QUARTERLY CELEBRATION OF LOCAL ARTS EVENTS IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD of JERSEY CITY

Friday, December 5th, 5:00pm-9:00pm Art House Gallery Art House Productions , 345 Marin Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07302 RECEPTION: Join us on JC Fridays on December 5th, from 5 pm to 9 pm. GALLERY HOURS: In December, the gallery will be open with extended hours on Saturdays and Sundays, 12 pm to 6 pm. January will have regular hours of 1 pm to 4 pm. Accessibility Wheelchair Accessible Contact Website: arthouseproductions.org Email: gallery@arthouseproductions.org Phone: 201-579-0

Friday, December 5th, 7:00pm-10:00pm Zero Kid Vintage 381 Monmouth St, Jersey City, NJ 07302 Elliot Lobell is an independent stop-motion animator, illustrator and monster maker based in Jersey City. He is currently in the finishing stages of production on his short animated film "Edward" and when he's not animating, he's drawing colorful, friendly but mischievous monsters on any canvas he can find. Accessibility Wheelchair Accessible Contact Website: www.zerokidclothing.com E

Friday, December 5th, 8:00pm-9:30pm Tris McCall Art House Productions / 345 Marin Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07302 CLICK HERE TO RSVP Tris McCall reads "Rafe," a tale for the turning of the year. It’s a feel-good story about a demon. We know what you’re thinking. But Rafe is really not that bad — or at least he doesn’t seem that way. He’s up from the Pit on holiday, and he wants to play the drums. After centuries of torment, it would be churlish for us to deny him the opportunit

Friday, December 5th, 5:30pm-8:00pm Carri Louise Gallery and Boutique 78 Erie St, Jersey City, NJ 07302 Everyone can get in that holiday spirit at the Carri Louise Gallery and Boutique, located with City Swipes Fluid Art Experience Studio. As seen on NBC LIVE New York, the gallery features fine artwork for every budget and it isn’t just on the walls. Bags, totes, boots, jewelry and more. Enter their giveaway while sipping a holiday drink and enjoy discounts on all mercha

Friday, December 5th, 7:00pm-10:30pm Gallery at Imago Beauty 673 Bergen Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07304 The event is a celebration of women artists from two very different locations. The first is here in Hudson County with all its diversity of scenery- from skyscrapers to beautiful parks, from busy highways to paths less traveled. The second is Monhegan Island, Maine featuring rugged cliffs, unpaved roads, miles of wooded hiking trails and a beautiful, protected harbor. One thing

Friday, December 5th, 5:00pm-9:00pm Outliers Gallery 157A First St, 2nd Floor, #246, Jersey City, NJ 07302 The latest showing at Outliers Gallery, Edward Fausty's exhibit will present recent prints on beautiful paper. Accessibility Wheelchair Accessible Contact Website: www.edwardfausty.com Email: edward@edwardfausty.com Phone: 551-358-3847

Friday, December 5th, 5:00pm-9:00pm Outliers Gallery 157A First St. #246, Jersey City, NJ 07302 (Lobby & Studio) The Outliers, Brad Terhune, Dorie Dahlberg, Edward Fausty, and Francisco Silva live outside of Jersey City but connected to the city through work & Pro Arts leadership. Dorie and Ed are photographers, Francisco is a painter, and Brad is both a painter and collage artist. In order to have a showcase in the downtown arts district they rented a small studio in the ren

Friday, December 5th, 4:30pm-6:30pm Team Wilderness 503 Communipaw Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07304 Photography Club is one of Team Wilderness' after-school programs that infuses the arts with the wilderness. It includes weekly after-school lessons in photography, monthly trips to discover and capture the wilderness, and a gallery at the end of the trimester. Join us in celebrating the artwork and growth of our Photography Club youth! The gallery will present their best work and hi

Friday, December 5th, 6:00pm-8:00pm Nest Micro Apartments & Haley Buchan 190 Academy St, Jersey City, NJ 07306 Nest Micro Apartments present "The Nest" on December 5th, 2025. Featuring artist Haley Buchan and her largest mixed media painting wall mural. This work of art was created with a large range of papers from around the world. "The Nest" is both environmentally sustainable and incorporates elements of texture and play. The golds, browns and greens play off each other to

