Calendar
Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Click on individual event listings for the Mason Gross Galleries schedule.
Art & Design
Design Lecture: Anina Major
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesAnina Major (she/her) is a visual artist from the Bahamas. Her decision to establish a home contrary to the location in which she was born and raised motivates her to investigate the relationship between self and place as a site of negotiation. By utilizing the vernacular of craft to reclaim experiences and relocate displaced objects, her practice exists at the intersection of nostalgia, and identity.
Design Lecture: Alvaro Dominguez
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesAlvaro Dominguez is an emotion, a feeling, a movement, your friend and your enemy's friend, your sister's husband, that person who can't eat anything remotely spicy, and the culprit of the extinction of the dinosaurs. He's the co-founder of the band Scared of Bunnies, with seven albums on Spotify! Seven! And zero Grammys. He is a contributing art director at The New York Times, holds a Red Cross first aid certificate, and is a green belt in taekwondo. He did a Time Magazine cover, and his father reacted by saying, "So what? Nobody knows that magazine." He has honed his improv skills at Magnet Theater, UCB, and Brooklyn Comedy Collective. Plus, he's read more than seventeen books in his lifetime.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Sharon Hayes
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesSharon Hayes engages multiple mediums–video, performance, and installation–in ongoing investigation into specific intersections between history, politics and speech.
INA WUDTKE Counter-Verse: The Spoken Word as a Radical Gesture
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesOn view: February 5–27, 2024
MFA Visual Arts Thesis II – Take
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThis second installment of culminating graduate projects further demonstrates the interdisciplinarity and impressive range of practices emerging from the program. Reception: February 8.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Josephine Sales
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesJosephine Sales works with systems of reliance and acts of contingency to consider how disability may expand our relational capacity. Engaging perceptual conditions of access, Sales creates site-specific installations based in cinema, sculpture, sound, and performance.
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.