RED BANK: ARTIST’S WORK MOON-BOUND
‘Circus Summer,’ above, is one of two paintings by Red Bank artist Eileen Kennedy that’s slated to go to the moon this summer.
SHREWSBURY: GUILD AWARDS MEDAL WINNERS
Red Bank artists Eileen Kennedy (“Folk Festival,” above) and Tyler Nunnally-Duck (“Island Man on Bike,” below) are among the medal winners honored during the annual holiday group show exhibit at the Guild of Creative Art. Juror Barbara Russo selected Kennedy’s painting as Best In Show; awarding two silver achievement and eight bronze achievement awards in the categories of painting and photography. Together with the small-works exhibit “Cash & Carry,” the show remains on display through January 4 at the Guild’s Shrewsbury studio, during regular days and hours of operation (the studio will be closed between Christmas and New Year’s Day).
RED BANK: A WALK OF FAME FOR LOCAL MUTTS
All Dogs Go to Hollywood as Red Bank RiverCenter presents the latest of its canine-friendly Dog Days events Tuesday evening.
At a time of year when Hollywood separates its summer blockbusters from its disappointing box-office dogs, the Tinseltown-canine connection is being celebrated in style on the streets of Red Bank, as the latest in the summer series of Dog Days promotions returns on Tuesday evening.
Hosted once again by Red Bank RiverCenter and the Borough of Red Bank, the 6-to-9 p.m. event is presented under the theme All Dogs Go to Hollywood, with a strolling array of dog-focused vendors, pup-positive downtown businesses and informational displays given a red-carpet twist: guest-star canines (and their human personal assistants) are invited to dress up and walk that carpet for a free photo op worthy of a big-time movie premiere, fun props included.
RED BANK: PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS REPORT
The Kennedy Mystique: the egg-tempera CIRCUS SUMMER by Eileen Kennedy is among the items included in DREAMSCAPES AND SHAPED DREAMS — an exhibit of works by the painter and her cousin Lynne Kennedy, going up on the walls of the Oyster Point Hotel.
The river breezes may still be blowing more bitter than sweet, but as sure a sign of Spring — surer even than Punxsatawney prognosticators, or pudgy pitchers — is the sudden proliferation of art exhibitions in our area’s galleries, grand lodgings, and even greenhouses. It’s an explosion of color that begins, appropriately enough, amid the plant life of Sickles Market in Little Silver this weekend — and it continues, in the days and evenings to come, in places both safe and surprising.