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Barker , Susanne Craig and Shawna Richer ; Bloomberg ’ sAlisa Parenti ; The Guardian ’ s Margaret Sullivan ; Associated Press ’ sEric Tucker ( and Bleiberg ’ sreporter son , Jake Bleiberg ); Soledad O ’ Brien ; Washington Post Tik Tokteam leader Dave Jorgensen , and VoteBeat ’ sJessica Huseman . She even made an exception for author and political analyst Jonathan Alter , and did arendering of his goat sculpture . She ’ s also completed portraits for roughly 50 members of the New Jersey press corps , including reporters at NorthJersey . com .
All told , Bleiberg says she ’ s portrayed hundreds of journalists ’ pets . And soon , the public will be able to see adistinctive subset of them in
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person . Bleiberg , whose home straddles the Montclair-Glen Ridge border , is collaborating with Montclair resident Francesca Castagnoli , creator of the Tiny Art Gallery , tofeature portraits of Montclair journalists ’ pets . A3-foot-by- 2-foot box on Castagnoli ’ sfront lawn , modeled after Little Free Libraries ( and featured in the May ’ 23 issue of Montclair Magazine ) will feature about adozen miniature portraits of pets owned by Montclair-based journalists including John Mooney , CEO and founder of NJ Spotlight ; Kate Zernike , New York Times national correspondent ; and JoePompeo , Vanity Fair correspondent .
“ What Ilove about Erika ’ swork is
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how irresistible it is ,” says Castagnoli . “ The pets in her portraits , what can I say — the eyes have it !” The paintings certainly fulfill Castagnoli ’ sgoal for her Tiny Art Gallery , which is creating “ small , meaningful connections with art and storytelling in an unexpected way .”
TheTiny Gallery Montclair Journalism Matters exhibit will be installed on Saturday , Sept . 9 . There will be an opening reception the following day , with “ nibbles and sips ” provided by Grape Collective in Upper Montclair . TheTiny Gallery is located at 8 Stanford Place in Montclair . For more information , go to tinygallerymontclair . com and @ tinygallerymontclair on Instagram . ■
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COURTESY OF ERIKA BLEIBERG |
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