New Jersey artist Willie Cole discusses his early artistic influences and the inspiration behind his sculpture and prints in this 2006 interview held during a major retrospective at the Montclair Art Museum. Willie Coles works track his distinctive Newark, New Jersey heritage, movingly melding the social, political, and cultural perspectives of urban African-American experience.

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