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  • Arts Beat, SOMa

Newark Artist Onnie Strother Confronts Black History in Powerful Show in Maplewood

For over five decades Newark visual artist and educator Onnie Strother, now 76, has touched 1,000s of lives through his art, teaching, curating and community involvement.

  • Carol Selman
  • February 14, 2026
  • Art & Design, Arts Beat, East Orange

East Orange artist Sandra Charlap transforms maps into metaphors of art

The artist's 39-piece exhibition "Seen From Above" examines both familiar and unfamiliar places from a different point of view—overhead.

  • Carol Selman
  • January 26, 2026
  • Arts Beat, Entertainment, West Orange

West Orange Classic Film Festival at 20: Ready for its Close Up

This year, veteran film, television and stage actor Alvin Alexis, a cast member in writer-director John Sayles’ cult favorite, Brother From Another Planet (1984), will anchor that discussion.

  • Carol Selman
  • January 5, 2026
  • Art & Design, Arts Beat, SOMa

The Art of Jay Pingree: Distorted Motion, Clear Vision

Nationally and internationally exhibited artist Jay Pingree has an arresting one-man show at Montclair’s BrassWorks Gallery.

  • Carol Selman
  • November 11, 2025
  • Arts Beat, SOMa

Maplewood Artist Wendy Bellermann Paints With Prehistoric Pigments

Wendy Bellermann paints her cave-inspired art with pigments that she makes herself from the clay and stone.

  • Carol Selman
  • October 5, 2025
  • Art & Design, Arts Beat, Newark

Tom Nussbaum’s Retrospective at the Montclair Art Museum Opens in September

To enter into the art of Tom Nussbaum is to enter into his visual and verbal vocabulary of wordplay, eye-play, puns, and bygone popular culture references. 

  • Carol Selman
  • August 29, 2025
  • Art & Design, Arts Beat, West Orange

PORTRAITS, PHOTOGRAPHY SHINE AT GAELEN GALLERY’S JURIED ART SHOW

The approximately 65-piece exhibit of paintings, drawings, pastels, photography, mixed media and sculpture continues through July 31.

  • Carol Selman
  • July 11, 2025
  • Arts Beat, Music, Orange, West Orange

A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO JAZZ LISTENING

Summer in and around the Oranges means jazz will be on the streets, in the parks and in the air. Here's a beginner's guide to learning how to listen, not just hear, musicians at your next festival.

  • Carol Selman
  • June 6, 2025
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  • Art & Design, Arts Beat, SOMa

THE CREATIVE TRIO BEHIND THE WARREN COURT ART WALK

Arts Beat talks with the artists behind the Warren Court Art Walk and previews what visitors will see.

  • Carol Selman
  • May 1, 2025
  • Art & Design, Arts Beat, West Orange

JCC’S EARTH DAY ART SHOW IS A WARNING ABOUT OUR IMPERILED PLANET

Lisa Suss has designed a 28-piece exhibit at JCC's Gaelan Gallery with paintings, drawings, collage, prints and photographs.

  • Carol Selman
  • April 8, 2025
 

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