Newark New Media 2010, the third season of cWOW's artist residency and apprenticeship program at the cutting edge of digital technology and contemporary art, premieres Thursday, June 17, 2010, 4-6 p.m. with a screening and public reception in Prudential Center’s Verizon Tower. The program will air on Prudential Center’s outdoor marquee through July 31, 2010, and can be seen by millions of passing vehicular, rail, and pedestrian commuters and residents. Directions.

Newark New Media artists in residents receive a major exhibition and collaborate with high-school apprentices from Newark Public Schools in a semester-long after school program that helps ready teenagers for 21st Century creative careers. This year, cWOW partnered with the Student Advancement Center which is sponsored by The Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and NewarkWORKS to produce the program, Prudential Center and the New Jersey Devils to host the program and display the art, and received additional support from the Prudential Foundation, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and others.

Newark New Media 2010 Artists in Residence:
Ben Pranger and Claire Jervert, each of whom worked with students from Barringer High School, Andrew Teheran, who worked with students from East Side High School, and Pamela Boyce Simms, founder of Spotlight on Girls Television & New Media Consortium, whose youth team came from Science High, Arts High, East Side High and the Newark Public Schools Office of Alternative Education.

Newark New Media 2010 Apprentices:
Carina Alves, Todre Anderson, Eddie Bermudez, Brodrick Brunson, Carlos Camacho, Adonijay Carter, Hakeem Cunningham, Shereka Danzy, Harmony Difo, Thomas Downing, Shaking Dottin, William Foy, Stephanie Garcia, Rahbbea Glover, Amanda Gonzalez, Leonardo Gulli, Ebony Haynes, Dominique Jones, Desiree Joyner, Christian Juarez, Alexi Martinez, Shakirah McLean, Kasandra Mendez, Karolyn Morales, Tamiya Nelson, Dani Ramos, Julie Rodriguez, Tania Rodriquez, Grace Santiago, Luis Sergio, Joao Tarouco, Ashley Serrano, Quaniyah Smith and Andre Zatta.

Ben Pranger is an award-winning multi-media artist whose sculpture, works on paper and installation art has exhibited at galleries throughout the United States. Ben has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Hollins University in Virginia. He received his MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his BA from Oberlin College.

Claire Jervert is a visual artist whose work examines the interrelationship between media, communication and technology. Her work has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and internationally. Claire is a member of the Stevens Institute of Technology Advisory Committee on Art and Technology. Claire attended NJ State Council on the Arts’ Artist Teacher Institute; her BFA is from Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Sculptor, filmmaker, teacher and new media artist, Andrew Teheran earned a degree in Art History from Temple University in Philadelphia. Mr. Teheran has been teaching in the art department of East Side High School in New Jersey’s Newark Public School district for eleven years where he has been acknowledged and decorated for his distinguished work in education. At East Side High School he created and developed its award winning, internationally recognized New Media Magnet Program.

Pamela Boyce Simms is Executive Producer of Spotlight on Girls Television & New Media Productions. James A. Manno, is producer/composer/owner of JAMMAN Productions Studio, which provides music, audio and video production to the tri-state and Hollywood regions. Mr. Manno was honored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences three times for his educational video work for UPN-9, C-Span and New York City AIDS Awareness Festival. Wendy Robinson is a regionally renowned photographer specializing in events and portraiture. She launched her career in photography at Stanford University and continued her studies at the Columbia Art Institute in Chicago.