Op-ed exhibits work by artists expressing their social and political views. Atelier Rosal provides a safe space where opposing opinions can be shared, discussed, and debated. It is what art is when at its best; a dialogue that challenges and/or reinforces perceptions, beliefs, and perspectives.

Featuring works by:

Tino Cook

Nick Rosal

Sergio Villamizar

Carlos Zelada

There will be a performance piece during the artist reception. Light refreshments will be served.

Join us on Thursday March 28th from 6pm-8pm to launch our first art exhibit of 2024. A gathering of works by area artists that encompass a range of subject and medium.

Showing in the gallery:

Jacqui Abend

Colleen Antonucci

Steve Beal

Joe Brown

Lauren Curtis

Amanda Mathews

Dave McGrath

Nick Rosal

Ken Witkowski

Join us for this city wide celebration of student works! Atelier Rosal is honored to be a part of this event organized by The national Council of Negro Women of Rahway.

As an advocate of all arts, it is inspiring that the City of Rahway, Rahway's schools and local organizations have come together to encourage and develop young, creative minds.

The exhibit of student work will be up for display from Friday< February 17th through Friday, March 3rd.

There will be receptions at the following locations featuring artist panels and speakers:

Opening Ceremony/ Reception:

Date: Friday, February 17th

Time: 6PM to 9PM

Location: YMCA Rahway Branch, 1564 Irving St

Commentary: 7PM

Opening Ceremony/ Reception:

Date: Saturday, February 18th

Time: 5PM to 7PM

Location: Atelier Rosal, 74 E Cherry St

Closing Ceremony/Reception:

Date: Friday, March 3rd

Time: 6PM to 9PM

Location: Senior Center 1306 Esterbrook Ave

Please go to www.CityOfRahway.com/Creates for additional exhibit locations!

Join us on Saturday, December 17th from 5pm-8pm for some holiday cheer! Refreshments will be served!

Sponsored by the Rahway Chamber of Commerce and the Rahway Special Improvement District, Small Business Saturday in Rahway is a great opportunity to Shop Small for the Holiday Season. Visit us to see our expanded gift selection, have a sneak peek of our Small Works show and check out our custom framing designs. There will be giveaways and raffles at Atelier Rosal as well as other shops throughout the city.

Free Open mic sign up by 6:30
Hosted by: Big Mike & Nourish Cruz & Chris Cook

Sponsored by: ACP Arts, Atelier Rosal & The Rahway Arts & Business District.

Doors open at 6pm- Open Mic Sign up before 6:30.

“Just be yourself”. How many times have you heard this? In a day and technological age of social platforms, people create a new persona or hide behind the veil of Facebook, Instagram, YouTube etc. We no longer see each other face to face and read the subtle tactile cues we give each other to legitimately know who is standing in front of us. Just as curiously, how are our selves perceived?

Artists in “Identity” offer a different kind of veil. Either through portraiture or non-representational imagery, we look into the art to see the artist. The exhibit’s question is broad: “Who am I?” “Who are you?” “What is the essence of this thing or person?”

On Saturday, February 22nd from 5-8pm, Atelier Rosal will have an artist reception for artists answering these questions with their imagery.

The artists exhibiting are:

Pedro Da Paz
Malcolm King
Kerry Kolenut
RBKosinski
Debra F. Livingston
Nicholas Rosal
Frank Silva

The exhibit will run from February 22nd through March 1st.

Free Open mic sign up by 6:30
Hosted by: Big Mike & Nourish Cruz & Chris Cook

Sponsored by: ACP Arts, Atelier Rosal & The Rahway Arts & Business District.

Featured Poet Helena D. Lewis - Poet::Actress::Playwright::Social Worker

Doors open at 6pm- Open Mic Sign up before 6:30.

Free Open mic
Hosted by: Big Mike & Nourish Cruz & Chris Cook

Sponsored by: ACP Arts, Atelier Rosal & The Rahway Arts & Business District.

New Jeru open Slam

Open Mic Sign up before 6:30.

Free Open mic
Hosted by: Big Mike & Nourish Cruz

Sponsored by: ACP Arts & The Rahway Arts & Business District.

Featuring: The Brooklyn Slam Team.

Open Mic Sign up before 6:30.

