The 2025 Wharton Arts Education Award will be presented to Maplewood resident Tricia Tunstall on April 10. “It’s wonderful,” said Tunstall. “I haven’t had a recognition like that before in my life. It’s particularly wonderful it comes from Wharton Arts. I’ve been a fan of that organization for a while. I’ve been involved with them […]
Black women in New Jersey played a crucial role in the civil rights movement. This fascinating history was the subject of a presentation given by Professor Hettie V. Williams, author of “The Georgia of the North: Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey.” The event was presented by The Durand-Hedden House in […]
Andrea Teutli, who has more than 17 years of experience in artistic programming, public art installations, and leading community engagement initiatives, is the new manager of arts and culture in Maplewood. “All the knowledge I have from everything I learned so far, let’s bring it back to our local communities,” Teutli said. “So many emerging […]
In celebration of Black History Month, the 1978 Arts Center is featuring “Ancestral Call” with artist Danielle Scott. Scott, who now works in mixed-media assemblage, spent 20 years as an oil painter but her career shifted unexpectedly in 2018 as she walked the streets of one of her ancestral homelands, Cuba. The walk started her […]
The SOMA Fox Running Club held a one mile race on Saturday, Feb. 1. The race began and ended near the gazebo on Springfield Avenue on Tuscan Road near Maplecrest Park. More than 100 people participated. The winner was Matthew Lawder, of South Orange, who ran the mile in 5 minutes and 2 seconds. He […]
In partnership with the Community Coalition on Race and South Orange Village, the Meadowland Park Conservancy continued their tradition of filling the 45 acres of the park with light to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Jan. 20 event featured the largest display of CCR luminaries in SOMA, with the entire […]
Jessica Lituchy and Stephanie Shiau began the SOMA Fox Running Club (SFRC) in 2021 after another club they belonged to shut down during Covid. “We wanted to create something new,” said Lituchy, who was living in Maplewood at the time and recently moved to East Hanover. The name originated with some fox-themed wallpaper that was […]
WELCOMING THE SNAKE — The Year of the Snake was celebrated at Lunar Fest NJ on Sunday, Jan. 26 at The Woodland in Maplewood. The event featured a Lion Dance, traditional Chinese dancing, a martial arts demonstration, Rutgers University students from Haru Dance doing Kpop dance covers, Chinese acrobats, and a Japanese drumming exhibition. There […]
SOMA ROCKS — A Singer Showcase was held Saturday night, Jan. 25, at the Woodland in Maplewood. The event, which was a benefit for the Columbia High School Music Parents Association, featured SOMA’s backing band, The Local Heroes, playing behind a line up of singers that included Kate Baldwin, pictured lower right, Graham Rowat, bottom […]
The Salmagundi Club recently announced its “Annual Black and White Exhibition” and a Maplewood resident was among the artists selected to exhibit her work. The show is a juried members’ exhibition of black and white or monochromatic sepia drawings, graphics, photographs, paintings, and sculpture. Longtime Maplewood resident JoEllen Petronzi had an ink drawing accepted for […]