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
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 […]
Rutgers In New York: “Spin-out”
Westbeth Gallery 55 Bethune St, New York, NY, United StatesThis capstone exhibition in New York City is the culmination of two years of study for our 10 MFA artists. Opening reception: May 30, 6–8 p.m.
Today and Tomorrow
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesIn honor of the 50th anniversary of Mason Gross School of the Arts, the Department of Art & Design presents this special exhibition featuring our newest alumni from the class of 2026. Reception: Saturday, June 6, 4–6 p.m.
Mid-day Exhibition Tour: Today and Tomorrow
Mason Gross Galleries 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesNeed to step away from your daily routine and re-set? This 60-minute gallery walk-through features Mason Gross' newest alumni from the class of 2026, including brief presentations from select artists in the exhibition.
