Artist Tyler Ballon is a recent art school graduate, now back home in Jersey City and already making a ...
Jackson Pines
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T14:55:17-04:00Jackson Pines is the indie-folk acoustic duo of Joe Makoviecki and James Black. Joe and James grew up together ...
Princeton Symphony Orchestra
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T14:55:35-04:00On opening night, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra joins orchestras and musicians around the world to celebrate the 100th birthday ...
Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail
Steven Wolock2020-07-16T15:32:21-04:00The Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail in Princeton, NJ adds a 50th poem to its popular nature walk, ...
Princeton Children’s Book Festival
Steven Wolock2020-07-16T15:55:44-04:00A visit to the wildly popular Princeton Children's Book Festival. More than 80 authors and illustrators from across the United ...
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, ...
Dance for Architecture
Steven Wolock2024-11-03T10:46:06-05:00Steven Holl Architects designed the new Lewis Arts complex at Princeton University, and also co-created “Tesseracts of Time: A ...
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. ...
Stanley Drucker and YOCJ
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T14:57:48-04:00Every year, the Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey invites a renowned musician to perform and teach master classes. This ...
Nelson Baez
Steven Wolock2020-07-16T16:40:20-04:00The Puerto Rican drum music known as Bomba has its roots in the island’s African heritage, surviving for over ...
Kevin Sampson at Mystic Seaport
Steven Wolock2026-04-09T07:06:14-04:00Artist Kevin Sampson (1954-2026) was based in Newark's Ironbound neighborhood, where you could often find him creating his found-object ...
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T15:02:55-04:00The heartfelt work of poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan is deeply rooted in her childhood memories of Paterson, New Jersey. ...
Pamela’s First Musical
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T15:03:05-04:00Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ is staging an extraordinary world premiere. Pamela's First Musical is Pulitzer Prize ...
Paul Taylor
Steven Wolock2020-07-16T16:06:32-04:00In 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 ...