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| Left to right: Edie Sharp, New Hope Mayor Kellor, Landlord Daniel Popkin, Lambertville Mayor Del Vecchio and founding member Doris Brandes |
Artsbridge Gallery at Canal Studios:
What does it mean to our members?
Painter
With the new and larger space at Canal Studios, Artsbridge has the potential to be a true barometer of what contemporary artists are thinking, feeling, discussing, and creating. I would like this region around Lambertville and New Hope to achieve prominence for the living artists of the present, not only of the past. Artsbridge’s new members’ gallery encourages original, spirited, innovative work: Art that does not worry about being safe or nice or even salable; art that springs from deep within the individual and reaches out to others.
Gretchen Ney Laugie
Artist and daughter of New Hope Modernist School artist
William Ney
Just as we need free daycare centers, we need centers that meet the need of poets,
painters, writers, musicians, et al: the freedom to follow their calling. The
Artsbridge gallery and new home are a step in this direction.
Barry Snyder
Founding member, sculptor, painter, photographer, and former gallery owner
It seems like only yesterday that I gazed into the empty La Roche building on
Rt. 29, thinking what a beautiful art center it could make. A few meetings with
art-interested people at the Swan Hotel and at Peggy Lewis’s house, and
now, ten years later, we have an organization called Artsbridge, with over 600
members—a vital and active entity.
Thanks to the dedication and hard work of our volunteers, we now also have a
new home for our meetings, 1,500 sq. feet of beautiful gallery space with top-quality
track lighting, and the opportunity for all artist members to exhibit and sell
their work.
This new gallery at 243 N. Union St. in Lambertville, NJ, is an ideal space to
exhibit art of all media and is certainly equal to the finest contemporary galleries
in the area.
We must now give this gallery all the support we can, so that some day we might
also have the art center of our dreams. That is what miracles are made of.