Calendar
Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Explore additional art events sponsored by the university’s Zimmerli Art Museum and the Department of Art History.
Events
Art, Brunch & Champagne
The Rutgers Club 85 Avenue E, Piscataway, NJ, United StatesMeet three of our student artists for brunch as they exhibit and discuss their work at The Rutgers Club.
Special Artist Lecture: Susana Lei’ataua
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesSusana Lei’ataua is a socially engaged artist from the Lei’ataua and Taupa’u families of Manono, Samoa. In this presentation and discussion, she will speak about her work as the founding director of LAKA in Auckland, which champions heritage and contemporary art and culture of the Pacific region.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Lauryn-Ashley Vandyke
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesLauryn-Ashley Vandyke is a gallery director based in New York. She is a Director at Amanita, where she focuses on sales, artist management, and the development of exhibitions and publications, working closely with an international roster of artists and collectors.
CANCELED – Design Lecture: Emily Sara, “Stim Aesthetics”
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesEmily Sara is a queer disabled artist, designer, writer, and educator. This talk explores how this framework opens new ways of understanding aesthetics, embodiment, and how the history of art and design is intrinsically connected to disability.
“Endleaves” | BFA Visual Arts Thesis I Exhibition
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesOur BFA visual artists present work in a variety of media. Reception: April 16, 6–9 p.m.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Angela Dufresne
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesANGELA DUFRESNE is a painter and educator based in Brooklyn. With painting, drawing, printmaking, and performative works, she creates heterotopic narratives that embrace vulnerability, contradiction and nuance.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Phil Chang
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesPhil Chang is an artist and educator living in Los Angeles. His work has recently been presented in solo exhibitions at the Penumbra Foundation, New York, The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, and at M+B Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Perennial” | BFA Visual Arts Thesis II Exhibition
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesOur BFA visual artists present work in a variety of media. Reception: April 30, 6–9 p.m.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Abigail Lucien
Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesAbigail Lucien (b.1992) is a Haitian-American interdisciplinary artist. Working across sculpture, writing, and time-based media, their practice addresses themes of (be)longing, futurity, myth, and place by considering our relationship to inherited colonial structures and systems of belief/care.
GIRA EN ESPANOL: La Galería de Rutgers, Mason Gross
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesGIRA EN ESPANOL: La Galería de Rutgers, Mason Gross domingo, 3 de mayo 2026 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Perennial en exhibición 25 de abril – 7 de mayo Todos están invitados a una exposición […]
