Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib have collaborated on films, videos, public artworks, and immersive installations for over a decade. Field ...
Potter’s Paradise with Alan Willoughby & Linda Shusterman
Mae Kellert2021-07-25T13:27:04-04:00Ceramic artists, and married couple, Alan Willoughby and Linda Shusterman take us to their potter's paradise in Deptford, NJ, as ...
Nancy Cohen’s Atlas of Impermanence
Mae Kellert2021-10-07T21:17:33-04:00Jersey City artist Nancy Cohen works with homemade paper pulp and pigment to make works that reflect on climate change ...
Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest
Mae Kellert2021-10-07T21:18:32-04:00Artist Maya Lin's 2021 installation Ghost Forest in Manhattan uses Atlantic white cedars that were victims of climate change. The ...
A New View of Camden
Mae Kellert2021-10-07T21:18:22-04:00State of the Arts takes a tour of six large-scale public art pieces in Camden, all installed on lots previously ...
Artist Grace Lynne Haynes
Mae Kellert2021-05-30T11:29:13-04:00In the history of Western art and religion, the color black is linked to darkness and evil. But in the ...
Kea’s Ark
Mae Kellert2021-08-05T19:25:29-04:00Kea Tawana was a self-taught engineer and artist who built a 3-story ark in Newark’s Central Ward in the mid-1980s, ...
Melvin Edwards
Mae Kellert2021-02-01T13:02:30-05:00Melvin or "Mel" Edwards creates serious yet playful work using steel, chains, and barbed wire. Born in 1937 in the ...
Noborigama Kiln
Mae Kellert2021-01-19T10:24:50-05:00In 2003, State of the Arts filmed Alan Willoughby and a group of other artists over three weekends as they ...
Adolf Konrad: Painter
Mae Kellert2020-12-29T09:10:03-05:00Produced in 2001 by Angela Capio, this story was filmed at Adolf Konrad’s rural home in Asbury, NJ and on ...
W. Carl Burger: A Painter’s Life
Mae Kellert2021-08-05T19:25:18-04:00W. Carl Burger: A Painter's Life explores the journey and work of a much-loved New Jersey artist and teacher as ...
Charles Ward
Mae Kellert2020-12-07T17:33:49-05:00Charles Ward (1900-1962) was a Trenton native who worked in a Trenton factory before becoming an artist, studying at the ...
Howard Finster, Man of Visions
Mae Kellert2020-11-23T14:14:34-05:00Howard Finster (1916-2001) was a prolific artist with a mission to communicate his visions to the world. This story from ...
Jacob Lawrence
Mae Kellert2020-09-29T13:48:35-04:00This 1991 State of the Arts feature about Jacob Lawrence includes an interview with the famous artist himself, then in ...
W. Carl Burger, artist
Mae Kellert2020-09-21T20:40:08-04:00The much loved New Jersey artist and teacher W. Carl Burger celebrates his 95th birthday in 2020, and the Morris ...
Bette Blank, artist
Mae Kellert2020-09-16T17:42:53-04:00Bette Blank always painted, but became an artist full-time as a second career. Her first was in the field of ...
Nell Irvin Painter
Steven Wolock2020-09-21T21:00:18-04:00Nell Irvin Painter was a professor of American History at Princeton University for 20 years. Upon retiring, she enrolled in ...
Turnpike
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T20:26:49-04:00Narrated by Paul Sorvino, this 2005 documentary takes a figurative journey along the New Jersey Turnpike to explore the art, ...
Elisabeth Smolarz
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T21:01:10-04:00Photographer Elisabeth Smolarz’s "The Encyclopedia of Things" is a portrait of the tiny New Jersey town on the Hudson ...