protected], or phone or text 617-875-6826.

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Epic Glass: Mary Tantillo of SwellColors Glass Studio has unveiled her 93 new art panels, “Puro Verano.” The stained glass is effective are centered on a calendar year of everyday drawings of sun-inspired scenes. Every scene can be purchased for a minimal, handmade edition.

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Everyday living Drawing: A daily life drawing course facilitated by Victoria Ford at the Old Baptist Church, 120 North Principal St. in Manahawkin, will be held on the to start with Sunday of each and every month for the rest of this calendar year from 10 a.m. to noon, with a $12 model charge. All artists are welcome deliver your personal artwork supplies, do your very own issue. No instruction or resources are delivered. There’s a great deal of indoor seating (in pews) to space out in a socially accountable way, but masks are encouraged.

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Entertaining Fakes:  The LBI Basis of the Arts and Sciences’ “Master Copies/Interpretations,” juried by Jennifer A. Thompson, a curator of European portray and sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Rodin Museum, is in the key gallery until eventually Aug. 15.

Copying the masters is a time-honored custom in the art planet and a really serious endeavor for artists at all expert concentrations. When reinterpreting a masterwork, artists transform the way we see or have an understanding of the do the job by employing diverse mediums, altering compositions or riffing on a operate from a satiric or humorous stage of view. This exhibition characteristics both equally Grasp Copies – a clearly show of competent copies – and Interpretations – re-imagined works from a learn get the job done that provides the artist’s personal narrative.

In conjunction with the LBIF’s annual Seashore House Tour ending Aug. 5 is the Property Exhibit, are living at the LBIF on Friday, Aug. 6 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Architects, builders, landscape designers and others involved in the building trades will existing their talents and items at the LBIF. The Dwelling Show is free and open up to the public.

The LBIF has released its 2021 Summer season Catalog, out there at the Basis in Loveladies or on-line at lbifoundation.org. Come across gatherings from artwork reveals to children’s camps, tennis and extra.

The LBIF, 120 Long Seaside Blvd., Loveladies, is open each working day, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For up-to-day data, e mail business [email protected] or contact 609-494-1241.

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Newcomers: The Pine Shores Art Association’s “Novice Show” is on the internet and also on show in the gallery by Aug. 24 with a reception planed for Aug. 9 at 7 p.m. prior to the normal members meeting. PSAA artists who are nonprofessional will display their perform. See dozens of paintings by this dedicated group of artists who have supported each and every other with friendship, encouragement and opportunities through the COVID pandemic and beyond.

Artwork Lessons: Pine Shores continues its art courses and workshops. The limited reopening of its Manahawkin studio at 94 Stafford Ave. follows thorough pandemic safeguards in a series of in-person courses, alongside with a sequence of reside on the internet, interactive lessons by using Zoom. The studio is also open up for only 20 associates at a time. Thursdays has three sessions: “Do Your Personal Thing” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (sign-up at 609-660-8062) “Artists Supporting Artists” from 3 to 5 p.m. (register at 609-698-7696) and “Portrait” sessions at 7 p.m. with a $5 product payment (sign up at [email protected]). Contributors have to don masks and sanitize their stations PSAA has materials.

Guide This: The PSAA has conceived a new guide as a fundraiser. Guidebook to the Jersey Shore is illustrated with comprehensive-color paintings by 100 Pine Shores member artists.

It is offered for $25 on LBI at Wildflowers at Barnegat Gentle and Wildflowers II, Cunningham’s, Viking Clean Off the Hook, the m.t. burton gallery, Track of the Sea, Kapler’s Pharmacy, Holiday Snack Bar and Bowker’s Deli on the mainland at The Previous Causeway, Drugs Options, Scorching or Not Yoga, Dockside Café, Reynolds Yard Shop, Tuckerton Seaport, Lady Magpie’s Tea and Curiosities, the Lizzie Rose Tea Room and Ahearn’s Seafood. A paperback version is also readily available on amazon.com.

PSAA artists also have exhibitions of their functions at Beach Haven Borough Corridor and Tuckerton Borough Corridor. Get the job done in Tuckerton is portion of the once-a-year Artwork Patron Exhibit held in Oct. The functions can be considered when the halls are open for enterprise.

Membership information and facts, class information and registration information are identified at pineshoresartassociation.org. For more information and facts, simply call PSAA registrar Jeanne Easton at 609-488-5838.

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Received to Have Good friends: The every month Art Chats have returned to the Ocean County Library branch in Tuckerton, 380 Bay Ave., and satisfy the first and 3rd Tuesdays of just about every month at 10 a.m. Artists are invited to convey finished performs or is effective in development for a friendly critique. This is not a function session.

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Save These Dates: The annual LBI Artists Studio Tour, a self-guided check out to area artists to check out new work and see how it’s made, will be Aug. 14 and 15. Take a look at lbiartists.com for specifics.  —P.J.

By Harmony