Calendar
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Art & Design
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
A 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
Jeremy 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.
Art(s), Brunch & Champagne at The Rutgers Club
Celebrate Women's History Month through photography created by and original compositions performed by Mason Gross students. Tickets: $45 for guests, $28 for students. The Rutgers Club 85 Avenue E , 2nd Floor Piscataway, NJ 08854
Design Lecture: Ryan Kuo
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesRyan Kuo is an artist and writer based in New York City. His work uses digital systems and sequences to invoke a person or people arguing. This is not to state an argument about a thing, but to be caught in a state of argument.
CANCELLED – Visiting Artist Lecture: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Virtual EventsBasel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme work together across a range of sound, image, text, installation and performance practices. Their practice is engaged in the intersections between performativity, political imaginaries, the body and virtuality.
BFA Visual Arts Thesis II: “Watch the Weavers, Remember the Woven”
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesRanging from drawing to sculpture, print, paintings, photography, and screen-based pieces, this second undergraduate thesis exhibition embodies the department’s experimental spirit. Reception March 28.