Calendar of Events Free Events 2008-2009

Wednesday, December 17 -Friday, January 23
Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m.

Brodsky Center Annual Exhibition
Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square
FREE


Tuesday, February 3-Friday, February 13

Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m.

Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m.

MFA Thesis Exhibition I

Reception: Thursday, February 5, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Mason Gross Galleries

FREE


Wednesday, February 11, 8:00 p.m.

Dance Within the Art
The Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Zimmerli Student Advisory Board, and dancers of Mason Gross School of the Arts present Dance Within the Art. This program invites you to be amid movement, much as you would be surrounded by artwork in a gallery. The live installations are direct responses to the museum's collections, including paper art constructions by Takayo Noda and sculpture by Herbert Ferber. The dance, music, and art of each area will continue throughout the program, allowing you to visit each room at your own pace. Please join us for free refreshments and a post performance discussion.
Zimmerli Art Museum
FREE

Direct any inquiries here


Sunday, February 15, 1:00 p.m.

Glass Armonica Event

Schare Recital Hall

FREE


Wednesday, February 18, 12:35 p.m.

Mason Gross Presents

Three Thunderbolts

Presented by Michael Colgrass

Career development and life planning for musicians.

Schare Recital Hall

FREE

www.michaelcolgrass.com


Wednesday, February 18, 8:00 p.m.

Desert's Edge Duo

Robert Spring, clarinet

J. B. Smith, percussion

Nicholas Music Center

FREE

More about the artists.


Tuesday, February 24-Friday, March 6

Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m.

Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m.

MFA Thesis Exhibition II

Reception: Thursday, February 26, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Mason Gross Galleries

FREE


Tuesday, February 24, 8:00 p.m.

Rutgers Jazz Ensemble

Ralph Bowen, director

Nicholas Music Center

FREE


Wednesday, February 25, 6:30 p.m.

Visiting Artists Series

Sharon Louden

Sharon M. Louden is an artist and teacher who graduated with a B.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Yale University, School of Art. Her sculptures, paintings and animation, in which she combines organic forms with synthetic materials, have been exhibited in numerous venues including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Drawing Center, Carnegie Mellon University and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.  

Sharon Louden will be giving a talk on “Professional Practice”, a seminar on the practice of being an artist that she has been conducting in museums, universities and art schools throughout the country.

Civic Square Building Room 117

FREE


Thursday, February 26, 8:00 p.m.

Rutgers Symphony Band

Darryl Bott, conductor

Nicholas Music Center

FREE


Friday, February 27, 8:00 p.m.

Rutgers Wind Ensemble

William Berz, conductor

Nicholas Music Center

FREE


Monday, March 2, 8:00 p.m.

Rutgers Jazz Ensemble Too

Nicholas Music Center

FREE


Wednesday, March 4, 6:30 p.m.

Visiting Artists Series

Hanneline Røgeberg

Norwegian-born artist Hanneline Røgeberg is a painter exploring the possibilities and limitations of figuration, skin being the key element. In her work, touching as seen through figures and the painter’s interaction with the painting surface, “skin” becomes a vital metaphor for a profound and meaningful kind of communication. She has exhibited nationally and internationally with one person shows at Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Vancouver Art Museum and Henie-Onstad Kunst Senter, Oslo, and group shows at MIT List Center, Whitney Museum, Aldrich Museum and National Academy of Arts and Letters, among others. Røgeberg received her B.F.A. at the San Francisco Art Institute and her M.F.A. at Yale. She received a WESTAF-NEA Fellowship in 1996, a Guggenheim fellowship in 1999 and an Anonymous Was a Woman grant in 2003. Røgeberg teaches painting at Mason Gross School of the Arts where she has also served as Graduate Director.

Civic Square Building Room 117

FREE


Thursday, March 5, 6:30 p.m.

Visiting Artists Series

Joe Fyfe

Joe Fyfe is a painter who works with the idea of the painting as a physical object that addresses the body as intently as it does the eye through an emphasis on its physicality.  Fyfe associates himself with the recent support/surface movement in French painting. Fyfe is also contributing editor to Artcritical.com, the online magazine and writes regularly for Gay City News, Art in America, Art on Paper, and Bomb. He is represented by James Graham & Sons Inc., NYC.

Civic Square Building Room 117

FREE


Monday, March 9, 8:00 p.m.

