A stroll around the main gallery at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies might call to mind (well, a mind of a certain age, anyway) Bell Telephone’s 1979 ad slogan, “Reach out and touch someone.” The artwork is all but leaping off the walls to “touch” the viewer emotionally and intellectually.

Many of the pieces are textured, sculptural or three-dimensional, made from materials such as fiber, clay, metal and glass.