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Portraits of Victims of Gun Violence
by Shen Shellenberger, JerseyArts.com
published 2022-07-15

Every day, we read an all-too-familiar report on our news feed — another life is lost to gun violence. It is a deadly epidemic.

Move Over, Tea Sets - Ceramic Artists of Color Respond to the World of Today

by Ilene Dube, JerseyArts.com
published 2022-06-03
Enter the exhibition space for Roberto Lugo: The Village Potter, on view at Grounds For Sculpture through January 8, 2023, and you feel like you’ve entered the artist’s studio. There are metal shelves with pots in various stages of completion, a row of potter’s wheels await, and there’s a shiny new kiln. This is, in fact, a Maker Space, where museum-goers can actively participate in the process.

“For the Culture, By the Culture” Exhibit Spotlights 19 Local and National Black Artists of Influence

by Carolyn M. Brown, JerseyArts.com
published 2022-05-26
In celebration of Art in the Atrium’s 30th anniversary, the Morris Museum and Art in the Atrium (ATA) present the exhibition, For the Culture, By the Culture: 30 Years of Black Art, Activism, and Achievement. This exhibition brings together prior ATA-featured artists in a group retrospective that spans 30 years and spotlights local and national Black artists who are masters of their craft and who have contributed to Black culture by creating impactful works.

The Space Belongs to Them: Artist and Community Collaboration on New Harriet Tubman Monument in Newark

by Rachel Alban, JerseyArts.com
published 2022-05-19
Hailing from Kingston, Jamaica and currently based in Montclair, NJ, architect Nina Cooke John’s work includes a range of ventures - from remodeling homes and businesses, to designing interior and public sculptures, and teaching classes and community workshops.

Garden of Earthly Delights? Artists in Rowan University Art Gallery Examine the ‘Cultivated Space’

by Ilene Dube, JerseyArts.com
published 2022-05-19
Ever since – even before – Joni Mitchell penned the words “and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden,” humans have been seeking to do just that. A return to the “Garden of Eden,” the original utopia. Paradise.

Award-Winning Artwork Helps Cope With the Stresses and Anxieties of Our Time

by Ilene Dube, JerseyArts.com
published 2022-04-29
Immediately upon entering the gallery space at Artworks Trenton, a viewer is struck by what appears to be a tribal necklace sized for the Great Sphinx of Giza. Suspended from the soaring ceiling, this assemblage of gold circles by artist Kate Dodd shimmers.

Up, Down and in Another Town -- Perkins Center for the Arts Adds a Third Gallery

by Shen Shellenberger, JerseyArts.com
published 2022-04-14
The last time I talked with Sharon Kiefer, Curator of Exhibitions at Perkins Center for the Arts, she was in the first few weeks of her position at Perkins. It was 2020, so Kiefer was not just navigating a new job, but she was learning a whole new way to curate exhibitions.

Elizabeth Colomba Is Claiming Her Place in the History of Art

by Ilene Dube, JerseyArts.com
published 2022-04-13
The France-born, Harlem-based artist was recently featured in Vogue; she was commissioned to create a painting for New York City’s Park Avenue Armory; she has a painting in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Princeton University has hung her first solo museum exhibition.

Carlos Villa: Worlds In Collision, explores cultures through paint, bones, bodies, and feathers

by Rachel Alban, JerseyArts.com
published 2022-04-04
On view through May 8, 2022 at Newark Museum of Art, Carlos Villa: Worlds In Collision presents 35 rarely seen works by Carlos Villa, a central figure in the San Francisco art community and a leader in the multicultural activism of the 1960s and beyond. Along with the exhibit and programs, the Museum has launched The Filipino Oral History Project with Rutgers University and welcome the community to share their histories.

VIDEO: Netflix “Blown Away” Star Alex Rosenberg Joins WheatonArts

by Maddie Orton, JerseyArts.com
published 2022-03-23
Artist Alex Rosenberg became internationally known for his work on the Netflix competition show “Blown Away” and was recently named Glass Studio Director at Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center. Correspondent Maddie Orton talks with Rosenberg about his love of glassblowing, the next chapter for WheatonArts, and “Wheaton Springs” — the organization’s 2022 season kickoff event on April 2nd.

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