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Announcing the Au Sable River Valley Studio Tour 2018

Norte Maar is pleased to announce the 2018 Edition of the Au Sable River Valley Studio Tour, returning for its fourth year and featuring artist studios and art spaces presenting a wide range of creative artists living and working in the townships of the Au Sable River Valley including Keene Valley, Keene, Upper Jay, Jay, Wilmington and Au Sable Forks.

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NM at SPRING/BREAK Art Show (Mar 6-12)
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NM at SPRING/BREAK Art Show (Mar 6-12)

In its first appearance at an art fair, ever, Norte Maar presents “watching the conkers arrive,” curated by Jason Andrew, Kanad Chakrabarti and Sarah Pettitt featuring a collection of works by seven artists from the UK, Canada and Brooklyn, which interrogate language, geography, culture — all involving cross-disciplinary works with abstract grounding, leaving room for reflection on heritage and the borders of experience.”

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Jay Clay to feature memorial exhibit celebrating potter Paul Z. Nowicki (1941-2015)

When the 4th Annual Jay Invitational of Clay opens this week it will feature in addition to the 30+ artists from the Adirondack Region and including ceramic artists from Brooklyn, North Carolina, Georgia and Boston, a memorial exhibition celebrating local potter Paul Z. Nowicki. The exhibition, titled "The Mark We Leave Behind: selected works by Paul Z. Nowicki," will be held in the main tent on the grounds of the Jay House in tandem with the Jay Invitational of Clay. Opening reception will be Fri, Jul 14, 6-9pm. The exhibition will run through the weekend, Sat + Sun, 9am-6pm.

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Long live the age of the apartment gallery!
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Long live the age of the apartment gallery!

Apartment galleries have a special place in our heart. Norte Maar’s apartment gallery at the corner of Wyckoff Avenue and Suydam Street in Bushwick, served not only as the foundation of our visual art program but also a historic role in the development of the Bushwick art scene from 2006-2016. Alternative art spaces play a vital role in facilitating conversation, building community, and inspiring creative collaborations. Artist Lynn Sullivan hosts regular pop-up exhibitions in her studio and home.

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NM returns to Midtown Manhattan with a major exhibition focusing on artistic process and materials
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NM returns to Midtown Manhattan with a major exhibition focusing on artistic process and materials

Norte Maar is pleased to return to 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery with a major exhibition titled Ways and Means: a new look at process and materials in art. Ways and Means will open with a reception on Monday, July 18 from 6-8pm, after which the show will continue through Friday, October 7.

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NM's Beat Nite takes on Gowanus!
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NM's Beat Nite takes on Gowanus!

Norte Maar re-imagines the Beat Nite featuring the artistic community of Gowanus, Brooklyn! Beat Nite is the neighborhood-wide late night gallery hop recognized for putting Bushwick on the map, and for this 13th edition sets its sights on a new part of Brooklyn. On Friday, October 16, join the throngs of art ponies that will trek out to discover the thriving art scene in Gowanus through a self-guided tour featuring 10 galleries and alternative art spaces .

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Another July in the ADK!
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Another July in the ADK!

Another Adirondack Summer! As Norte Maar continues to be a leading force in Brooklyn, many may not realize that the organization was originally founded on the shores of Lake Champlain in the summer of 2004 by curator Jason Andrew and choreographer Julia K. Gleich, playing a major role in revitalizing the arts in the North Country from 2004-2010. Through exhibitions at the farmhouse in Rouses Point and ballet performances in a converted ice rink at the Civic Center, Norte Maar became a signature advocate and presenter of the visual, literary, and performing arts connecting an emerging artistic community within the North Country.

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Game on! NM announces its plans for BOS 2015!
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Game on! NM announces its plans for BOS 2015!

Bushwick, Brooklyn - Norte Maar is pleased to participate in the 2015 Arts in Bushwick annual Bushwick Open Studios and Arts Festival. A cultural phenomenon, BOS2015 takes place Friday, June 5 – Sunday, June 7, 2015 and includes over 500 individual studios, shows, and exhibitions involving thousands of artists. This free event invites visual artists, performers, musicians, designers, and the public to celebrate creative expression in one of the most vital arts districts in the world.

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NM and Microscope present Burckhardt Film Series in celebration of Edith Schloss.
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NM and Microscope present Burckhardt Film Series in celebration of Edith Schloss.

Norte Maar and Microscope Gallery collaborate to present and evening of Burckhardt Films at Microscope Gallery (1329 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn), Saturday, March 21 at 7:30pm. The series will feature the world premiere of Jacob Burckhardt's film Happy Holi, shot in Sri Lanka capturing a vibrant dance party celebrating the Hindu Holi festival of colors. The evening will also feature a 1955 film by Rudy Burckhardt as well as film of Edith Schloss, the subject of a major retrospective now on view at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, leading a tour of her apartment where she vividly describes her own paintings, her career and her vast knowledge of American and European art history and mythology, past and present.

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NM announces major exhibition featuring: pattern + repetition + motif
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NM announces major exhibition featuring: pattern + repetition + motif

Norte Maar is pleased to present a major exhibition surveying new work in pattern, repetition and motif titled "between a place and candy: new works in pattern + repetition + motif." The exhibition will be held at 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery (btwn51st and 52nd Street, NYC) and will open with a public reception on Monday, March 16 from 6-8pm. The show will continue through June 12 with gallery hours Monday-Friday, 8am-6pm. This exhibition continues Norte Maar’s mission of re-presenting and supporting the advancement of innovative and transgressive work of both emerging, mid-career and historic artists.

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NM announces major retrospective of Edith Schloss (1919-2011)
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NM announces major retrospective of Edith Schloss (1919-2011)

Norte Maar is pleased to announce its collaboration with Sundaram Tagore Gallery to present a landmark retrospective of work by Edith Schloss (1919-2011), one of America’s greatest expatriate artists whose paintings, assemblage, collage, watercolors and drawings border on the bittersweet, fragile, intimate and naïve. Intrinsically linked to the milieu of Postwar American Art, every aspect of the artist’s eccentric personal iconography will be on view for rediscovery. This is the first show of the artist’s work in New York in twenty-five years.

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