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.

  • Visiting Artist Lecture: Liz Collins

    Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

    Liz Collins is well-known for pushing the boundaries of art and design in innovative and experimental work in fabric, yarn, and other materials and techniques associated with textile media.

    Art, Brunch & Champagne

    The Rutgers Club 85 Avenue E, Piscataway, NJ, United States

    Meet 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 States

    Susana 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 States

    Lauryn-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.

    Design Lecture: Emily Sara, “Stim Aesthetics”

    Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

    Emily 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.

    Visiting Artist Lecture: Angela Dufresne

    Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

    ANGELA 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 States

    Phil 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.