If you are not already a member, please consider becoming one. If you’re able, also consider becoming a part of our patron and donors program. Your engaged participation is vital for our future.

As a gift to all our members, friends, supporters, and members to be, we are maintaining our Edison Arts Society membership fee of $35.00 for the 2010 membership year. All memberships begin annually in the month of January and continue for the duration of the year.

We would like our members and friends to know that the Edison Arts Society is now on Facebook and Linkedin. To become connected, you must be a member of these social and professional networking websites, which is free and open to the public. Further questions or requests for information may be directed to the EAS office, and our Director of Communication, Alan Rosenberg.

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The Edison Arts Society proudly presents our 2009-2010 Statewide Art Exhibit, entitled, “The Poetry of Art”. This exciting event takes the concept of “a picture is worth a thousand words” and transforms its boundaries. Here, both the literary and the visual contribute to a fusion of aesthetics, melding framed art with framed words. The Edison Arts Society Director of Galleries is Patricia Rubin, of PM Studios in Edison. The exhibit is curated by Mary Ann Facarro,Curator and Board Member of the Monmouth Art Museum.

“The Poetry of Art Exhibit” will be held from September 23rd, 2009, through January 22nd, 2010, at the Edison Municipal Gallery, Township of Edison Municipal Builiding,100 Municipal Boulevard, Edison, NJ 08817, and may be accessed during regular business hours.

There will be an opening reception on September 23rd, at the Edison Municipal Gallery, from 6-8:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

The Edison Municipal Gallery is a joint venture between Edison Township and the Ten Year Old Non-Profit Edison Arts Society. This exhibit represents the fourth opening of the Gallery, with over 200+ feet of wall space, highly visible to members and guests of the community, who frequent the Municipal Building on many different levels.

The Edison Arts Society, representing six artistic disciplines–dance, literature, media/film,music, theatre, and visual arts– begins its second decade in the 2009-2010 season, and remains committed to proactively contributing to a continued cultural renaissance within our wonderfully diverse community of Edison, as well as in the larger statewide, national and international artistic mosaic.

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On Friday, July 24th, from 8pm to 11pm, Exhale Yoga Studio, 223 Route 18 South (in Loehmann Plaza) will present a poetry reading featuring Arsenal Editor Daniel Zimmerman as well as other contributors to the magazine. An open reading will follow, along with food and wine.

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Arsenal: a dock, wharf, workshop; a house of skill.

1. a place to make and store weapons.
2. a collection of facts and methods.
3. the new literary journal of the Edison Arts Society.

ARSENAL seeks innovative
• poetry, including concrete, visual & procedural;
• translation & reviews;
• short plays & fiction;
• art & photography
for its inaugural issue. No “greeting card” or religious verse.
Send up to 6 poems or 10 pages with a brief bio in the body of an email
(no attachments, except for artwork & photos in .jpg format) by March 15th
to Daniel Zimmerman, editor, at urthona@verizon.net.
Simultaneous submissions OK, but please notify if accepted elsewhere.

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