Friday, December 5th, 4:00pm-7:00pm Stephanie Romano NJCU Visual Arts Gallery 100 Culver Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07305 Stephanie Romano’s solo exhibition, Reconciling With The Empty Space, presents an evocative body of mixed-media work that weaves together fiber, screen printing, ceramics, and sculpture. Through this multi-sensory installation, Stephanie invites viewers into a deeply personal exploration of memory, love, loss, and healing. Accessibility Wheelchair Accessible Lar

Friday, December 5th, 5:30pm-10:00pm Art For Everyone ITA Italian Kitchen 682 Bergen Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07304 Monochrome Memories, stories beyond color, celebrates the power of black and white photography — a visual journey through light, shadow, and emotion. This group exhibition brings together different photographers and visions, revealing how beauty and meaning emerge beyond color. Accessibility Wheelchair Accessible Contact Email: Artforeveryone777@gmail.com Phone: 201

Friday, December 5th, 8:00pm-10:00pm JC Instrumental 3244 John F. Kennedy Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07306 Come check out our creative space and meet our community of musicians, artists, music students, and other provocateurs of the arts! There will be an Open Mic, the works of some of our local artist, and snacks for all. This even is FREE but we will be collecting donations for our scholarship fund. Accessibility Not Wheelchair Accessible There is no ramp and a curb and a step t

Friday, December 5th, 9:00am-9:00pm The Sculptors Guild and Curator Tina Maneca Paulus Hook Park 226 Washington Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302 5.7 highlights the Guild’s enduring influence and the living dialogue between its historic legacy and contemporary sculptural practice. The exhibition’s title references the 5.7 linear feet of archival microfilm on the Sculptors Guild housed at the Smithsonian Museum—records that document the organization’s history from its founding in

Friday, December 5th, 6:00pm-8:00pm The Firmament Gallery @ Nimbus Arts Center 329 Warren St, Jersey City, NJ 07302 5.7: Honoring the Sculptors Guild Legacy at the Smithsonian The Sculptors Guild presents 5.7, a multi-site exhibition across three Downtown Jersey City locations—The Firmament Gallery, MORA (Museum of International Art), and Paulus Hook Park. At The Firmament Gallery, 5.7 highlights the Guild’s enduring influence and the living dialogue between its historic lega

Friday, December 5th, 4:00pm-10:00pm Saint Peter's University, Rankin Hall Arts 920 Montgomery St, Jersey City, NJ 07306 Saint Peter’s University presents “Cosentino & Gianakis. Rankin Hall Arts. West Side Ave.”, an exhibition celebrating the innovative and interdisciplinary practices of artists and faculty members Trish Gianakis and Daniel Cosentino. Presented by Rankin Hall Arts, the exhibition features digital art, sculpture, and immersive media exploring the intersection

Friday, December 5th, 6:30pm-9:30pm SMUSH Gallery 340 Summit Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306 Get ready for another SMUSH Winter Market! Grab your holiday gifts in a jiffy while supporting local small businesses! (Bonus! This year all businesses are women-owned!) Shop ceramics, candles, soaps, books, quilted homegoods, upcycled clothing, jewelry and home furnishings AND MORE with vendors Atacama Clay, Book Haven Books, Present Day Goods, Hello Mieko, ReVinylution, Upcycle Coalition

Friday, December 5th, 5:00pm-9:00pm EONTA SPACE 34 Dekalb Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306 120+ images of America in 2025. Our show for Autumn 2025 is ICU/USA, a photographic revue of how the contributors see America in 2025. In a scattered installation we share images of a country divided, but also a country united around our core principles: fairness, inclusion and freedom of speech. America has always been a ‘great’ country, regardless of extremist propaganda, and while acceptin

Friday, December 5th, 6:00pm-9:00pm Orlando Cuevas 357 Palisade Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07307 "Icons, Currency, and Connection" brings together two longtime friends and collaborators, Orlando Cuevas and Carlos Bautista, whose creative journeys have intersected for over thirty years. Though their mediums differ, their work speaks to shared questions of belief, value, and cultural power. Cuevas’ series Hero Worship reimagines the canon of art history through the lens of pop cultur

Friday, December 5th, 5:00pm-7:00pm Fine Arts Gallery at Saint Peter's University 47 Glenwood Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306 The Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to present Color: Inside, Outside, and In Between the Lines, a vibrant two-person exhibition that explores the expressive power of color through two distinct visual languages. Featuring work by Bryant Smalland Allan Gorman, the exhibition brings together two accomplished colorists whose practices diverge in form but converge