You can learn everything you’ve ever wanted to know about fabric painting, Chinese knotting, sketchbook journaling, face painting, henna, Chinese and Marathi calligraphy, clay jewelry and much more when local artists take center stage at the Plainsboro Public Library on Saturday, Sept. 15, for the library’s annual Arts Festival.
Funded by the Friends of the Plainsboro Public Library, the festival will take place rain or shine from noon to 4 p.m. and will feature Plainsboro artists as well as members of the Plainsboro Library Artists’ Group. In addition to showing their work, they will demonstrate their techniques and will help visitors develop their own artwork.
Are you fascinated by Chinese knots? Let Allison Kwok show you how to tie one. Sheela Raj will demonstrate fabric painting, and Nelly Kouzmina and Ting Yao will explain the mysteries of felt-making and help you create your own swatch to take home.
Interested in making clay jewelry? Aleksandra Seletskaya will lead you through the process of designing and creating it. Tatiana Sougakova will conduct a collaborative chalk art project on the street in front of the library. Evie Sutkowski will demonstrate the use of vivid alcohol-based inks on tile Participants may create their own colorful examples.
Other artists who will be on hand for the occasion include the husband-and-wife team of Leena Thakar-Bagawde amd Shekhar Bagawde, who will display their mastery of both English and Marathi calligraphy. A show of the Bagawdes’ calligraphic work is scheduled for the library Art Gallery in November.
A disc jockey will be on hand throughout the festival, and members of the West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North a capella group Out of the Blue will perform, as will the high school’s string orchestra, Nonet.
Centennial Banner
Celebrate the centennial of Plainsboro Township, which will take place in 2019, by participating in the creation of a centennial banner during the Arts Festival.
Plainsboro artist Sangeeta Vinoth will distribute patches on which festival goers may write their names in paint, ink or other media. The patches will be glued to a large banner, which will hang in the library art gallery next May, in conjunction with an exhibit commemorating the centennial.
Leena Thakar-Bagawde and Shekhar Bagawde at a previous Plainsboro Library Arts Festival,
