Calendar
Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Click on individual event listings for the Mason Gross Galleries schedule.
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.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Eric N. Mack
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesEric N. Mack’s work varies from sculpture and installation, to wall pieces and work on paper. His aesthetic involves a particular type of tactility and usage of common items, primarily those related to clothing.
Opera Theater Rutgers and Rutgers Theater Company Present: “Candide”
New Brunswick Performing Arts Center 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThis operetta by Leonard Bernstein, based on Voltaire’s 1759 satire, follows the increasingly far-flung, globe-trotting journeys of Candide and Cunégonde as their optimism is tested through nonstop catastrophe.
Visiting Filmmaker Series: “Harriet”
New Brunswick Performing Arts Center 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesFilm screening followed by a Q&A with the director. Check back for details as they are announced. Past visiting filmmakers include Oscar-winners Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar (American Factory) and Josh and Benny Safdie (Good Time).
Free (tickets required)
Faculty Recital: Robert Grohman, Piano
Schare Recital Hall 81 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesFree
Low Brass Ensembles Recital
Shindell Choral Hall 85 George Street, New Brunswick, United StatesThe Rutgers Trombone Choir, Tuba/Euphonium Chamber Ensemble, and Trombone Quartet present works by Flor Peeters, Jean Sibelius, Richard Wagner, Matthew Neff, David Uber, W.C. Handy, and more. Free View the program
Guest Artist Violin Masterclass: Stephane Tran Ngoc
Schare Recital Hall 81 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesAlways in quest of artistic creation, violinist Stéphane TRAN NGOC has performed as a soloist with orchestra, in recitals, or as a chamber musician - in a string quartet or, today, as the concertmaster of the Danish Chamber Players - in over thirty countries and in some of the world's best concert halls such as Salle Pleyel, Carnegie Hall, Tokyo's Suntori Hall, Bejing's National Concert Hall and with orchestras such as the Philharmonic of Radio-France, Orchestre National d'Île de France, Orquesta Nacional de Mexico, Sinshei Symphony Orchestra.
Brass Prism
Nicholas Music Center 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesBrass Prism showcases the Rutgers Brass Department at Nicholas Music Center. Free View the livestream View the Program
Guest Artist Piano Recital: Jean Beers
Nicholas Music Center 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThe concert pianist and composer Jean Beers has been involved in a wide range of exciting and experimental interdisciplinary projects. Excursions into the creative use of digital media have seen JB collaborating with electroacoustic composers and Techno DJs in joint ambient tracks. Her love of dance and outer musical artistic expression has led to numerous projects with choreographers and dancers in Germany and Austria.
CANCELLED – Design Lecture: Lia Petronio
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesLia Petronio grew up in northern New Jersey where she earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from Rutgers University, with a concentration in Drawing and Design. After graduating, she moved to Boston for a Master’s […]