ARTSPACE
ArtSpace is the official community space of Monmouth Arts. ArtSpace offers accessible, affordable, high-quality, engaging programming, exhibits, workshops, and networking opportunities to the Monmouth County community. It is located at 99 Monmouth Street in Red Bank (next to the Count Basie Center Administrative Offices).
Gallery visiting hours are Tuesday and Thursday, 12:00pm - 4:00pm; also available by appointment. ArtSpace is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Connie Isbell, Membership and Community Engagement Director, at connie@monmoutharts.org.
CURRENT EXHIBIT
Pieces of Us: The Art of Creative Expression
The “Pieces of Us” exhibition celebrates artwork created through Monmouth Arts’ Creative Expressions Arts & Wellness Program. The collection brings together personal and expressive art that reflect the diverse emotions and perspectives of those who have experienced our program.
Art can be a meaningful pathway to healing and connection. The exhibit invites viewers to engage in open, thoughtful conversations about mental health and wellness. We extend our gratitude to the artists who share their voices and creativity with the community.
Monmouth Arts’ Creative Expressions Arts & Wellness Program is a countywide initiative that uses the arts to address the rise in mental health issues in youth, seniors, and other adult populations in need. Teams of teaching artists and mental health professionals deliver free arts programs and services directly to organizations, senior centers, and schools.
UPCOMING EXHIBITS
Paint Red Bank 2026
Art Alliance of Monmouth County
In partnership with Monmouth Arts
Paint our beautiful town and share your work with the public. Red Bank offers scenic river views, historic architecture, and charming streetscapes, parks and parklets. After painting, works will be installed at ArtSpace for jurying and display.
Date
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Artwork will be on display through June 13
Rain Date: June 7
Location
Check-in at Art Alliance (33 Monmouth St); Painting all over town
Exhibition at ArtSpace (99 Monmouth St)
The Sun, My Heart
By artist Summer Deaver
On View: June 18 - July 30
Opening: Thursday, June 25, 5:30-8pm
Closing Reception: July 30th, 5:30-7:00, featuring tea meditation and light refreshments
Summer Deaver’s collection explores the unity of opposites through contemplative mark-making, oil painting and hand-burnished printmaking. Inspired by writings in Thích Nhất Hạnh’s The Sun My Heart, the series reflects the idea that light and darkness do not cancel each other out, but merge into wholeness.
Created with gouache and hand-burnished prints, the print work emphasizes presence and mindfulness—balancing immediacy with the meditative act of pressing hand-carved, often Sanskrit or Tibetan-inspired imagery into paper. Visual elements draw from the artist’s practice of watching ocean sunrises: triangular forms and soft gradients emerge from textured darkness, like dawn breaking over the shore.
Rooted in themes of interconnection and transformation, “The Sun, My Heart” invites viewers to witness how light and shadow, stillness and movement, self and other are never truly separate.
About the Artist
Summer Deaver is a multidisciplinary artist, yogi, and community organizer whose work bridges visual art, spiritual practice, and social transformation. With a BFA from the University of Georgia, Deaver's work spans printmaking, painting, ceramics, and murals—each medium serving as a vehicle for philosophical inquiry and healing. Her murals at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Whitechapel Projects invite moments of collective care and connection.
As Director of the Caroline Huber Wellness Center at Brookdale Community College, Deaver advocates for environmental regeneration and social justice with a healing-centered lens. She has exhibited at AG Gallery, The Kitchen, Cinders Gallery in NYC, and has spoken at the Rubin Museum of Art.
PAST EXHIBITS
Interested in exhibiting at ArtSpace? Our applications for 2027 will open in late 2026.