We are proud to announce that entries are now open for the 12th Annual Highlands Juried Art Exhibit, to be held at the historic Maxfield Engine House, located at 713 Main Street, Boonton NJ.

Artists over the age of 18 are invited to submit fine art, photographs and sculpture featuring the landscapes, flora, fauna, natural, cultural, or historic resources of the 4-state Highlands region, which stretches from Connecticut through New York and New Jersey, to Pennsylvania. Please note that works depicting flora and fauna taken outside of the Highlands will be accepted as long as those species are also found within the Highlands region.

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT

The exhibit will be on display from September 21 to December 7, 2025 at the historic Maxfield Engine House, located at 713 Main Street, Boonton NJ.

Artists who are inspired by the natural beauty of the Highlands Region of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut are some of its best advocates. The region’s landscapes, its great biodiversity, its half-hidden remnants of the early industrial age that have since returned to forest, its granite outcrops and strewn, truck-sized boulders deposited by the glaciers, its cold and deep glacial lakes and ancient rivers, its narrow valleys crossed by patinated iron truss bridges, its undulating farm fields and wildflower meadows, ands its “asunals” – the ceremonial rocks placed by the Lenape as wayfinders and to carry the prayers of successive generations — these are the same vistas and scenes that inspired an entire movement in art. The artists of our Juried Art  Show and Entr’Exhibits are the inheritors of the masterful Hudson River School. We are pleased and honored to host their inspired works.  Every show is a celebration of their creativity.

ABOUT MAXFIELD ENGINE HOUSE

The Center for the Study of Cities and Small Towns (CSST) Foundation renovated the firehouse according to a preservation study done by researchers from Penn Praxis at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. Constructed in 1893 by civic-minded Boonton citizens led by then City Council president, Esli B. Dawson, great, great grandfather of CSST board members, Ryan Dawson of Mendham and Rebecca Birch of New York City, the firehouse occupies a prominent location in the center of Boonton, NJ’s Main Street Historic District. It has served a variety of functions since the town’s fire engines became too large for its original use.

CONTACT: 

Highlands Art Exhibits
Donna Compton
Exhibit Curator
New Jersey Highlands Coalition
(973) 910-2400
Highlandsart@njhighlandscoalition.org
http://www.highlandsart.org

Maxfield Engine House
Eugenie L. Birch FAICP
Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research
Department of City and Regional Planning
Dean, Graduate Studies
Stuart Weitzman School of Design
Chair, Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning
co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research
University of Pennsylvania
210 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: (215) 898-8330 Cell: 917 412 7911
geniebirch@gmail.com
Twitter: @DrGenie_Birch