November 17, 2023

Nearly two dozen artists in Newark are getting a financial boost courtesy of an annual “mini-grant” program. Newark Arts has announced the winners of its ArtStart program for the year 2023-24. The program awarded a total of $57,000 to 20 proposals that add to the Brick City’s “thriving arts community,” including music, dance, theater, film, visual arts and literature, organizers said.

June 20, 2023

Prudential Financial Inc. embarked on a new program to support residents of its home city in March, launching applications for the Prudential Community Grants Program. Last week, the company announced June 12, the recipients of that $500,000 effort were announced during a ceremony at Prudential Tower in Newark.

April 23, 2020

Even in the social distancing era, the show must go on for the art world. That includes the NJIT/Rutgers-Newark theatre arts community, which is soon returning to its audiences with a string of all-new virtual performances exploring art, click-based technology and social connections during physical isolation. 

April 19, 2020

Newark artist Gary Campbell, dressed to the nines on a walk through Branch Brook Park just before it was ordered closed to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, peered through his chic dark glasses at a world gone dim due to disease. But as the park's famed cherry blossom trees burst into color around him, his artist's eyes opened the doors of perception to a spiritual cure. 

December 20, 2019

This fall, the students of Lillian Ribeiro’s "From Page to Stage" class, offered through the Rutgers-NJIT Theatre Arts program, worked with 16 Newark area artists to bring their life stories onstage. The students, most of whom are not theatre majors, spent the semester learning about play analysis, script writing, narrative voice, and how to work with the community to tell their stories accurately and sensitively.

May 2, 2019

Activist and Artist, Lillian Ribeiro, sat down with Express Newark to tell us about her work as a Community Theatre Practitioner working with elderly communities here in Newark, NJ.

December 2016

I sat down with Newark native Lilly Ribeiro to talk about her new venture, Living Incubator Performance Space (LIPS), and learn more about the influence her Portuguese-American background here in the city has had on her work. Lilly says: “I was made in Newark! Born in St James Hospital, educated in the Newark public school system and graduated with a double major from Rutgers-Newark University."

October 11, 2016

Elizabeth Youth Theater Ensemble, The Office of Youth, and HBO’s Corporate Social Responsibility will implement Walking the Beat: REmixing the Ritual — an on-going arts-in-education residency with students from the Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy from October 18 – December 16, with a community presentation on Saturday, December 17, 2016. The program is made possible with support by Mayor J. Christian Bollwage and Police Director James Cosgrove.

August 14, 2015

A new visual and performing arts collective is set to join the ever-growing Newark arts scene. “Living Incubator Performance Space”, known as {LIPS},  founded by Luso-American artist Lilly Ribeiro, is an arts collective “committed to engaging in civic dialogue with members of the community to foster creative collaborations and generate open accessibility to the arts”.

April 10, 2015

Every year, the women in Jersey City arts collective _gaia gather to create art in what they call their Wonder Woman Residency. They work together and give each other feedback on their developing pieces, exploring big themes like war, religion, education and immigration. This year, the women are taking on a seemingly more simple but equally universal subject of interest: food.

Winter 2007