Highlands Art Exhibits, presented by NJ Highlands Coalition

NOVEMBER 3 TO DECEMBER 29, 2024

ARTISTS' RECEPTION AND AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT

FREE and open to the public

Sunday, November 3

2:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Maxfield Engine House  

713 Main Street, Boonton NJ

The exhibit features paintings, photographs, sculpture, mixed media featuring the 4-State Highlands Region of NJ, NY, PA & CT

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New Jersey Highlands Coalition exhibits highlight the intersection of the Highlands’ natural beauty and the Coalition’s mission to protect the places that inspire our creativity. Exhibits feature an impressive mix of photography, oil and watercolor paintings, mixed media and sculpture. The art focuses on the landscapes, flora, fauna and historic and cultural resources of the four-state Highlands Region, with particular emphasis on the New Jersey Highlands.

The artists who are inspired by the natural beauty of the Highlands are advocates for protecting the Highlands natural and cultural resources as much as we who strive for protective policies. For beauty is worth fighting for to protect. The landscapes of the Highlands, the great biodiversity of plants and animals, the broken, half-hidden remnants of the early industrial age that has since returned to forest, the granite outcrops and strewn, truck-sized boulders deposited by the glaciers, the cold and deep glacial lakes and ancient rivers, the narrow valleys crossed by patinated iron truss bridges, the undulating farm fields and wildflower meadows, the “asunals”, the ceremonial rocks placed by the Lenape as wayfinders and to carry the prayers of successive generations — these are the same vistas and scenes that inspired an entire movement in art. The artists of our Juried Art Exhibit and Entr’Exhibits are the inheritors of the masterful Hudson River School. We are so pleased and honored to host their inspired works. Every show is a celebration of their creativity. 

The Annual Juried Highlands Art Exhibit, founded by New Jersey photographer and Coalition trustee Dwight Hiscano, is curated by Donna Compton and organized by the staffs of the New Jersey Highlands Coalition.  

Entr’Exhibits are held “in-between” our Annual Highlands Juried Art Exhibits.

CONTACT Hours, directions, media & other info

Donna Compton, Highlands Arts Curator

email highlandsart@njhighlandscoalition.org