Arts and Culture
Cultural Centers
- Colleges and Universities
- An invitation to the examined life, the altered course, the awakened mind, and perhaps, even, the inspired heart.
- Dodge and Duke Estates
- If a little money can be made to go a long way, surely a lot of money can be made to go a long, long way.
- Hunterdon Art Museum
- In 1952 a group composed of artists and community leaders acquired the stone gristmill for use as a nonprofit cultural center.
- Impressions at Peters Valley Crafts Center
- Plan your summer eduvacation with a class at Peters Valley. One of only six craft schools of its type in the country, and unique to Northwest New Jersey, it has grown from a small artists' collective in the early 1970s to a nationally recognized center for craft education.
- New Jersey Green Exhibit
- In celebration of the building's completion at 14 Maple Avenue in Morristown, the Arts Council of the Morris Area has installed an exhibit in and around its shared office space on the third floor. 29 works by 23 New Jersey artists were chosen to express the theme, New Jersey Green.
- NJ School of Conservation
- The New Jersey School of Conservation is the Environmental Education Field Campus of Montclair State University. Located 57 miles from the Essex County campus, on a 240-acre tract within the boundaries of Stokes State Forest in Sussex County, it is the oldest university-operated environmental education center in the nation.
- Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center
- A long gravel path leads the way to the Tibetan Buddhist learning center in rural Washington Township.
Painters and Visual Media
- Art Galleries
- The artist's outlet is an art gallery or a store, and like the art within its walls a gallery can come in a variety of composition a for-profit commercial venture either privately or corporate-owned, a "co-op" group of artists who get together to sell their own work, or a non-profit as part of an educational organization or simply Here we take a look at how a few galleries in the Skylands sell art.
- Dan Campanelli
- Seldom are artists able to remain so completely loyal to their original vision while achieving popular success.
- I Paint What I Know
- The rural scenes painted by Hunterdon County artist John Crouse are gaining notice.
- Artifice To Art
- "We'd set up a dozen crows when this red tail came from behind our blind and grabbed a decoy. The hawk took it down to the ground and mantled over it," Jack Wood recalled, describing a hawk's stance over its prey. "The hawk was there for a good five minutes before it realized the crow was wood. I guess it was a compliment to my carving."
- John Mullane
- John’s subjects include a wide variety of wildlife, landscapes, and people in Northwest New Jersey and the eastern United States.
- Manfred Scheel Wildlife Carvings
- Manfred Scheel's wood carvings are likely inspiration for any artist's quest for excellence.
- Mural Artists
- A sense of place in space.
- Outdoor Sculpture
- Art in a private landscape is the accoutrement that makes a vista delectable. No matter the style, form or medium, it causes pause in our hurried lives as we scurry through our garden's gate. It brings pleasure to those who enjoy spending time in their gardens and yards. Henry L. Mencken said, "The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature...and so make it coherent and lovely."
- Paint the Town
- Bob Bogue's paintings of Boonton were encouraged by his boyhood friends from the 1930s.
- Painters and Visual Artists
- Artist profiles.
- Painters and Visual Artists
- Artist profiles.
- Sculpture Artists
- Artist profiles.
- Vernal Equinox
- In a hemlock forest surrounding a little stream, snow remains packed, although receding, the stream's current running high and cold, coltsfoot spreading over an exposed shoal, a touch of yellow to brighten the otherwise bland landscape.
- Wildlife Artists
- Artist profiles.
- Wildlife Artists
- Artist profiles.
- Winter Photography
- With a shift in perspective, photographers can fall in love with our short, cold days of winter
Music
- Bobby Caldwell: In the Pocket
- Bobby Caldwell loved Warren County so much he moved here from San Diego, California in 2004 Bobby Caldwell loved Warren County so much he moved here from San Diego in 2004 when he married his wife Mary.
- Jazz, Pop and Blues
- Musician profiles.
- Jazz, Pop and Blues
- Musician profiles.
