JERSEY CITY, NJ.- The Jersey City Museum presents Duda Penteado: Beauty for Ashes Project, on view through March 2nd, 2008. Duda Penteado opened his exhibition, Beauty for Ashes Project, at the Jersey City Museum with a performance entitled Why Bones?. Accompanied by the students who assisted in the creation a colossal mural in the museum's Project Gallery, Penteado, clad in pajamas, pushed a baby pram filled with bronze-cast bones through the crowd of 600 guests. Combined with mural's potent examination of the impact of globalization on our world, the performance piece served as a solemn reminder of the legacy of September 11th and was received with bittersweet applause by those assembled. Included in the crowd were Jersey City mayor Jerramiah Healy, Council President Mariano Vega, and Davino Ribeiro de Sena, Head of the Cultural Department of the Brazillian Consulate in New York.

Beauty for Ashes Project, on view through March 2nd, was conceived as an international initiative that will visit Jersey City's sister cities in order to facilitate cultural communication and mutual understanding between people of disparate backgrounds through artistic creativity. Exhibitions in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Spain, and China have already been planned, and more are under way. In each location Penteado will recruit local youngsters to create murals.

There will be several interpretative programs and publications produced in conjunction with this exhibition, including an ArtTalk featuring Penteado on Thursday, November 29th. For more information please contact the museum.

Duda Penteado: Beauty for Ashes Project is supported in part by a grant from the Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund.

Jersey City Museum's gallery hours are Wednesday and Friday from 11am to 5pm, Thursday from 11am to 8pm and weekends from 12pm to 5pm. Admission is $4 for adults, $2 for seniors and students, and free for children under 12 and museum members. Admission is free for all on Thursday evenings from 5 to 8pm. Jersey City Museum is located at 350 Montgomery Street at Monmouth in the Historic Downtown District of Jersey City, within walking distance of the Grove Street PATH and Jersey Avenue Light Rail stations.