Event Watch
EVENTS
I have a sculpture on display in the exhibition currently at The D&R Greenway, Princeton, NJ, curated by C.J. Mugvaro
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FIERCE CARYATIDS, my solo exhibition of "Distressed Forest" sculptures and large photographic banners, recently on display at the Global Neuroscience Institute Galleries at 10 Route 31 N., Pennington, NJ through April 30th.
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I'll have a painting included in West Windsor Arts Council Make Your Mark exhibition opening in April. Forecast includes one of my original poems in the painting.
Forecast, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas with original poem.
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That's my work on the cover of the 2023 US1 Worksheets, and I also have a poem inside. The artwork is a detail from an installation I exhibited at The Monmouth Museum a few years ago.
I am the Managing Editor for the 2024 & '25 issues. Contact me to purchase.
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I just published my first chapbook, in time for the reading with Coleen Marks, at Princeton Makes recently. That's one of my very old sketches on the cover and also a couple inside. Contact me to purchase a book.
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Since my last Event post, I have held two more Artist Melts at Suburban Frontier, my studio/exhibition space in Ewing, NJ. I've been very busy with both poetry and art, doing readings and exhibiting at various venues.
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I participated in the 2022 Hopewell Tour October 1 & 2, and though it was a rainy weekend many people showed up and enjoyed exploring my artworks with special UV flashlights for this interactive exhibition.
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I hosted the first Artist Melt, an evening of poetry, art and music, at my studio, Suburban Frontier, in late August. Approximately 20 creative people presented their work in a private event.
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Mossy Moment #6 will be in the Mercer County Senior Artists 2022 Exhibition, at The Conference Center at Mercer County Community College.
Mossy Moment #6, ©Joy Kreves, colored pencil on paper mounted on foamcore.
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Mossy Moment #3 was selected by the juror for the Mercer County Artists 2022 exhibition in The Gallery at Mercer County Community College, opening in July.
Mossy Moment #3, ©Joy Kreves, colored pencil on paper mounted on foamcore.
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One of my Mossy Moment drawings was selected by the juror for The Ellarslie Open in Ellarslie,The Trenton City Museum, opening Saturday, June 25th, 2022
Mossy Moment #4, ©Joy Kreves, colored pencil on paper on board.
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Two of my sculptures were selected for the 2022 New Hope Sculpture Show, on view now through July 18th, at the New Hope Art Center, Stockton St., New Hope, Pa.
Sun Rock, ©Joy Kreves, celluclay on plastic with oak leaf
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I was one of three featured artists in the exhibition, "Off the Beaten Path" at Ficus Above, the upstairs restaurant/art gallery at Ficus Bon Vivant, 235 Nassau St., Princeton, NJ. The exhibition, also including paintings by Lori Langsner and Janet Purcell, will run from November 17th, 2021 through February 27th, 2022. Many of my Geode sculptures are featured in this exhibition curated by Kyle Willie.
Nightmare of Narcissus Geode, ©JoyKreves, mixed media sculpture, wall hung.
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You'll see two of my new large, and several small "Mossy Moments" drawings,
and my artist books at this year's Hopewell Tour Des Arts, September 25 & 26 11-5pm.
I'll be with my work in an upstairs studio at
Highland Design Farm,159 Van Dyke Rd, Hopewell, NJ.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Masks will be required.
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My "Mourning Rock With Kickstand" UV reactive sculpture received the Best Of Show in this year's Mercer Senior Artists Exhibition, and now it will go on to the New Jersey State Senior Artists show.
Mourning Rock With Kickstand, celluclay over cardboard with UV reactive paints.
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October 2,3,9&10 2021, from 11am-5pm
you'll find me at
HOBART Art in the Native Landscape,
718 Rt.519 Frenchtown, NJ 08825
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I will be exhibiting recent works with lots of other artists in the 4th year of this exhibition that takes place indoors and out on a
26 acre property.
I'll have my work in the big open red barn.
Social distancing and mask wearing are strongly encouraged!
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Two works from my salt crystal series have been accepted into the West Windsor Art Center's "Floral Persuasion" exhibition, March 16th - May14th, 2021.
A virtual reception will be held on March 19th, 7:15 - 9:00pm.
L: FLIGHT OF BLUEBIRDS, salt crystals and acrylic and embroidered linen on panel with resin and gilded bee. R: TEEN CRUSH, salt crystals and acrylic with resin and embroidered linen on panel.
