Art Circle

Purpose: Create a vibrant and engaged art making community that shares art experiences in Flemington and Hunterdon County, creating collaborations, programming and opportunities for both viewers and artists. 

What:  Meetings and Art Hangs to keep folks engaged and on task to make art, supporting member led programming and events and inviting folks to support established events. Check the calendar! Zoom meetings require registration.

Contact: arts@flemingtondiy.org


Current Projects:

Art Hangs: By Us, For Us
Art Circle participants volunteer to teach workshops for Art Circle participants, free of charge. Most materials are supplied by Flemington DIY. All community members can join Art Circle anytime. Join us for our next Art Hang. Want to share something you do? We would love you to teach something you love doing. Some ideas: book binding, printing techniques, fiber arts, mini-pottery, drawing games, comics…
Email arts@flemingtondiy.org to get involved or check our calendar for our next Art Hang.

2025 Upcoming Art Hangs:

April 5th from 3-5pm at FDIY. Mending: Join us for a hands-on workshop, exploring mending fabric and the implications this slow and thoughtful process can have on our approach to living. You bring items to mend. We will supply mending tools and share basic stitches and techniques to mend various items. $5-$15 sliding scale per person. REGISTER
April 5th at 6pm at MFA Gallery in Frenchtownm, NJ. Let’s gather at this local art opening and support a new gallery on their opening weekend!
May 17th from 1-4pm at the Hunterdon County Library in Flemington, NJ. Research-In: We will be lead by library staff on research techniques to uncover lesser known stories of our collective history in Hunterdon County. We will leave this experience raising up marginalized voices and will use this info to create an arts experience in the future at Flemington DIY. REGISTER

Dates forthcoming:
Check back for more info on our June, July + August exploration into a puppet brigade to make it’s debut at the Stangl Witches Walk.
Sept: Shrinky Dink Fun Art Hang
Oct: Crochet Ghosts
Nov: Bookbinding
Dec: Small Works Show “Take Me Home Tonight”


Art Machine
The Art Machine is an interactive performing art piece and Artist Residency.
Interested in having your art in the Art Machine? Sign up here for the next available Art Machine six month Artist Residency (Nov-May & May-Nov).

Photography of Art Machine by @Christianne.Ebel.Photo 

The Art Machine is one of the Art Circle’s first projects. The project is courtesy of Sarah Duff (and her family), who picked up this former cigarette vending machine from south Jersey and restored it to working order; preparing it for artists to fill with their tiny art.  Jacklyn Karpinski , took the freshly primed machine and transformed it into the colorful Art Machine. On May 18, 2024, at the Decade of DIY celebration, this interactive performing art piece and artist residency was unveiled.

Each residency artist can fill up to 20 boxes (minimum of 10 boxes) with whatever art they like, including (but not limited to): figurines, buttons, stickers, earrings, necklaces, keychains, tiny framed/ready to hang art, or music codes. Artists have the choice to donate all or a portion of the sales to Flemington DIY. 

The Mystery Art by Mystery Artists slots are filled with art donated from previous artist residencies. 

The Art Machine is curated by Aidan Mirowsky.

This Flemington DIY Art Circle program is run in English. We would love to make all of our programming more inclusive. If you can help us do that, please email Arts@FlemingtonDIY.org


Mural Battle: Battle of the Walls
This neighborly competition invites two artists to duke it out with pens and markers, for a two hour art-making extravaganza. Our host, OurNaturalState, will choose a theme, and YOU (the artist), will create something, anything, you think portrays that theme in your OWN style. 

Winners get their art placed in a highly trafficked area in Flemington, as well as a “bio post,” and other social shout outs to bathe them in their winner’s glory. In 2025, participants will also receive a stipend! More details to come.

Join us every 3rd Thursday during Sip and Stroll on Stangl Rd in Flemington from June to October for some art, community and fun.

The first battle began July 18, 2024 from 6-8 just outside of Flemington DIY and they have been a blast ever since!

For more info or to get involved or be an artist please contact:
@OurNaturalState on IG
OR
ournaturalstateofbeing@gmail.com

  • Mural Battle organizer and two artists standing in grass outside of DIY
  • Artist painting outside under lights on a chilly fall evening at DIY
  • Artist painting inside on Stangl Rd in Flemington NJ