YAP CARVES PUMPKINS

CAPE MAY, WILDWOOD, LOWER TWP—Public Art is the theme for this fall’s Center for Community Arts YAP Youth Arts Program. So far, program participants have made Harvest Fair Scarecrows, Gourd Bird Houses for the Nature Center of Cape May, and last weekend, of course, Carved Pumpkins. But from the photo you can see that YAP took pumpkin carving to the next level, using artists’ tools usually reserved for printmaking with linoleum blocks. Saturday, Nov. 4 will focus on the creation of murals, and November 11 is a special daytime YAP with a drum circle at the Cape May Jazz Festival and tour of the Nature Center of Cape May’s Children’s Garden.

This free program provides a light supper and art activities led by professional artists. YAP is in Lyle Hall at the Cape May United Methodist Church, at Cape Assist’s Kare Center, 3819 New Jersey Avenue in Wildwood, and at the Millman Center, 209 Bayshore Road in Villas.

These programs are made possible by grants from the Lower Cape Alliance, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Byrne Fund for Wildwood, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and many other businesses and individuals.

For a detailed schedule through December, call 884-7525 or see http://www.centerforcommunityarts.org/.

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(Photo: Tina Giaimo, Spirit Catcher Gallery).