Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Good evening everyone. Thank you for being with us here tonight. I'm Cynthia Knight. I'm the director here at the Baron Arts Center. And on behalf of
myself and Brandon Powell, our program coordinator, and our administrative assistant, George Burkow, I'd like to welcome all of you to the wonderful senior show. Every year it amazes me and um the art just seems to get better all the time. And thank you for contributing
your art. It was wellreceived. We had many guests here. And I want to thank Mayor McCormack for supporting the Baron Art Center in general. He um does a lot of wonderful things for us. So we therefore can reach out into the
community and make art a part of our lives. So thank you. At this time I'll surrender everything over to Mayor McCormack and thank you again being here. We have refreshments at the end. So please go and enjoy. >> Thank you very much. This slits here for Cynthia Knight who
runs this wonderful center assisted by Brandon Powell in the back who's our deputy here. We also have from our town council Dan Harris. Oops. Oops. I'll get back to him. Forgot to turn my
phone off. So, first I got to tell you, and I'm a little upset because this is a senior art show. I'm frankly sick and tired of people entering this art show who are not seniors. And you're here tonight and you're trying to get a proclamation from me and I'm going to give it to you. I'm
not going to make a big deal. I'm not going to point anybody out for cheating. But if you're not a senior, you shouldn't be here. What's wrong with you people? >> Maybe you need ID. >> I It's a good idea. What the heck? photo ID when you put your art in. But anyway,
this is something I think is really cool. I'm seeing a heck of a lot of new faces here. Over the years, we've had a lot of the same people, but I guess maybe they really were seniors and they're not here anymore. Um, for whatever reason, not for a bad reason, but I see a whole lot of new faces and I
think that's wonderful. I'm glad you're all participating. And we really take the commitment to the arts seriously here in Woodbridge Township. We have a whole lot of great art things happening. This place has been here forever. It predates me. It'll it'll post-date everybody. It's a wonderful facility.
They have poetry readings and little concerts and all kinds of great things here. It's a very unheralded resource in Woodbridge Township, but a lot of people don't even know it exists. We have our gallery on Maine, which is wonderful. Uh it's run by volunteer artists. They work
and they don't um they don't get paid, but they also don't pay rent for their stuff. They bring all their stuff and they display it and they sell it and they make money. It's great. I'm just thinking uh May 16th we have the um unveiling of a beautiful mural uh behind
the Brew Pub all the way back behind the transit parking lot. It's a mural of the 1951 train crash in Woodbridge. But it's not about the crash. It's about the people in the neighborhoods that helped everybody during that crash. And there's some wonderful pictures that people had
going way back to 1951. And the artist took them and turned it into a beautiful mural. And he's painting it now. It'll be done by then and we're going to have the unveiling. You can see it if you want. It's actually open, but it shows people carrying stretchers and helping. It's just wonderful. A wonderful piece
of art. We have murals all over the town. We have sculptures all over the town. Uh we do a whole lot of What am I forgetting, Ben? Anything? >> Oh, uh the senior summit on the 4th. >> Oh, the senior summit on Well, they're not seniors, so how can I invite them to the senior summit? >> Yeah, but they're going to be seniors one day.
>> They'll be seniors one day. May is it May 4th? >> May 4th. Yeah. >> May 4th at the community center. 10 to 12. >> Yes, correct. >> To May 4th at the community center, we have a booklet, a senior booklet that's got to be 80 pages. It's got every single thing you could possibly need
from the town, the county, the state or the federal government. Every contact, every email, every phone number, every address, every everything from Medicaid to Medicare to Social Security to all the different programs in the state. Uh it's amazing. Get that book that day. Uh
we have six six uh senior centers, all very active. Got a whole lot of It's a great town to be a senior in. So sooner or later when you guys get around to being seniors, you'll love it. You'll love it a lot. So let's get to the awards. I'm going to read your name and give you the
proclamation. Then what I want to do is I'm going to work my way around with my phone and take a picture of everybody in front of one of your pieces. All right? and that'll go on Facebook because nothing happens in town that's official unless it gets on the mayor's Facebook page. So you might think you won an award and you get this tonight. It
doesn't matter until tomorrow when it appears on Facebook. That's when you know you've arrived in Woodbridge Township. So u let's see Jennifer her fine craft >> Paddington Bear. Congratulations
>> Ranjanna Gandhi Sha uh waiting for the breeze drawing generation of grace drawing a splash of pink and watercolor congratulations >> Leona Wernern my view >> what has a gift for you >> oh my gosh
>> now it is finished not finished that time now it's official >> that's actually my signature. >> Yes, >> you copied my sign last year, >> but not finished with >> I don't know. That looks better than I do. >> Thank you very much. Thank you.
