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
Sip and Strolls
Stop by during summer Sip and Strolls on Stangl, third Thursdays, for community and art!
- May 21: As part of Flemington DIY’s Community Photo Capture, we hope you will join us during the Sip N Stroll for a free adventure into slow portraits. Working with analog processes, this project offers a counterpoint to the speed of everyday image-making, inviting participants into a slower, more intentional photographic experience. Learn More
- June 18: Join Flemington DIY Print Club + Friends at our outdoor screen printing station to print a bandana. Learn more about the DIY Print Club that takes place on Monday nights. Free!
- July 16: Tie Dye with Flemington DIY Art Circle volunteers! We will have bandanas for you to create something wild and colorful. Free!
- August 20: Explore Zines with Elliott Junkyard and Myllicent, two of our most prolific zine creators, to learn more about zines and make one yourself. Free!
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.
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 (May-Nov 2026).
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 paint, pens, and markers, for a two hour art-making extravaganza. Our host, OurNaturalState, will choose a theme associated with a single feeling, 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 and other social shout outs to bathe in their winner’s glory. In the next 2025 season we decided that, selected artists participants will both receive a $120 stipend!
Mural Battle’s will be held during Sip ‘N Stroll on Stangl Rd in Flemington, NJ on the following dates:
October 16: What is American?
Want to apply? Send a sample of your work and the date you are interested in to @OurNaturalState on IG or email ournaturalstateofbeing@gmail.com
