Showing posts with label Rutgers MFA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rutgers MFA. Show all posts

October 27, 2017

From error of nature, monsters and sport

For whoever knows the ways of Nature will more easily notice her deviations; and, on the other hand, whoever knows her deviations will more accurately describe her ways.

Please join us for the opening of From Error of Nature, Monsters and Sport at the Rutgers Gardens this Monday, October 30th from 5pm until 9pm.

With

Josh Minkus
Josh Araujo
Colleen Billing
Amiko Li
Beatrice Orlandi

Curated by

Jett Strauss
Julian Gilbert-Davis


April 18, 2017

Atlantic Ladies Memorial Association, an exhibition by the MMM Kara Walker Cohort at the Zimmerli Art Museum


Join us on Friday, April 21 for the opening reception of our souvenir exhibition from the south! 
6-9pm at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University

6:30-6:45pm        Remarks

6:45pm    Choral performance of hymns sung at Ebenezer Baptist Church

7:15pm     Bea Orlandi’s “EW! Elephantine Workout” performance

February 27, 2017

Visiting Artist - Paul Pfeiffer - Wednesday, March 1, 6:40pm


Mia Bay, Monday, 5:30pm - Guest Speaker for MMM - Kara Walker Cohort



Mia Bay, Monday, 5:30pm - Guest Speaker for MMM - Kara Walker Cohort

Mia Bay will be speaking at 5:30pm, in CSB 110! Monday, Feb 27.
Everyone’s welcome!

She’ll be speaking about slaves who made art and also White peoples depictions of slaves.

Mia Bay (Yale University, Ph.D.) is a Professor of History at Rutgers University. The Associate Director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity since 2007, Bay became the Director of the CRE in 2011.
A 2010 Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellow, and 2009 National Humanities Fellow, Bay is currently completing a study of African-American views on Thomas Jefferson, and a book on the social history of segregated transportation.  A scholarly consultant for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture's Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom:  The Era of Segregation Inaugural Exhibition, Bay is also one of the leaders of the Black Women's Intellectual and Cultural History Collective (B-WHICH)--with Farah Jasmin Griffin and Columbia University, Barbara Savage at the University of Pennsylvania and Martha Jones at the University of Michigan--which will publish an edited volume entitled Towards an Intellectual History of Black Women in 2015.  
Mia Bay's publications include the books Freedom on My Mind:  A History of African Americans, with Documents (co-authored with Deborah Gray White and Waldo Martin, Bedford Books, St. Martins, 2012); To Tell the Truth Freely:  The Life of Ida B. Wells (New York:  Hill & Wang, 2009) and The White Image in the Black Mind:  African American Ideas About White People 1830-1925 (New York:  Oxford University Press, 2000), as well as a variety of book chapters and articles.  They includeL  "From the 'Ladies Car' to the Colored Car:  Black Female Travelers in the Segregated South" in The Culture of Jim Crow:  Rethinking the Segregated South, Stephanie Cole and Natalie Ring, eds., Texas A&M Press, 2012; "Love, Sex, Slavery and Sally Hemmings," in Beyone Slavery:  Overcoming its Sexual and Religious Legacy, edited by Bernardette Brooton (Palgrave, 2010); "Invisible Tethers:  Transportation and Discrimination in the Age of Katrina," in Katrina's Imprint:  Race and Vulnerability in America, Keith Wailoo, Karen O'Neill, Jeffrey Dowd, and Roland Anglin, eds. (Rutgers University Press, 2010); "'If Iola were a Man:' Gender, Jim Crow and Public Protest in the Work of Ida B. Wells," in Becoming Visible:  Women's Presence in Late Nineteenth-Century America, Janet Floyd, Alison Easton, and R.J. Ellis (Rodopi, 2010); "Looking Backward in Order to Go Forward:  Black Women Historians and Black Women's History," in Telling Histories:  Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower, Deborah Gray White, ed. (University of North Carolina Press, 2008); "In Search of Sally Hemings in the Post-DNA Era," in Reviews in American History 34:4 (December 2006); and "'See Your Declaration Americans!!' Abolitionism, Americanism, and the Revolutionary Tradition in Free Black Politics," inAmericanism:  New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal, Michel Kazin and Joseph McCartin, eds. (University of North Carolina Press, 2006).  In addition, Bay recently completed an edited collection of the work of Ida B. Wells entitled The Light of Truth:  The Writings of Anti-Lynching Crusader, which was published by Penguin Books in January, 2015.

January 11, 2017

MFA Thesis Shows - Opening January 27 and February 17, 2017

MFA Thesis Shows

COMING SOON!
Mason Gross Gallery - 33 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick, NJ

1st MFA Thesis Show will feature works by: Ryan Chin, Jamie Williams, Bryan Volta, Sam Ashford, Ali Osborne, Ben Weathers and Julia Hickey.
Opening January 27.

2nd MFA Thesis Show will feature works by: Ethan Green, Ashley Seong, Delphine Hennelly, Jack Hogan, David Torres, Joshua Arajo and Shark Senesac.
Opening February 17.