This award-winning 2001 PBS documentary tells the story of the socially engaged, 20th Century American artist Ben Shahn (1898-1969). During ...
Philemona Williamson, Artist
Mae Kellert2023-03-30T12:47:59-04:00Renowned figurative artist Philemona Williamson’s studio is in East Orange. For years, the artist didn't talk about her unusual New ...
Layqa
Mae Kellert2023-02-16T14:58:14-05:00To celebrate the opening of a new terminal, Newark Airport teamed up with Public Art Fund and the Port Authority ...
The Montclair Art Museum’s George Inness Gallery
Mae Kellert2023-02-16T10:45:50-05:0019th century visionary landscape painter George Inness was one of the foremost artists of his generation. Some of his greatest ...
Philip Pearlstein
Mae Kellert2022-12-19T12:43:23-05:00Philip Pearlstein was an American master, an artist who reinvented figure painting during a time when Abstract Expressionism ruled the ...
James Wilson Edwards and a Circle of Black Artists
Mae Kellert2022-12-08T11:55:32-05:00Lewis Tanner Moore has spent a lifetime collecting works by Black artists. An exhibition at the Arts Council of Princeton ...
Alexandre Arrechea at ArtYard
Mae Kellert2022-10-20T11:56:21-04:00A founding member of the Cuban Collective, Los Carpinteros, international artist Alexandre Arrechea creates a new exhibition at ArtYard in ...
Victor Davson: Lessons from the Trees
Mae Kellert2022-09-15T09:54:19-04:00For 30 years, Victor Davson ran Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, helping establish under-represented artists and promoting ...
Roberto Lugo: The Village Potter
Mae Kellert2022-09-15T09:47:34-04:00Roberto Lugo discovered the art of pottery in his early 20s. It led him to college and a wildly successful ...
Audible and the Newark Artist Collaboration
Mae Kellert2022-07-11T12:30:39-04:00The spoken book company Audible collaborates with Newark artists to create large-scale artworks in the company's downtown neighborhood, from a ...
Artist Monica Camin
Mae Kellert2022-07-06T22:23:53-04:00Artist Monica Camin explores her ancestral roots though dramatically expressive paintings and sculpture. The child of German-Jews who escaped the ...
Raphael Montañez Ortiz
Mae Kellert2022-04-08T08:42:03-04:00Mason Gross School of the Arts professor and conceptual artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz has been making art since the late ...
Women and the Art World
Mae Kellert2022-01-23T10:43:25-05:00A look at the emergence of women artists as a force in the art world, from 1970s America to the ...
Joan Snyder “Dancing with the Dark”
Mae Kellert2022-01-20T11:46:13-05:00State of the Arts producer Eric Schultz profiled artist Joan Snyder in 2011, shortly after she received a MacArthur "Genius" ...
Klip Collective at Grounds for Sculpture
Mae Kellert2022-01-03T15:07:18-05:00Night Forms, an after-dark, immersive exhibition of digital light and music, transforms Grounds for Sculpture into a landscape that has ...
Kimberly Camp
Mae Kellert2021-12-19T11:38:31-05:00Meet painter, museum director, arts advocate, and doll-maker Kimberly Camp, in her Collingswood gallery. Produced by Ilene Dube for State ...
Robert Beck
Mae Kellert2022-01-03T15:03:24-05:00Artist Robert Beck documents the world around him, including the thirty years he’s spent in the Lambertville-New Hope area. Produced ...
Angela Davis: Seize the Time
Mae Kellert2021-11-22T09:34:46-05:00The image of Angela Davis was a lightning rod for both the left and the right in the early 1970s. ...
Climate Art in Four Acts
Mae Kellert2021-11-01T19:28:32-04:00Art projects at four different places on the New Jersey coastline were commissioned by NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
Before/After: Armenian Artists
Mae Kellert2021-11-01T09:53:50-04:00Many Armenian Americans are the descendants of someone who fled the 1915 genocide in their homeland during WWI. The memory ...