Princeton NJ Events

Intro to Oil Painting, Art Seed Studio

Thursday January 15, 2026
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Enhance your artistic skills with guidance from the classically trained Nautilia Clerk, who will share techniques to make creating artistic realism more approachable and achievable. In this 4 session class, participants will explore the fundamentals of using oil paint to create art you can proudly hang in your home! 4 sessions: 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5

Art Seed Studio, 33 Risler Street, Stockton, NJ

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Evergreen Forum Open House, CMAP

Thursday January 15, 2026
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Evergreen Forum’s Spring 2026 Open House is coming this January! Join us to celebrate and meet the spring semester course leaders while learning about their course material before registration. Then sit in on special one-hour lectures to get an in-person or virtual feel for what Evergreen Forum courses are like. Light refreshments will be served, and all those who attend will be entered to win a free Evergreen Forum class during the Spring 2026 semester. Registration required, no fee. https://engage.cmaprinceton.org/component/events/event/1556

Token on the Freedman's Coat: The Story Behind Thomas Mundy Peterson's 1884 Voting Medal

Thursday January 15, 2026
7:00 PM

Mercer County Library. www.mcl.org.

Thomas Mundy Peterson is celebrated as the first African American to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment. Gordon Bond, independent historian and publisher of NJ history website Garden State Legacy, will discuss the story of Peterson and how, on May 30, 1884, citizens of Perth Amboy, NJ, pinned a gold medal to his coat in honor of his having done something that, in another part of the nation, a noose might have been put around his neck for daring. Based on Bond's book, "To Cast a Freedman's Vote." Register for link to program.