Videos - State Of The Arts

Steven Wolock2020-07-24T10:18:38-04:00

Valley Arts District

Ideas

State of the Arts gets a tour of the Valley Arts District, on the border between Orange and West Orange, ...

Steven Wolock2020-07-24T10:15:21-04:00

Stephane Wrembel

Music

A performance from French-born guitarist/composer Stephane Wrembel, who honed his craft in the gypsy campsites of rural France. Rolling Stone ...

Steven Wolock2020-08-13T11:30:46-04:00

Jon Naar

Film & Photo

Meet 92-year-old photographer Jon Naar as the New Jersey State Museum mounts a retrospective of the Trenton resident's work. The ...

Steven Wolock2023-09-14T16:09:10-04:00

3-2-1 Concerto

Music

Meet Darryl Kubian, a violinist in the New Jersey Symphony. Darryl is also a composer. His 3-2-1- Concerto for both ...

Steven Wolock2020-07-24T11:30:53-04:00

Dave Brubeck

Music

State of the Arts featured this profile of composer Dave Brubeck in 1989. Brubeck (1920-2012) had just written music for a ...

Steven Wolock2020-07-24T11:28:19-04:00

Steve Tobin

Visual Arts

The enormous, expressive steel sculptures of artist Steve Tobin in "Aerial Roots" are featured in an outdoor installation covering seven ...

Steven Wolock2020-07-24T11:26:08-04:00

African Cosmos

Visual Arts

"African Cosmos" comes to the Newark Museum. An exhibit produced by the Smithsonion Institution, it explores thousands of years of ...

Steven Wolock2020-07-24T11:24:42-04:00

Duck Decoy Art in South Jersey

Folk Arts

J. P. Hand has been carving ducks from Jersey white cedar for about 40 years. His family has lived in ...

Steven Wolock2020-07-24T11:21:59-04:00

Rahway Revisited

Ideas, Theater

Rahway, NJ, just 12 miles from Manhattan, was a post-industrial town on the decline 20 years ago. See how the ...

Steven Wolock2020-07-24T11:20:08-04:00

Richie Havens

Music

Richie Havens appeared on the State of the Arts performance stage in May 1999, where he performed his song "Paradise." ...

Steven Wolock2020-07-24T11:18:31-04:00

Mel Leipzig

Visual Arts

Mel Leipzig: Everything is Paintable, a State of the Arts documentary special, was nationally distributed by PBS in January 2013. ...

Steven Wolock2020-07-24T11:06:28-04:00

Painters of the Jersey Shore

Visual Arts

"Coastal Impressions: Painters of the Jersey Shore, 1880-1940" is an exhibition at Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton, and the ...

Steven Wolock2020-09-22T18:30:15-04:00

The Green Piano

Music, Words

"Aeolian. Gratis. Great thunderer, half-ton infant of miracles / Torn free of charge from the universe by my mother's will." ...

Steven Wolock2020-09-22T18:30:53-04:00

Banjo Masters

Folk Arts, Music

The world's most influential 5-string banjo players come together when Béla Fleck calls together his "Banjo Summit" for a unique ...

Steven Wolock2020-07-24T11:44:21-04:00

Carolyn Dorfman Dance

Dance

This story captures Carolyn Dorfman Dance as they celebrated 30 years with two stunning new works. Carolyn started her dance company in ...

Steven Wolock2024-06-09T10:54:14-04:00

Toshiko Takaezu

Visual Arts

Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011) lived most of her life in rural New Jersey, where she made pots, gardened, and taught ceramics ...