Music & Movement: New Jersey’s Heritage Fellows

This Week's Episode

New Jersey Heritage Fellows are keeping their cultural traditions alive and thriving. On this special episode of State of the Arts, we meet three fellowship winners: Deborah Mitchell, founder of the New Jersey Tap Dance Ensemble; Pepe Santana, an Andean musician and instrument maker; and Rachna Sarang, a master and choreographer of Kathak, a classical Indian dance form.

NJ PBS

Wed, 2/25 @ 8:30 pm

Sat, 2/28 @ 7:30 pm

Sun, 3/1 @ 9:30 am

WNET Thirteen

Sun, 3/1 @ 11:30 am

ALL ARTS

Mon, 3/2 @ 10:30 am & 3:30 pm

Wed, 3/4 @ 10 am & 3 pm

Find out where (and how) to watch!

Black History Month

During February, explore Black History through a variety of artistic mediums.

Plays by Alice Childress are suddenly relevant and being performed on Broadway and beyond. In 1957, she was on the verge of being the first Black woman to have a play on Broadway, but she refused to compromise in order to make white audiences more comfortable. More than 60 years later, her work is having a renaissance. Watch here.

On the Blog

In this blog post from the archives, photographer Wendel White discusses his Manifest project. Read here. | Pictured: Baby Dolls, Kenneth and Mamie Clark, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC

Happening Now

Grant Castner: The Lost Archive has been published in book form by Rutgers University Press! Available now in hardback and eBook.

Our related story: Grant Castner.

The Dr. Carter G. Woodson BHM Photography Exhibition Invitational honors of the 100th Anniversary of Black History Month at JPEG Photo Gallery in Camden, hosted by EJM Foundation! The show will then run through Feb 28.

Our related stories: Erik James Montgomery, Wendel White, Aubrey Kauffman.

Khalilah Sabree (pictured) is taking part in the group exhibition Trenton Makes Jazz at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, on view through March 22!

Don't miss Toshiko Takaezu: Dialogues in Clay, on view at the Princeton University Art Museum through July!

Our related documentary: Toshiko Takaezu: In the Stars.

Highlights

From the State of the Arts archives, Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Responding to viewer demand, new closed captions have been created for this hour-long documentary, which first premiered on PBS in 1993. | Pictured: Woman Holding a Jug, 1932, James A. Porter

Our 1993 documentary: Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance.

Adolf Konrad (1915-2003) was born in Bremen, Germany. His family settled in Newark, NJ, where young Adolf studied at the Newark School of Fine Arts. Konrad later became a favorite of the Newark Museum, and was fondly known as the painter laureate of New Jersey’s largest city.

Our 2001 story: Adolf Konrad.