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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171031T120000
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SUMMARY:Vulvacular
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Pamela Shields and Susan Kaplow\, this show explores women artists’ relationship to the vulva. Work in a variety of media will be on display in the gallery with an expanded virtual show as well.
URL:https://sana-musasama.com/events/vulvacular
LOCATION:Ceres Gallery\, 547 West 27th St\, Suite 201\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180314T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180818T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T102355
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SUMMARY:Visual Voices: Truth Narratives
DESCRIPTION:Visual Voices: Truth Narratives is a NCECA ANNUAL EXHIBITION. Guest curator Winnie Owens-Hart has invited artists Syd Carpenter\, Roberto Lugo\, Sana Musasama\, Reginald Pointer\, and Janathel Shaw to frame the curatorial concerns of Visual Voices: Truth Narratives. 37 selected ceramic artists create powerful works that speak in a variety of visual volumes that touch on personal and global issues and emotions. Their narratives\, whether literal or abstract\, acknowledge that intolerance spawn racial\, religious\, class\, and gender biases in every part of the world. The sense of interconnectedness created by modern media has transformed what was once an ancestral community to now a global community. \nOur stories\, re-told in clay\, are borderless. Historically\, the narrative ceramic object has engaged with the retelling of events through visual imagery codification. Clay works dating back thousands of years have enabled archaeologists to theorize on ceremonial\, spiritual\, and utilitarian societal markers that document the social and cultural contexts of their makers’ communities. Makers have continued the creation of narrative works using clay. Contemporary narrative ceramic artists\, compared to their historical counterparts\, are visually bombarded through media systems. Some work is created based solely on the artist’s personal experiences while others are influenced by what they see through the media; many today are shaped by both. \nThe exhibition reception will be held on Thursday\, March 15\, 6 – 9 PM. \nExhibiting Artist includes:\nJesse Albrecht\, Crista Ames\, Natalia Arbelaez\, Sharif Bey\, Jill Birschbach\, David Bogus\, Abigale Brading\, Angelique Brickner\, Nora Brodnicki\, Jim Budde\, Syd Carpenter\, Bryan & Brad Caviness\, Sean Clute\, Tara Daly\, Matthew Dercole\, Yewen Dong\, Elhan Ergin\, Richard Freiwald\, Dennis Gerwin\, Ronnie Gould\, Jocelyn Howard\, Hsin-Yi Huang\, Stacey Johnson\, Marsha Karagheusian\, Ahrong Kim\, Rob Kolhouse\, Bethany Krull\, Roberto Lugo\, Patricia Maloney\, Sana Musasama\, Kelly & Kyle Phelps\, Reginald Pointer\, Kristine Poole\, Janathel Shaw\, Lydia Thompson. \n  \n\n\nVisual Voices: Truth Narratives is sponsored by National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). Media sponsored by 90.5 WESA and 91.3 WYEP. (As of November 2017) \nNCECA promotes and improves the ceramic arts through education\, community-building\, research and creative inspiration. NCECA offers programs\, events and publications to support its membership of artists\, students\, individual and corporate patrons\, gallery owners\, museum curators and providers of ceramic arts-related products and services. As a dynamic\, member-driven organization\, NCECA is flexible in its program development\, international in its perspective and responsive to the changing needs of its constituency. \n\nIMAGE: David Bogus. Punk Necklace Series: Treat the Youth Right and Red\, White\, Brainwashed\, 2017. Ceramic and plastic chain. 11″ x 6.5″ x 2.5″ each. Photo courtesy of David Bogus.
