Valley Arts
The Valley Arts District on the border of Orange and West Orange, New Jersey, just 15 block in total, has ...
Turning the Page on Black Comics
America has a long and rich history of Black comics and comic books. We meet Rider University professor Sheena ...
Pink Martini
State of the Arts caught up with the popular, one-of-a-kind, retro, band Pink Martini at their recent Bergen Performing Arts ...
Emari DiGiorgio, Poet
Emari DiGiorgio premiered her first published book of poems, "The Things A Body Might Become," at World Above, an ...
Anthony D’Amato
Rolling Stone calls Anthony D’Amato’s songwriting “folk music raised on New Jersey grit.” He's back in his home state to ...
Brandon Ballengée
Brandon Ballengée is an artist, a biologist, and an environmental activist. "Collapse" is a monumental piece about the Deepwater ...
Refugee Teens Say It With Clay
Refugee teens from Syria, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Myanmar (Burma) create a public artwork at Say It With Clay in ...
Ballad of the Undecided
In this special extra from an upcoming State of the Arts feature, Anthony D'Amato performs "Ballad of the Undecided" at ...
Amelia and the Animals
Robin Schwartz from Hoboken, NJ has made a career photographing animals. When her daughter Amelia was born, she didn't want ...
It’s Nothing New
Recent Rutgers University graduate Jessica Dotson has written a play about police shootings of black men, and there's a surprising ...
Kasso’s Journey
"Growing up in the inner-city of Trenton, NJ, my only escape from the negative images that plagued my community ...
A Year in the Trenches
Some of the world's greatest writers were veterans of war, from Ernest Hemingway to New Jersey's own Joyce Kilmer, the ...
Jersey (New) Moves!
State of the Arts goes on location with up-and-coming young choreographer, and Newark native, Nijawwon Matthews as he works with ...
Beatie Wolfe at Bell Labs
Beatie Wolfe is a musician and innovator with a new album Raw Space. She worked with Nokia Bell Labs on ...
Theater for Everyone
Paper Mill Playhouse is dedicated to the mission of Theater for Everyone. We find out how their new production of ...
Recycling Magic
In a new production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," trash becomes treasure. Costumes and sets are made of old keys, ...
Pride & Prejudice
Go behind-the-scenes as choreographer Douglas Martin and the American Repertory Ballet (ARB), based in Princeton, NJ, create the first-ever full-length ...
Lonnie Bunch
Lonnie Bunch was the Founding Director of the wildly popular new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and ...
coLAB Arts
At coLAB Arts in New Brunswick, artists create a wide variety community-powered creative projects that focus on building social ...