Disha Basu spent her childhood bouncing around the globe. Each time her father relocated the family for work – India, Malaysia, Singapore, London and New Jersey – Basu learned to adapt to a new school, new friends and a new culture. The only constant in her life –...
The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers–New Brunswick is presenting Alonzo Adams: A Griot’s Vision, a show of the Art & Design alum’s paintings on view from September 13, 2023, to February 25, 2024. The exhibition features nearly 25 works, including six oil...
Standing on the stage at Paul Robeson Community School for the Arts, several productions are happening at once. Groups of students rehearse their dance steps on stage, in hallways and among chairs in the auditorium for the final presentation. It is a group of about 40...
Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University is pleased to announce a retrospective exhibition of the renowned modern Chinese sculptor Liu Shiming, whose body of work engages the past and present, the epic, the mythological, and the everyday. The exhibition, LIU SHIMING: Life Gives Beauty Form, features over 80 sculptures made over Shiming’s 60-year career including 20 works that are being exhibited for the first time in the United States. The exhibition also features 12 drawings that illuminate Shiming’s approach to close observational study of the human form and everyday life. The retrospective will run from July 31 through September 22, 2023, with a public reception on September 6 from 5–8 p.m.
The windows of the Hudson County Community College (HCCC) library on Sip Avenue in Jersey City have been transformed into a massive work of student art as part of Food Fuels Minds, an interdisciplinary visual project created to raise awareness of and participation in...
During the fall 2022 semester, Mason Gross School of the Arts and Rutgers Community Arts partnered with the Arts Institute of Middlesex County to present a portfolio development program to New Brunswick High School students. The series of art classes and artist talks,...
Introduced at the start of the fall 2022 semester, “Interplay” is designed to bring all five departments together to focus on the themes of play, experimentation, and exploration.
Two Rutgers professors were named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows by The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, which recognizes individuals making their mark in the social sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. David Greenberg, a professor...
“I feel like it’s an artist’s responsibility to interpret reality. History is not static, and archive is not static. They evolve as we evolve and gain new perspective. And they are always translated. Why not by an artist?” Heather Hart, assistant professor...
Art & Design student Ria Monga has created a 10-panel vinyl installation in the first-floor windows of the Rutgers School of Social Work building in New Brunswick, which sits at the intersection of George and Albany Streets. Monga was chosen from a pool of...