URL:https://sana-musasama.com/events/visual-voices-truth-narratives
LOCATION:Society for Contemporary Craft\, 2100 Smallman St\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15222\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180602T170000
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SUMMARY:Invisible Borders
DESCRIPTION:Dates: April 9th – June 2nd\, 2018\nReception Night: April 20th\, 5 – 8 p.m.\nArtists: Stuart Asprey\, Rafael Corzo\, Ana Maria Economou\, Yoshi Fujii\, Misty Gamble\, Sarah House\, Woo-Jong Koh\, Trisha Kyner\, Simphiwe Mbunyuza\, Sana Musasama\, Edurne Otaduy\, Zemer Peled\, Shoji Satake\, Cynthia Siegel\, Anthony Stellaccio and Leandra Urrutia \n“Invisible Borders is an ode to clay and internationalism. Every artist you meet in this exhibition is a traveler. Some of the artwork reflects directly on the experience of travel and cultural exchange\, while others testify to the international nature of our craft.”\n– Trisha Kyner\, curator
URL:https://sana-musasama.com/events/invisible-borders
LOCATION:Community College of Baltimore County\, 7201 Rossville Blvd\, Rosedale\, MD\, 21237\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190208T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190414T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T102355
CREATED:20180722T211541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180722T211610Z
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SUMMARY:More Than That: Diversity within Diversity
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Roberto Lugo knows the frustration of being artistically pigeonholed by the color of his skin. More Than That: Diversity within Diversity brings together artists of color working in a multiplicity of genres and forms that defy cultural expectations frequently imposed upon artists of color. Lugo explains\, “the artists invited not only represent artists of color currently working in ceramics\, but the diversity of discourse taking place within our communities.” Presented currently with the 53rd annual NCECA conference in Minneapolis\, Minn.\, this exhibition embodies Claytopia’s conception of a “restless yearning for a more livable\, just and meaningful world.” Exhibiting artists include Syd Carpenter\, Morel Doucet\, Ezenwa\, Courtney Leonard\, Roberto Lugo\, Malcolm Mobutu Smith\, Sana Musasama\, Autumn Wallace\, and Diego Valles. \nCreating socially engaged work\, these artists push the field of ceramics to participate with the communities in which artists find themselves.
URL:https://sana-musasama.com/events/more-than-that-diversity-within-diversity
LOCATION:Flaten Art Museum\, 1520 St. Olaf Avenue\, Northfield\, MN\, 55057\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190831T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191103T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T102355
CREATED:20190905T020308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190905T020414Z
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SUMMARY:Domestic Matters: The Uncommon Apron
DESCRIPTION:An opening reception will be held from 5-7p on Saturday\, August 31st with a Gallery Talk at 6p. \n  \nOn view August 31 – November 3\, 2019\nSally D. Francisco Gallery (opening daily 10am – 6pm) \nThis invitational exhibition focuses on works in craft media made specifically for the show\, and which offer\, comment and challenge changing social roles and mores\, topics about work\, familial life and identity\, and may also reference historic connections to functionality\, occupation\, community and new household roles. The apron\, identifiably a domestic icon\, often socially and politically charged\, is thematic\, but not limiting for the 47 female well-known to early-career participating artists. \nParticipating artists are: Harriete Estel Berman\, Jen Blazina\, Elizabeth Brim\, Jessica Calderwood\, Rebecca Chappell\, Pattie Chalmers\, Kate Clements\, Cynthia Consentino\, Jennifer Datchuk\, Liz Alpert Fay\, Susan Taylor Glasgow\, Jill Baker Gower\, Rachel Grobstein\, Susan Hagen\, Karen Hampton\, Reineke Hollander\, Wendy Huhn\, Lissa Hunter\, Nicole Jacquard\, Kate Kretz\, Tracy Krumm\, Margaux Lange\, Lee Malerich\, Donna Rhae Marder\, Kristen Martincic\, Carol Milne\, Sana Musasama\, Lindsay Obermeyer\, Mary Hallam Pearse\, Laura Petrovich-Cheney\, Luanne Rimel\, Gwen Samuels\, Marian Schoettle/MAU\, Karyl Sisson\, Damia Smith\, Jo Stealey\, Melissa Stern\, Missy Stevens\, Claudia Tarantino\, Billie Theide\, Shalene Valenzuela\, Mallory Weston\, Blake Williams\, Kimberly Winkle\, Leah Woods\, Janis Mars Wunderlich and Renee Zettle-Sterling. \nGail M. Brown is a renowned curator of contemporary craft. Among the 80+ exhibitions she has curated\, most recently are: An Exuberance of Color In Studio Jewelry\, Tansey Contemporary\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 2016; The Evocative Garden\, the NCECA Annual\, Portland\, OR\, 2017; and Current Reflections On The Natural and Manmade\, Landmark Arts Gallery\, Texas Tech University\, 2017. In 2019\, in addition to this exhibition\, Gail curated Mastery in Jewelry and Metals: Irresistible Offerings! Celebrating SNAG’s 50th Anniversary\, Chicago\, IL; and Westward Ho! A Look At Contemporary Craft in the SW\, Wayne Art Center\, Wayne\, PA. \nAn exhibition catalog will be available\, and work will be featured online at www.petersvalleygallery.org beginning August 31st.
