Heidi Gallery
An art venue dedicated to the practice and belief that creative endeavors enrich lives and communities.
ESTABLISHED IN 2021 AS A KEY COMPONENT OF THE STATE OF THE ART FACILITY FOR JSDD
The Heidi Gallery is focused on bringing people together to experience art and arts education while fostering a fully inclusive community.
The gallery is committed to showcasing the highest quality visual art created by established, emerging, and underrepresented artists.
Gallery Hours:
Monday through Friday, 9 – 5
By appointment, evenings and weekends.
The WAE Open - 2024
October 10 – December 8, 2024
Heidi Gallery at JSDD is proud to announce the annual juried exhibition, The WAE Open – 2024.
The WAE Open is not thematic; rather, the exhibition seeks to showcase the highest quality visual art being made by established, emerging, and underrepresented artists.
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Past Events & Exhibitions
Featuring a broad range of mediums, textures, and explosive colors we welcome you to the wide-open world of the WAE creative! All work is on sale and all sales benefit both individual artists and the WAE Center program.
Summer Symbiosis is a collaborative exhibit featuring these two organizations, fifty artists, and innumerable possibilities. It celebrates the artists of both organizations as well as the long-established relationship between them.
Heidi Gallery invited artists working in the medium of fiber, wholly or as a component of their original work to submit to this first fiber focused exhibit, Threads.
Community artists have submitted creative works on the theme of Community Connections that encourage, challenge, educate, and expand perspectives.
In honor of Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month (JDAIM), Heidi Gallery is proud to present the most recent work of the members of the WAE Center at JSDD.
The Heidi Gallery Advisory Committee is pleased to welcome the artists of Riker Hill Art Park to this beautiful space.
The WAE Open, is a showcase of the highest quality visual art being made at this moment in time.
The theme of Wizards of Age focuses on the mediums of collage, assemblage, montage, and decoupage.
Jewish Disabilities Awareness and Inclusion Month compels us to look at the ways in which inclusion strengthens communities and invigorates the human experience.
We are thrilled to be able to present the work selected for the inaugural show of this annual exhibition.
Gallery Manager, Jeremy Moss
Gallery Manager of Heidi since February of 2024, Jeremy first came to JSDD as a member of the Gallery Advisory Committee. Previously serving as the Curator of the Herb+Milly Iris Gallery at the South Orange Performing Arts Center. He also served as executive director of ValleyArts, co-founded the Maplewood Art Walk, co-founded Open Orange, one of the region’s largest juried art shows, and curated the Firehouse and Orbital Galleries. A professional artist working in numerous media and genres of the visual arts Jeremy is a creative who is passionate about every form of art and bringing many of them to the Heidi Gallery.
Heidi Gallery Advisory Committee Members
Teddi Dolph and her husband are avid art collectors. She is a long time JSDD Board Member and sits on the Board of the College of the Arts at MSU (CART), the JWF Board and the Acquisitions Committee at MAM. Her background is as an art/art history educator and a packaging designer.
Heidi Katz is a retired Speech Language Pathologist, of 33 years, devoting her career to special needs in the pediatric population. She currently serves as a volunteer Special Education Docent, providing tours to children with special needs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, 2004 – present.
Phoebe Pollinger: Studio Montclair, President (2002-2010), Board (2010-present); Montclair Arts Council, Chair (2004-2010); Montclair Master Plan, Arts & Economic Development Subcommittee (2016); PMP Art LLC, art consulting, owner.
Marilynn Schneider is the retired longtime Director of JSDD’s WAE Center, and an advocate for the power of creativity, education, and inclusion in creating rich communities. She sees the development and growth of the Heidi Gallery as an opportunity for the arts community to come together and transform perceptions and realities.
Adam Swart has been involved in museum education and art education at the K-12 and university levels, both domestically and internationally, for two decades. He’s also an active painter with an exhibition record that includes numerous states and multiple countries, inclusion in group shows alongside the likes of Robert Rauschenberg and Richard Serra. His work is held in private collections on four continents.
Ellen Weinstock is a long time JSDD board member. She is passionate about expanding opportunities for inclusivity via the arts and arts education. Inspired by the innovative goals for the Heidi Gallery, she chose to co-chair the committee and share her skills working towards the success of this endeavor.
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Proposals for exhibitions are always welcome. Please limit your proposal to two pages.
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