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In 2020 I completed an ash tree spire for the "Out of the Ashes" project with the Hopewell Valley Arts Council. My spire, "What Did You Become?" sold at the auction, but is installed for public viewing until April, at Gazebo Park in the town of Hopewell, NJ. I used glow paints on the lines, which charges up in daylight.
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"Farmer's Market Oddities" recently won the sculpture award in the Mercer County Senior Artists show, and went on to the NJ State Senior Artists exhibition.
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Several of my pieces were in a show at The Ewing Municipal Building, including "Leaf Hands", mixed media with ceramic wall sculpture, below:
LEAF HANDS, ©Joy Kreves, mixed media wall sculpture, 15"x36"x2"
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I had work in The Carversville Kitchen in 2020, in the "Red & Green" show in the upstairs gallery and also downstairs in the "Under $300" show.
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This is a detail from my piece for the Princeton Artists Alliance "Touching Sound" exhibition, coming to The Arts Council of Princeton in March 2020. PAA artists created works inspired by Jason Treuting's "Paper Melodies" composition, which will be played during the exhibition.
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"The 2019 Hopewell Tour Des Arts" is coming up this November 9th and 10th! I will be in Studio #5 upstairs at Highland Design Farm, 159 Van Dyke Rd., Hopewell, NJ, showing 3 new series: "The Distressed Forest", "Geodes", and "The Remembrance Series", which features crystal paintings with vintage linens & plastic additions, as well as some other very recent related pieces.
Above: Distressed Forest sculpture, mixed media with refuse; Chartreause Line Geode, mixed media wall hung sculpture; Green Crystal Painting, mixed media with salt crystals and moss.
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Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 I will be one of the featured speakers at an Artconnect Forum in Pennington, New Jersey.
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My sculpture was juried into the Hunterdon Museum's 2019 Member Show that is on display through December 2019 in Clinton, New Jersey.
Strange Fungi, mixed media ©JoyKreves2018
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I created an all season's wreath sculpture for Princeton Magazine's 2018 holiday issue. It is mixed media with drawing, on wood.
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In May 2019 I was the featured speaker at The Monroe Arts Club where I gave my in depth talk, "My Journey as an Ideas-Driven Artist"
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In May 2019 I participated in the "All in the Family" show at Artworks, Trenton. It was curated by Laura Beard, and featured 4 families of artists. My daughter and I showed a large mixed media collaborative work, "Shell", as well as our individual works on a long wall.
Shell, mixed media on cardboard, ©Joy Kreves and Ivia Sky Yavelow, 2019
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I have 2 transforming salt crystal works in the December/January show, "Joy in the Everyday" at the Gallery at Capital Health, Hopewell, NJ. from December 6 through Feb 25th 2019. A photograph of "Passion" (at the stage pictured below) will be included in the Princeton Artist Alliance's TRANSFORMATION show at ETS in The Chauncey Conference Center this April 2019. Curated by Fran Eber.
"Passion", ©Joy Kreves, salt crystals and dye on acrylic on panel. 12"x12"
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I will be a guest artist in Visual Stream Gallery's upcoming "Spirits" show in Lambertville, NJ.
"Witchery",©Joy Kreves 2018, salt crystals on panel with acrylic.
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Two of my deer rocks were included in member shows this fall. "Small Deer Rock" was recently in the Arts Council of Princeton's annual show and "Deer Rock" is still on exhibition in the juried member show at The Hunterdon Museum through December 2018.
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September 29th & 30th was the 2018 Hopewell Tour Des Arts, a town-wide Open Studios event. I showed my recent geode sculptures and salt crystal experiments.
"Blue Dreams Geode" ©Joy Kreves 2018, mixed media
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I will be in a three-person exhibition opening on Friday, June 8th, at The Art Trust Gallery in West Chester, Pa. It is curated by Dara Zuckernick. There will be an Artists Talk on Thursday, July 26th, 2018, and the show runs through July 27th.
"Forest Rain", mixed media collage with preserved natural materials, ©JoyKreves2016
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I'm working in a studio in Hopewell, New Jersey through the summer, at least. Here is the information about an Open Studio show there:
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"Call of the Forest" mixed media art installation, Highland Design Farm Studio, Hopewell, NJ, ©JoyKreves2018
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Some of my ice art images are included in the 2018 collection, "Pages From the Frozen Sea", curated by Eva Mantell and Sarah Stengle.