URL:https://sana-musasama.com/events/domestic-matters-the-uncommon-apron
LOCATION:Sally D. Francisco Gallery at Peter’s Valley School of Craft\, 19 Kuhn Rd\, Layton\, NJ\, 07851\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200315T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T102355
CREATED:20200225T145328Z
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SUMMARY:Claytopian New York
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Matt Nolan \nClaytopian New York \nNew York City has been defined as “an experiment in world peace”. The diversity of its residents closely interacting in the density of urban living inspires a deeper understanding\, appreciation and sense of greater community amongst all. NYC attracts\, accepts and celebrates otherness. \n​ \nClaytopian New York invites ceramicists to apply whose work express the beauty\, diversity and wonder of life in an idealized metropolis.  \n​ \n“Claytopian New York” invites sculptors to apply who use the universal language of ceramics to express the idealized universe of their artistic vision and diversity. Visions that include references to the spectrum of history\, traditions\, world culture\, gender\, social and political issues and notions of beauty- life in the Metropolis. \n​ \nInvited Artists include: Ron Baron\, Sin-ying Ho\, Julia Kunin\, Sana Musasama\, Steven Montgomery\, Melissa Stern\, Derek Weisberg\, Adams Puryear\, Eun-Ha Paek\, Elise Siegel\, among others. \n​ \nExhibition on View: \nFebruary 20 – March 15\, 2020 \nat The Plaxall Gallery
URL:https://sana-musasama.com/events/claytopian-new-york
LOCATION:NJ
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200627T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200627T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T102355
CREATED:20200629T184036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200629T184312Z
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SUMMARY:Walking Through the World\, With My Heart in My Hands
DESCRIPTION:Clay Art Center
URL:https://sana-musasama.com/events/walking-through-the-world-with-my-heart-in-my-hands
LOCATION:Clay Art Center\, 40 Beech Street\, Port Chester\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211002T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220131T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T102355
CREATED:20210930T033505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211006T141252Z
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SUMMARY:Behold
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EXHIBITION  \nWelancora Gallery is proud to present BEHOLD\, featuring work by Oasa DuVerney\, Sana Musasama\, Komikka Patton\, Roberto Visani and Chris Watts from October 2\, 2021 – January 31\, 2022. Through personal and collective memories and lived experiences\, the exhibition examines alternative ways to interrogate notions of Blackness through work that is either devoid of the figure or\, where the figure is present\, the gaze is cued away from the body. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS  \nOasa DuVerney signals elements from nature\, including waves\, snakes and mountains to explore the ways in which Black power and Black bodies exist in contemporary society. Most of DuVerney’s work is social and political commentary that relates to her social status as a \nwoman of color and as a working-class person. Her works are mainly figurative drawings\, specifically graphite on paper. DuVerney received her B.F.A from the Fashion Institute of Technology\, and her M.F.A from Hunter College. