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TODAY! PES SUMMER STUDIO, a series of free artmaking workshops kicks off at 📍Ironside Newark.✨Led by past and present Ar...
06/23/2026

TODAY! PES SUMMER STUDIO, a series of free artmaking workshops kicks off at 📍Ironside Newark.

✨Led by past and present Artists In Residence (AIR), the program invites participants of all ages to experiment with new materials, develop creative skills, and engage with contemporary artistic practices. 📲 RSVP and see the full series via link in bio! 🔗⬆️

➡️ On Tuesday, June 23rd and Thursday, June 25th from 4-6PM, Cycle 10 AIR Aimee Koran (Aimee Koran) will host “Make Your Voice Visible: Protest Pin Workshop for Families!

✨About the workshop✨
A family-friendly workshop whereparticipants create wearable protest pins inspired by issues they care about. Through collage, drawing, and design, families explore how art can amplify voices, build community, and encourage civic participation at any age.🧑‍🎨

➡️ On Thursday, June 25th from 6-9PM, Cycle 8 AIR Layqa Nuna Yawar (Lenny Correa) will host “Drawing Circle” ✍️

✨About the workshop✨
A three-hour event where you’ll have the opportunity to connect with fellow artists and develop your drawing skills in a supportive environment as we work from the n**e figure. Whether you’re a seasoned artist or starting out, everyone is welcome to participate. Some materials will be provided, but bring your sketchbook and pencils, drawing board, or anything else you might need.

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📍PES at Ironside Newark, 110 Edison Pl, Newark NJ 07102

Access the space through Mulberry Commons Park via Columbia Street.

👏 Thank you to everyone who joined us this past Juneteenth for the opening celebration of “Black Revolutionary Women: 25...
06/22/2026

👏 Thank you to everyone who joined us this past Juneteenth for the opening celebration of “Black Revolutionary Women: 250 Years of a Colony Within a Colony”! Congratulations to Noelle Lorraine Williams (Noelle Lorraine Williams)! Scroll to see some highlights! ➡️

The reception featured a powerful performance by Gail Campbell (GailCampbellmusic(Gail Campbell)), and remarks from the artist and Co-Directors Jasmine Wahi (Jasmine Wahi) and Rebecca Pauline Jampol (Rebecca Pauline Jampol).

✨ “Black Revolutionary Women” highlights Black women’s resistance, survival, and freedom-making across the Americas, reframing dominant narratives of the American Revolution as the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Through installation, performance, and collage, Noelle Lorraine Williams uses a multidisciplinary approach through her project Black Power! 19th Century, exploring how Black women and their descendants lived under systems that treated them as property within expanding Colonial economies.

In the exhibition, Williams combines historical images, text, and materials such as thread, fabric, newspapers, photographs, archival artworks, and elements of popular culture. She brings together both official historical imagery and forms associated with women’s craft to retell stories of everyday resistance and freedom-making that are often left out of traditional history.

Learn more at 📲 www.projectforemptyspace.org/blackrevolutionarywomen!

“Black Revolutionary Women: 250 Years of a Colony Within a Colony” will be on view June 19, 2026, through October 10, 2026, at 800 Mayor Kenneth Gibson Boulevard, Newark, NJ.

📸 Carlos Hernandez

🎨This Friday! Join PES & Newark Grounds for an Evening of Free Artmaking at Mulberry Commons.⭐️NIGHT FEST, Newark’s even...
06/22/2026

🎨This Friday! Join PES & Newark Grounds for an Evening of Free Artmaking at Mulberry Commons.

⭐️NIGHT FEST, Newark’s evening makers festival, returns this Friday, June 26, from 5–9 PM at Mulberry Commons Park. Presented in partnership with the Newark City Parks Foundation, the festival transforms the park into a gathering space where art, music, food, and hands-on creativity come together under the evening sky.

🌳Designed for all ages, NIGHT FEST invites families, friends, artists, and neighbors to make, learn, and create together through a variety of free workshops, demonstrations, and participatory activities. Whether you’re a child, teen, adult, or lifelong maker, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. Visitors can spend the evening making art, relaxing in the park’s picnic areas, and cooling off at the splash pad while enjoying the festival atmosphere.

