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architecture

Art in the Public Square
The Art of Structural Design
Art On Location: John Goodyear, public artist
Barns
Collingswood
The Gentle Bonaparte
Greetings from Asbury Park
Morven
The New American Art
Turnpike
Victor Reborn

dance

The Beast - American Repertory Ballet’s “Beauty and the Beast: A Gothic Romance”
Blow up big: fred garbo's inflatable theatre company
The Body You Have - Roxey Ballet Company’s Wheels in Motion program
Carousel
Dance New Jersey
Dance Speak/Randy James Dance Works
Dancing with d'Amboise
Echad/Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
La Spectre de la Rose
Momix
Nai Ni’s New Year
Ronald K. Brown/Evidence Dance Company
Shakespeare at the Ballet - New Jersey Ballet’s “Romeo & Juliet”
Vista

education

After School Artist - Ricardo Coke, artist
Amelia Bedelia
Arts K-12
Bells Appealing - Westminster Concert Bell Choir
The Body You Have - Roxey Ballet Company’s Wheels in Motion program
Brodsky's Vision - The Brodsky Center for Print and Paper
Carousel
Crossing Points
Dancing with d'Amboise
Docents in Training
Dodge Poetry
Dollmaker
Eco-Art - Artist Brandon Ballengée
In Search of Alexander
La Spectre de la Rose
Morven
The New Jersey Film Festival
Paper Makers
Peters Valley
PLOrk - Princeton Laptop Orchestra
Poetry Out Loud!
Shakespeare on the Road - The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and the National Endowment for the Arts’ Shakespeare in American Communities initiative
Solow Cello - Jeffrey Solow, cellist
Tis of Thee
Weird NJ
Young Composer

film and video

Black Maria @ 25 - Black Maria Film & Video Festival, John Columbus, director
The Creature of Montclair - Shuler Hensley, actor
Digital Tao - Artists Antonio Puri & LiQin Tan
The Evolutionary - Nick Rolfe, actor and musician
Frankenstein - Westfield Symphony Orchestra
Grey Gardens
Harold and Maude
Hitchcock's Music - A Book By Jack Collins
Idea Man
New Art from India - India: Public Places/Private Spaces
The New Jersey Film Festival
Royal Regatta/Harvey Wang
So, Where’s My Prince Already?

history

Art for Everyone - Charles Ward, artist
Cuba! - Artists Experience Their Country
Eternal Souls - New Jersey Cemeteries and Gravestones
Hot Jazz - Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks
Nell Irvin Painter - historian/painter
The Scheide Library - William Scheide, collector
Seat of Empire - Bonaparte’s chair
Snapshots - “Now and Then: Snapshots from the Maresca Collection”

literature

Amelia Bedelia
Anna in the Tropics
Dear Scott (letters to F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Gentle Bonaparte
Hitchcock's Music - A Book By Jack Collins
Movable Books
Mysteries of Newark: Valerie Wilson Wesley, author
Renaissance Men
Rosanne Cash
Shakespeare at the Ballet - New Jersey Ballet’s “Romeo & Juliet”
Shakespeare at the Opera - The New Jersey Opera Theatre’s production of Verdi’s “Falstaff”
Shakespeare at the Theater - A McCarter Theatre/Paper Mill Playhouse coprodution of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with music by GrooveLily
Shakespeare on the Road - The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and the National Endowment for the Arts’ Shakespeare in American Communities initiative
The Scheide Library - William Scheide, collector

music

classical
3-2-1 - A concerto for violin, electric violin, & large orchestra
At The River: Robert Maggio, composer
Bad Boy of Music
Bay-Atlantic Symphony
Bells Appealing - Westminster Concert Bell Choir
Concert de Gaudi/Sharon Isbin
Conductor of the Year
Eroica Trio
Frankenstein - Westfield Symphony Orchestra
Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
From the Top
The Gentle Maestro
George Antheil
Golden Age of Violins
Golden Age of Violins, Part 2
Harry Partch
The Healing Harpist - Harpist Alix Weisz at the Morristown Memorial Hospital
In Search of Alexander
Leila Josefowicz, violinist
Leila Josefowicz
A Man Called Evers
Milton Babbitt
Mozart’s Piano
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violinist
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
PLOrk - Princeton Laptop Orchestra
Shakespeare at the Opera - The New Jersey Opera Theatre’s production of Verdi’s “Falstaff”
Sharon Isbin, guitarist
Solow Cello - Jeffrey Solow, cellist
Valuing Violins
Vital Signs - A scientific study of music and the emotions
Young Composer

gospel
Jubilation Choir
Sacred Words/Queen Esther Marrow

jazz
Bill Charlap, jazz pianist
Bucky
Clark Terry, jazz trumpeter
The Evolutionary - Nick Rolfe, actor and musician
Greetings from Asbury Park
Homecoming: stacey kent
Home-Made Music
Hot Jazz - Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks
No Separation - Oliver Lake, saxophonist/composer
Tony DeSare, jazz pianist and singer
Willie the Lion

popular
Accordion Files
After Hours
Audra McDonald
Barbara Cook
Bobby Short
Carousel
Ebony Hillbillies
Greetings from Asbury Park
Hitchcock's Music - A Book By Jack Collins
Homecoming: stacey kent
Jerry Herman
My Country
Music from the Ether
The Old Plank Road: the chieftains
Peter Cincotti
Peter Cincotti
Racket
Rosanne Cash
Second Coming
Shakespeare at the Theater - A McCarter Theatre/Paper Mill Playhouse coprodution of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with music by GrooveLily
The Tank