"Ice #4", ©Joy Kreves 2018
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My work was part of "ANIMAL ARCHITECTS: Influences on Human Creativity," a traveling exhibition curated by Donna Payton, at The The Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, New Jersey through August 2017. I had 3 small installations, a photograph and a sculpture in this exhibition.
CONTEMPORARY DIGS, ©Joy Kreves, mixed media installation.
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"CRAVING NATURE: The Feast Project" is a mixed media installation/ongoing series of events, that was first introduced May 6th, 2017 in a Premiere Exhibition at The West Windsor Arts Council, West Windsor, NJ. In October 2017 the project will be presented at Chatham University's Falk School of Sustainability and the Environment in Richland Township, Pa, as part of the "Food & Environment" conference.
FLATWARE SCULPTURES, detail from CRAVING NATURE: The Feast, art installation, ©Joy Kreves
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My work, "Pomegranate Wasp Story", will be part of "New Hope Sculpture 2017," a juried exhibition at The New Hope Art Center in New Hope, Pa, opening this June 2017.
Detail, POMEGRANATE WASP STORY, ©Joy Kreves2016
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My "Questions For a Tree" project began in November of 2015, when I invited viewers to write their questions for a tree on a torn paper leaf shape, picked from a basket near a large 8"h drawing of a tree that I created, and to then attach it to the drawing. It will remain at The Tulpehaking Nature Center, 157 Westcott Ave., Hamilton, NJ, through October 2016.
Questions For a Tree installed at The Tulpehaking Nature Center in November 2015 at beginning of project, (L) and after two weeks (R).
The project spawned an exhibition, "ROOTED", juried by Ivia Sky Yavelow and Kelly Rypkema, and also a performance salon, in which actors read works written by several writers who were inspired by the questions
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I created a book for The Sketchbook Project, "RIVER, FORWARD AND BACKWARD" . You can view it online here: http://www.sketchbookproject.com/library/14017 It can also be viewed in person at the Brooklyn Art Library.
I have a sculpture on display in the exhibition currently at The D&R Greenway, Princeton, NJ, curated by C.J. Mugvaro
**********
FIERCE CARYATIDS, my solo exhibition of "Distressed Forest" sculptures and large photographic banners, recently on display at the Global Neuroscience Institute Galleries at 10 Route 31 N., Pennington, NJ through April 30th.
**********
I'll have a painting included in West Windsor Arts Council Make Your Mark exhibition opening in April. Forecast includes one of my original poems in the painting.
Forecast, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas with original poem.
**********
That's my work on the cover of the 2023 US1 Worksheets, and I also have a poem inside. The artwork is a detail from an installation I exhibited at The Monmouth Museum a few years ago.
I am the Managing Editor for the 2024 & '25 issues. Contact me to purchase.
**********
I just published my first chapbook, in time for the reading with Coleen Marks, at Princeton Makes recently. That's one of my very old sketches on the cover and also a couple inside. Contact me to purchase a book.
**********
Since my last Event post, I have held two more Artist Melts at Suburban Frontier, my studio/exhibition space in Ewing, NJ. I've been very busy with both poetry and art, doing readings and exhibiting at various venues.
**********
I participated in the 2022 Hopewell Tour October 1 & 2, and though it was a rainy weekend many people showed up and enjoyed exploring my artworks with special UV flashlights for this interactive exhibition.
.
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I hosted the first Artist Melt, an evening of poetry, art and music, at my studio, Suburban Frontier, in late August. Approximately 20 creative people presented their work in a private event.
**********
Mossy Moment #6 will be in the Mercer County Senior Artists 2022 Exhibition, at The Conference Center at Mercer County Community College.
Mossy Moment #6, ©Joy Kreves, colored pencil on paper mounted on foamcore.
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Mossy Moment #3 was selected by the juror for the Mercer County Artists 2022 exhibition in The Gallery at Mercer County Community College, opening in July.
Mossy Moment #3, ©Joy Kreves, colored pencil on paper mounted on foamcore.
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One of my Mossy Moment drawings was selected by the juror for The Ellarslie Open in Ellarslie,The Trenton City Museum, opening Saturday, June 25th, 2022
Mossy Moment #4, ©Joy Kreves, colored pencil on paper on board.
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Two of my sculptures were selected for the 2022 New Hope Sculpture Show, on view now through July 18th, at the New Hope Art Center, Stockton St., New Hope, Pa.