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn\, New York. \nSelected exhibitions\, residencies and media include: BLACK POWER WAVE\, BRIC\, Brooklyn\, NY (2019); 2019 Women To Watch\, NMWA (2019); TV Guide Spring/Break Art Show\, United Nations Plaza NYC (2019); Something To Say\, Brooklyn Museum\, Brooklyn NY (2018); The Window and the Breaking of the Window\, Studio Museum in Harlem\, NYC (2016); The Brooklyn Biennial II\, BRIC\, Brooklyn\, NY (2016); Through A Glass Darkly\, Postmasters Gallery\, NYC (2012); Rush Philanthropic Foundation Artist Residency (2016)\, Smack Mellon Studio Artist Residency (2014-2015); LMCC Workspace Residency (2012-2013); Brooklyn Foundation Grant (2016); The Guardian UK\, UK (2019)\, The Independent\, UK (2016)\, Hyperallergic (2015\, 2016)\, The Guardian UK\,UK (2015)\, Palestine News Network (2013)\, and The New York Times (2012\, 2011). \nSana Musasama is an African-American ceramic and mixed-media artist based in New York City. Her work touches on themes related to tribal adornment practices in various indigenous cultures\, and the safety of women. In We were there\, 1993 from her Maple Trees series\, Musasama draws inspiration from the Maple Tree Movement\, which was started in the 1790s by a group of abolitionists. The group advocated ending the need for slave labor to fuel the sugar cane industry on West Indian sugar plantations\, by replacing it with syrup from maple trees. Made using various clay bodies that resemble trees with organic and bodily extensions of stone\, beads and moss\, the work is scaled to the human body ranging in size from 3.5 to over 5 feet.
URL:https://sana-musasama.com/events/behold
LOCATION:Welancora Gallery\, 33 Herkimer Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11216\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211128T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T102355
CREATED:20211006T142605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211006T143131Z
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SUMMARY:Survival Tools for the Age of Ultra Anxiety
DESCRIPTION:Survival Tools for the Age of Ultra Anxiety
URL:https://sana-musasama.com/events/survival-tools-for-the-age-of-ultra-anxiety
LOCATION:The Plaxall Gallery\, 5-25 46th Avenue\, Queens\, NY\, 11101\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231015
DTSTAMP:20260430T102355
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SUMMARY:(MOSTLY) WOMEN (MOSTLY) ABSTRACT PT. II
DESCRIPTION:Eric Firestone Gallery is pleased to announce the second iteration of (Mostly) Women (Mostly) Abstract\, a sweeping two-part exhibition across its East Hampton and New York City locations with a cross-generational group of artists. The exhibition focuses on abstraction and represents aesthetic conversations over time between contemporary artists and represented gallery artists and estates. \n(Mostly) Women (Mostly) Abstract shows how content is embedded in abstraction. The work on view reflects multiculturalism\, daily life\, and domesticity\, and employs references to sound\, language\, and place. The exhibition showcases artists who haven’t always operated in the center of the art world\, but who charted a deeply personal path\, and utilized experimental techniques\, materials\, and processes.  \nIn broad terms\, the exhibition considers the condition of “otherness” as manifest in abstraction\, in terms of ethnicity\, race\, gender\, and sexual orientation. The exhibition reflects Eric Firestone Gallery’s central mission: to examine the ever-expanding canon of Post-War painting and sculpture in New York. 
URL:https://sana-musasama.com/events/mostly-women-mostly-abstract-pt-ii
LOCATION:Eric Firestone Gallery\, 40 Great Jones Street\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240428T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T102355
CREATED:20241226T220740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241226T220740Z
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SUMMARY:Sana Musasama: Returning to Ourselves
DESCRIPTION:Sana Musasama is a ceramic artist based in Queens\, New York. Musasama received her BA from City College of New York in 1973 and \nReturning to Ourselves 2024 \nher MFA from Alfred University in 1988. She began traveling in the 1970s as a way to recover her own identity and cultural place. Clay was the geographical catalyst that brought her first to West Africa\, where she studied pottery with the Mende People in Sierra Leone (1974-75). She later ventured to Japan\, China\, South America\, and Cambodia. She has expanded her interests to tribal adornment practices in various Indigenous cultures. She is challenged by the concerns surrounding the safety of women\, specifically the rituals involving rites of passage\, female chastity and the “purification” of the female body.
