An all new episode of State of the Arts!

This Week's Broadcasts

This week on an all new State of the Arts, spoken word artists including poets Mahogany L. Browne, La Bruja, and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Slam Team perform with legendary hip hop stars at NJPAC for the 2024 Dodge Poetry Festival. At the Zimmerli Art Museum, Smoke & Mirrors features work about accessibility by artists with disabilities. State of the Arts meets curator Amanda Cachia and artist Finnegan Shannon. And at JCAST, the Jersey City Art & Studio Tour, muralist and painter Lawrence Ciarallo reflects on how the city's rapid changes impact the artists who call it home.

NJ PBS

Wed, 12/11 @ 8:30 pm

Thurs, 12/12 @ 11:30 pm

Sat, 12/14 @ 7:30 pm

WNET Thirteen

Sun, 12/15 @ 11:30 am

ALL ARTS

Mon, 12/16 @ 10:30 am & 3:30 pm

Wed, 12/18 @ 10 am & 3 pm

Images in gif:

1. Nuyorican Slam Team at Dodge Poetry Festival

2. Producer Jason Strother and curator Amanda Cachia at Smoke & Mirrors

3. Artist Lawrence Ciarallo

Stories of Community

This month, we're sharing stories of gratitude, community, and inclusiveness from State of the Arts archives.

See how People and Stories/Gente y Cuentos uses short stories to change lives. The program hosts sessions in prisons, with youth, and with senior citizens. Based in Trenton, People and Stories, which began in 1972, now operates throughout North America.

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Happening Now

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts is currently accepting applications for the 2026 Heritage Fellowships! Find out more here, and see all nine of our recent stories about the 2024 NJ Heritage Fellows here.

Dec 13 at 1 pm, join the Zimmerli Art Museum for a virtual book launch of The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique by Amanda Cachia, curator of Smoke & Mirrors, up through Dec 22!

Watch our related story on this week's episode!

Don’t miss Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company at the Jersey City Theater Center Dec 15 as they celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year in "Red Firecrackers."

Our related documentary: Unity: Choreographer Nai-Ni Chen Remembered

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

State of the Arts looks back at an extraordinary interview with Rosanne Cash, filmed just 2 months after her father died. The singer reflects on her childhood, creativity, motherhood, her own reluctant path to the stage, and her relationship with her famous father. Photo: Clay Patrick McBride

Our 2013 story: Rosanne Cash

Korean American artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006) is considered by many to be the father of video art. This feature looks at the 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

Did you know you can watch our past features online? You can catch all of our stories and full documentaries on our Youtube channel and website, or on PBS.org.

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Pictured: Storyteller Queen Nur

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Philip E. Lian & Joan L. Mueller

in memory of

Judith McCartin Scheide

Peter A. Benoliel & Willo Carey

Monica & Carlos Camin

Melanie & John Clarke

Elizabeth G. Christopherson

Hella & Scott McVay

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