Mora Museum, Jersey City a two person exhibition ~Reflection~by Ales Shaternik, and Julia Shaternik opens 6/6, 2026 5-8PM.

 Discover the Art Cultural ties crossing borders and time with ease between Russia, and Belarus, at Mora Museum. Live music!!!!

MORA Art Museum in Jersey City presents “Reflection,” a special two-person exhibition by artists Ales Shaternik and Julia Shaternik  Live music Opening Reception: Saturday, June 6, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM   Museum Open: June 6, 7, 13 & 14 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Ales Shaternik will present his new Pennsylvania landscapes, beautiful church paintings, and other works inspired by Belarus and New Jersey. Julia Shaternik will show her abstract paintings, floral works, and female figures - pieces inspired by nature, emotion, femininity, and the beauty of life. Guests are invited to join the opening reception for an evening of art, conversation, and light refreshments. The artists would be delighted to welcome everyone to this special event. #moramuseumart#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com #sunstormfineartmagazine.com#fineartfun#artfuncreate #artfundiversity#artfuneasy

Summer finally arrived. If yiur in Kent Connicute catch the Kenise Barnes Fine Art exhibit ~Behind My Eyes~ Gregory Hennen and David Kongsberg 6/13-7/26, 2026

 The images are painterly within a fresh artistic view. It's. anice ride to Kent worth the visit to the Kenise Bars showroom. 

KENISE BARNES FINE ART 5 & 7 FULLING LANE, KENT, CT  June 13 - July 26, 2026 reception with the artists Saturday, June 13, 4 - 6, public invited BEHIND MY EYES GREGORY HENNEN & DAVID KONIGSBERG Gregory Hennen landscape paintings Hennen’s work is known for its clarity, quietude, and distilled sense of place. David Konigsberg still life paintings  Konigsberg’s paintings explore the poetics of the emotional resonance of everyday objects. View Exhibition Margot Glass On This Fine Morning Glass focuses primarily on drawing, using various traditional methods and materials as a foundation for her work. This exhibition features twelve drawings made with artist-made organic walnut ink and shell gold using fine point crow quill pens. View Exhibition 2026-27 Exhibition Schedule August 1 - September 13, 2026 The Naturalist Richard Klein, KK Kozik, Sally Maca, Rick Shaefer, Tricia Wright Sept. 19 - Nov. 1, 2026 Janna Watson September 11 - October 17, 2027 Melanie Parke September 11 - October 17, 2027 Project Space: Sally Maca KBFA.com Gallery hours:  Thursday - Saturday, 11:00 - 5:30 Sunday 12:00 - 4:00, and by appointment 860 592 0220 Sales and customer service:  Tuesday - Saturday  860 560 3085 Kenise Barnes, Director Kenise@kbfa.com Lani Holloway, Associate Director Lani@kbfa.com Scribble, gallery dog (bring treats)

The Eyes of Learng offers an art and intuition class. Channel your inner art, and mystical self. June 12, 202, See Below details.

There are many ways to channel your creativity. Intuitive rt with Cat Mayor looks like a rewarding fun experiance to al who are open!!!

June Event Intuitive Art with Cat Mayor June 12, 2026 8PM-10PM The Eyes of Learning welcomes Cat Mayor as she shares an informative and enlightening style of creativity and mindfulness as we explore the profound benefits of Intuitive Art and the basics of Neurographic Art Therapy.  These are wonderful additions to your Spiritual Toolbox, providing a non-verbal outlet for processing difficult emotions and in fostering self-discovery.    This unique event is a transformative process that intertwines art with emotions and psychology, offering a creative avenue for expression and healing. Through drawing freeform lines and shapes, participants will engage in a creative practice that promotes mindfulness and fosters new neural connections in the brain. This method can help participants transform difficult or stuck feelings into beautiful visual art, supporting emotional well-being and self-discovery.   In person:  All materials supplied or bring your favorite sketchbook, pencils and markers   At home on zoom:  Please have plain typing paper, pencils and colored pencils, fine line and thick markers   About: Cat: Cat Mayor is an experienced trance and psychic medium, master teacher of IET and Usui Reiki and a creative soul.  She offers intuitive readings that provide clarity, guidance and empowerment, helping individuals step into and navigate their spiritual journeys with confidence.   A heart centered intuitive, Cat integrates energy and spirit art to guide others.  Through therapeutic workshops and creative practices, she shares tools that foster self-awareness, clarity, and a deeper connection to one self and one’s purpose.  With expertise in metaphysics, dream interpretation, and universal wisdom, she facilitates deep connections with higher selves, loved ones and guides. Her approach to healing is rooted in balance - having personally navigated immense loss, including the passing of her oldest son and husband, Cat’s work is grounded in integrity, resilience, and the transformative power of spiritual connection.  Cat’s mission is to help others to discover their passions, joys, healing and sense of purpose while fostering a deeper connection to themselves and the world around them.    Cat’s CONTACT INFO: https://catmayor.org/ cat@catmayor.org (631) 332-1560 @CatMayorUnlimited   In Person (pay at the door) Members $20.00 Non-members $25.00 Via Zoom Register and Pay $25.00 online  ( A personal Zoom link will be sent to you between 6:00 PM & 7:30 PM before the event). Levittown Hall  201 Levittown Parkway Hicksville N.Y. 11801 (Behind the Pool) Check out our website and  REGISTER TODAY!  www.eyesoflearning.org (You do not need to be a member of the organization to register for the program.) Directions to Levittown Hall Eyes of Learning P.O. Box 8007 Hicksville New York 11802 United States Tel: (516) 450-8905 www.eyesoflearning.org #eyesoflearning#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com#sunstormfineartmagazine.com#summerfineartfun#artfuncreate#artfunfall#artfunhappy#artfunjoy

