In January 1996, the culture wars were in full swing. The National Endowment for the Arts had received funding cuts, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Danny Shot, Poet
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T16:28:41-04:00Raw, funny, and deeply moving, poet Danny Shot has a new book, Works (2018 CavanKerry Press). Danny describes how ...
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 ...
Ember: Safe for Democracy
Steven Wolock2021-08-16T14:19:44-04:00The New Jersey-based chamber choir Ember uses music to explore social issues. Recently, they tackled race relations in America ...
Mirror Mirror at Express Newark
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T16:39:05-04:00Artists question the meaning and politics of portraiture in “Mirror Mirror” at the Paul Robeson Galleries at Express Newark. ...
George Kordis
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T16:39:59-04:00George Kordis is a master painter and iconographer in the Byzantine tradition based in Athens, Greece. For over 40 ...
Kay WalkingStick
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T16:40:33-04:00"Kay Walking Stick: An American Artist" is a career retrospective of Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935), a citizen of the ...
Jazz House Kids
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T16:41:39-04:00Go behind-the-scenes at Jazz House Kids. The acclaimed school for K-12 kids was founded by jazz vocalist Melissa Walker ...
Oliver Lake
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T16:41:45-04:00Meet longtime Montclair resident, the innovative jazz musician and composer Oliver Lake. He also writes poetry and paints, seeing ...
The Montclair Film Festival
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T16:41:47-04:00The Montclair Film Festival takes over the town of Montclair, New Jersey at the end of April and beginning ...
Bill Charlap
Steven Wolock2020-07-17T11:55:26-04:00It's been a big year for Bill Charlap. State of the Arts profiles the remarkable jazz pianist. He won a ...
Todd R. Darling
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T11:18:14-04:00On location with photographer Todd R. Darling as he creates a portrait of the city of Paterson and its people, ...
Boys Dance
Steven Wolock2020-07-17T11:32:51-04:00Basketball, contemporary dance, and social justice are all on the curriculum at Franklin Middle School in Somerset, NJ. We visit the ...
Carnatic Music Apprenticeship
Steven Wolock2020-07-17T11:59:17-04:00Aisvarya Chandrasekar has been learning to sing Southern India’s classical Carnatic music since age 6. Now, the Rutgers University senior ...
Poet Stephen Dunn
Steven Wolock2020-07-17T11:36:13-04:00Meet Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn at his home in Frostberg, Maryland and during his annual visit to the Murphy ...
Simone Dinnerstein
Steven Wolock2020-07-17T11:11:51-04:00State of the Arts producer Eric Schultz profiled pianist Simone Dinnerstein back in 2008, shortly after her ground breaking recording ...
Andy Lamy
Steven Wolock2023-09-14T16:08:44-04:00Meet New Jersey Symphony clarinetist Andy Lamy. The California native wasn't sure what he would find when he arrived ...