photography

Afterlife of Dolls
Ben Shahn: Passion for Justice
Crowns
Edward Weston
Exposed: The Photographer x 4
A Family’s Portrait
Man Ray
The New American Art
New Art from India - India: Public Places/Private Spaces
The New Women - “Off the Pedestal: New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase, and Sargent” at The Newark Museum
Peters Valley
Paterson II - George Tice
Royal Regatta/Harvey Wang
Small Towns, Black Lives
“Small Towns, Black Lives”
Snapshots - “Now and Then: Snapshots from the Maresca Collection”
Village of Peace - Wendel A. White
Weston’s West - Edward Weston
Where Men Hide - Ken Ross
"Who Shot Ya?" Ernie Paniccoli

poetry

Billy Collins
Different News - David Tucker, poet
Dodge Poetry
Ekiwah
Lost Words - Yusef Komunyaaka, poet
No Separation - Oliver Lake, saxophonist/composer
Poetry Out Loud!
Racket
Six Poets (At The Dodge Poetry Festival)
Turnpike
Walt Whitman

science

Eco-Art - Artist Brandon Ballengée
The Healing Harpist - Harpist Alix Weisz at the Morristown Memorial Hospital
Vital Signs - A scientific study of music and the emotions

sculpture

Art About 9/11 - New Jersey’s memorials
Art of Glass
Art On Location: John Goodyear, public artist
Imaginary Portraits - Jonathan Shahn, artist
Willie Cole - artist

theatre

Anna in the Tropics
After Hours
Annie
Being Earnest
Blood and Roses - The Henry VI Plays of William Shakespeare
Blow up big: fred garbo's inflatable theatre company
Camelot
Carousel
Cinderella
The Creature of Montclair - Shuler Hensley, actor
Crowns
Grey Gardens
Harold and Maude
He, Himself, and Him - Edward Albee, playwright, “Me, Myself, and I”
I Am My Own Wife - George St. Playhouse production
Lackawanna Blues
Lost Words - Yusef Komunyaaka, poet
“Manchild in the Promised Land”
Miss Witherspoon
My Fair Lady/McCarter Theatre
Nilo Cruz
Of Thee I Sing
On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theatre & Film in Early 20th Century American Art
Sacred Words/Queen Esther Marrow
Shakespeare at the Theater - A McCarter Theatre/Paper Mill Playhouse coprodution of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with music by GrooveLily
Shakespeare on the Road - The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and the National Endowment for the Arts’ Shakespeare in American Communities initiative
Strings Attached
The Tank
Young at Heart

visual art

African-American Printmakers
After School Artist - Ricardo Coke, artist
Aljira Design
Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art
Armando Rascon
Art About 9/11 - New Jersey’s memorials
Art for Everyone - Charles Ward, artist
Art in the Public Square
Art of Glass
The Art of Structural Design
Art Polyglot/Raphael Ortiz
At Home with the Tsars
Automata
Ben Shahn: Passion for Justice
Bette Blanc
Bling Bling
The Botanist (Manabu Saito)
The Bots
The Bride Wore Red
Brodsky's Vision - The Brodsky Center for Print and Paper
The Brothers Gerberich
Chick Chair (Artist Timothy Martin)
Collingswood
Crossing Points
Cuba! - Artists Experience Their Country
The Digital Stone Project
Digital Tao - Artists Antonio Puri & LiQin Tan
Dollmaker
Eco-Art - Artist Brandon Ballengée
Eternal Souls - New Jersey Cemeteries and Gravestones
Familiar Faces: Rodriguez Calero - collage artist
From Gulag to Glasnost
Gardening Neighbors
The Gentle Bonaparte
George Segal: American Still-Life
The Global Modernist
Great Pots
Grounds for Sculpture
Grounds for Sculpture
Happenings
Howard Finster
Houtien Cheng, Paper Cutter
Idea Man
Imaginary Portraits - Jonathan Shahn, artist
In The Stars: Toshiko Takaezu, ceramic artist
Jersey Ride: chakaia booker
Luna Parc
Man Ray
Masters of American Comics - Krazy Kat
Mel Leipzig
Morven
Movable Books
Museum by eBay
Nell Irvin Painter - historian/painter
New Art from India - India: Public Places/Private Spaces
The New Women - “Off the Pedestal: New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase, and Sargent” at The Newark Museum
Net Art
The New American Art
New Landscape
Noborigama Kiln
No Separation - Oliver Lake, saxophonist/composer
On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theatre & Film in Early 20th Century American Art
Paper Hearts, Organic Tissues (matthew schwede)
Paper Makers
Patrick Morelli
Pencil Factory
Peter Stroud
Peters Valley
Picturing America
Recarving China’s Past
Robert Smithson
Royal Robes
Small Towns, Black Lives
Stitches and Time
Strings Attached
Surface Rhythms - Ceramist Bennett Bean
Sweet Land of Liberty
The Tank
Thomas George
Tis of Thee
Tom Malloy
Toshiko Takaezu. Portrait of an Artist
Turnpike
Visibility Unseen
Voices from the Garden
Weird NJ
Willie Cole - artist
Mr. Wilmerding’s Collection Goes to Washington
Wrapped in Pride: The Story of Kente in America

 
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