Please note our New Meeting Place, The Elks Lodge 73 East Main Street, Parking in rear. Handicap accessible. For more information on the Elks, click here.

On January 17 at 11 am, we will be holding a “free paint” session. A still life set up will be available. Or bring your work in progress or your own reference to draw or paint. Please bring your own pencils, paints and supplies, any medium. No painting supplies will be provided. Feel free to bring a snack and beverage for yourself. Painting not required. Meetings normally run about 2 hours.

Save the date: March 14, 11 am, our next meeting

Some evening meetings will be scheduled in the spring and summer.

FREEHOLD ART SOCIETY OPEN EXHIBIT

FREEHOLD PUBLIC LIBRARY   

SEP 16, 2022 THROUGH NOV 2022

JOSEPH REILLY, “Bella”, Mixed Media, $250, Judge’s Award

MICHAEL PETRIZZO, “Black River in Autumn”, Acrylic, $300, Judge’s Award

DARLENE K. MACOMBER, “The Island”, Oil, NFS, Judge’s Award

LINDA HART, “Hooked on the View”, Watercolor, NFS, Honorable Mention

CAROLYN TISCHER BARTLETT, “Spring Barn”, Pastel, $220, Honorable Mention

Our judge was Richard Berger, a classically trained artist who maintains a studio in Freehold Borough. His work is commission based and includes portraiture, sacred art, still life, and landscape. His art is in many private and public collections and can be seen locally at St. Rose of Lima, Freehold. He also gives lectures and demonstrations on paint making, perspective, drawing and painting.

Congratulations to all our winners and thanks all those to participated in the last show of 2020. Pick up is Monday 12/12.

Update: Opens to the public at 11, drop off your work at 10:30.

The holiday season gets off to an exciting start with the 9th Annual Freehold Arts and Crafts show on Saturday 12/3, 11- 4pm. The show will be at the Park Avenue Elementary School, 280 Park Ave, Freehold. Join us!

Members are encouraged to bring a few items to sell (16×20 or smaller) for our table. Paintings, crafts, cards or other creations are welcome. Please drop off 10:30. We’ll have a 10 ft table, table top easels and members on hand to handle sales. Bring your own standing easel for large works. Feel free to stay! Please label your work with your name, price and a telephone number. Pick up by 4 pm.

If you are able to donate a few of your unique Holiday Cards or general use cards to FAS (for 2022 Holiday Greetings and 2023 Thank Yous), we would appreciate droping them off at the show. .

Our friends at Freehold Public Library will be sprucing up a bit, courtesy of a grant for renovations. The library will be closed for several months. If you have work in the curent show, we will contact you regarding pick up in December. No new shows are scheduled now. We expect to start showing at the library again in a few months. Please do not bring new work when you come to pick up.  

The library is hosting an open house for the community Sunday 12/4. Drop in and enjoy our art show and the company!

Please note the pick up for our show at Freehold Library has been cancelled and the art work will remain on display for a few more weeks.

There is no pick up or drop off as previously scheduled on Novemeber 14.

We will send out a notice when a new date is known for pick up.

Thank you!

Join us this Wednesday at AROUND THE CORNER ART CENTER, 290 Mounts Corner Drive, Freehold, NJ. Bring a painting for critique.

Our speaker will be Ann Marie Fitzsimmons, whose paintings show the beauty of nature, with a touch of darkness.  Natural forms are juxtaposed with unnatural found objects to make the viewer ask questions.  Her paintings are thoughtfully cropped to create a visually exciting image that unites otherwise unrelated places or things in the same picture plane.

Program Topic, from Ann Marie.

Though my lifelong journey to create a masterpiece, I paint subjects that are original and aim to evoke emotion from their viewers. My talk will be about where I find inspiration for my art and how to make a visually interesting composition.

Ann Marie is also willing to offer critiques of artwork because we ALL learn from carefully “looking.” Attendees are invited to bring one piece of work for a critique.

Ann Marie currently teaches adults, teens and children at the Around the Corner Art Center in Freehold.

Our current show at Freehold Public Library is coming to a close. Pick up and recieving for the next is on Monday, SEP 12, 2022, 7:00-8:30 pm and Tuesday, SEP 13, 9:30-11:00 am

Pickup will be Monday, NOV 14, 2022, 7:00-8:30 pm and Tuesday, NOV 15, 9:30-11:00 am.

Download a prospectus at the following link:

Joseph Reilly gave a demonstration of portrait painting at our meeting on Thursday August 25 at Wainright House Museum, 48 Main Street, Farmingdale NJ.

Mr. Reilly painted an acrylic portrait while explaining his process of sketching and painting. He took questions from the audience, shared photographs of his other paintings and discussed his theater and teaching experiences. It was a wonderful meeting, enjoyed by all.

Joseph H. Reilly was the Art Instructor at Freehold Borough High School from 1959 – 2004.  In addition, he was the Director of Drama, including set and costume design.

Joe was also the Costume and Set Designer for Brookdale Community College; Gateway Playhouse at Ocean County College; the Theater Barn at Thompson Park; and the Theatre Arts Guild, Theatre 8.  In 2008, he received the Count Basie Lifetime Achievement Award.

Joseph Reilly is  a graduate of Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.  His work has been exhibited widely, and he is currently a regular exhibitor at the Freehold Art Gallery. 

Dr. Edoardo Mungiello will be presenting his talk “Where God Speaks Italian” on Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 3pm at the Freehold Art Gallery. 

“It’s an obligatory thing for tourists to do when visiting Italy:  The Incessant Church trekking.  One can wander into one too many and begin to suffer from Holy Overload.  Dr. Edoardo Mungiello, of the Freehold Art Gallery, has put together a lecture series on some of the innumerable sacred sites  of Italy, but pares down the list to give you some must sees that you may not know, and why you need to get to know the places “where God speaks Italian.”  In these lectures, Professor Mungiello will introduce or deepen your understanding of some of the most unusual and beautiful of them, and they certainly aren’t all churches.  His choices may surprise you.  It will be an idiosyncratic journey and promises not to bore the casual tourist or the expert.  He hopes to invite discussion and join in the fruitful discussion on beauty, the sacred, and identity.

Refreshments included, $20 per person.