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Join us June 6th for Family First Saturday and enjoy a day of fun activities for the whole family!Creative Play | 12:15 ...
06/03/2026

Join us June 6th for Family First Saturday and enjoy a day of fun activities for the whole family!

Creative Play | 12:15 pm
🧸Make your own articulated animal and a pool noodle pal! Appropriate for ages 5+

Performance Harlem Chamber Players| 1:30PM 
🎼The Harlem Chamber Players is an ethnically diverse collective of professional musicians dedicated to bringing high caliber, affordable, accessible live music to people in the Harlem community and beyond. Founded in 2008, they promote arts inclusion and equal access to the arts, bringing live music to underserved communities and promoting shared community arts and cultural engagement.

Character Meet & Greet | 12:30 pm⭐️

Family Drop-in | 1-4 pm
🎨Paint smooth stones inspired by pond water, plants, and animals, turning simple rocks into colorful creations inspired by nature. Appropriate for ages 5+

Chronicles in Cloth: Siddi Quilting | 1-4 pm
🧣Contribute to our quilt! Make a drawing or write a story on a piece of fabric. This activity is part of Chronicles in Cloth: Siddi Quilting, an innovative installation and community project in collaboration with Siddi women quilters and artist Anitha Reddy.  The Siddi of Karnataka province in India are descendants of African migrants. Quilting has long existed as a home-based practice within the community. Now through a collaborative process with Reddy, it has become a platform for artistic expression. Appropriate for ages 5+

Character Meet & Greet | 2:30 pm⭐️

And don’t forget to check out our family-friendly exhibition Animal Kingdom!🦋✨

Link in bio🔗

See you here!

This Memorial Day, we remember and honor the men and women of the military from our communities whom lost their lives se...
05/25/2026

This Memorial Day, we remember and honor the men and women of the military from our communities whom lost their lives serving our country. As we honor these fallen soldiers we recognize that it’s often through community with one another that we are able to heal collectively.

Be sure to swing by the museum this Saturday as we celebrate 🎊 Community Day here at the Newark Museum of Art 🖼️ May 30th 12pm - 5pm Tickets 🎟️ are free and can be downloaded via the link in our bio🔗

⭐️Come out and enjoy science & art such as this painting by Grace Ravlin ⭐️

It shows what might be a Memorial Day parade in front of the Plaza Hotel in New York, with Central Park in the distance.  In a letter to the Director of the Museum, Ravlin described the painting as being “done on the spot and otherwise than being a typical street scene of New York of that period has no special story attached to it. The effort was to seize the light and movement and color of the scene.” 🇺🇸
 
Grace Ravlin, The Plaza 1923, 1923 
Oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 28 3/4 in. 
Gift of Mrs. Felix Fuld, 1925  25.1170

05/21/2026

Did you know Ms. Marvel is the first Muslim superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

⭐️She is a Pakistani American teenager
living and fighting crime in Jersey City!🏙️

⭐️Have a seat, pick up a comic, and 
enjoy our Ms. Marvel Reading Nook.📚

📍Located in The Arts of Global Asia, North Wing, 3rd Floor.

See you there!

This is in the Made in Newark section of The Ballantine House 🏠. This section of the House was meant to highlight the Ne...
05/15/2026

This is in the Made in Newark section of The Ballantine House 🏠. This section of the House was meant to highlight the Newark community as a city with a history of artists, craftspeople, and industrial workers.⚒️

The Sullivan family lived here in Newark and they saved this memento of the donor’s early years 🍼✨. While Newark was known for its silver industry, this spoon was not made here. It was probably purchased in a Newark shop or department store as a baby gift.🥄🛍️

Oneida Community Silversmiths, Baby Spoon, ca.
1953
Silverplate
Gift of Dr. Gretchen S. Sorin, 2025 2025.4.1

Clyde Eugene Sullivan, Gretchen Sullivan at One
Year, 1953
Gelatin print on paper, cardstock
Gift of Dr. Gretchen S. Sorin, 2025 2025.4.2

Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was a Japanese American artist who is best known for his abstract sculptures. 🗿The Japanese at...
05/12/2026

Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was a Japanese American artist who is best known for his abstract sculptures. 🗿

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent backlash against Japanese Americans motivated Noguchi to cofound the Nisei Writers and Artists Mobilization for Democracy, a group dedicated to raising awareness of the patriotism of Japanese Americans✊🏽. He then voluntarily spent six months at the Colorado River Relocation Center (Poston) internment camp for Japanese Americans in Arizona. 

