MCCC Gallery Hosts Mercer County Artists 2011: Prizes to be Announced at Opening Reception March 9

West Windsor, N.J. – The talents of 95 Mercer County artists will be on display at the Gallery at Mercer County Community College in the upcoming exhibit, "Mercer County Artists 2011," which runs from March 8 to April 7. The community is invited to the Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony, to be held Wednesday, March 9 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The MCCC Gallery is located on the second floor of the Communication Building on Mercer's West Windsor campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road.

Juror Janet Hunt, owner and director of Coryell Gallery, which is located in Lambertville, has selected 120 works of art for the show from a field of 240 entries. Nearly one-quarter of the artists are newcomers. In addition to oil and watercolor paintings, close to a third of the pieces are three-dimensional mixed media and sculpture in materials ranging from clay and wood to bronze and concrete.

Among the prizes to be announced at the Opening Reception are Best in Show, two Juror's Choice Awards, and six Honorable Mentions. The awards ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. with representatives from the college, the county and the West Windsor Arts Council on hand to make presentations.

According to MCCC Gallery Director/Curator Tricia Fagan, juror Janet Hunt has been a key member of the arts community of central New Jersey for decades. Descended from a long line of artists, she has been part of the organizing committee for the prestigious Phillips' Mill annual art show since the early 1970s. "She carries on a remarkable family legacy. She really enjoyed all the talent she found here in Mercer County," Fagan said.

Selected artists include (in alphabetical order): Marina Ahunbabaeva of Princeton, Priscilla Snow Algava of Princeton, Robert Allard of Hamilton, Barry Altman, MD, of East Windsor, Gilda K. Aronovic of Princeton, Al Aronson of Princeton, Karen Bannister of Hopewell, Meghan Blair of Lawrenceville, Micaela Boekelmann of Princeton, Kelsey Bohlinger of Ewing, Ina Brosseau Marx of Princeton, Jennifer Cadoff of Princeton, Tito Cascieri of West Windsor, Larry Chestnut of Trenton, Sue S. Chiu of Lawrenceville, Louis Cicchini of Princeton Junction, Ben Colbert of Trenton, Jonathan Conner of Hamilton, Betty Curtiss of Princeton, Salvatore Damiano of Trenton, Filomena Dileo of Hamilton, Joseph H. Dougherty of Pennington, Ilene Dube of West Windsor, Janet Felton of West Windsor, Amy Frankel of West Windsor, Beverly Ardos Fredericks of East Windsor, Kristin Furbeck of Hamilton, Magdalena Furniss of Princeton, Maurice Galimidi of Ewing, Linda Gebhard of Hightstown, Christine Godfrey of Princeton, Dee Gozonsky of West Windsor, Frank Haggerty, Jr., of Lawrenceville, Biernet Henskens ofTrenton, Yu-Ching Huang of Trenton, Linda Iannacone of Trenton, Katarzyna Iwaniec of Princeton Junction, Justin Jedrzejczyk of Trenton, Bob Justin of Hamilton, René Kammeyer Seeland of East Windsor, Mel Keiner of East Windsor, William Knight of Burlington (with a studio in Princeton), Dick Kraeuter of Lawrenceville, Susan Kubota of Lawrenceville, Renee Kumar of West Windsor, Blanche Lacher of West Windsor, Lori Langsner of Princeton Junction, Ronald A. LeMahieu of Princeton, Kathleen Liao of Princeton Junction, Kuen Liao of Princeton Junction, Orlando Loaiza of Hightstown, Rob Lowe of Trenton, Charles McCollough of Hopewell, Arlene Gale Milgram of Trenton, Glenn Miller of Princeton Junction, Rachelle Nielsen Picarello of Lawrenceville, Lea Novak of Hamilton Square, Terri Olexa of Titusville, Elizabeth Peck of Princeton, Susan Phelan of Hamilton Square, Bill Plank of Lawrenceville, Mircea Popescu of Lawrenceville, Harold Popowitz of East Windsor, Teresa Prashad of Lawrence, Kathleen Preziosi of Princeton, Janis Purcell of East Windsor, Bonnie Christina Randall of Trenton, Jennifer Raughleyof Hopewell, Elijah Sabree of Trenton, Vijay Sawant of East Windsor, Jules Schaeffer of Belle Mead, Catharina Schimert of Lawrenceville, Christa Schneider of Princeton, Nancy Scott of Lawrenceville, Efat Shatzky of Princeton, Maxine Shore of East Windsor, Mary Siebers of Hamilton, J. Marion Simmons of Plainsboro, Margaret Simpson of Hamilton, Alice Sims-Gunzenhauser of Skillman, Larry Steele of Lawrenceville, Karen Stolper of Princeton, Susan Strassberg of Lawrenceville, Chad Thompson of Hamilton, Judy Tobie of Princeton, Katie Truk of Hamilton Square, Mary Waltham of Princeton, Shaomei Wan of Princeton, Alice Warshaw of Lawrenceville, Mary Ann Weisser of West Windsor, Andrew Werth of Princeton Junction, Rena White of Lawrenceville, Marisa Wieczorek Mule of Yardville, Gloria Wiernik of Lawrenceville, Susan Winter of Hightstown, and Nancy Zamboni of Mercerville.

Gallery hours are: Mondays, 6 to 8 p.m.; Tuesdays, 11a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 4 to 8 p.m.; and Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The exhibition is co-sponsored by and supported through a grant from the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission, with funding from the New Jersey State Council of the Arts/Department of State, a partner of the National Endowment for the Arts.

For more information about exhibits at the MCCC Gallery, visit www.mccc.edu/gallery. Directions to the campus and a campus map can be found at www.mccc.edu.

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