“GRAND OLD OAK”: This painting by Wayne Skylar won Best in Show in the Garden State Watercolor Society’s “2023 Members Exhibition.” The society is also presenting a Pop-Up Art Sale on Hulfish Street in Palmer Square through December 3.

The Garden State Watercolor Society (GSWS) has announced its “2023 GSWS Members Exhibition,” viewable on the GSWS YouTube channel (https://tinyurl.com/29whh3am) through January 14. The exhibition was juried for prizes by Janet Campbell, a signature member and the president of the North East Watercolor Society.

Best in Show was awarded to Wayne Skylar for “Grand Old Oak.”

A simultaneous event is a return to Palmer Square for the GSWS 2023 Pop-Up Art Sale. This year it is being held at 45 Hulfish Street. Thirty-five member artists are displaying up to 18 pieces each, resulting in a large assortment of original artwork in various media to satisfy anyone’s taste or style. There are figurative paintings, landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes, closeups of animals, barns, boats, cars, scenes of Princeton, and other landmarks to collect. All artwork is for sale with GSWS coordinating sales.

The sale runs Thursday through Sunday ending on December 3 (closed Thanksgiving.) An all GSWS member-artist staff will be on hand to offer advice and help shoppers find what they are searching for. Shoppers may browse the rows of portfolio racks where unframed work is separated by artist’s name. Art Sale hours are Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m. For more information, visit gswcs.org then click on the Events tab and Art Sale.

As a way of giving back to the community, GSWS will donate 15 percent of the art sale proceeds to Mercer Street Friends’ Send Hunger Packing project. Mercer Street Friends is a local nonprofit whose mission is to build alliances and provide integrated services for children and their families. Their Send Hunger Packing program provides supplemental meals on the weekend for children in kindergarten through sixth grade so that they are ready to learn during the school week.