After a successful run during the summer, Wondrous on Witherspoon (WOW) Pop-Up Gallery is back to celebrate “Art for Giving.”
The exhibition and sale will take place at 14 ½ Witherspoon St., Princeton from Dec. 15 through Dec. 23, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. An opening reception will also be held on Friday, Dec. 16, 5-8 p.m.
Works in oil, pastel, acrylic, watercolor, photography, jewelry, ceramics, pottery and fashion accessories will be for sale. Proceeds will benefit the YWCA Princeton After School Children’s Art Program and Trenton Area Soup Kitchen’s A-Team.
WOW is the brainchild of artist Priscilla Algava and hosted by Art+10, a group of Princeton-area artists who work and exhibit together. Among its founding members are Heather Barros, Jim Bongartz, Betty Curtiss, Katja De Ruyter, Jeaninne Honstein, Ryan Lilienthal, Tasha O’Neill and Mary Waltham.
Algava is a retired South Brunswick High School art specialist who has taught drawing and painting at the West Windsor Arts Center, the YWCA Princeton and privately, as well as leading two-day workshops in clay monoprinting. Algava is known for her use of brightly colored abstract works. She has described painting as “dancing with a brush.”
A 2007 Dodge Foundation grant recipient, Algava believes that everyone has the potential to be an artist.
“We’re all citizens of the world who need to take responsibility for one another,” she said. “We need to take care of the planet, and art is a vehicle for that.”
For further information, contact Sandy O’Connor at sandyoconnor3@gmail.com or (609) 915-4412.
