Melvin 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 ...
The Dalai Lama
Eric Schultz2020-09-22T13:57:25-04:00In 1990, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of the Tibetan people in exile, visited the Newark ...
George Segal: American Still Life
Eric Schultz2021-06-14T12:00:15-04:00He's one of New Jersey's most celebrated 20th Century artists, with a deeply personal approach to sculpture. George Segal ...
Artist Kang
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T21:05:43-04:00Taiwanese artist Kang Muxiang exhibits his huge biomorphic works made from retired elevator steel cables at Grounds for Sculpture ...
Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Eric Schultz2020-07-13T14:09:49-04:00Artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn (1903-2004) was an illustrator, print maker, journalist, and author. She was married to artist Ben Shahn, ...
Toshiko Takaezu: In the Stars
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T21:02:38-04:00Towards the end of her life, artist Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011) created a series of majestic, closed, ceramic forms - ...
Peters Valley (2004)
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T21:02:01-04:00Peters Valley, nestled in the bucolic Delaware Water Gap in northwest New Jersey, is a center for learning about ...
Julie Heffernan
Eric Schultz2020-07-13T14:35:45-04:00Artist Julie Heffernan's paintings are fantasies dealing with real world issues. She creates layered narratives rooted in art history yet ...
Nam June Paik
Eric Schultz2020-07-13T14:10:18-04:00Korean-American artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006) is generally considered the father of video art. As a key figure in the ...