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Masterwork helps original work begin, brings arts programming into communities, and recognizes artists shaping what comes next.
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Interview series
An ongoing multimedia series honoring people who have dedicated their lives to artistic pursuit.
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Community Arts Awards support arts programming that reaches people where they live, learn, gather, and create.
Artist award
The Emerging Artist Award recognizes and supports promising young artists at an important point in their development.
Artist award
Masterwork's Premier Award funds the creation of new original work across music, dance, theatre, and visual art.
A Life in the Arts
Artists carry more than finished work. Masterwork's interview series preserves the choices, turning points, and hard-earned insight behind a creative life.
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Perhaps the most joyous part of our May 17th event, which was sponsored in part by PSEG, was the opportunity to recognize someone who's had an immeasurable impact on the arts over the course of a long and varied…
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Masterwork's archive brings news and artist stories into the same searchable home as its programs.
Perhaps the most joyous part of our May 17th event, which was sponsored in part by PSEG, was the opportunity to recognize someone who's had an immeasurable impact on the arts over the course of a long and varied…
Read the storyThis year the Masterwork Music and Art Foundation decided to expand their portfolio of awards to include an Emerging Artist Award. This $500 award is given to an emerging artist of distinction who has exhibited…
Read the storyThe Masterwork Music and Art Foundation is pleased to announce that Premiere Stages at Kean University is the recipient of our Premier Award in Theatre! This year’s award has been expanded from $10,000 to $15,000 in…
Read the storyThe Masterwork Music and Art Premier Awardee, Camille A. Brown, has been profiled in a new series by PBS' American Masters.
Read the storyFrom one living room to a wider arts community
On May 25, 1955, Shirley May gathered a small chorus in her Whippany home. Five months later, the group performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
That belief in artists, preparation, and high standards still shapes Masterwork's support today.
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