Arts Calendar

Highlight

NJ exhibit focuses on wildlife
Tricia Zimic is the featured artist of the New Jersey State Museum's ongoing New Jersey Artist Series (NJAS), highlighting the work of contemporary artists living or working in New Jersey. Zimic employs a variety of media including clay, oil paint and watercolor and her highlighted pieces, created over the last several years, focus on the plight of wildlife impacted by sprawl and adaptation to urban life. "Essential Life: Painting & Sculpture by Tricia Zimic" can be seen through February 19 at 205 W. State Street, Trenton, NJ.

February 3 - 10

The Philadelphia Foundation's Community Art Gallery presents the exhibit "Artwell: Ten Years of Poetry, Art and Possibility," featuring more than 50 works, including photographs of early community mural projects, coming-of-age masks and recent youth-made documentary films, reflecting on the impact the Philadelphia non-profit has had in schools and communities throughout the city for the past decade, through April 25 at 1234 Market Street, Suite 1800, Philadelphia.

Opening this weekend at Mainstage Center for the Arts is "To Kill A Mockingbird," based on the Harper Lee novel, directed by Chris Melohn, through February 11 at the Dennis Flyer Theatre, Camden County College, Blackwood, NJ.

Center City Opera Theater performs Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, in English, accompanied by chamber orchestra, Saturday, February 4, 8pm, Sunday, February 5, 2pm, Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Fleisher Art Memorial's 12th annual "Print Love In" returns with an opportunity to learn about the printmaking process while creating your own Valentine's Day cards from designs by Philadelphia artists, this Sunday, February 5, with 3 sessions, 10am-7pm, at 719 Catharine Street, Philadelphia.

Opening Wednesday, February 8 at Temple Theaters is the Philadelphia Premiere of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Charles Smith, Randall Theater, 13th & Norris Street (inside Annenberg Hall), Philadelphia through February 19.

For an arts and culture guide visit: Newsworks.org