Women: A Force in the Art World

This Week's Broadcasts

This week on #StateoftheArtsNJ, painter Julie Heffernan revisits the history of women in art in her fantastical paintings. Also, a profile of Joyce Kozloff—she was a leader in the Pattern and Decoration Movement of the 1970s & ‘80s, which overturned sexist notions prevalent in art history. At Rowan University, the permanent installation The Sister Chapel is a 1980 work by a women’s collective. And, The Fertile Crescent exhibition at Rutgers and Princeton featured women artists from the Middle East and its diaspora.

NJ PBS

Thurs, 8/8 @ 11:30 pm

Sat, 8/10 @ 7:30 pm

WNET Thirteen

Sun, 8/11 @ 11:30 am

ALL ARTS

Mon, 8/12 @ 10:30 am & 3:30 pm

Wed, 8/14 @ 10 am & 3 pm

History through the Eyes of an Artist

This month, the visual exploration of history through art.

Many Armenian Americans are the descendants of someone who fled the 1915 genocide in their homeland during WWI. The memory of historical atrocities can be complicated and challenging in an American culture where the Armenian genocide remains little-known. Artists explored issues of trauma and resilience in Before, After: Reflections on the Armenian Genocide at Stockton University Art Galleries.

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Thurs, Aug 8 at 7 pm at Provost Square Place in Jersey City, join the New Jersey Symphony Chamber Players for a free concert featuring Daniel Bernard Roumain, their Resident Artistic Catalyst from 2021–2024.

Our related story: DBR and NJ Symphony

Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier currently has an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. See Monuments of Solidarity through Sept 7.

Our related story: LaToya Ruby Frazier

Don't miss Discovering Grant Castner: The Lost Archive of a New Jersey Photographer until September at the NJ State Museum in Trenton!

Pictured: Grant Castner with safety bicycle, Trenton, 1894 | Gift of Robert R. Jones in Memory of William R. Paquin | NJ State Museum

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See Bony Ramirez's Cattleya at the Newark Museum of Art through March. His new paintings and assemblages use his trademark surrealism to probe the legacies of colonialism and tourism in the Caribbean.

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

In the 1950s and early ’60s Leon Fleisher (1928-2020) was at the top of his field, making a spectacular Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 14. But at the age of 36 he injured his right hand, and for the next 30 years played only works for the left hand.

Our 2001 story: Leon Fleisher

Bernarda Bryson Shahn (1903-2004) was an illustrator, print maker, journalist, and author. She was married to Ben Shahn, one of America’s most famous artists in the 1930s and ’40s, and they traveled and worked together until his death in 1969.

Our 1991 documentary: A Quiet Audacity: Bernarda Bryson Shahn

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