The Galleries are open to ticket holders prior to shows, during intermission, by appointment and every Tuesday afternoon from 12:00 -2:00.
For more information, please contact Charles Miller at cmiller1@mayoarts.org or Lee Kaloidis at 973-539-0345 x6587.
STUDENT PROGRAM COVER ART CONTEST
March 3, 2024 – March 17, 2024
Reception: Tuesday, March 5th
Each year MPAC invites Morris County Middle and High School students to participate in our annual Student Art Gallery Exhibit and Program Cover Art Contest.
Students were tasked to create a program book cover design based on the theme “Imagine! Discover! Create!”
All participants’ artwork will be displayed in the Art Upstairs Gallery through March 17th.
This year we received 54 entries. MPAC thanks all of the students who entered and their teachers for encouraging their participation.
For more information about the Art Cover Contest, email jboeckel@mayoarts.org.
LAURIE HARDEN
March 3, 2024 – April 17, 2024
Raised in Morris County, N.J., Laurie attended Kansas City Art Institute majoring in Painting. In 1973 she transferred to the Rhode Island School of Design where she majored in Illustration, studying under Mahler Ryder, Panos Ghikas, and Roger Pontbriand. Ms. Harden was graduated from RISD with a BFA in 1976.
She currently works as an art instructor & freelance illustrator. Some of her clients have included Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, N.Y. Daily News. N.Y. Times, McGraw-Hill, Harper and Collins, Grosset and Dunlap, Pearson Learning , Scholastic, Cricket Magazine Group, Dell Magazines, & Simon and Schuster.
Ms. Harden is a member of The Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, the American Artists Professional League, The Pastel Society America, PSNJ & the Art Centre of NJ, & Allied Artists.
Galleries that currently represent her are The Swain Gallery in Plainfield.
She has exhibited at The Salmugundi Club and the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Inc., The Broome St. Gallery, The Pen & Brush Club, and The National Arts Club in N.Y.C., The Cathedral Arts Show in Jersey City, Macculloch Hall and the Atrium in Morristown, The Gerald R. Dodge Foundation Artist Initiative Exhibition Space & Gallery at Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Papermill Playhouse, The Blackwell Street Spring Fling, Morris County Art Association Shows, Sussex County Arts and Heritage Counsel Shows, Barrons Art Center, the Ridgewood Barn Gallery, The Wilson School, The Hilltop Country Day School, The Morris Museum, the Hilton Head Art Association International Juried Show and The Slater Museum in Norwich, Ct. among others in both group and solo exhibits.
The Art Upstairs Gallery is located in the balcony lobby of Mayo Performing Arts Center. Exhibits are varied and showcase visual artists from a variety of mediums including watercolor, oil, photography, sculpture and more. Each year, the works of over 200 artists are showcased in group exhibits. Recent groups that have been showcased include the Essex Watercolor Club, New Jersey Photography Forum, Art in the Atrium and the Pastel Society of New Jersey. The Art Upstairs Gallery is a gift of the John and Margaret Post Foundation.
The Starlight Gallery is adjacent to our Starlight Room, MPAC’s reception hall that hosts VIP’s prior to concerts and events. Monthly exhibits have included individual artists such as Nina Nemeth, Lenny McDonald, Mike Dziomba and Paula Pearl. The Starlight Gallery is a gift of Wendy and Jay Birnbaum.
The galleries provide a unique opportunity to marry the visual and performing arts, and provide exposure to artists with an audience that may not normally frequent an art gallery. All artwork is available for purchase, a portion of which will go toward the mission of the non-profit galleries, Art Upstairs and Starlight.
The Galleries are open to ticket holders prior to shows, during intermission, by appointment and every Tuesday afternoon from 12:00 -2:00. For more information, please contact Charles Miller at cmiller1@mayoarts.org or Lee Kaloidis at 973-539-0345 x6587.
Browse a video playlist of highlights from several past exhibitions: