Transit: Senior Graphic Design Show

Paul Robeson Galleries

Rutgers University - Newark

Invitation design by Jennifer Martinez & Alicia Velicky

Transit: Senior Graphic Design Show

May 5 - 18, 2011

Main Gallery

Opening Reception: May 5, 5pm-7pm

This exhibition displays works to be included in the professional portfolios of Graphic Design students in the Department of Arts, Culture & Media at Rutgers-Newark.

Artists in the show include: Sonya Ahmad, Henry Alegre, Barbara Borges, Yu-Jen Chen, Danielle Frederique, Luis Hernandez, Harold Hull-Ambers, Anthony Hunter, Eda Lam,

Ashley Langan, Steven Liu, Jennifer Martinez, Helianna Taveras,
Philip Treier, Alicia Velicky, Ashley Zensen

Aileen Bassis: The Objects of Memory

Public Artmaking Workshop

May 11, 2011

Orbit 1

Aileen Bassis, "Aristotle" (detail), 2010, lithograph and mixed media,

Courtesy of the artist

Join artist Aileen Bassis on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 from 230-350pm in the Orbit 1 gallery, located on the second floor of the Paul Robeson Campus Center). Bassis will be conducting a public art workshop, in which passers-by participate by drawing maps of places from memory. These works will become part of a later version of the show.

"The Objects of Memory" began as a public art project entitled "Memory Maps," conceived and created by Aileen Bassis for the "Figment2010" festival on Governor's Island, NYC. In this project, Bassis invited people to draw maps of places from memory. "Objects of Memory" was created using photographs of participants in the act of recollection, as well as the maps they drew, which were then manipulated with printmaking and lithograph techniques. Bassis writes of her work, "The ideas are fragments, interrupted and blurred like our elusive memories; bits and pieces stitched together into a fragile construction underlying our present."

Upcoming Exhibitions at the

Paul Robeson Galleries

A Din of Murmers:

Nick Kline and the GlassBook Project

May 26 - July 28, 2011

The Glassbook Project was created as an educational program seeking to build understanding of how people might respond to trauma. In this program, students meet with survivors of trauma and are guided by educators to research and make books on a particular topic, reflecting a survivor's point of view.

The GlassBook Project is a creation of Artist Nick Kline, done in collaboration with Project Partner Helga Luest, Witness Justice and other artists, writers, survivors, students and community organizations.

Lift Off:

Earthlings & the Great Beyond

September 1, 2011 - January 9, 2012

As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (or NASA, best known as the agency that first put a man on the moon) prepares to put an end its moon program, the Paul Robeson Galleries presents an exhibition based on ideas and issues surrounding space: space travel, life in space, the depiction of space in popular culture, design for space, and the life of an astronaut.

Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University-Newark

Our Mission

The Paul Robeson Galleries presents critically engaging exhibitions, public events and educational programs to Rutgers University and Greater Newark audiences. It is in the spirit of Paul Robeson himself that the gallery network is dedicated to an urban mission with an activist approach to educational and exhibitions programming. This commitment includes organizing exhibitions and public programs on local, regional, and international contemporary art and culture, as well as developing civic partnerships through community outreach programs. Our aim is to initiate cross-disciplinary and civic dialogues as ways of strengthening bonds between art, education, and democracy. Our exhibitions, programs, and events are always free and open to the public.

The Paul Robeson Galleries are located in the Robeson Campus Center,

Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey,

350 Dr Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, Newark, New Jersey USA 07102
Telephone +1 973 353 1610 Fax +1 973 353 5912

Email galleryr@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Website http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/artgallery/

For maps, directions, and parking information, please visit the Rutgers-Newark

Campus Maps and Directions website.

The Main Gallery is open Monday - Thursday, 10am - 5pm.

The Satellite Galleries are open the same hours as the Robeson Campus Center.

The Paul Robeson Galleries' programs are supported, in part, by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and by private donations. We are also supported by the Robeson Campus Center, the Office of the Chancellor and the Cultural Programming Committee.