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Hone your skills and work towards drawing realistic portraits in this live-modelled session. Gather your materials and join us on Zoom for this 90-minute session with model Jasmine Bryant. Draw, paint, or even sculpt this live model, who will offer a variety of angles and options that are sure to keep you inspired. Please note that this is an opportunity to create a portrait from a live model, not a facilitated class. Although no instruction will be given to participants, feel free to encourage each other. The program will be available on Zoom.

This summer, The Newark Museum of Art partners with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra to bring you a vibrant outdoor series of concerts, films, and cultural celebrations. All programs will take place in the Museum’s Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden with a limited capacity and safety guidelines to ensure everyone has an enjoyable experience. NJSO Concertmaster Eric Wyrick leads the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players in Florence Price’s Five Folksongs in Counterpoint, an exploration of African American spirituals from a pathbreaking Black composer. Mendelssohn’s Octet, one of the composer’s finest earlier works, rounds out the program.

To the delight of fans everywhere, Mexico’s Ana Gabriel is back with Por Amor A Ustedes, her new album and show. The GRAMMY® and Latin GRAMMY® nominee has topped the charts for decades with her signature smoky alto, performing emotional pop ballads and traditional ranchera that speaks to the soul. In shows packed with hits, her husky voice can more than outmatch the horn section of a ranchera, and she’ll often throw in classic Mexican songs and lead the crowd in sing-alongs.

Take in the sounds of chamber works by Mendelssohn and Coleridge-Taylor, curated by NJSO Concertmaster Eric Wyrick and performed by New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players. This summer, The Newark Museum of Art partners with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra to bring you a vibrant outdoor series of concerts, films, and cultural celebrations. All programs will take place in the Museum’s Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden with a limited capacity and safety guidelines to ensure everyone has an enjoyable experience.

The originally Sanskrit word maṇḍala literally means "vital essence environment." Its underlying idea is that our vital essence—call it mind, heart, soul, life energy— is really a field, infinitely interrelating with countless other fields of life in space and time. Join us for a talk with Robert Thurman to learn about the mandala traditions of India and Tibet.

Dan Levinson brings to the museum the band that kept the music playing throughout the long, barren “winter” of ‘20-‘21. These stoic stalwarts, assembled by trumpeter Simon Wettenhall and held together by a shared passion for their art, infused the gloomy silence of NYC’s Central Park with upbeat, foot-stomping hot jazz, restoring hope to the heart and supplying nourishment to the soul.

Offering a transatlantic mix of modern jazz, soul, and African pop, Somi “creates an elegant amalgam of the musics and bi-continental experiences that have shaped her life” (NPR). Her latest album, Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba, is an all-star tribute to the great “Mama Africa” and a companion project to Dreaming Zenzile, Somi's critically acclaimed original musical. For her Carnegie Hall debut, Somi presents new electro-acoustic chamber arrangements from that album and a lush retrospective of her most beloved repertoire.

Nat Reeves is one of the top bassists in jazz. He has worked and recorded with the “Who's Who” of jazz including Jackie McLean, Donald Byrd, Art Taylor, Mulgrew Miller, Kenny Garrett, Pharoah Sanders, George Coleman, Eric Alexander, Steve Davis, Harold Mabern, George Cables, David Hazeltine, Anthony Wonsey, and Joe Farnsworth among others. He has performed around the world, at the San Francisco, New Orleans, Detroit and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and with Pharoah Sanders at Dizzy's at Lincoln Center. At the end of 2019, Nat was honored at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art’s event, "The Life, Times and Music of Nat Reeves."

Grammy-nominated saxophonist and composer Melissa Aldana — declared to be “cultured, emotionally weighted [and] purposeful” by The Boston Globe, recently released the album 12 Stars, her debut as a leader on the Blue Note label. Hailing from Santiago, Chile, the 33-year-old Brooklyn-based tenor player was featured on the cover of the March 2021 issue of the New York City Jazz Record and has already established an international reputation for her visionary work as a bandleader. Aldana plays Caramoor’s Music Room with her stellar quartet.

Graham Haynes -trumpet, cornet
Adam Rudolph -percussion

Sets at 7.30pm + 9.30pm ET
$30/$10 members; cabaret seating: $40/$20 members