Calendar
Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Click on individual event listings for the Mason Gross Galleries schedule.
Artist Lecture: Sadie Barnette
Virtual EventsJoin us for a free virtual lecture with the Oakland-based artist Sadie Barnette, whose drawings, photography, and large-scale installations speak to the intersection of familial, cultural, and political history. This lecture is a part of an ongoing series of programs related to the Zimmerli Art Museum's upcoming exhibition Angela Davis — Seize the Time, opening in September 2021. Q+A with the artist to follow.
Design Lecture Series: Shannon Mattern
Virtual EventsShannon Mattern is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The New School in New York. For 14.5 years, she served as a faculty member in The New School’s School of Media Studies. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition.
MFA First-Year Virtual Exhibition
Virtual EventsImage Courtesy of the MFA Class of 2022. Design by Clio Bravo. Our graduate visual arts students present their initial bodies of work across the mediums in this first-year review exhibition. Reception Friday, April 2 […]
MFA First-Year Exhibition Gallery Talks & Closing Reception
Virtual EventsThis virtual event features brief gallery talks by each participating MFA artist, celebrating the closing of their First-Year exhibition at Mason Gross Galleries, which is on view now. Register for reception View Galleries
Design Lecture Series: Shira Inbar
Virtual EventsThis lecture is presented as part of the spring 2021 Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Shira Inbar is an independent graphic designer with an edge of motion graphics, working […]
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Cindy Ji Hye Kim
Virtual EventsCindy Ji Hye Kim utilizes a rich grayscale vocabulary in iconic representations of the body under duress. Synthesizing influences as disparate as early animation, construction scaffolding, pests and flora, medieval torture devices, and Korean folk arts, Kim’s depictions of the contorted human form speak to the limits not only of the body but also of the sayable.
MFA Dance Creative Thesis Peformance
Virtual EventsMFA dance students Kimberlee Gerstheimer and Amber Hongsermeier present the culmination of their studies at Mason Gross for a special virtual performance. Image courtesy of Kimberlee Gerstheimer Kimberlee Gerstheimer presents “The Silence Before the Sound,” […]
Design Lecture Series: Heather Dewey-Hagborg, PhD
Virtual EventsDr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg is an artist and biohacker who is interested in art as research and technological critique. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (hair, cigarette butts, chewed up gum) collected in public places.
DancePlus Spring 2021
Virtual EventsVirtual presentation of dance films featuring original choreography by award-winning guest and faculty artists: Guest artist Abby Zbikowski, in collaboration with filmmaker Charles Haine Guest artist Ananya Chatterjea, in collaboration with filmmaker Darren Johnson Guest […]
Visiting Filmmaker Series: Director Robert Eggers, “The Lighthouse”
Virtual EventsRobert Eggers joins our Spring 2021 Visiting Filmmaker Series for a virtual Q&A following an independent screening of his 2019 film The Lighthouse, which stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.