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ArtReach XVII, the seventeenth season of City Without Walls’ award-winning education and exhibition program, opens on Saturday, June 13, 2009 with a free public reception from 6-8 pm at City Without Walls (cWOW), 6 Crawford Street, Newark, NJ 07102. Reception features live music by the Accidental Seabirds with ArtReach mentor Ibrahim Ahmed III. The exhibition is free and open to the public Thursdays - Saturdays 12-6pm through August 5, 2009. Directions

Check out ArtReach mentor Marco Muñoz's video and photos from the opening here and the great review of ArtReach and Newark New Media by Anna Marie at Glocally Newark here.

Germinal by Hector Canonge opens Saturday, June 13th, 2009 with a free public reception from 6-8pm at City Without Walls (cWOW), 6 Crawford Street, Newark, NJ 07102. The exhibition is free and open to the public Thursdays - Saturdays 12-6pm through August 5, 2009. Directions

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Intersections, curated by Tania Duvergne, explores the convergence of natural and man-made events, from cataclysmic collisions to serene cohabitations. The exhibition features 18 large paintings by artists Patty Cateura, Noah Landfield, Christopher Saunders, Sarah Trigg, Frank Webster. At Seton Hall University School of Law, One Newark Center, Newark, NJ 07102. Free and open to the public, daily 10am - 5pm. Directions.

Please endorse Arts Plan NJ, a blueprint for a better New Jersey through and for the arts (www.artsplannj.org). This statewide agenda harnesses the power of the arts to enrich and inspire individuals, and to address civic challenges such as the economy, education, healthcare, community development and cross-cultural understanding. Almost 1,000 New Jerseyans were involved in a three-year process to create Arts Plan NJ, and the endorsement of thousands more is needed now to accomplish its goals. Please endorse Arts Plan NJ here. Watch an introductory video here.

The National Endowment for the Arts got 0.006% of the stimulus plan, two orders of magnitude less than the traditional notion of a percent for art. Here is a plan by cWOW Executive Director Ben Goldman that shows how to raise the bar--not only because of the historical precedents and what the arts can do to inspire hope during hard times, but also because innovation and creativity are the future of the U.S. economy. If the arts can’t teach us that, what can? Let’s build a movement! Send us comments on these ideas at info@cwow.org.

Buy affordable art from City Without Walls' new online shop at The New York Art Exchange. The cWOW store offers defEYE productions from United Visual Arts, LLC--certified hand-signed limited-edition prints and super-cool frames--as well as exhibition catalogs, dvds, and other fine stuff.