The Thornwillow Dispatch has released a special edition fo the Persian epic Sohrab and Rustum, from Ferdowsi's ~Shahnameh~

 Art as a window on the larger world with big past leading to conversations about the feature. The art tent is diverse yet always embraces beauty and storytelling 

“For we are all, like swimmers in the sea, Poised on the top of a huge wave of fate, Which hangs uncertain to which side to fall.”     ANNOUNCING THE NEXT THORNWILLOW DISPATCH   SOHRAB AND RUSTUM An Epic Tragedy from Persia's Ancient Past From Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh Retold by Matthew Arnold   Dear Friends of the Press,   At a moment when Iran is again before the world in crisis, it seems fitting to look beyond the headlines to the older and deeper inheritance of Persia: a civilization of poetry, imagination, and epic grandeur.   The next Thornwillow Dispatch presents Sohrab and Rustum, Matthew Arnold’s elegant 1853 retelling of one of the most powerful episodes from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, or Book of Kings. Composed more than a thousand years ago, the Shahnameh remains one of the great epics of world literature — a treasury of kings and warriors, loyalty and betrayal, fate and recognition.   Arnold’s poem tells the story of Sohrab, a young warrior who enters battle seeking the father he has never known: Rustum, the greatest champion of Persia. On the banks of the Oxus, between two waiting armies, father and son meet in single combat. Neither recognizes the other until it is too late.   The result is a tragedy of war, blindness, pride, and inheritance — and ultimately a profound antiwar poem. Its sorrow lies not only in the bloodshed of the battlefield, but in the awful recognition that so much violence proceeds from ignorance, distance, and the failure to see one another clearly. It reminds us that the questions before us today — of war and peace, loyalty and blood, nations and memory — are not new.   This month’s Dispatch presents Arnold’s complete poem in a finely printed letterpress edition, hand-bound in our workshop in Newburgh, New York.   With highest regards from the Press, Luke Ives Pontifell   Subscribe by June 30th to secure your copy.   Subscribe to the Thornwillow Dispatch   About Ferdowsi and the Shahnameh   Composed more than a thousand years ago by the Persian poet Ferdowsi, the Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, is one of the great epics of world literature. Written in more than 50,000 couplets, it preserves the mythic and historical memory of ancient Persia: its kings and heroes, battles and betrayals, triumphs and griefs. At its heart are questions that remain urgent across centuries — the duties of rulers, the burdens of honor, the bonds between fathers and sons, and the tragic consequences of pride, blindness, and war. The story of Sohrab and Rustum is its most powerful episode, and one of the defining myths of Persian civilization.   About Matthew Arnold and His Retelling   Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), one of the leading poets and critics of Victorian England, encountered the story of Sohrab and Rustum through the 19th-century revival of interest in Persian literature and epic tradition. His 1853 poem, Sohrab and Rustum, transforms the ancient Persian tragedy into stately English blank verse, giving the epic narrative a grave, classical dignity while preserving its emotional force. Not a literal translation, Arnold’s retelling is a profound work of art in its own right — one that carries the tragedy of Ferdowsi’s world across centuries and allows it to speak with unforgettable pathos, grandeur, and moral force to readers today.

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