>> I'll be there. >> All right, Leona Warner. My view from inside photography. The king mixed media. We are the champions. Mixed media. Is that Queen? >> Yes, >> it is. Oh, I got to see that. Oh, there's Freddy. I see Freddy right there. Cool. Francis Pello, Grand
Canyon, South Rim, photo on canvas. Autumn in Washington, Valerie Park, photo on canvas. >> Donna Blind, Valentine's Day in oil and the shore in oil. Kathleen Nubert, morning sky in acrylic. Trullium in watercolor and bouquet in watercolor.
Congratulations, Carol de Petro, reflections texture painting, earthwind texture art, feathers texture art. Congratulations, >> Sharon Lopez. Three oil paintings, tropical night, winter night, and swamp moon.
>> Terresa Miller in pencil. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. And in watercolor, blue hydrangeia. Congratulations to here. >> Katherine How all photography. My mom loved violets. My garden bouquet and
blooms in the park. Watercolor. Nancy Bamer. Santorini, Greece. Rustic farmhorse house and Tamina Italy. Florence Apostle who pastel and colored pencil.
>> That's not who the group is, is it? >> No. >> Oh, I >> we have Queen. I thought maybe you were doing who. Jack Apostle spring 2026 and acrylic. >> Okay. >> Sarin Wilbur. I don't see her. >> You just WALKED IN. >> OH, THERE you are. You just walked in.
Mother Nature one, ink on vellum. Mother Nature 2, pencil on paper. And Mother Nature 3, pencil on paper. And if anybody wants to dance afterwards, this is the best dance instructor in the Woodbridge Township. >> Congratulations. All right. No problem. Jeffrey White, Generations of Service in
Collage. Anthony Migax, Wind Catcher in acrylic and colored pencil. Cynthia Blue, I see you in photography and checking myself out in the mir mirror in photography. >> Thank you. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you.
>> Denise Grand, all acrylic, my rooster starry night and basket with flowers. Jeffrey Cohen in pastel holy Moses in collage 3D Andy and an acrylic tiled in the dunes. >> Congratulations, Jeff.
>> Connie Ellik, I haven't seen Connie. He's not here >> in clay. Ginger jar, cigar fired, non-functional. Whoa. Cigar fired, non-functional, and coffee pot. Maxine King and acrylic morning glow in mixed media. Plunk your magic.
Twanganger Froggy. Who makes up these titles? And Bunny Council versus Orange Fox. >> I was going to ask what that all means if she was here. Rupa Patel Satas procession in mixed media tree of life in acrylic and mountain retreat in
oil. Congratulations. >> Thank you >> Rosie Singalich. Hello old friend in watercolor. >> I'll come to you. Dante Tomzookuski, Barn Allen, Papier-mâché, Armateur Allen, Wire
Sculpture, and Great Horned Allen Paperier-mâché. Sharon Lopez again. Now we get to the Now we get to the winners, right? Yeah. Now we start Now we start the winners of the competition. So in acrylics and oils, let me go in reverse order.
>> Yeah. In acrylics and oils, third place for Morning Sky, Kathleen Newberg. Do they know they won yet? >> No, >> they don't know they won >> unless if they came here this evening. >> Oh, okay. And second place, Sharon Lopez for Swamp Moon.
