(NEWARK, NJ) -- How does jazz make you feel? What does it help you see? You’re invited to explore the connection between jazz, legacy, emotion and color at a special community workshop, where everyone can take part in the creation of a new mural that will be installed in the Cooperman Family Arts Education and Community Center on NJPAC's campus when it opens in 2027. The event takes place at Clement's Place on Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 6:30pm.
Artist and landscape architect Haemee Han — one of 13 artists and artist collectives creating site-specific pieces to be displayed across the new NJPAC campus — seeks community involvement in the design of her more-than-100-foot mural, which will be featured in the second-floor corridor of the Cooperman Center.
Han has created oversized scores of three songs by Newark jazz icons Sarah Vaughan, Woody Shaw and Wayne Shorter. At this event at Clement’s Place, Han and Wayne Winborne, Executive Director of the Institute for Jazz Studies at Rutgers University-Newark, will be in conversation about music, memory, history and the creative process. Then, guests will take part in a live, participatory art-making process — listening to Woody Shaw’s The Moontrane in real time and placing stickers on the score at the moments in the song that evoke an emotion. Different sticker colors will represent different emotions, from joy to sorrow.
Light bites and refreshments will be served. Please register for the event here. Clement's Place is located at 15 Washington Street in Newark, New Jersey. This event was rescheduled from July due to severe weather. If you registered for the original date, please re-register.
For more about the public art at NJPAC initiative, please visit njpac.org/publicart.
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