Paul Taylor
In January 1996, the culture wars were in full swing. The National Endowment for the Arts had received funding cuts, ...
Willie Cole, Artist (2006)
Artist Willie Cole is known for bringing the worlds of African art and American consumerism together in his haunting ...
Willie Cole, Artist (1997)
Willie Cole is known for his ability to transform the discarded remnants of our consumer culture into objects that ...
Mana Contemporary
Mana Contemporary is one of the largest and most innovative arts organizations around, based in a vast former tobacco ...
Danny Shot, Poet
Raw, funny, and deeply moving, poet Danny Shot has a new book, Works (2018 CavanKerry Press). Danny describes how ...
Ministers of Apollo
Take an extraordinary step back in time to America in the 18th century with Eliza Vincz and her partner ...
Ember: Safe for Democracy
The New Jersey-based chamber choir Ember uses music to explore social issues. Recently, they tackled race relations in America ...
Mirror Mirror at Express Newark
Artists question the meaning and politics of portraiture in “Mirror Mirror” at the Paul Robeson Galleries at Express Newark. ...
George Kordis
George Kordis is a master painter and iconographer in the Byzantine tradition based in Athens, Greece. For over 40 ...
Kay WalkingStick
"Kay Walking Stick: An American Artist" is a career retrospective of Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935), a citizen of the ...
Jazz House Kids
Go behind-the-scenes at Jazz House Kids. The acclaimed school for K-12 kids was founded by jazz vocalist Melissa Walker ...
Oliver Lake
Meet longtime Montclair resident, the innovative jazz musician and composer Oliver Lake. He also writes poetry and paints, seeing ...
The Montclair Film Festival
The Montclair Film Festival takes over the town of Montclair, New Jersey at the end of April and beginning ...
Bill Charlap
It's been a big year for Bill Charlap. State of the Arts profiles the remarkable jazz pianist. He won a ...
Todd R. Darling
On location with photographer Todd R. Darling as he creates a portrait of the city of Paterson and its people, ...
Boys Dance
Basketball, contemporary dance, and social justice are all on the curriculum at Franklin Middle School in Somerset, NJ. We visit the ...
Carnatic Music Apprenticeship
Aisvarya Chandrasekar has been learning to sing Southern India’s classical Carnatic music since age 6. Now, the Rutgers University senior ...
Poet Stephen Dunn
Meet Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn at his home in Frostberg, Maryland and during his annual visit to the Murphy ...
Simone Dinnerstein
State of the Arts producer Eric Schultz profiled pianist Simone Dinnerstein back in 2008, shortly after her ground breaking recording ...