>> Not here. >> And first place, Sharon Lopez for Winter Night. >> Ah, she's not here. Let's give him to somebody else. >> In watercolor. That's third place, Terresa Miller. Blue
hydrangeia. Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> In second place, Nancy Bamer for watercolor in Santorini, Greece. And in first place, Nancy Bamer for Rustic Farmhouse.
In photography, third place, Leona Werner for My View from the Inside. Congrats. Second place, Cynthia Blue for checking myself out in the mirror. Oh, stay right there.
>> Did you like what you saw when you checked your saw in the mirror? Yeah. Good. All right. >> And don't go anywhere. First place for I see you. >> Congratulations. Mix mixed media collage. Third place, Jeffrey White, Generations of Service.
Second place, Leona Warner, The King. >> Will you let somebody else win? >> And Carol DPro, mixed reflections. She's here. >> Oh, there you are. Okay. >> Congrat Whoops. Congratulations.
>> Thank you. >> Good job. >> All right. >> All right. And well, Pasel, there's one. Uh, who? Florence Apostle. >> Congratulations again. >> Thank you. And for professional craft, first place,
Jennifer Her for Paddington Bear. >> Congratulations. >> And for drawing, let me go to third place here. Uh, Ranjanna Gandhi Sha for Generations of Grace.
Congratulations. Second place, Sarahin Wilbur for Mother Nature 2. Congratulations. >> Don't go anywhere. >> And don't go anywhere. For first place, Mother Nature won, Sarah Wilbur.
>> Honorable mention, uh, Tropical Night >> by Sharon Lopez. >> Not here. >> Not here. >> Okay, now we're down to paintings. In third place, let me see if there's Okay, third place, Mountain Retreat, Rupa Patel.
>> Congratulations. >> Thank you. Second place, Rupa Patel for Tree of Life. >> And first place for Morning Globe, Maxine King. >> And now we're going to sculpture. >> In third place, Diana Tomuski for
Armature Owl. >> Oh, by the way, >> she has cleaned it. >> Diana Tomizooki for Barn Owl. And Diana Tomuski, first place for Great Horned Owl. So, if you want to win a prize next
year, go into sculpting. >> And next up, we have watercolor. No, pastel here. Uh, Jeffrey Cohen, first place for Holy Moses. >> Congratulations, pal. >> Thank you. >> And now for watercolor first place.
Hello, old friend Rosie Singalich. Here you go. mixed media collage. We have three winners. Third place, Plunk. >> Plunk your magic twing or froggy. >> Maxine King. I We got to ask her what the heck that means. Uh second place,
Bunny Council versus Orange Fox. And first place, that's also Maxine King. And first place, Jeffrey Cohen for 3D Andy. Congratulations, pal. >> Thank you. >> All right, we're almost done. interrupt
the ceramics in oh that's honorable mention Rupa Patel for Ceda's pre procession and first second and third place for ceramics is all Connie Ell s cager fired
nonfunctional love to know what that means uh second place coffee pot And first place, ginger jar saggerf fired nonfunctional Connie Alec for ceramics. >> And that's it. So, I'm gonna start over here. Just kind of stand around by
whatever one you want to be uh have a picture of you with and uh we'll make the rounds and take the picks. Dan, you want to say anything? >> Uh no, no. Just congratulations to all the honores. Thank you for participating. It's a good night in Woodbridge. Mayor just came from Evening with Young Writers. It's an elementary
school program where our kids work on their their writing skills and it's a pleasure to see both sides of uh the generational spectrum uh to be here for their seniors. So, congratulations again and keep on participating. >> That's you're right. Dan's right. We had uh kindergarten through fifth grade kids
who uh submitted poetry or whatever they wanted to write to from every school and now we have seniors. So, Dan's right. It's the both ends of the spectrum. But let me tell you, if you want to be a mayor for a long time and a council person for a long time, the two groups you got to take care of are kids and
seniors, right? Cuz you're a regular adult. You've got kids and you've got parents and you want them both taken care of. And that's what we do. Thank you very much.