Mabel “Freda” Williams has been a resident of the Trenton area and Ewing Township for over seventy years.  A native of North Carolina, she has been expressing her love of art since the age of ten.   She attended Rider College (currently Rider University). She is a Self-Taught professional Artist. Throughout her career, her art was primarily for personal and creative expression, to balance the intensity of professional life. She retired after serving 20 years in the Steel Industry as Manager of Employment and 25 years as Manager of Affirmative Action with the State Department of Education. When contemplating retirement, she decided to view it as a time for creative exploration. Freda has exhibited at the Mercer County Senior Juried Art Show, Lawrenceville and Ewing Public Libraries, the Ewing Township Arts Commission, the Hopewell Valley Community Bank, Trinity United Methodist Church, Artworks: Trenton’s Downtown Visual Art Center, US Federal District Court, Burlington County Courthouse, West Windsor Juried Art Show, and Hopewell Valley Vineyards- Summer Threads Exhibit, Ellarslie Open #40, The Trenton City Museum. She has served on the Ewing Township Arts Commission, and she continues to encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to participate in the diversity of art. She is an advocate for Seniors in art and organized a senior art ministry for members and non-members of her church – the ministry is titled “Golden Arts Ministry”.