Sun Rock, ©Joy Kreves, celluclay on plastic with oak leaf
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I was one of three featured artists in the exhibition, "Off the Beaten Path" at Ficus Above, the upstairs restaurant/art gallery at Ficus Bon Vivant, 235 Nassau St., Princeton, NJ. The exhibition, also including paintings by Lori Langsner and Janet Purcell, will run from November 17th, 2021 through February 27th, 2022. Many of my Geode sculptures are featured in this exhibition curated by Kyle Willie.
Nightmare of Narcissus Geode, ©JoyKreves, mixed media sculpture, wall hung.
********
You'll see two of my new large, and several small "Mossy Moments" drawings,
and my artist books at this year's Hopewell Tour Des Arts, September 25 & 26 11-5pm.
I'll be with my work in an upstairs studio at
Highland Design Farm,159 Van Dyke Rd, Hopewell, NJ.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Masks will be required.
*********
My "Mourning Rock With Kickstand" UV reactive sculpture received the Best Of Show in this year's Mercer Senior Artists Exhibition, and now it will go on to the New Jersey State Senior Artists show.
Mourning Rock With Kickstand, celluclay over cardboard with UV reactive paints.
**********
October 2,3,9&10 2021, from 11am-5pm
you'll find me at
HOBART Art in the Native Landscape,
718 Rt.519 Frenchtown, NJ 08825
I will be exhibiting recent works with lots of other artists in the 4th year of this exhibition that takes place indoors and out on a
26 acre property.
I'll have my work in the big open red barn.
Social distancing and mask wearing are strongly encouraged!
*********
Two works from my salt crystal series have been accepted into the West Windsor Art Center's "Floral Persuasion" exhibition, March 16th - May14th, 2021.
A virtual reception will be held on March 19th, 7:15 - 9:00pm.
L: FLIGHT OF BLUEBIRDS, salt crystals and acrylic and embroidered linen on panel with resin and gilded bee. R: TEEN CRUSH, salt crystals and acrylic with resin and embroidered linen on panel.
**********
In 2020 I completed an ash tree spire for the "Out of the Ashes" project with the Hopewell Valley Arts Council. My spire, "What Did You Become?" sold at the auction, but is installed for public viewing until April, at Gazebo Park in the town of Hopewell, NJ. I used glow paints on the lines, which charges up in daylight.
**********
"Farmer's Market Oddities" recently won the sculpture award in the Mercer County Senior Artists show, and went on to the NJ State Senior Artists exhibition.
**********
Several of my pieces were in a show at The Ewing Municipal Building, including "Leaf Hands", mixed media with ceramic wall sculpture, below:
LEAF HANDS, ©Joy Kreves, mixed media wall sculpture, 15"x36"x2"
**********
I had work in The Carversville Kitchen in 2020, in the "Red & Green" show in the upstairs gallery and also downstairs in the "Under $300" show.
**********
This is a detail from my piece for the Princeton Artists Alliance "Touching Sound" exhibition, coming to The Arts Council of Princeton in March 2020. PAA artists created works inspired by Jason Treuting's "Paper Melodies" composition, which will be played during the exhibition.
**********
"The 2019 Hopewell Tour Des Arts" is coming up this November 9th and 10th! I will be in Studio #5 upstairs at Highland Design Farm, 159 Van Dyke Rd., Hopewell, NJ, showing 3 new series: "The Distressed Forest", "Geodes", and "The Remembrance Series", which features crystal paintings with vintage linens & plastic additions, as well as some other very recent related pieces.
Above: Distressed Forest sculpture, mixed media with refuse; Chartreause Line Geode, mixed media wall hung sculpture; Green Crystal Painting, mixed media with salt crystals and moss.
*********
Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 I will be one of the featured speakers at an Artconnect Forum in Pennington, New Jersey.
*********
My sculpture was juried into the Hunterdon Museum's 2019 Member Show that is on display through December 2019 in Clinton, New Jersey.
Strange Fungi, mixed media ©JoyKreves2018
*********
I created an all season's wreath sculpture for Princeton Magazine's 2018 holiday issue. It is mixed media with drawing, on wood.
**********
In May 2019 I was the featured speaker at The Monroe Arts Club where I gave my in depth talk, "My Journey as an Ideas-Driven Artist"
**********
In May 2019 I participated in the "All in the Family" show at Artworks, Trenton. It was curated by Laura Beard, and featured 4 families of artists. My daughter and I showed a large mixed media collaborative work, "Shell", as well as our individual works on a long wall.
