Sue Huang’s project examines plant extinction scientifically and culturally. “There is the physical realm, where we lose the actual body of a species, but there is also the loss of a species in our social memory, which feels especially profound. . .because we lose our emotional relationship to those beings,” she says.
Art & Design alum Serafina Kennedy (BFA’23) spent nearly a year learning graal, a decorative etching process.
Sue Huang has been named the inaugural Rutgers–New Brunswick Laureate for the 2025-26 academic year, working on a cross-disciplinary project that is meant to bridge the arts and sciences.
Marc Handelman was recognized in the Fine Arts category, Miranda Lichtenstein in the Photography category. They are among 198 fellows selected this year from a pool of nearly 3,500 across 53 disciplines.
Art & Design student Gabrielle Carmella says seeing the work of “artists who are like me” on view at the university’s Zimmerli Art Museum has been a revelation.
Art & Design alum Alonzo Adams (BFA’84) is set to unveil a massive mural depicting 1919 Rutgers alum Paul Robeson October 19 at the Rutgers’ homecoming football game against UCLA.
“The work is successful when people are engaging with it, whether that’s someone sitting on a bench that I designed, or someone liking the way it looks, or a child finding joy and playing with one of my projects,” Travieso says.
Strzelec, an award-winning artist and educator on faculty from 2010 to 2021, says the sculpture, created to honor the university’s class of 1965, “seeks to reflect their magic, their trajectory, their innocence, the fervor to do right.”
Julie Langsam and Stephen Westfall have work on view from September 11 through July 31, 2025, as part of “Crossing Borders: Geometric Abstraction 1960 to Now.”
Look for alum Raque Ford’s billboard near the Highline in New York City, a project organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art.