Calendar
Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Click on individual event listings for the Mason Gross Galleries schedule.
Mason Gross Galleries
Undergraduate Annual Exhibition: “Tethered Fragments”
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThis annual tradition features work across class years and media, organized into seven distinct themes, including memory, nostalgia, and alt realities. Reception 6–9 p.m. October 24.
Indigenous Artist Showcase: Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, “Junctures”
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThis exhibit highlights the artist's collage and textile works rooted in Seminole patchwork traditions and the repurposing of found materials used in traditional clothing as a form of visual communication. Join him 6–8 p.m. October 4 for a collage workshop in Civic Square Building 110.
Co-Cureate
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesRepresenting a hybrid of collaboration, curating, and creation, these mini-exhibitions developed by student teams and guest artists showcase art across disciplines including design, drawing, media, painting, performance, photography, print, and sculpture. Reception 6–9 p.m. September 26.
Smoking Wall/Invisible Heat: A Welcome Back Exhibition of Mason Gross School of the Arts Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThe fall season kicks off with this annual group exhibition featuring faculty, staff, and returning MFA students. Reception 5–8 p.m. September 4.
MFA/BFA Design Thesis Show
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThesis season closes with this survey exhibition of work by both MFA and BFA designers that challenges preconceived notions of what design can be. Reception April 18.
BFA Visual Arts Thesis I: Sweetness of The Small Cosmic Excess
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesA showcase of intricate and ambitious thesis work reflecting the artists’ exploration of their identities and relationship to the world.
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.
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.
Jason Baerg: Selected Works from Tawâskweyâw
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesRutgers presents a solo exhibition by Jason Baerg in the second iteration of its annual exhibition series featuring contemporary Indigenous artists. This is a homecoming for Baerg, who earned his MFA in Visual Arts at Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2016.
Co-Cureate
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesMultiple experimental shows in one, Co-Cureate features a vast array of works curated and created by students and alumni. A corresponding featured exhibition will showcase emerging Indigenous voices in Contemporary Art.