👩🏾‍🎨Activities include:
Letterpress Mini-Posters with Lorena and Air-Dry Clay Workshop with Raquel, presented by Guttenberg Arts (Guttenberg Arts)
Tiny Bird Workshop with Tiny Gallery (tinygallerymontclair)
Cyanotypes with Obscura Darkroom (Obscura Darkroom)
Kite-Making with Amanda Thackray (Amanda Thackray)
DIY Instrument-Making with the PES Team (Project For Empty Space)
Live Flameworking Demonstration, Jewelry-Making, and Glass Etching Activities with GlassRoots (GlassRoots)
Sewing and Textile Workshop with Brick City Stitch and Friends (Brick City Stitch)

🎟️📲 RSVP: 2026nightfest.eventbrite.com

Join us in the upcoming week for the kick-off of PES SUMMER STUDIO at Ironside Newark. 🎉On Thursday, June 25th from 6-9P...
06/18/2026

Join us in the upcoming week for the kick-off of PES SUMMER STUDIO at Ironside Newark. 🎉

On Thursday, June 25th from 6-9PM, Cycle 8 AIR Layqa Nuna Yawar (Lenny Correa) will host “Drawing Circle” ✍️

Sign up now via link 🔗 in bio

✨About the workshop✨
A three-hour event where you’ll have the opportunity to connect with fellow artists and develop your drawing skills in a supportive environment as we work from the n**e figure. Whether you’re a seasoned artist or starting out, everyone is welcome to participate. Some materials will be provided, but bring your sketchbook and pencils, drawing board, or anything else you might need.

📍PES at Ironside Newark, 110 Edison Pl, Newark NJ 07102

Access the space through Mulberry Commons Park via Columbia Street.

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➡️ PES SUMMER STUDIO, led by past and present Artists In Residence (AIR), invites participants of all ages to experiment with new materials, develop creative skills, and engage with contemporary artistic practices.

🌇 The series includes protest pin-making, collaborative city-building, painting in various media such as watercolor, acrylic, and stencil, life-drawing, digital fabrication, and more. Each workshop reflects the artist’s unique practice and approach, offering opportunities for hands-on learning, creative exploration, and conversation.

✨ Whether you’re an artist, a student, a family, or simply curious to try something new, we invite you to join us this summer at PES Ironside Newark. ✨

Join us tomorrow, Juneteenth from 6–9 PM at📍800 Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Blvd for the opening reception of “Black Revolut...
06/18/2026

Join us tomorrow, Juneteenth from 6–9 PM at📍800 Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Blvd for the opening reception of “Black Revolutionary Women: 250 Years of a Colony Within a Colony”, a new exhibition and series of community events by Cycle 9 Artist In Residence Noelle Lorraine Williams (Noelle Lorraine Williams)!

🔗 RSVP via link in bio or at 📲blackrevolutionarywomen.eventbrite.com.

Featured Above: “Pinkster Revolution,” 2026

Pinkster Revolution takes late nineteenth-century photographs—historical, documentary, tourist, and commercial—and reimagines formerly enslaved women as powerful leaders from the colonial era.

The project is inspired by Pinkster, a three-day holiday celebrated by free and enslaved people of African descent in New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. It pays tribute to a tradition that brought joy, community, cultural expression, and moments of freedom.

The women presented in these flags come from former Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, British, and United States colonies. The series highlights Sylvia DuBois, a formerly enslaved woman from New Jersey, reimagined as Queen Anne. Other pieces use well-known photographs and postcards, such as a Surinamese postcard portrait, a Haitian tourist photo, a Puerto Rican image of a woman and child connected to a gold-mining project, and photos from Brazil by a Jewish photographer who documented enslaved and formerly enslaved people.

“Black Revolutionary Women: 250 Years of a Colony Within a Colony” will be on view June 19, 2026, through October 10, 2026, at 800 Mayor Kenneth Gibson Boulevard, Newark, NJ.

📣 Calling all New Jersey artists! Applications are still open.Project for Empty Space is proud to partner with RWJBarnab...
06/17/2026

📣 Calling all New Jersey artists! Applications are still open.

