This Week's Broadcasts

In 1957, Alice Childress 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 on Broadway and beyond.


Violin sensation Stefan Jackiw joins the Bay Atlantic Symphony, South Jersey’s premier professional orchestra, for Benjamin Britten's lyrically expressive Violin Concerto. Plus, the Arts Council of Princeton’s exhibition of undersung 20th century Black artists, all colleagues and friends of Princeton-based painter James Wilson Edwards.


NJ PBS

Thurs, 2/6 @ 11:30 pm

Sat, 2/8 @ 7:30 pm


WNET Thirteen

Sun, 2/9 @ 11:30 am


ALL ARTS

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

Wed 2/12 @ 10 am & 3 pm

Black History Month

This month, we're sharing stories about Black musicians from the State of the Arts archives.


Songwriter Rose Marie McCoy (1922-2015) was born in the heart of the Arkansas Blues Delta. She earned a scholarship to a nearby college, but Rose had other plans—she wanted to be a singer. She arrived in New York City at age 19 and began landing gigs, but it would be songwriting that landed her on the music charts. She wrote songs for Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, and more, making the Teaneck resident one of the first Black women to be a popular songwriter. This story won a 2022 New York Emmy for Outstanding Short Arts Program.

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Happening Now

Don't miss By Her Hands, From Her Garden: Baskets by Mary May and Niki Giberson at Stockton University Kramer Hall in Hammonton, with an ppening reception on Thurs, Feb 20. See the exhibition through March 21! 


Our related story: Basket Maker Mary May

Potter Roberto Lugo's exhibition Orange and Black will be up at the Princeton Art Museum Feb 15-July 6!


Our related story: Roberto Lugo: The Village Potter

Jackson Pines have announced shows in March—including the Barnegat Lighthouse Speaker Series March 1 and at Stockton University's Pine Barrens Short Course March 8. See here for more info!


Our related story: Jackson Pines

Last call to apply for the 2026 Heritage Fellowships! The New Jersey State Council on the Arts is accepting applications until noon on Feb 6. Find out more here, and see all nine of our recent stories about the 2024 NJ Heritage Fellows here.

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

State of the Arts follows poet Joe Weil from his home town of Elizabeth, NJ to the 2008 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival.


Our 2008 story: Joe Weil

Artists explore issues of trauma and resilience in Before, After: Reflections on the Armenian Genocide, at Stockton University Art Gallery. Pictured: Jessica Sperandio


Our 2021 story: Before/After: Armenian Artists

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Pheasant Hill Foundation


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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