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: Lex Brown

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    Lex Brown is an artist who uses poetry and science-fiction to create an index for our psychological and emotional experiences as organic beings in a rapidly technologized world.

    Visiting Artist Lecture: P. Staff

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    Image courtesy of the artist This virtual lecture is presented as part of the spring 2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Live captioning is available. P. Staff is […]

    CANCELED – Visiting Artist Lecture: Kyla Schuller

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    Kyla Schuller is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of the academic monograph The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century (Duke University Press, 2018) and the general audience book The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism (Bold Type Books, 2021).

    Visiting Artist Lecture: Jonathan Berger

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    Jonathan Berger’s work centers around the practice of exhibition making, encompassing a spectrum of activity concerned with a rigorous investigation of the many ways in which the exhibition site can be repurposed, and the subsequent potential for that site to allow for an expansion and reconsideration of what art can be and how it can be made.

  • The Raritan Players presents “The Arts as Black Resistance in Eighteenth-Century London: The Music of Ignatius Sancho”

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    A concert on period instruments, with commentary, on Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780), known as the first Black person to publish original music compositions, and who used his work as a tool to resist enslavement and racism. With soprano Sonya Headlam (DMA ’21) and pianist Rebecca Cypess. Offered in connection with The National Day of Racial Healing.

  • Visiting Artist Lecture: Alison O’Daniel

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    Image courtesy of the artist This lecture is presented as part of the fall 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required for Zoom Access. Alison O’Daniel is a visual artist […]

    Visiting Artist Lecture: Kameelah Janan Rasheed

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    Image courtesy of the artist This lecture is presented as part of the fall 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required for Zoom Access. Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985, […]

    Visiting Artist Lecture: Mindy Seu

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    Image courtesy of the artist This lecture is presented as part of the fall 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Mindy Seu is a designer and researcher. She […]

  • Design Lecture Series: Tega Brain

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    Tega Brain is an Australian-born artist and environmental engineer whose work examines issues of ecology, data systems, and infrastructure. She has created wireless networks that respond to natural phenomena, systems for obfuscating fitness data, and an online smell-based dating service. Her work has been shown widely including in the Vienna Biennale for Change and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her first book, Code as Creative Medium, is co-authored with Golan Levin and published with MIT Press.

    Canceled – Visiting Artist Lecture: Cassi Namoda

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    Cassi Namoda uses painting as an exercise in crossing cultural and historical references between her country of origin and the rest of the world. Using colors of intensities that range from the subtle to the acidic, applied in raw and expressive brushstrokes, the artist explores and cross-pollinates religious symbols with literary characters and real people, forging complex narratives. Namoda studies the unlikely meeting points between antagonistic mythologies and gives new meaning to symbols through boldly constructed images.