Photographer Erik James Montgomery has a studio in a former fire station in the downtown area of what's often ...
Geoffrey Hendricks
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T14:50:05-04:00State of the Arts remembers Geoffrey Hendricks, a founding member of the Fluxus artists' group at Rutgers University, where ...
David Rago
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T14:47:15-04:00Rago Arts and Auction Center is a national player, specializing in ceramics, glass, and modern design. David Rago appears ...
String Artist Robert Forman
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T14:46:15-04:00Artist Robert Forman has developed techniques entirely his own. He uses colorful yarns, thread and Elmer's glue to create ...
Wendy Red Star
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T14:44:13-04:00Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth is a mid-career retrospective of the artist's photography, textiles, and installation ...
Simply Steampunk
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T14:44:08-04:00We visit an exhibition of fantastic flying machines and kinetic sculptures inspired by 19th century science fiction. A Cache ...
Willie Cole’s Beauties & Bottles
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T14:42:51-04:00Artist Willie Cole calls himself a "perceptual engineer." He mines the visual layers of irons, ironing boards, gas hoses, ...
MudGirls Studios
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T14:42:01-04:00MudGirls Studios has a social mission: to provide jobs for women dealing with multiple disadvantages. The MudGirls make pottery ...
48 Blocks
Eric Schultz2020-09-22T14:39:07-04:00State of the Arts goes on location to the historic shore town of Atlantic City to check out its ...
African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T14:38:46-04:00Meet Ralph E. Hunter, Sr., the founder of the African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey at the ...
Ministers of Apollo
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T16:36:07-04:00Take an extraordinary step back in time to America in the 18th century with Eliza Vincz and her partner ...
Mana Contemporary
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T15:05:10-04:00Mana Contemporary is one of the largest and most innovative arts organizations around, based in a vast former tobacco ...
Willie Cole, Artist (1997)
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T15:05:08-04:00Willie Cole is known for his ability to transform the discarded remnants of our consumer culture into objects that ...
Willie Cole, Artist (2006)
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T15:05:04-04:00Artist Willie Cole is known for bringing the worlds of African art and American consumerism together in his haunting ...
Kevin Sampson at Mystic Seaport
Steven Wolock2021-01-08T17:56:02-05:00Artist Kevin Sampson is based in Newark's Ironbound neighborhood, where you can often find him creating his found-object sculptures ...
Elsie Driggs: Precisionist Painter
Steven Wolock2022-03-18T10:05:46-04:00Elsie Driggs (1898-1992) gave one of her last interviews for this State of the Arts story, produced in 1991. ...
The Martian Art Project
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T14:56:36-04:00In 1938, Orson Welles starred in the radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds." It sparked a panic, ...
Tyler Ballon
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T14:53:30-04:00Artist Tyler Ballon is a recent art school graduate, now back home in Jersey City and already making a ...
Turning the Page on Black Comics
Steven Wolock2021-08-16T08:26:15-04:00America has a long and rich history of Black comics and comic books. We meet Rider University professor Sheena ...
Valley Arts
Steven Wolock2020-07-17T11:24:27-04:00The Valley Arts District on the border of Orange and West Orange, New Jersey, just 15 block in total, has ...