This Week's Broadcasts

This week on State of the Arts, go on location with folk artists as diverse as the state itself. Decoy carvers, spirituals passed down by generations of oyster fishermen on the Delaware Bay, basketmakers, and current day blacksmiths keep centuries-old traditions alive.


NJ PBS

Thurs, 6/1 @ 11:30 pm

Sat,6/3 @ 7:30 pm


WNET Thirteen

Sun, 6/4 @ 11:30 am


ALL ARTS

Mon, 6/5 @ 10:30 am & 3:30 pm

Wed, 6/7 @ 10 am & 3 pm

Asian American and Pacific Islander Month

This month, we're sharing stories about Asian American and Pacific Islander artists!


Seven NJ State Council on the Arts fellowship-winning choreographers discuss their work. We hear from Erin Carlisle Norton, Pallavi Degwekar Shaikh, Tsai Hsi Hung, Dare Ayorinde, Barkha Patel, Robert Mark Burke, and the late Nai-Ni Chen.

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Happening Now

Learn doll-making with artist Kimberly Camp at the Perkins Center for the Arts! The class starts June 6 and runs Tuesdays throughout the month. See here for further details.




Our related story: Kimberly Camp

Join the Takaezu Studio for an open house and celebration of renowned ceramic artist Toshiko Takaezu's birthday on Sat, June 17 at 1 pm in Flemington. Contact don@thetakaezustudio.com for more information and to get on the list.



Our related story: Toshiko Takaezu: In the Stars and documentary: Toshiko Takaezu: Portrait of an Artist

At Home with George: Washington’s Morristown Winter, 1779–1780 is on view at the Morris Museum until July 30, and features works by photo-artist Xiomáro documenting the Ford Mansion and Jockey Hollow site! Photo by Xiomáro



Our related story: Xiomáro Captures Morristown

Catch up on some of the best of State of the Arts

Photographer and performance artist LaToya Ruby Frazier says her work is about finding a balance between the politics and the poetics of documentary photography. Pictured: Momme by LaToya Ruby Frazier


Our 2013 story: LaToya Ruby Frazier

Meet NJ artist Allen Crawford—he's illustrated an edition of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself." Find out what makes his edition so unusual!


Our 2015 story: Song of Myself

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....going on location with New Jersey's most creative people!

Producers Circle:

 

Peter A. Benoliel & Willo Carey

W. Carl Burger

Melanie & John Clarke

Hella & Scott McVay

Philip E. Lian & Joan L. Mueller

Pheasant Hill Foundation

Germaine B. & Richard F. Trabert

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, encouraging excellence and public engagement in the arts since 1966, is proud to co-produce State of the Arts with Stockton University, New Jersey's distinctive public university, in cooperation with PCK Media.


 Additional support is provided by: Friends of State of the Arts