URL:https://sana-musasama.com/events/sana-musasama-returning-to-ourselves
LOCATION:Everson Museum of Art\, 401 Harrison Street\, Syracuse\, NY\, 13202\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T102355
CREATED:20250911T141942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T141942Z
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SUMMARY:Raised Earth
DESCRIPTION:Raised Earth\nEric Firestone Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of the internationally recognized ceramic artist Sana Musasama. The exhibition will be a dynamic installation of Musasama’s formative House series: vertically stacked ceramic sculptures\, like abstracted small-scale temples\, exploring multicultural connections to home and community. The work is inspired by the artist’s time living in adobe houses in West Africa in the mid-1970s\, her recurrent travel to Cambodia\, and time spent in the American West. \nHouse Series #15\, 2023ceramic \nThe slab-formed ceramics are multi-planar\, touched and textured structures with deep color areas and repeated oval shapes that can be read variously as eyes\, leaves\, or vaginal forms. They are etched with intricate sgraffito marks suggesting body adornment\, weavings\, flora\, and fauna. Elements extend from the planes: rings suggesting jewelry and grids like open baskets or seed pods. In her House series\, Musasama uses both earthenware and stoneware and accomplishes her vivid colors through various ceramic glazes\, often finishing her works with salt or soda firing to create exquisite surfaces that contrast with the red-brown clay she prefers. \nMusasama first began her House series in the late 1970s\, and they were the subject of a 1985 exhibition at the Studio Museum\, following her 1983–84 residency with the museum. She decided to revisit these works 45 years later\, creating what she called “siblings” to the original works in response to the isolation of 2020. Over the past two years\, the artist has worked across the globe to create about twenty significant new House sculptures. This will be the first time work from the two periods are joined into a solo\, survey exhibition.
URL:https://sana-musasama.com/events/raised-earth
LOCATION:Eric Firestone Gallery\, 40 Great Jones Street\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260329T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T102355
CREATED:20260102T191255Z
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SUMMARY:Re-Union: Syd Carpenter\, Martha Jackson Jarvis\, Judy Moonelis\, Sana Musasama\, and Winnie Owens Hart
DESCRIPTION:“Re-Union” brings together the works of Syd Carpenter\, Winnie Owens Hart\, Martha Jackson Jarvis\, Judy Moonelis\, and Sana Musasama. Each of these artists played a significant role in shaping American art–and the field of ceramics–during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Syd Carpenter’s large-scale clay and metal works investigate the complex history of African Americans and farming\, from slavery to the present day. Winnie Owens Hart’s pioneering use of traditional African ceramic techniques and forms engage with contemporary issues concerning race\, identity\, and gender. Martha Jackson Jarvis’s monumental mixed media pieces explore African American and Native American spirituality\, ecological concerns\, and histories. Judy Moonelis’s intricate multimedia installations probe the intersections of art and science\, drawing inspiration from neuroscience and anatomy and relating the human body to a variety of architectural contexts. Sana Musasama’s constructions of glass\, organic materials\, and clay are rooted in her global activist and educational endeavors in women’s/human rights. 
URL:https://sana-musasama.com/events/re-union-syd-carpenter-martha-jackson-jarvis-judy-moonelis-sana-musasama-and-winnie-owens-hart
LOCATION:Frances M. Maguire Art Museum\, 50 Lapsley Lane\, Merion\, PA\, 19066\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270701T170000
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SUMMARY:Clay Has Memory: Generational Knowledge from Africa
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Assistant Curator of African Art\, Perrin Lathrop\, the exhibit “Clay Has Memory” will be on view in the new PUAM’s first floor welcome gallery from July 2026-July 2027. It will trouble the boundaries between art and craft\, centering the contributions of Black artists\, especially Black women\, and inviting inquiry into the hierarchies that have historically relegated their creative labor to the realm of the anonymous and the undervalued. This grant will provide support for the exhibition as well as interdisciplinary opportunities and hands-on\, pedagogy-driven workshops for faculty across arts and sciences. 
URL:https://sana-musasama.com/events/clay-has-memory-generational-knowledge-from-africa
LOCATION:Princeton University Art Museum\, 63 College Rd W\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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