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TRAC Opening Reception

The Downtown Shops 53 Main St, Toms Rivet, NJ, United States

Join us for the opening of our new gallery hang.  Meet the artists, have a snack and enjoy some great local art! This is a family friendly, free event

Free

TRAC Opening Reception

The Downtown Shops 53 Main St, Toms Rivet, NJ, United States

Join us for the opening of our new gallery hang. Meet the artists, have a snack and enjoy some great local art! This is a family friendly, free, event

Free
Event Series Open Studio Night

Open Studio Night

The Downtown Shops 53 Main St, Toms Rivet, NJ, United States

Join us for an Open Studio night! The last Tuesday of every month 5:30-8:30pm.  Bring your own supplies, bring your own snacks/drinks.  Come out and paint, draw, sketch or whatever you want.  Hang out with your fellow artists, ask for help if you’re stuck on something, get new ideas from others and help spark your creativity!  A fun relaxing night to just chill and do some artin’ In the Activity Room at The Downtown Shops @ 53 Main, 53 Main St. Toms River. Members are free, non members are welcome to join for $5.00 a session

Free

TRAC Supply Sale/Swap

Downtown Shops Activity Room 53 Main Street, Toms River, NJ, United States

As artist's we all have SO many art supplies that we just don't use.  So, let's have a sale/swap.  TRAC artist bring in art supplies you are not using.  Trade them or sell them to another artist. From 12-3pm the sale will be open to TRAC artist's only.  From 3-6pm we will open it up to the public to come in and purchase supplies. TRAC will take some donation stuff for kids classes.  Anything else we could donate to South Toms River Elementary School.

Free

TRAC ART SWAP

Downtown Shops Activity Room 53 Main Street, Toms River, NJ, United States

OK, let’s face the facts.  We all have WAY too many art supplies in our studios, stuffed in a closet, in boxes in the garage, anyplace we can find a spot for them! So, let’s do something about it.  If you have supplies you want to trade, sell, or donate, come to TRAC on the 18th, TRAC artist 12-6pm, open to the public 3-6pm. Bring what you don’t use, see if you could sell it or trade it with another artist. Or just come on in to purchase supplies.  TRAC will also be accepting SOME donations for our children’s classes. If people have stuff left at the end of the day and would like to donate it, we will make a donation to South Toms River Elementary Art department. If you have a lot of items, call TRAC to reserve a table. What you carry in, you will carry out, nothing will be left at TRAC without approval from the TRAC Board

Free

TRAC ART SWAP

Downtown Shops Activity Room 53 Main Street, Toms River, NJ, United States

OK, let’s face the facts.  We all have WAY too many art supplies in our studios, stuffed in a closet, in boxes in the garage, anyplace we can find a spot for them! So, let’s do something about it.  If you have supplies you want to trade, sell, or donate, come to TRAC on the 18th, TRAC artist 12-6pm, open to the public 3-6pm. Bring what you don’t use, see if you could sell it or trade it with another artist. Or just come on in to purchase supplies.  TRAC will also be accepting SOME donations for our children’s classes. If people have stuff left at the end of the day and would like to donate it, we will make a donation to South Toms River Elementary Art department. If you have a lot of items, call TRAC to reserve a table. What you carry in, you will carry out, nothing will be left at TRAC without approval from the TRAC Board

Free

Hello Girls Get the Message Through – by Melissa Ziobro

Ocean County Historical Society 26 Hadley Ave, Toms River, NJ, United States

Sunday, March 19th, 2PM, “Hello Girls Get the Message Through,” by Melissa Ziobro Join Monmouth University Professor and former US Army Fort Monmouth Command Historian Melissa Ziobro for a talk on how the US Army Signal Corps employed women as telephone switchboard operators during WWI. The “Hello Girls” worked long hours to ensure battlefield communications. Their Chief Operator, Grace Banker, hailed from NJ. After the war, the women fought for veteran status, and they are being considered for a Congressional Gold Medal today. Melissa Ziobro is the Specialist Professor of Public History in the Monmouth University Department of History and Anthropology and the primary point of contact for the University's public history minor. She is the current President of Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region, and has served for many years as the editor for New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, a joint venture of the NJ Historical Commission, Rutgers University Libraries, and Monmouth University. She is a trustee of the NJ Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation, the Ocean County Historical Society, the Monmouth County Historical Association, the Info Age Science and History Museums at the Camp Evans National Historic Landmark, and Preservation NJ, and works regularly with other public history [...]

