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executive producer of Ben Shahn: Passion
for Justice
Nila Aronow has been with NJN since 1980 and joined the staff of STATE
OF THE ARTS within a month of the show's beginning in 1982. She
became series producer three years later and executive producer in 1991.
Under her direction, STATE OF THE ARTS grew
from a monthly to a weekly show, winner of numerous Mid-Atlantic and
New York Emmys—most recently, in 2001, for Outstanding Talk Show
series. The program has also received awards for Outstanding Magazine
Format Broadcast, Documentary, Cultural Programming, Programming Feature
and Production design. The series is recognized as one of the leading
arts magazines in the country.
Her responsibilities include the NJN arts unit, which produces STATE
OF THE ARTS and other cultural programming for the network. She
is currently executive producer of three major national documentaries.
Ben Shahn: Passion for Justice is airing
on PBS in June, 2002. George Segal: American
Still Life was broadcast on PBS in 2001.
Willie the Lion, about the legendary jazz pianist Willie the
Lion Smith, premiered in February, 2002. Other prize-winning national
documentaries produced under her supervision include New
Stage for a City, about the rise of the New Jersey Performing
Arts Center in Newark; Against the Odds/The
Artists of the Harlem Renaissance; Journey
From Home: Vladimir Feltsman in Moscow; and Toshiko
Takaezu: Portrait of an Artist.
She supervised production of the Emmy-winning documentary Crossroads—The
Story of a Theatre, and From Gulag
to Glasnost, which won a CEN National Programming Award in and
was selected for screening at the International Festival of Films on
Art in Montreal. She was also executive producer of Greensboro—a
Public Dialogue, a documentary which dealt with issues of racism
and violence and which won a Bronze Apple from the National Educational
Media Network for its educational outreach component.
Ms. Aronow also serves as Executive Producer for Images/ Imagenes,
NJN’s weekly series on Hispanic public and cultural affairs, and
of the award-winning Hispanic Youth Showcase. In addition, she is Executive
Producer for NJN of the weekly series Classroom
Close-Up NJ and of Another View,
a program that focuses on issues of diversity.
She initiated and has directed every phase of development of ARTS
FOR EVERYKID, an innovative, multi-faceted arts education advocacy
campaign funded by the NEA, the N.J. State Council on the Arts and the
Alliance for Arts Education/NJ, an affiliate of the Kennedy Center.
She also served on the national CPB /Kennedy Center Committee to develop
arts programming for classroom use.
Before coming to NJN, she worked as a feature writer and restaurant
critic for the Camden Courier-Post; an English teacher at Moorestown
(N.J.) High School; and assistant training director at Strawbridge and
Clothier, a department store in Cherry Hill.
She is a former member of the N.J. Council for the Humanities, a member
of the Leadership New Jersey Class of 1997, and of the Board of Directors
of the Arts & Business Partnership of SouthSouthern New Jersey.
A graduate of Vassar College, she lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
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