Following his release from Poston, Noguchi began a new series of delicate interlocking marble and slate sculptures. Of the material he wrote: “Unlike working with wood or metals, there could be no temptation to weld or glue. The very limitations of the medium imposed a kind of honesty; to find the minimum means for construction and expression rather than the myriad possibilities that metal welding involved.” ✍️

Isamu Noguchi, Untitled, ca. 1945 
Slate,19 1/4 x 11 x 6 in.  
Purchase 2010 Helen McMahon Brady Cutting Fund  2010.10

05/08/2026

✏️ Join us for a drop-in workshop this Saturday!

This workshop will feature a surprise theme and still life set up for you to draw.💎

We provide all the supplies needed and you get to work alongside one of our talented drawing instructors ✍️

Saturday May 9, 10am - 12pm

$22 for adults
$20 for Members, Seniors and Students

Link in bio 🔗

This is a graphite pencil drawing workshop.🗣️

Draw with us at the Museum!

Taking inspiration from a popular Indian comic book that retells epic stories 📚, Ganesh appropriates the past to posit a...
05/06/2026

Taking inspiration from a popular Indian comic book that retells epic stories 📚, Ganesh appropriates the past to posit a “South Asian” future 🌏. She references ancient mythologies to offer a speculative time ahead when marginalized people are empowered. In this artwork, Ganesh’s futuristic vision centers on themes of reflection and regeneration in times of uncertainty. ⚖️

Take a moment to review its dynamic imagery🌌

This recent acquisition will also be included in our upcoming exhibition Dreamtime in Newark: Aljira and the Making of Global Contemporary Art opening on October 16th 2026.⭐️

Chitra Ganesh, MultiverseDreaming: Urgency, 2020
Archival digital print Edition of 3 + 2AP CGO144, Overall: 65 × 44 1/2 in.
Purchase 2025 Charles W. Engelhard Bequest Fund 2025.10.1
© Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco

In the early decades of the nineteenth century 🕰️, and especially after Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 182...
05/05/2026

In the early decades of the nineteenth century 🕰️, and especially after Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821 ✊🏽, foreign travelers flocked to Mexico eager to see a new country with their own eyes.👀

🧵Garments like the sarape seen here were central to the exotic, picturesque Mexico they constructed.

Mexicans themselves saw the sarape as symbol of Mexican identity✨. It was popularized by Men vaqueros, or cowboys, and gained its iconic status when it was adopted by members of the upperclass who supported Mexican independence.✊🏽

Happy Cinco de Mayo 🇲🇽🎉

Unrecorded artist, Sarape, 19th century
Saltillo, Mexico
Wool, cotton, 91 1/2 x 49 1/4 in.
Gift of Miss Caroline La Monte 26.1492

05/04/2026

May the 4th be with you 🤖⭐️pt.2

Join us for May Family Saturdays!

Dates are:
May 9
May 16
May 23
May 30

Come and check out
🐣Creative Play | 12:15 pm The Magic of Spring!

A fun, hands-on program for children ages 2 – 5. Our museum educators lead little learners on small gallery adventures that spark imagination and inspire storytelling, followed by a simple craft that encourages creativity and play.

* Design and Paint Butterflies
* Hummingbird Spinners

🏡Family Drop-in | 1-4 pm
Celebrate the season by creating art inspired by landscapes, skies, and seascapes to capture the beauty all around us. Appropriate for ages 5+

✍️Chronicles in Cloth: Siddi Quilting | 1-4 pm
Contribute to our quilt! Make a drawing or write a story on a piece of fabric. This activity is part of Chronicles in Cloth: Siddi Quilting, an innovative installation and community project in collaboration with Siddi women quilters and artist Anitha Reddy. The Siddi of Karnataka province in India are descendants of African migrants. Quilting has long existed as a home-based practice within the community. Now through a collaborative process with Reddy, it has become a platform for artistic expression. Appropriate for ages 5+

Free with purchase of General admission 🎟️✨
Link in Bio 🔗

⭐️See you soon!

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Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
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