Xiomáro photographs Morristown National Historical Park, home to important Revolutionary War sites including Washington’s headquarters and Jockey Hollow, where troops ...
“Possessing Harriet” at the East Lynne Theater Company
Mae Kellert2022-10-22T15:53:25-04:00The East Lynne Theater Co. in Cape May presents Kyle Bass’s Possessing Harriet, about a young woman's flight to freedom ...
Victor Davson: Lessons from the Trees
Mae Kellert2022-09-15T09:54:19-04:00For 30 years, Victor Davson ran Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, helping establish under-represented artists and promoting ...
Samara Joy: Reverence for Tradition
Mae Kellert2022-09-15T09:52:03-04:00Jazz vocalist Samara Joy is in her early 20s, but her deeply moving take on the standards brings to mind ...
Roberto Lugo: The Village Potter
Mae Kellert2022-09-15T09:47:34-04:00Roberto Lugo discovered the art of pottery in his early 20s. It led him to college and a wildly successful ...
Yass Hakoshima, Mime
Mae Kellert2022-08-24T15:02:41-04:00Yass Hakoshima (1928-2022), known for his artistry as a mime and the founder and artistic director of Yass Hakoshima Movement ...
Audible and the Newark Artist Collaboration
Mae Kellert2022-07-11T12:30:39-04:00The spoken book company Audible collaborates with Newark artists to create large-scale artworks in the company's downtown neighborhood, from a ...
Resistance Revival Chorus
Mae Kellert2022-07-10T09:18:21-04:00Resistance Revival Chorus is a collective of more than 60 women and non-binary singers, sharing their women-centered music of resistance ...
Artist Monica Camin
Mae Kellert2022-07-06T22:23:53-04:00Artist Monica Camin explores her ancestral roots though dramatically expressive paintings and sculpture. The child of German-Jews who escaped the ...
Olmsted’s Last Great Park: Cadwalader in Trenton
Mae Kellert2022-05-12T12:18:01-04:00Frederick Law Olmstead’s parks transformed cities across America, including his last major design: Cadwalader Park in Trenton, New Jersey. State ...
Drummer Billy Hart
Mae Kellert2022-05-12T12:13:21-04:00Jazz drummer Billy Hart, now in his 80s, was just named a 2022 NEA Jazz Master. The Montclair, NJ resident ...
Ride the Cyclone at McCarter Theatre
Mae Kellert2022-05-12T12:09:19-04:00McCarter Theatre’s new Artistic Director Sarah Rasmussen waited nearly two years during the pandemic, but she’s roaring back into action ...
The OK Trenton Project
Mae Kellert2022-05-12T12:05:50-04:00Passage Theatre Company's new play, The OK Trenton Project, tells the story of a summer art project gone terribly wrong. ...
Raphael Montañez Ortiz
Mae Kellert2022-04-08T08:42:03-04:00Mason Gross School of the Arts professor and conceptual artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz has been making art since the late ...
Photographer Edwin Torres
Mae Kellert2022-03-27T08:39:27-04:00Edwin Torres is an award-winning young photographer, journalist, and Deputy Digital Director for Governor Phil Murphy. His photos of his ...
Wendel A. White: Schools for the Colored
Mae Kellert2022-03-27T08:41:50-04:00Go on location with photographer Wendel White to Woodbury, New Jersey, one of the sites he photographed for his series, ...
Posing Beauty in African American Culture
Mae Kellert2022-03-28T15:49:59-04:00Photographer, historian, and curator Deb Willis's breakthrough exhibition, Posing Beauty in African American Culture, has been travelling for over 10 ...
Women and the Art World
Mae Kellert2022-01-23T10:43:25-05:00A look at the emergence of women artists as a force in the art world, from 1970s America to the ...
Joan Snyder “Dancing with the Dark”
Mae Kellert2022-01-20T11:46:13-05:00State of the Arts producer Eric Schultz profiled artist Joan Snyder in 2011, shortly after she received a MacArthur "Genius" ...
First Lady of Jazz: Dorthaan Kirk
Mae Kellert2021-12-19T11:45:01-05:00The New York Times referred to Dorthaan Kirk as Newark's First Lady of Jazz. In 2020, she won the NEA ...