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Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Mason Gross Galleries are open Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays, 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Hours may vary on school holidays and during winter and summer break.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Nikesha Breeze
Visiting Artist Lecture: Nikesha Breeze
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 7 p.m.
Civic Square Building, Room 110
Bio
Nikesha Breeze is an internationally acclaimed interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, painting, performance, dance, and film. Rooted in African diasporic and Afro-Futurist practice, Breeze creates immersive, multi-sensory environments that honor ancestral memory and reclaim erased histories. Through layered materiality and process, their work bridges archival research, storytelling, and embodied ritual, engaging themes of grief, power, remembrance, sanctuary, and Black futurity. Breeze’s practice is both research-driven and experiential, constructing spaces for reflection, dialogue, and transformation. They live and work in the high desert of Taos, New Mexico, on the unceded land of the Taos Pueblo People. Born In Portland, Oregon, Nikesha is an African American descendant of the Mende People of Sierra Leone and Assyrian American immigrants from Iran.
www.nikeshabreeze.com
IG:@nikeshabreeze
Image courtesy of the artist
This lecture is presented as part of the Fall 2025 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, free and open to all.
ASL/CART available on request. Contact Cassandra at 848-932-5399 / coliveras@mgsa.rutgers.edu one week prior to event.
Masks strongly encouraged
Wheelchair accessible with ramps and elevators
Quiet room available