Artists at Manufacturers Village have Open Studios Weekend

Artists at Manufacturers Village have Open Studios Weekend

Fall Open Studios weekend at Manufacturers Village is a free event designed to fuse art, architecture, community, and inspiration. Manufacturers Village, located on Glenwood Avenue in East Orange, recently held the biannual event, giving visitors a chance to meet the artists, view their work, and purchase original pieces. Among the artists was Donna Conklin King […]

Garden State shows off its art, artists

Garden State shows off its art, artists

Garden State Arts Weekend spotlights New Jersey’s arts, bringing together artists and the spaces where they showcase. Artist Christine Romanell spearheaded the idea, modeling the weekend after New York’s Upstate Art Weekend, an annual celebration that brings thousands of visitors to art spaces in the New York counties north of The Bronx. The historic Manufacturer’s […]

Art flourishes in former industrial complex

Art flourishes in former industrial complex

Manufacturers Village Artist Studios recently welcomed the public into their creative studios. Located in an 1880s industrial complex at 356 Glenwood Ave., East Orange, the studios are contained in three buildings, each with three floors, some with their own entrances. The building has more than 65 artists’ working spaces. The annual Open Studios weekend was […]

Maplewood artist explores liminal spaces in upcoming show in Orange

Maplewood artist explores liminal spaces in upcoming show in Orange

ORANGE, NJ — During the pandemic, many have felt that they are in an in-between space, waiting for normal life to resume. Artist Rachel Arturi Pruzan, of Maplewood, leans into the feeling of in-between in her first solo exhibit, “Liminal Spaces and Nowhere Places,” which opens at Valley Arts in Orange on Friday, Sept. 10, […]

Real estate broker to take over care for East Orange’s Manufacturers Village

Real estate broker to take over care for East Orange’s Manufacturers Village

EAST ORANGE, NJ — Day-to-day care for Manufacturers Village — the historic, 140-year-old haven for artists, inventors, scientists and entrepreneurs in East Orange — has been entrusted to Sheldon Gross Realty. The company’s president, Marcy Gross, has professional expertise in property management and during her three-decade career has managed more than a million square feet […]