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Girls Night Out

EVENT NAME: Girls Night Out in Maplewood Village
EVENT VENUE: Maplewood Village Merchants
DAY DATE TIME: Thursday, June 18th, 2009 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM
EVENT STREET ADDRESS: Maplewood Ave. and Highland Place
CITY STATE ZIPCODE: Maplewood, New Jersey, 07040
EVENT COUNTY: Essex County
EVENT ADMISSION: free
EVENT WEBSITE: http://www.maplewoodonline.com/blogs/amyk717/page.php?qs1=bucuuo144110
EVENT SUBMITTED BY: Michele Bessey, Volunteer, Maplewood Village Alliance
 

EVENT DESCRIPTION: Gather your girlfriends and come to Maplewood Village for an amazing night! The merchants of Maplewood Village will be treating women to an evening of shopping, dining, discounts and fun. Over 30 merchants have banded together to treat the ladies (and men!) to a night of special events, in-store promotions and refreshments from 6 to 9:30pm on Thursday, June 18th, 2009.

Events include trunk shows, wine tastings, discount movie tickets, half- price dinners, drink specials, spa services, painting parties, make-up artists, and lots and lots of sales and savings!

Celebrate a fun summer night eating with friends, picking up those summer gifts, and getting ready for Father’s Day. Rain or shine, the fun is all inside! Look for colorful balloons outside of participating shops and restaurants. Free municipal parking lots are located on Maplewood Ave. across from the train station; on Maplewood Avenue below the post office; on Baker Street above Maplewood Ave.; and on Highland Place above Maplewood Avenue.

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Maplewood is located in Essex County in North Jersey.

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Spring Open Market is a day for celebrating spring “al fresco!” Come and shop for all new seasonal merchandise for you, your family and friends. Enjoy outdoor dining at one of the many cafe tables set up throughout the Village – just for the occasion. Enjoy the sounds of the live music provided by: Felt, The Mood Rings, Slight Imperfection and more. Get sketched by a street artist. Shop for fresh produce at an organic farmstand. Enter to win one of three gift baskets filled with the best of the best from Village shops. So much more!!! Save the date – Saturday, April 25th from 12n until 7p. Raindate is Saturday, May 2nd.

EVENT NAME: Maplewood Village Spring Open Market
EVENT DATES: Saturday April 25th, 2009
EVENT DAYS TIMES: Sat.: 12pm – 7pm
EVENT STREET ADDRESS: Highland Place and Maplewood Ave.
EVENT CITY STATE: Maplewood, NJ
EVENT COUNTY: Essex
EVENT PHONE : 973.762.4556
EVENT WEBSITE: Maplewood NJ Online

YOUR NAME: Amy Koehler
YOUR TITLE: Maplewood Village Alliance Manager

The Maplewood Village Alliance is a non-profit corporation composed of merchants, property owners and residents dedicated to the betterment of Maplewood Village. The Alliance is incorporated as a Special Improvement District (SID). The Alliance’s Clean&Safe, Parking, Marketing, Promotions and Design Committees meet regularly to discuss problems that need attention, formulate possible solutions and implement changes.

Maplewood New Jersey is located in Essex County in North Jersey.

Encaustic Painting by Lisa Pressman

Lisa Pressman, a New Jersey artist, will present a series of workshops on the art of encaustic painting in various locations throughout the state in April, May, June and July.

Encaustic is a centuries old method of painting with molten beeswax or wax along with pigment resulting in luscious, vibrant colors. In this class we will explore various encaustic techniques including layering, fusing, incising, scraping, combining oil sticks with encaustic, combining encaustic and collage, safety issues and much more.

Encaustic Workshop
Center for Visual Arts
Summit, NJ
April 26th 10am-4pm
908-273-9121

Introduction to Encaustic
Geralyn Art`s Studio
Maplewood, NJ
May 3rd 10am-3pm
973-275-1966

Encaustic Intensive -2 Days
The Art School at Old Church
Demarest, NJ
June 18th & 19th 10am-3pm
201-767-7160

Encaustic Workshop
Center for Visual Arts
Summit, NJ
June 26th, 10am-4pm
908-273-9121

Encaustic Intensive
5 Days
Peter`s Valley Craft Center
Layton, NJ
July 17th-21st, 2009
973-984-5200

Private Workshops
Lisa Pressman: Artist
Telephone: 973-943-8674
Website: http://www.lisapressman.net

Lisa Pressman was featured in a solo show at the Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX in March of 2009.She is also represented by The Bennet Street Gallery, Atlanta, GA and the Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Her work was selected as one of three painters for an abstract painting exhibition with the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series at Rutgers College, NJ later in 2009. She has had numerous one-person exhibitions, group and juried shows throughout New Jersey over the past 20 years. Her work is in many private and corporate collections, including Zais Group (NJ), McKinsey Financial Corporation (NY), and in Hyatt Regency Hotels in Chicago, Atlanta and at the Desert Springs Marriot, Desert Springs.

Lisa has a M.F.A. from Bard College and a B.A. from Douglass College, Rutgers University. She has studied encaustics at R&F Encaustics and has attended numerous technical workshops over the past 8 years. She lives and works in West Orange, NJ. She also teaches encaustic at the Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, The Printmaking Council of NJ and will be teaching an encaustic workshop at Peter’s Valley Arts and Craft Center, Layton ,NJ in the summer of 2009.