When an Ark Was Built in Newark: Artist Kea Tawana was one of a kind.

The article focuses on story of Kea Tawana and her ark is riddled with gaps and varies with the era and the storyteller. It mentions Newark officials sought to tear it down, art historians, anthropologists, and curators declared it a symbol of creative resilience in the face of economic powerlessness and a work of visionary, vernacular art. It also mentions New Jersey version of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in Los Angeles, Cynthia and Arthur Wood's Broken Angel House in Brooklyn.