Calendar
Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Click on individual event listings for the Mason Gross Galleries schedule.
Art & Design
Smoking Wall/Invisible Heat: A Welcome Back Exhibition of Mason Gross School of the Arts Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThe fall season kicks off with this annual group exhibition featuring faculty, staff, and returning MFA students. Reception 5–8 p.m. September 4.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Lyric Shen
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesVisiting artist Lyric Shen's practice currently involves the composition of eustressed images that consider language and memory using porcelain, steel, cosmopolitan artifacts, video and handmade paper.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Shellyne Rodriguez
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesShellyne Rodriguez is an artist, educator, writer, and community organizer based in the Bronx. Her practice utilizes text, drawing, painting, collage and sculpture to depict spaces and subjects engaged in strategies of survival against erasure and subjugation.
Co-Cureate
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesRepresenting a hybrid of collaboration, curating, and creation, these mini-exhibitions developed by student teams and guest artists showcase art across disciplines including design, drawing, media, painting, performance, photography, print, and sculpture. Reception 6–9 p.m. September 26.
Indigenous Artist Showcase: Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, “Junctures”
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThis exhibit highlights the artist's collage and textile works rooted in Seminole patchwork traditions and the repurposing of found materials used in traditional clothing as a form of visual communication. Join him 6–8 p.m. October 4 for a collage workshop in Civic Square Building 110.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Cristóbal Lehyt
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesCristóbal Lehyt is a Chilean born New York based artist that works in different media. He studied at Universidad Católica de Chile, Hunter College and the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Undergraduate Annual Exhibition: “Tethered Fragments”
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThis annual tradition features work across class years and media, organized into seven distinct themes, including memory, nostalgia, and alt realities. Reception 6–9 p.m. October 24.
Rutgers Design Research Spotlight
The Flea, NYC 20 Thomas Street, New York City, NY, United StatesAs our MFA in Design progresses into its fifth year, we’re thrilled to present this inaugural Design Research Spotlight, an evening of conversation and presentations by recent grads of the program. For our alumni, design […]
Visiting Artist Lecture: Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesMargarita Lila Rosa is a Harlem-based scholar and independent curator specializing in Afro-Latinx, Latinx, and Black Atlantic history and contemporary art.
PROOFS: MFA Visual Arts First-Year Exhibition
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesTwo months into their graduate study, artists dive in with this annual exhibition featuring inter-disciplinary work as diverse as the class itself. Reception 6–9 p.m. November 21.