Calendar
Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Click on individual event listings for the Mason Gross Galleries schedule.
Mason Gross New Student Welcome Assembly
Mastrobuono Theater 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesWelcome to Mason Gross! We’re beyond thrilled that you decided to come here, and we can’t wait to meet you! We’ll see you at the Welcome Assembly. Read below for more details. Welcome & Advisement […]
Fall 2021 Admissions Events
Virtual EventsJoin us this fall to learn about our facilities and get the inside scoop on what it’s like to be a student at Mason Gross School of the Arts. If a session is filled, additional […]
Design Lecture Series: Sadie Red Wing
Virtual EventsThis lecture is presented as part of the fall 2021 Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Sadie Red Wing (sadieredwing.com) is a Lakota graphic designer and advocate from the Spirit […]
Julia Ritter: “Tandem Dances” Book Celebration
Mastrobuono Theater 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesA celebration of dance faculty member Julia Ritter’s book Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance, with panel discussion. Published in October 2020 with Oxford University Press, Tandem Dances is a book-length study of the role of dance in […]
Design Lecture Series: Elizabeth Guffey
Virtual EventsThis lecture is presented as part of the fall 2021 Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Elizabeth Guffey works at the intersection of art, design and disability studies. Her book Designing Disability: […]
Rutgers Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Music Center 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesMasterworks and contemporary gems from the orchestral repertory conducted by Michael Adelson. Helios Overture, Op. 17 by Carl Nielsen Concerto for Bass Tuba, by Ralph Vaughan Williams; Samantha Lake, soloist Symphony No. 5 in C […]
Design Lecture Series: Fiona Raby
Virtual EventsArchive of Impossible Object: The Globes (2019) This lecture is presented as part of the fall 2021 Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Fiona is University Professor of Design and […]
MFA Thesis Exhibition I: NOT NOW BUT NOW
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThis much anticipated thesis exhibition–deferred due to COVID-19 closures–marks the culmination of graduate study via ambitious bodies of their work across the disciplines. Self-curated thesis exhibitions that reflect the breadth of students’ practice featuring a variety of media in 2D, 3D, and 4D.
Design Lecture Series: Louise Sandhaus
Virtual EventsLouise Sandhaus a graphic designer and design educator. She is currently faculty at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Graphic Design Program and former Program Director. Louise is the founder and co-director of The People’s Graphic Design Archive, a crowd-sourced virtual archive that aims to preserve, expand, and diversify graphic design history. Her book on the history of California graphic design, Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires and Riots: California and Graphic Design 1936-1986, was published in 2014 by Metropolis Books and Thames & Hudson. It received laudatory attention from The New York Times, The Guardian (London), and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among many others.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Dora Budor
Virtual EventsDora Budor is a New York based artist and writer. Her main medium is the exhibition, wherein the characteristics of the given context are amplified, dislodged, or re-circuited. Through this set of actions, an interdependency of meaning between the work and its host is constructed. Image as a conduit of memory and meaning is produced through the cinematic as it has come to be known not technically, but phenomenologically.