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Thursday, December 15, 2022

FREE HOLIDAY JAZZ CONCERT IN SUPPORT OF THE ART CENTER OF NOTHERN NEW JERSEY!



Benefit concert hosted by locally based, nationally acclaimed
Artist, Philip Smallwood


WHEN: Friday, December 16, 2022, 6:30-9PM
WHERE:
The Art Center of Northern New Jersey
250 Center Street,New Milford, NJ 07646
ATTEND: https://jazzacnnj.eventbrite.com
MORE INFO: Email Marlie Massena, marlie@cyourated.com

Nationally acclaimed artist, Philip Smallwood, based in New Milford, New Jersey, will host a jazz concert at The Art Center of Northern New Jersey.
The event is open to the public and free to attend, though donations for
much-needed repairs to the art center are welcomed.

The concert will feature jazz classics and holiday favorites performed by: "Simply Music" Jazz, Drums: Bill White, Guitar: Bruce Hector, Bass: Mark Sims.

Established in Englewood, NJ in 1957, the Art Center of Northern New Jersey has been an active participant in Bergen County cultural life for 65 years. It provides adults and children a stimulating environment for the development of skills and practicing art in all manner of media as it remains committed to diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. Their main floor has a large exhibition gallery, painting studio, and photographic darkroom. The lower floor has a fully equipped print room, stone and clay sculpture studio, and children’s art room.

Attendees are also encouraged to bring canned or dry food items to be donated to The Church of the Ascension Food Pantry, New Milford N.J.
Donations to the ACNNJ can be made on their website, www.artcenter-nnj.org

ABOUT PHILIP SMALLWOOD
Philip Smallwood is an award-winning artist (having garnered over twenty-five featured articles, with 200+ juried awards and honors throughout his career) and is one of the top contemporary artists working in traditional realism. He has been blending imagination, reality, and social consciousness for more than 20 years, with a steadily increasing level of recognition for his work. Known primarily for his enduring series called Lifescapes, a powerful form of portraiture and visual narrative., Smallwood is a visual storyteller whose narratives embrace "real people living real, honest, imperfect, and totally unrehearsed lives," that merge color with shadow, focus with juxtaposition, and gravity with irony.

ABOUT THE ART CENTER OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY (ACNNJ)
The Art Center of Northern New Jersey is a fine arts school and gallery providing adults and children a stimulating environment for the development of skills and practicing art in all manner of media. The Art Center is committed to diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.