Project for Empty Space is proud to partner with RWJBarnabas Health and Saint James Health to commission a large-scale mural for the new outpatient clinic at 604 Market Street in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood.

This public artwork will be part of a space dedicated to expanding access to community-based healthcare and supporting the health and wellbeing of Newark residents. We are seeking a proposal that reflects accessible, compassionate, whole-family care and communicates a sense of welcome, trust, healing, and community wellbeing.

🎨 The selected artist will create a mural that expresses that this is a place where people are welcomed, supported, and cared for. The work should resonate with patients, families, staff, neighbors, and young people, while reflecting a broad vision of wellness, prevention, healing, nourishment, and intergenerational support.

✨ Slide For Details > 

📅 Deadline: July 1, 2026, at 11:59 PM

🔗 Learn more and apply via the link in our bio.
projectforemptyspace.submittable.com

Now on view as part of A CITY OF CREATORS!

A NEWARK HOUR by Diego Molina
📍 756 Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Blvd.This citywi...
06/16/2026

Now on view as part of A CITY OF CREATORS!

A NEWARK HOUR by Diego Molina
📍 756 Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Blvd.

This citywide initiative transforms more than 20 vacant storefronts into an immersive arts corridor featuring work by 25 local artists and organizations. Through window-based installations, A CITY OF CREATORS connects artists, small businesses, and neighborhood stories, reimagining vacant retail spaces as sites of creativity, visibility, and opportunity.

🌃 Diego Molina (Diego Molina) is an illustrator and muralist whose work draws inspiration from popular culture, dreams, cartoons, spirituality, and Latin American culture. Through drawing, illustration, and painting, he creates layered visual narratives that transform familiar forms into symbolic worlds. His work includes public art commissions, residencies, and exhibitions, including projects with the New York Red Bulls and the Queens Museum.

🍻 A NEWARK HOUR highlights nightlife, dining, and social gathering as essential parts of Downtown Newark’s cultural identity. From cafés and juice bars to cocktail lounges, brunch spots, and late-night destinations, these spaces shape how residents and visitors connect, celebrate, and experience the city. They reflect Newark’s rhythm—before events, after work, on weekends, and during festivals—serving as vibrant hubs of community and exchange.

🍔 Scan the QR code to learn more about the artist and featured businesses.

Nearby businesses (within a 5-minute walk):
• Black Oyster Cocktail & Grill (Black Oyster Cocktail Company) – 218 Market St.
• Consigliere Wine & Cocktail Bar (Consigliere) – 31 Warren St.
• Legacy27 Kitchen & Cocktail (Legacy 27 Restaurant) – 27 Central Ave.
• McGovern’s Tavern (McGoverns Tavern 🍀🇮🇪🍺) – 58–60 New St.
• Newark Culture Club (Newark Culture Club) – 563 Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Blvd.

A CITY OF CREATORS is presented by the City of Newark Division of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Newark Arts & Education District, Invest Newark, Newark Urban Enterprise Zone, Newark Alliance, Newark Downtown District, and Project for Empty Space.

THIS FRIDAY in NEWARK! 📣Join us on Juneteenth from 6–9 PM at📍800 Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Blvd for the opening reception ...
06/16/2026

THIS FRIDAY in NEWARK! 📣
Join us on Juneteenth from 6–9 PM at📍800 Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Blvd for the opening reception of “Black Revolutionary Women: 250 Years of a Colony Within a Colony”, a new exhibition and series of community events by Cycle 9 Artist In Residence Noelle Lorraine Williams (Noelle Lorraine Williams).

🔗 RSVP via link in bio or at 📲blackrevolutionarywomen.eventbrite.com.

“Black Revolutionary Women” highlights Black women’s resistance, survival, and freedom-making across the Americas, reframing dominant narratives of the American Revolution as the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Through installation, performance, and collage, Noelle Lorraine Williams uses a multidisciplinary approach through her project Black Power! 19th Century, exploring how Black women and their descendants lived under systems that treated them as property within expanding Colonial economies.

