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: Lars Shimabukuro
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesLars Shimabukuro (b. Honolulu, Hawai’i) is a mixed and trans artist whose work expands ideas of homelands, family, and memory to include the queer landscapes that raised them.
MFA Visual Arts First-Year Exhibition: “Sublime Periphery”
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesVisual Arts graduate students present early bodies of work during their first semester at Mason Gross.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Leah DeVun
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesLeah DeVun focuses on the history of gender, sexuality, science, and medicine in pre-modern Europe, as well as on contemporary queer and transgender studies. DeVun is also a multi-media artist and curator whose work explores queer, feminist, and gender nonconforming history.
Visiting Artist Lecture: fields harrington
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United Statesfields harrington is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He works across disciplines and media to investigate the social and political dimensions of race, value, and the complex history of science.
MLK Celebration: Poor People’s Campaign
Nicholas Music Center 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesPerformances centered around the 1968 march planned by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as he sought to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States. Featuring a documentary about the campaign […]
Design Lecture: Bryce Wilner
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesBryce Wilner is a designer, educator, and writer based in Brooklyn, NY.
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