- Masterworks Chorus
- Its been fifty short years since the original 28 members of Morristown's Masterwork Chorus began bringing praiseworthy performances of classic choral works to audiences in New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area.
- Stages and Venues
- Long-time stages.
Theatre
- Children’s Theater
- The theatre community in the Skylands Region is rich with educational and children productions.
- Tri State Actors Theatre
- A first-rate group of professional Equity actors, their organization named the Tri-State Actors Theater, resides in Sussex Borough. Their Artistic Director is Paul Meacham.
- Working Theaters
- Production companies and presentation houses require different, but equally challenging skills, to survive. Getting people off the couch and away from their flat screens is no easy task. Here is how local professional theaters manage to satisfy a widely diverse audience, sometimes with as much drama off as on the stage.
Trades, Crafts, Services
- Antique Pique
- Discover the skill of yesterday's craftsmen and the beauty of the distinctive furniture, jewelry and other durable goods they made from the raw, and improved with fine carvings and functional embellishments
- Blacksmiths
- So, think you know the difference between a blacksmith and a welder? Although hobbyist blacksmiths have increased in numbers over recent years, not many people know the answer.
- Cabinet Makers
- In this fast-paced world of convenience and disposable goods, few things are meant to last, sometimes even the fabric of daily life. "House Beautiful" may be surface only, the trend for do-it-yourself lending itself to quick and easy fixes kitchen cabinets included.
- Country Veterinarians
- Many veterinarians live and work in northwest Jersey's farm country, but few are solo practitioners working from home without the assistance of other vets or technicians, venturing where they must to serve their paying and non-paying clients and patients.
- Guitar Makers
- In the great hills and valleys of Northwest Jersey, where dreams are big and the trees are tall, men with a love for music and wood tend to their craft with passion
- Hot Rods and Classic Cars
- The fever of buying, restoring, modifying, collecting and driving "hot rods" and "classic cars" is spreading. More than ever, people appreciate the way cars used to be built for performance, appearance and luxury, and they're investing in them for fun and profit.
- Impressions at Peters Valley Crafts Center
- Plan your summer eduvacation with a class at Peters Valley. One of only six craft schools of its type in the country, and unique to Northwest New Jersey, it has grown from a small artists' collective in the early 1970s to a nationally recognized center for craft education.
- Jewelers
- Come Valentine's Day, or whatever special occasion lurks in the near future, take advantage of the special talents resident in crafts shops, galleries and jewelry stores. Take some time to seek out the creations that speak a little louder so that the one you hold dear cannot help but hear when you say "I love you." Give some art with heart
- Potters
- Here is art made from the very essence of the earth, fired by age-old processes, and refined by a learned combination of tradition, intellect, and emotion.
Writers
- Fishing With Faeries
- Explore the charm of a place removed entirely from the ordinary aspects of everyday life; the kind of place you might find faraway in Montana or northern Ontario.
- Nightsong and the Raven
- You might think that a photographer and nature enthusiast would logically construct something like a glossy, coffee table style volume full of striking pictures, graced with technical notes about the wolf's life-cycle and it's precarious position in the modern world. But Dan has taken, as usual, another road.
- November Song
- Some days unfold slowly, but listen carefully to catch their rhythm, and you may enjoy the tune. This morning, I wake to the sound of honking, as a squadron of geese reconnoiters the lake north of our house. Outside the bedroom window, the leaves of a maple burn red against an ashen sky. Across the yard, a mixed flock of robins and waxwings pick through the powdery-blue berries of two red cedars that flank the gravel drive, which flows through our property like a long set of rapids, opening into a wide pool.
- Zookeepers Daughter
- The Zookeeper’s Daughter is the journal of Lori Space Day, the third generation at Space Farms Zoo and Museum in Sussex, N.J
Holistic Health
- Masssage Treatments
- Massage is often suggested in regular programs for stress management both physical and emotional.
- Psychics
- Season of the mystic
- Yoga
- The idea is that the state of your health, or "wellness", is the whole of the various components of your life: physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual.