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Join our 35th Anniversary celebration Wall to Wall on Saturday, September 25, 2010, from 6-10 p.m. at 77 Market Street, Newark, NJ. Tickets are $200, which guarantee you will take home an original work of art along with enjoying a fun night with artists, collectors, live music, fine food and refreshments from Newark’s best restaurants. Buy $200 tickets, which include the art raffle, here. Consider sponsoring the event here. Or buy a guest ticket (not including artwork) for just $50 here. You can preview the art online here or at the event venue from Thursday, September 23 to Friday, September 24, 12-6 p.m. The event coincides with Newark Open Doors 2010, and all proceeds benefit cWOW's youth education programs, including ArtReach, City Murals, Newark New Media, and more...!

"City Murals" trolley tour takes place Saturday, September 25, from 3-5 p.m. leaving from 77 Market Street, Newark, NJ. See large-scale public murals being created by artists and youth throughout Newark. City Murals is a collaboration with the City of Newark, Prudential Foundation, Rutgers University Transitional Education and Employment Management (TEEM) Gateway, and other community partners. Free and open to the public. Read more about City Murals here. Join us that same day and location from 6-10 p.m. at Wall to Wall, cWOW's 35th Anniversary Celebration fundraiser. Both events coincide with Newark Open Doors 2010.

Nonsense, curated by Jill Wickenheisser, invites artists to use fantasy and nonsensical imagery in their work. The exhibition features 22 large works by artists John Coburn, Thomas Francisco, Rachel Leibman, Bud McNichol, Elizabeth Mead, Andrea Morganstern, and Melinda Yale. At Seton Hall University School of Law, August 2, 2010 through January 7, 2011, One Newark Center, Newark, NJ 07102. Free and open to the public, daily 10am - 5pm. Directions.

Two watercolors by Palmer Hayden, the famous Harlem Renaissance artist, will be included in Swann Galleries, Inc. African-American Fine Art Auction on October 7, 2010 starting at 2:30 p.m. at 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010 (212-254-4710). The Benny Andrews Foundation, Inc. of Litchfield, Connecticut donated the original, signed watercolors entitled Girl with Cat and Untitled (The Carousel Wharf) to support cWOW's educational programs for youth such as ArtReach, City Murals, and Newark New Media.

Join cWOW Executive Director Ben Goldman for “Environmental Justice in New Jersey,” a critical panel discussion on Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. at the Nutley Public Library, 93 Booth Drive, Nutley, NJ 07110 (973-667-0405). In addition to Dr. Goldman, who co-authored the landmark 1987 study “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States,” distinguished panelists include: Valorie Caffee, B.S., Chair of the Environmental Justice Advisory Council to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Board Member of GreenFaith, and Deborah Kim Gaddy, B.S., Environmental Justice Organizer for the New Jersey Environmental Federation. This panel discussion was made possible by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Free and open to the public.

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