In the exhibition, Williams combines historical images, text, and materials such as thread, fabric, newspapers, photographs, archival artworks, and elements of popular culture. She brings together both official historical imagery and forms associated with women’s craft to retell stories of everyday resistance and freedom-making that are often left out of traditional history.

”Thousands of Black women in the Americas stood up to the world’s most powerful empires for their freedom during slavery. For this 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence I am proud to create a space of art, words, and song for the public to experience, share and learn about the adversities these women faced, freedoms they fought for and how that connects to our present day.” - 🗣️Noelle Lorraine Williams

“Black Revolutionary Women: 250 Years of a Colony Within a Colony” will be on view June 19, 2026, through October 10, 2026, at 800 Mayor Kenneth Gibson Boulevard, Newark, NJ.

Join us in the upcoming week for the kick-off of PES SUMMER STUDIO at Ironside Newark. 🎉On Tuesday, June 23rd and Thursd...
06/15/2026

Join us in the upcoming week for the kick-off of PES SUMMER STUDIO at Ironside Newark. 🎉

On Tuesday, June 23rd and Thursday, June 25th from 4-6PM, Cycle 10 AIR Aimee Koran (Aimee Koran) will host “Make Your Voice Visible: Protest Pin Workshop for Families!”🎨

Sign up now via link 🔗 in bio

✨About the workshop✨
A family-friendly workshop where participants create wearable protest pins inspired by issues they care about. Through collage, drawing, and design, families explore how art can amplify voices, build community, and encourage civic participation at any age.🧑‍🎨👩‍🎨

📍PES at Ironside Newark, 110 Edison Pl, Newark NJ 07102

Access the space through Mulberry Commons Park via Columbia Street.

——

➡️ PES SUMMER STUDIO, led by past and present Artists In Residence (AIR), invites participants of all ages to experiment with new materials, develop creative skills, and engage with contemporary artistic practices.

🌇 The series includes protest pin-making, collaborative city-building, painting in various media such as watercolor, acrylic, and stencil, life-drawing, digital fabrication, and more. Each workshop reflects the artist’s unique practice and approach, offering opportunities for hands-on learning, creative exploration, and conversation.

✨ Whether you’re an artist, a student, a family, or simply curious to try something new, we invite you to join us this summer at PES Ironside Newark. ✨

☀️ This summer, Project for Empty Space is transforming its exhibition space at Ironside, located at 110 Edison Place in...
06/15/2026

☀️ This summer, Project for Empty Space is transforming its exhibition space at Ironside, located at 110 Edison Place in Newark, into a gathering place for free, artist-led workshops. 🎨☀️

Sign up now via 🔗 link in bio!

➡️ PES SUMMER STUDIO, led by past and present Artists In Residence (AIR), invites participants of all ages to experiment with new materials, develop creative skills, and engage with contemporary artistic practices.

FEATURED WORKSHOPS:

• Make Your Voice Visible: Protest Pin Workshop For Families with Aimee Koran (Aimee Koran)
June 23 & 25

• Drawing Circle with Layqa Nuna Yawar (Lenny Correa)
June 25 & August 5

• Outdoor Painting with Black Painters Academy with Azikiwe Mohammed (Azikiwe Mohammed)
July 7 & July 9

• Sunset Selfies: Watercolor Portraiture with Shoshanna Weinberger (Shoshanna Weinberger)
July 8 & July 15

• Building Community, Block by Block with Amy Ritter (Amy Ritter)
July 11

• Summer Stencil Painting with CAZORLA + SALEME (Patricia Cazorla)(Threading Trends-News Hub)
July 14 & 16

• Cutting Futures: Laser Fabrication for Emerging Newark Artists (16+) with Damien Davis (𝗗𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗘𝗡)
Week of July 20-25

🌇 The series includes protest pin-making, collaborative city-building, painting in various media such as watercolor, acrylic, and stencil, life-drawing, digital fabrication, and more. Each workshop reflects the artist’s unique practice and approach, offering opportunities for hands-on learning, creative exploration, and conversation.

✨ Whether you’re an artist, a student, a family, or simply curious to try something new, we invite you to join us this summer at PES Ironside Newark. ✨

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