This Week's Broadcasts
Artwork pictured by Joyce Kozloff, Diana Kurz and Elsa M. Goldsmith, Julie Heffernan, Judith Henry, Sharon Wybrants, and Shirley Gorelick
This week a premiere episode of State of the Arts takes a look at the emergence of women artists as a force in the art world, from 1970s America to the present day Middle East.

Meet Joyce Kozloff, a leader in the Pattern and Decoration Movement of the 1970s & ‘80s, which overturned sexist notions prevalent in art history. She was part of Women Choose Women, a groundbreaking 1973 exhibition that was the inspiration for Women Choose Women Again at the Visual Arts Center of NJ. At Rowan University, The Sister Chapel is a permanent installation, restored from a group work by a feminist women’s collective last exhibited in 1980. Painter Julie Heffernan revisits the history of women in art through a series of fantastical paintings. And, The Fertile Crescent, an exhibition at Rutgers and Princeton Universities that brought together the work of women artists from the Middle East and its diaspora.


Sat, 1/22 @ 7:30 pm
Thurs, 1/27 @ 11:30 pm

Sun, 1/23 @ 11:30 am

Mon, 1/24 @ 10:30 am & 3:30 pm
Wed, 1/26 @ 10 am & 3 pm
Mentoring Month
January is National Mentoring Month!

An ESKFF residency at Mana Contemporary gave artist Tyler Ballon space to create his large realistic paintings focused on interpreting Biblical themes with images grounded in African American life today. We visit his studio, and meet one of his mentors, artist Amy Sherald.
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Happening Now
Tonight at 8 pm and Jan 23 at 2 pm, Opera Philadelphia presents George Walker’s Lilacs at the Kimmel Cultural Campus, as part of their Oedipus Rex + Lilacs program. See here for more information and tickets!

Our related story: George Walker
Willie Cole's Beauties, featured on last week's episode, is included in ArtYard's Invisible exhibition, along with work by eleven other artists, up through April 10 in Frenchtown.

Opening Jan 29 at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, Posing Beauty in African American Culture explores how Black beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about what it means to be “beautiful.” This seminal traveling exhibition was curated by Deborah Willis. 
Jan 29 at 7:30 pm at NJPAC, Bill Charlap and The Bill Charlap Trio will celebrate the theater songs of Leonard Bernstein! They will be joined by joined by Bernstein's daughter, author Jamie Bernstein. See here for tickets and information.

Our related story: Bill Charlap
Catch up on some of the best of State of the Arts
Meet painter, museum director, arts advocate, and doll-maker Kimberly Camp, in her Collingswood gallery.

Our 2021 storyKimberly Camp
Korean American artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006) is generally considered the father of video art. This feature looks at the recent restoration of one of his major works, PBS (1963-2000), at the former NJN Public Television building in Trenton.

Our 2019 story: Nam June Paik
New Stage for a City tells the story of NJPAC’s development and construction, and of the hopes and dreams of the people who made it happen.

Our 1997 documentaryNew Stage for a City
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Pictured: Songwriters Rose Marie McCoy and Charlie Singleton, courtesy Michael Ochs Archives
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Peter A. Benoliel & Willo Carey
W. Carl Burger
Melanie & John Clarke
Philip E. Lian & Joan L. Mueller
Richard & Xandra E. Nosarzewski
Pheasant Hill Foundation
Judith M. Scheide
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