Shell, mixed media on cardboard, ©Joy Kreves and Ivia Sky Yavelow, 2019
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I have 2 transforming salt crystal works in the December/January show, "Joy in the Everyday" at the Gallery at Capital Health, Hopewell, NJ. from December 6 through Feb 25th 2019. A photograph of "Passion" (at the stage pictured below) will be included in the Princeton Artist Alliance's TRANSFORMATION show at ETS in The Chauncey Conference Center this April 2019. Curated by Fran Eber.
"Passion", ©Joy Kreves, salt crystals and dye on acrylic on panel. 12"x12"
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I will be a guest artist in Visual Stream Gallery's upcoming "Spirits" show in Lambertville, NJ.
"Witchery",©Joy Kreves 2018, salt crystals on panel with acrylic.
**********
Two of my deer rocks were included in member shows this fall. "Small Deer Rock" was recently in the Arts Council of Princeton's annual show and "Deer Rock" is still on exhibition in the juried member show at The Hunterdon Museum through December 2018.
**********
September 29th & 30th was the 2018 Hopewell Tour Des Arts, a town-wide Open Studios event. I showed my recent geode sculptures and salt crystal experiments.
"Blue Dreams Geode" ©Joy Kreves 2018, mixed media
**********
I will be in a three-person exhibition opening on Friday, June 8th, at The Art Trust Gallery in West Chester, Pa. It is curated by Dara Zuckernick. There will be an Artists Talk on Thursday, July 26th, 2018, and the show runs through July 27th.
"Forest Rain", mixed media collage with preserved natural materials, ©JoyKreves2016
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I'm working in a studio in Hopewell, New Jersey through the summer, at least. Here is the information about an Open Studio show there:
What's Growing ?
a Spring Studio Show
of some of the artists working at Highland Design Farm
159 Van Dyke Rd., Hopewell, New Jersey
Featuring Joy Kreves' site-specific art installation, "Call of the Forest"
Featuring Joy Kreves' site-specific art installation, "Call of the Forest"
Susan MacQueen, Sean Mannix, Grant Peterson, Joy Kreves, and Ric Stang.
Saturday, May 19th, 10-6pm
&
Sunday, May 20th, 11-4pm.
"Call of the Forest" mixed media art installation, Highland Design Farm Studio, Hopewell, NJ, ©JoyKreves2018
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Some of my ice art images are included in the 2018 collection, "Pages From the Frozen Sea", curated by Eva Mantell and Sarah Stengle.
"Ice #4", ©Joy Kreves 2018
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My work was part of "ANIMAL ARCHITECTS: Influences on Human Creativity," a traveling exhibition curated by Donna Payton, at The The Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, New Jersey through August 2017. I had 3 small installations, a photograph and a sculpture in this exhibition.
CONTEMPORARY DIGS, ©Joy Kreves, mixed media installation.
**********
"CRAVING NATURE: The Feast Project" is a mixed media installation/ongoing series of events, that was first introduced May 6th, 2017 in a Premiere Exhibition at The West Windsor Arts Council, West Windsor, NJ. In October 2017 the project will be presented at Chatham University's Falk School of Sustainability and the Environment in Richland Township, Pa, as part of the "Food & Environment" conference.
FLATWARE SCULPTURES, detail from CRAVING NATURE: The Feast, art installation, ©Joy Kreves
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My work, "Pomegranate Wasp Story", will be part of "New Hope Sculpture 2017," a juried exhibition at The New Hope Art Center in New Hope, Pa, opening this June 2017.
Detail, POMEGRANATE WASP STORY, ©Joy Kreves2016
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My "Questions For a Tree" project began in November of 2015, when I invited viewers to write their questions for a tree on a torn paper leaf shape, picked from a basket near a large 8"h drawing of a tree that I created, and to then attach it to the drawing. It will remain at The Tulpehaking Nature Center, 157 Westcott Ave., Hamilton, NJ, through October 2016.
Questions For a Tree installed at The Tulpehaking Nature Center in November 2015 at beginning of project, (L) and after two weeks (R).
The project spawned an exhibition, "ROOTED", juried by Ivia Sky Yavelow and Kelly Rypkema, and also a performance salon, in which actors read works written by several writers who were inspired by the questions
***********
I created a book for The Sketchbook Project, "RIVER, FORWARD AND BACKWARD" . You can view it online here: http://www.sketchbookproject.com/library/14017 It can also be viewed in person at the Brooklyn Art Library.
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