“WILDEST DREAM”: Princeton artist Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura recently received a 2024 Finalists Award from the Mid-Atlantic and New Jersey State Council for the Arts for her work.

Longtime Princeton resident Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura has been awarded a 2024 Finalists Award from the Mid-Atlantic and New Jersey State Council for the Arts.

Borenstein-Sugiura’s collages explore issues of memory, time, cultural identity, ecological, and ideological concerns and are made entirely out of cut paper relating to the topic. Personal documents, brochures, textbooks, magazines and family photos are all worked into an image of a person, or, often, a bird.

Her pieces have been shown in museums, galleries, and libraries all over the U.S., and she was a 2023 artist-in-residence at Foundation House in Greenwich, Conn., as well as the 2019-2021 artist-in-residence at Nassau Presbyterian Church.

Borenstein-Sugiura currently has work included in the Hudson Valley Museum Art of Contemporary Art’s “WAR” exhibit running through April 10, and will be featured at the Arts Council of Princeton in the Art People Party Tombola Preview exhibit March 15 through April 4.