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4th Street Ball at City Hall

For full details of the event, click on the 4thstreetart tab above.

Event Lineup

5:30 pm – Manouche Bag (Featuring Mattias Gustaffson – gtr, vox, kazoo, Jim Kaz – gtr, Joe Bussey – upright bass Bryan Beninghove – melodica, saxophones)

7:20 pm –  Films by Joel Friedrich and Pat Byrne

8:00 pm - Fashion Show by Another Man’s Treasure
http://www.amtvintageblog.blogspot.com

8:20 pm - Slow Learner –
http://www.myspace.com/slowlearnerjc

9:00 pm – Thomas Francis Takes His Chances
http://www.myspace.com/thomasfrancistakeshischances

Last Year’s Press Release

Saturday October 4th, 2008
Part of the Jersey City Artists Studio Tour

This years Fourth Street Art & Music Festival has an eclectic group of Artists and Performers.  A full day festival taking place Saturday October 4th – Located at 4th Street and Newark Avenue.  As part of the Jersey City Artist Studio Tour the festival feeds off the close locale of many open Artist Studios and Galleries.  These include Madame Claude Cafe, the Brunswick Window, Mary Benson Gallery, Es Oro Gallery, Gallery 58, Abbey’s, White Star, and Metropolis Music. In addition to the massive amount of art on display an array of music will be performed between the hours of Noon and 10pm on the main stage.

This year’s event will have a focus on LIVE ART.  Many artists will be creating pieces over the course of the day.  There will also be projects to participate in for anyone who wishes to do so.

The ConfeSHUNal is an interactive, site-specific sculpture/installation which explores the notion of sin as it relates to the individual. The ConfeSHUNal is a hut-like, free standing sculpture/installation made from found objects and recycled material. The interaction takes place between visitors to the ConfeSHUNal (Sinners), and the Redeemer (NYUGEN E. SMITH, the artist, enclosed and not visible to the Sinner).

ANOTHER MANS TREASURE will again be highlighting outfits from Jersey Cities premier vintage store in a full on fashion performance entitled   ‘Another Man’s Treasure’s Traveling Show’,  MEIKA and WARREN FRANZ create an event that takes the traditional fashion show to a new level.   New to the festival is KATHLEEN FLYNN; a choreographer, dancer, and teacher living in downtown Jersey City.  Her group of modern dancers will perform a section of “Gateway”, which looks at those in-between stages of life and examines our readiness to take on the next task. The 10-minute section will be performed in tennis shoes on the asphalt.

We are very excited to have the PROFESSIONAL SKATEBOARD TEAM – HABITAT performing all day in front of the stage.  NINE LIVES skate shop will be providing the ramps and members of the habitat team will provide the kick flips, grinds, and aerials.  FRED GALL a supporter of the local JC skateboard scene and founding member of habitat will be the highlight of what is sure to be a great show.

MICHAEL MANDRACCHIA will be showing collages & hosting a 4th Street group mind collage. A collective brain collage will be created by end of day. Get your piece of the collage pie. Add a little or a lot.

MATTHEW WEST will be creating sculpture on the street. He creates installation works and sculptures that include realistic figures such as automobiles, buffalos, and also abstract minimalist forms that involve the human body with a shift from the abstraction to realism.

JAMIE JAMES WENGER will be creating Etch a Sketch art all day, as well as displaying photographs of his previous creations.

FABRICIO SUAREZ, a painter who specializes in urban landscapes will be doing a painting of the event as it takes place.

COREY FLEMMING will be doing original silk screens at the event – be sure to bring your favorite comfy tee shirt so Corey can screen an original image on to it.

REBECCA FERANEC and ANDREW SULLIVAN will be making an original painting together.

In the BRUNSWICK WINDOW; ROGER SAYRE will exhibit a piece from his series of wall pieces assembled from discarded doors. Rescued from an urban dumpster, the doors were dismantled, cut in sections and reconfigured as visual abstractions. The result is a composition of surprising dynamism and confounding beauty.

At the BRUNSWICK WALL – by artist STEVEN DRESSLER -is “A Place for Dream Friends,” street ads for a new social networking website, friendlyface. .  MIKE McNAMARA, TARA THURBER and VIRGINIA KAMENITZER will build    ‘THE NICE’PHORE BOX’   -   an interactive photo booth where participants will be able to use their own digital cameras or be photographed by the photographers in the booth – the images will be uploaded to the data base and projected on the buildings on 4th street as night falls.  There will also be Polaroid’s being made for presentation during the day. Afterwards the entire contents of the booth will be uploaded to the internet for anybody to access after the event.

This years group of locals include Joe Chirchirillo, one of New Jersey’s best known sculptors, opening his studio where you can view (and touch) his unique brand of ‘Kinetic Sculpture’ , also opening a studio is photographer Mike McNamara, presenting a piece of work that highlights images of local friendly faces. Additionally, some of his work from the All Points West Festival will be on display.

This year long time JC artist, Franc Palaia, will be exhibiting a selection of illuminated Photo -Sculptural works, or suitcase light boxes. Some stacked up to 8 feet high. He will also be debuting his Solar Photo-Car. (a solar powered illuminated photo light box in a Nissan Sentra)  As the night falls artist Christopher Silk will be showing photographic projections over the surrounding buildings, in addition to the paintings he will be displaying all day. Photographers showing work during the festival include Joe Russo, Doug Mitchell, Doug Ensel, Jim Legge, Emily Faith and Virginia Kamenitzer.  Jen Fein will be displaying paintings and some hand made jewelry.  Tunde Cseke will show clothing with original art works. And Norm Francouer will have light sculptures specially made for the 4th street stage.

An exciting continuation from the 2007 event is “THE GUITARS SHOW part 2”, curated by Mark Dalzell.  Artists will be given a Stratocaster guitar and asked to do with it as they will.  Mark Dalzell, a luthier, decided to create a fully functional instrument, last year, calling it The Destroyer, with onboard effects a built in mandolin and a theremin, an instrument that dropped your jaw. Can’t wait to see what Mark and the other artists come up with this year.

This years’ lineup of bands on the main stage is sure to be the best since the festival began five years ago.  More info on the band lineup will be available soon at myspace.com/4thstreetart

Please stop by and enjoy free food, beverages, and beers donated by local restaurants, while looking at the art and listening to the music.  We welcome everyone to join us for a fun and beautiful day.  There will be loads of fun activities for the kids and plenty to see and experience for the adults.

For more information and press inquiries please call Mac at (516)782-6584 or email 4thstreetfest@gmail.com

The 4th Street Art and Music Festival Part of the Jersey City Artist’s Studio Tour.
We are generously sponsored by the City of Jersey City, Mayor Jerramiah Healy, the city Municipal Council & the Jersey City Department of Health and Human Services, a division of Cultural Affairs and Pro-Arts, a non profit artist’s organization.

As well as ….
The Lamppost, Binny’s Liquors, 2nd Street Bakery, Madame Claude Café, Abbey’s Pub & Grille, Carmines Pizza Factory, Steven Roth, Cement & Demolition Local 325, BJ’s, Maloney’s Butcher shop,  JCTC – Jersey City Tattoo Company, Nine Lives Skate Shop, and Sam’s Ice Cream Truck