NJCP is a place where creative professionals can exchange ideas, contacts, and experience in order to foster long, enjoyable, and profitable relationships. I have been an art director/print designer for over thirteen years, and I am excited and honored to be the organizer of New Jersey Creative Professionals. If you have any preferences on how this site should be run, please feel free to send me any recommendations. I want this organization to be a true collaboration of creative minds! Warmes …

There are some talented people in our neck of the woods!  Thought it'd be cool to get people together who like working on creative things with other people... filmmakers, choreographers, musicians, visual artists, actors, builders, designers, photographers, writers, web designers, or anyone who likes to make creative things happen. Let's get together to talk informally and respectfully about what we're up to, and what we hope to do in the future. Let's keep an open mind and see if we can support …

About us: Join us if you'd like to be part of a community that has small salon events to interact with curated presenters works together to create positive "greater good" outcomes using creativity, innovation + play attend events or lectures focusing on design, innovation, social space experiments and more All are welcome. Artists, activists, creatives, intellectuals, scientists, technologists - any curious, open-minded types will feel right at home here. No egos-- just ideas, actions and fu …

Do you enjoy visiting museums and galleries? Do you like to explore contemporary art, and learn about post-modern artists? Do you have an interested in art history? Do you attend or would like to attend art lectures and panels held by museums and art institutions alike? Do you enjoy the film programs offered by most large museums in New York? Do you  love books, stories, and ideas? Does the life of the mind appeal to you? Would you like to listen to intellectuals, writers, and storytelle …

We bring community and support to the creative types, artists, writers, dancers, whatever.  If you engage in the creative process, you're welcome to join us. Conference calls once per month, and sometimes in between, too.

My goal in life is personal growth through as many means as possible, and I would really like to support others in this endeavor as well. I am a firm believer that real growth and change happens when you connect with other people and have the safe space to make mistakes, ask questions, and be accepted for who you are anyway :). I would like us to gather together and do various activities and exercises to uncover those areas in ourselves that need work, to support each other in this process, and …

The creative process has at its very core the property of healing.  In fact, when I read a particularly resonating piece of elegantly-crafted poetry, I often think of it as, verily, a salve for my sundered soul. And this property of healing transcends the therapeutic modalities of healing the body or mind. The purpose of this group is to form a closely-knit collective of like-minded individuals who all revel in the creative process, both as creators and as partakers.  For, indeed, the partaker i …

… The group is based on the premise that sharing information & ideas is essential to one creative development and growing as a commercial / fine artist. Our members vary in levels - so our group is open to the beginner as well as the experts. In 2010 our guest speaker will include some of the creative talent pool here in NYC as well as guest presentations from the manufacturers of digital imaging / photography hardware and software.    See you soon!

We are a casual sketch group creating opportunities to get creative, loosen up, have fun, practice a skill and socialize all at once. All skill levels and styles are welcome.

This group is for you if you would like a great group of people to paint with as well as an experienced, professional painter alongside you to show you the ropes and help develop your own creativity. Don't go it alone; have someone there to help bring out the best in your paintings! So you would like to try painting and you don't have an easel or paints?  No  problem, just choose the day you can attend and everyth …

… Through PW, people increase their creativity and feel their minds expand, one of life's greatest pleasures. Widely recognized as an adjunct to the healing arts and as a form of meditation, PW is also valuable to people who wish to write and for writers facing impediments to their work. It returns you to the pleasures of pure process, reminding you why you wanted to write to begin with. Through practice you get personal with your subject matter. Over time you collect a rich storehouse of raw mate …

Are you doing something cool and innovative with Tarot? Want to? This Meetup is all about taking your Tarot living to the next level. With art classes, workshops, improv, mixers, dances, and more, each month will be a new real-life adventure in Tarot. Classes will include Tarot instruction, some reading practice, and full-on, out-in-the-world activities. The best way to know is to do. Not limited to readers, this group is for anyone-- writers, painters, actors, innovators of all kinds-- looking …

Frontrunner Magazine invites leading thinkers and creators to join us at Frontrunner Gallery in TriBeCa NYC for ‘CrossLink,’ a monthly series of seminars taking aim at leading trends and challenges in digital media. We will hear about pressing insights from leading experts in the strategy and creative fields and discuss what these insights mean for businesses, brands, and creators. Each seminar will open with a brief topical presentation, follow with a creative gallery showing, and will end wit …

I started this group because I've been organizing plein air painting trips to France, England, Greece, Argentina, Mexico, Portugal and Italy since 1993 but realized that there is NO place more exciting to paint than right here in NYC! The purpose of this group is to work with you at your easel whether it's in Washington Square Park, Battery park or anywhere else in the city. I will work with you at your easel and share the decades of experience I have teaching and working with painters so that y …

We represent Love and Water Designs (www.loveandwaterdesigns.com) and want to band together and sponsor fun, creative, exciting projects in the name of, and for the benefit of inspiring non-profits and charities. We imagine kickball tournaments, sidewalk chalk festivals, field days and bike parades (followed by a drink -or two- at a neighborhood watering hole) with a host of other creative engaged folks.