Free

TRAC High School Art Drop Off

Downtown Shops Activity Room 53 Main Street, Toms River, NJ, United States

Open to any High School Students in Toms River.  Toms River Artist Community would like to give any high school students a chance to hang and sell (to be sold only if you want to sell) in TRAC's Community room.  We would like to give these talented  students a chance to show off their works in our gallery. We will take 1 piece per student.  The art work can be any medium.  All works must be labeled on the back, Students name, piece name, medium and a price you would like to get for the piece.  All works must be wired and ready to hang. Works will be taken in March 28th - March 31st 12-6pm   The closing reception will held April 29th from 4-7 pm .  We will also be awarding our 2nd Annual Senior Art Scholarship at 6pm on the 29th  

Free

TRAC High School Art Drop Off

Downtown Shops Activity Room 53 Main Street, Toms River, NJ, United States

Open to any High School Students in Toms River.  Toms River Artist Community would like to give any high school students a chance to hang and sell (to be sold only if you want to sell) in TRAC's Community room.  We would like to give these talented  students a chance to show off their works in our gallery. We will take 1 piece per student.  The art work can be any medium.  All works must be labeled on the back, Students name, piece name, medium and a price you would like to get for the piece.  All works must be wired and ready to hang. Works will be taken in March 28th - March 31st 12-6pm   The closing reception will held April 29th from 4-7 pm .  We will also be awarding our 2nd Annual Senior Art Scholarship at 6pm on the 29th  

Free
Event Series Open Studio Night

Open Studio Night

The Downtown Shops 53 Main St, Toms Rivet, NJ, United States

Join us for an Open Studio night! The last Tuesday of every month 5:30-8:30pm.  Bring your own supplies, bring your own snacks/drinks.  Come out and paint, draw, sketch or whatever you want.  Hang out with your fellow artists, ask for help if you’re stuck on something, get new ideas from others and help spark your creativity!  A fun relaxing night to just chill and do some artin’ In the Activity Room at The Downtown Shops @ 53 Main, 53 Main St. Toms River. Members are free, non members are welcome to join for $5.00 a session

Free

Event Series TRAC – ART WALK ON MAIN

TRAC – ART WALK ON MAIN

The Downtown Shops 53 Main St, Toms Rivet, NJ, United States

Join your  local artist as we line up along Main St and show off our art! Come on out the 1st Thursday of the month April - September to support local art, listen to music, chat with the artists and check out the other shops at 53 Main St.   Family friendly, free event

Free

TRAC paint class for Filipino American Community

Downtown Shops Activity Room 53 Main Street, Toms River, NJ, United States

Christine Lauguico A long time TRAC members will be teaching an art class for a group of children from the Filipino American Community.

Free

TRAC Opening Reception

The Downtown Shops 53 Main St, Toms Rivet, NJ, United States

Join us for the opening of our new gallery hang. Meet the artists, have a snack and enjoy some great local art! This is a family friendly, free event

Free

TRAC Opening Reception

The Downtown Shops 53 Main St, Toms Rivet, NJ, United States

Join us for the opening of our new show at the TRAC Gallery.  Meet the artists, enjoy light refreshments, and take in the eclectic mix of art from out artists

Free
Event Series Open Studio Night

Open Studio Night

The Downtown Shops 53 Main St, Toms Rivet, NJ, United States

Join us for an Open Studio night! The last Tuesday of every month 5:30-8:30pm.  Bring your own supplies, bring your own snacks/drinks.  Come out and paint, draw, sketch or whatever you want.  Hang out with your fellow artists, ask for help if you’re stuck on something, get new ideas from others and help spark your creativity!  A fun relaxing night to just chill and do some artin’ In the Activity Room at The Downtown Shops @ 53 Main, 53 Main St. Toms River. Members are free, non members are welcome to join for $5.00 a session

Free

TRAC – High School Show and Scholarship Awards

Downtown Shops Activity Room 53 Main Street, Toms River, NJ, United States

Join us for the closing reception of our High School Art show. We will also be awarding our 2nd Annual  TRAC Scholarship to one lucky High School Senior moving forward to a art collage or program.  Scholarship winner will be announced at 6:00pm. Come out and support these talented young artists.

Free

Celebrate Spring with our Spring Victorian Tea at the Mathis House

Mansion on Main Street 300 Main St, Voorhees, NJ, United States

Celebrate Spring with our Spring Victorian Tea at the Mathis House Back by popular demand, our Spring Victorian Tea will be offered on Wednesday, May 3 at 11:00 AM at the Mathis House Tearoom at 600 Main Street in Toms River. Guests may look forward to the ever-delicious scones, yummy tea sandwiches, and scrumptious mini-desserts that accompany generous pots of fine tea as they chat with friends in the historical elegance of this stately home. The cost is $40 for members and $45 for non-members. Be sure to make your reservation starting at 10:00 AM on March 20 by calling 732-286-3693. Checks should be made out and mailed to Ocean County Historical Society, 26 Hadley Avenue, Toms River, NJ 08753 within one week of phone reservation, with Attention: Deb in the bottom left-hand corner of the envelope.  

$40 – $45
Event Series TRAC – ART WALK ON MAIN

TRAC – ART WALK ON MAIN

The Downtown Shops 53 Main St, Toms Rivet, NJ, United States

Join your  local artist as we line up along Main St and show off our art! Come on out the 1st Thursday of the month April - September to support local art, listen to music, chat with the artists and check out the other shops at 53 Main St.   Family friendly, free event

Free