Calendar
Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Click on individual event listings for the Mason Gross Galleries schedule.
Art & Design
Visiting Artist Lecture: Ina Wudtke
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesIna Wudtke is a conceptual artist based in Berlin. Her research-based work questions hegemonic political discourses and strengthens counter-discourses on themes such as gender, work, housing and colonialism.
Design Lecture: Kelly Walters
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesKelly Walters is an artist, designer, and founder of the multidisciplinary design studio Bright Polka Dot. Her ongoing design research interrogates identity formation and systems of value embedded in Black visual and material culture.
BFA Visual Arts Thesis I: Sweetness of The Small Cosmic Excess
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesA showcase of intricate and ambitious thesis work reflecting the artists’ exploration of their identities and relationship to the world.
CANCELLED – Visiting Artist Lecture: Jeremy Dennis
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesJeremy Dennis (b. 1990) is a contemporary fine art photographer, an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY, and lead artist and founder of the non-profit Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc. on the Shinnecock Reservation. In his work, he explores Indigenous identity, culture, and assimilation.
Art(s), Brunch & Champagne at The Rutgers Club
Celebrate Women's History Month through photography created by and original compositions performed by Mason Gross students. Tickets: $45 for guests, $28 for students. The Rutgers Club 85 Avenue E , 2nd Floor Piscataway, NJ 08854
Design Lecture: Ryan Kuo
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesRyan Kuo is an artist and writer based in New York City. His work uses digital systems and sequences to invoke a person or people arguing. This is not to state an argument about a thing, but to be caught in a state of argument.
CANCELLED – Visiting Artist Lecture: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Virtual EventsBasel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme work together across a range of sound, image, text, installation and performance practices. Their practice is engaged in the intersections between performativity, political imaginaries, the body and virtuality.
BFA Visual Arts Thesis II: “Watch the Weavers, Remember the Woven”
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesRanging from drawing to sculpture, print, paintings, photography, and screen-based pieces, this second undergraduate thesis exhibition embodies the department’s experimental spirit. Reception March 28.
Design Lecture: Dina Benbrahim
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesDina Benbrahim is a Moroccan multidisciplinary creative, educator, organizer, and researcher who uses an intersectional feminist lens to dissent and investigate design for visibility, civic action, and social justice with minoritized communities to collectively reimagine equitable futures.
Design Lecture: Alissa Levin
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesAlissa Levin is founder and creative director of Point Five, a New York City-based creative studio. For 27 years, she has led the studio in designing brands, editorial, and communication strategies for the organizations shaping the big conversations of our time. Levin’s areas of focus include art direction and editorial strategy, and she particularly loves to partner with clients at the forefront of scientific, political, religious, and social advancement that bring groundbreaking work to a public audience.