After seeing the huge baseball mural at the NJ State Prison, and then checking out Waterfront Park, I drove along and went past the state capital. I stopped and looked around a World War II Memorial that was across the street from the capital, which you can see below.
There were three sculptures all in a row, as you can see above left, and then two photo-montage murals that wrapped around the left and right side of the public space. I spent a short amount of time around here, and then crossed ... read full story
Posted on: June 19, 2012, by The Arts Adventurer 0 comments
One might think that with my proximity to New York (15 miles east of here) and all of the art that the city has to offer, that my first arts adventure would take place in one of the five boroughs. Well, that seemed too predictable, and I have a book from the library that was providing me with other ideas. Titled AIA New Jersey Guidebook: 150 Best Buildings and Places, I read about a place I had never heard of before, the "Grounds for Sculpture" in Hamilton, NJ, which is a 42-acre public sculpture