Works by locals artists, jewelers and ceramicists will be on view and are available for purchase.

Celebrate with us at Atelier Rosal from 3-6pm at the artist reception! 
The exhibit will continue from June 8th till July 20th

Check out our ongoing poetry series hosted by Big Mike and Nourish. Every first Saturday of the month we welcome open mic poetry and either a featured poet or a slam. Come to participate or to support our local poetry community

Singer/Songwriters gather in the gallery and perform their songs and talk about their process and inspirations!

Hosted by singer/songwriter Rick Barth.

Scheduled to perform:
Jeiris Cook
I Am Curbie
Beth Sherby
Josette

Check out our ongoing poetry series hosted by Big Mike and Nourish. Every first Saturday of the month we welcome open mic poetry and either a featured poet or a slam. Come to participate or to support our local poetry community

The amazing Mahogany L. Browne is coming to Rahway May 4th for this month’s What’s the Word on Cherry St!

https://mobrowne.com

Workshop:

We think of poems as a means of expression, but poems can also be a way to ask questions. They can help us investigate things we don’t understand. 

Atelier Rosal—a gallery, performance venue, and frame shop at 74 E. Cherry St., Rahway, NJ —is very excited to invite you to a two-hour community workshop with poet Patrick Rosal, where you’ll have the opportunity to generate some of your own writing based on the work of Aracelis Girmay, W.S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda, and Willie Perdomo. All levels are invited to a limited number of seats in the workshop.  If you would like to participate in the workshop, please RSVP to rosalwriting@gmail.com to reserve a space. We are happy to offer this workshop with a nationally known artist for a nominal sliding-scale fee—$5 to $25.

After the workshop, Atelier Rosal will hold an open mic, and Willie Perdomo — nationally acclaimed author hailing from East Harlem (aka El Barrio), New York — will read from his new book, The Crazy Bunch. Poet, professor, and publisher Roberto Carlos Garcia will introduce Mr. Perdomo.

Workshop begins promptly at 4:00 pm. Open mic and reading begin at 6:00 pm. Wine and cheese reception to follow.

Artists:

WILLIE PERDOMO is the author of The Crazy Bunch (Penguin Poets, 2019) The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Poets, 2014), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the International Latino Book Award; Smoking Lovely (Rattapallax, 2004), winner of the PEN Open Book Award, and Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (Norton, 1996), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, Poetry, Bomb Magazine, and African Voices. He is currently a Lucas Arts Program Literary Fellow and teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy.

PATRICK ROSAL is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Brooklyn Antediluvian, which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets . Rosal’s other three books are Boneshepherds, My American Kundiman, a winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, winner of the Asian American Writers Workshop Members’ Choice Award. The recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Research Program, Rosal has taught at Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Texas, Austin, Bloomfield College, in addition to Kundiman’s summer writing retreat, carceral facilities in Chicago and Alabama, and youth programs throughout the country. He is an Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Camden.

Poet, storyteller, and essayist ROBERTO CARLOS GARCIA is a self-described “sancocho […] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists.” Garcia is rigorously interrogative of himself and the world around him, conveying “nakedness of emotion, intent, and experience,” and he writes extensively about the Afro-Latinx and Afro-diasporic experience. His second poetry collection, black / Maybe, is available from Willow Books.  Roberto’s first collection, Melancolía, is available from Červená Barva Press. His poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Bettering American Poetry, The Root, Those People, Rigorous, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Gawker, Barrelhouse, The Acentos Review, Lunch Ticket, and many others. He is founder of the cooperative press Get Fresh Books, LLC. A native New Yorker, Roberto holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Atelier Rosal celebrates all forms of the arts with events in and around the gallery. From poetry readings, to live music to film events, we recognize the creative spirit.

Atelier Rosal is exhibiting images that celebrate the visual artists’ creative brethren. Portraits of musicians, dancers, literary figures or any artist who are either public figures or are our personal heroes are the images that will adorn the gallery walls.

Augmenting the exhibit will be an Artist reception on April 13th, a poetry reading on April 27th and “The Performers:About Songs” on May 11th.

Check out our ongoing poetry series hosted by Big Mike and Nourish. Every first Saturday of the month we welcome open mic poetry and either a featured poet or a slam. Come to participate or to support our local poetry community