Faculty Recital

Yang Yi He, erhu

Music for solo erhu and erhu and piano

Schare Recital Hall

FREE


Wednesday, March 11, 6:30 p.m.

Visiting Artists Series

Phoebe Washburn

Phoebe Washburn scavenges discarded materials to create her large-scale installations that transform exhibition spaces into visually compelling architectural environments. Since her 2003 solo exhibition at LFL where she showed massive vortex of cardboard that consumed the gallery, her installations have expanded to aspire to mimic a kind of “organism” that consumes its by-products and regenerates itself. While Washburn refers to her factories and mini-ecosystems as “anti-industrious” and “irrational,” they have an elegance of form that captivates viewers with their raw beauty while they resonate with ideas about economy and sustainability. Washburn has participated in the Bronx Museum of Arts Artist-in-the-Marketplace program as well as the Marie Walsh Sharpe Program and the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

Civic Square Building Room 117

FREE


Tuesday, March 24-Friday, April 3

Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m.

Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m.

BFA Thesis Exhibition I

Reception: Thursday, March 26, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Mason Gross Galleries

FREE


Wednesday, March 25, 6:30 p.m.

Visiting Artists Series

Laura Larson

Laura Larson is a photographer who lives and works in Athens, Ohio, where she is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Ohio University. Her work addresses the relationship between domesticity and desire and has most recently turned towards the subject of spirit photography. Larson's latter-day spirit images generate an intentionally unresolved friction between the spuriousness of photographic objectivity and the medium's compelling "reality effect." Laura Larson participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program 1993-94. She graduated from Mason Gross School of Arts with an MFA in 1995.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Women and Art

Civic Square Building Room 117

FREE


Wednesday, April 1, 6:30 p.m.

Visiting Artists Series

Robert Hobbs

Dr. Robert Hobbs is an art historian and a museum curator whose work joins social history with literary criticism, aesthetics, and feminist and postcolonial theory. He has published widely and has curated dozens of exhibitions, many of which have been shown at important institutions in the U.S. and abroad. His specific research areas include monographs on Milton Avery, Alice Aycock, Edward Hopper, Lee Krasner, Mark Lombardi, Robert Smithson, and Kara Walker. His published research includes in-depth studies of regional, self-taught, and Native American artists as well as investigations of contemporary and traditional craft media. In 2002 he served as the U.S. Commissioner for the São Paulo Biennale for which he curated “Kara Walker: Slavery! Slavery!” His recent project, a retrospective of artist Mark Lombardi, traveled to eight venues during 2003-2004. His exhibitions have been shown at such institutions as the AGO in Toronto, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Drawing Center (New York City), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art.

 

Robert Hobbs will be speaking on his current area of research – the work of the Los Angeles based artist Sterling Ruby.

Civic Square Building Room 117

FREE


Thursday, April 2, 6:30 p.m.

Visiting Artists Series

Kelly Dolak: Postcards from Tora Bora

Screening and Q&A

Kelly Dolak, graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts, will be presenting her feature-length documentary, Postcards from Tora Bora, a film about the displaced Osman family, and the return of Wazhmah Osman, to her war-torn childhood home in Afghanistan. Kelly Dolak is a filmmaker currently teaching digital filmmaking at Ramapo College. Her short films have been screened at film festivals both nationally and internationally. Her short, Purse, was showcased on PBS’s Reel New York and screened at more than 10 film festivals. She began her producing career working for the Emmy-award winning show Behind the Screen for five years at AMC and now is an independent documentary film producer. Postcards from Tora Bora is her first feature-length documentary.

Civic Square Building Room 117

FREE


Sunday, April 5, 2:00 p.m.

BA Dance Showing

Loree Dance Theater

FREE-reservations required


Sunday, April 5, 2:00 p.m.

HELIX!

Paul Hoffmann, director

New Music Ensemble

Nicholas Music Center

FREE


Wednesday, April 8, 6:30 p.m.

Visiting Artists Series

Brian Bellott

Brian Bellott is an artist who reclaims the “found” in his disparate artistic practices–including collage, drawing, found photography, performance, and sound mixing. In his exhibition, Books, books, books, books, books, books and books, at CANADA Gallery 2005, Brian Bellott collected sixty-six children’s books of different sizes from different thrift shops and flea markets and “re-worked” them during “collage parties” with fellow artists. In Found Images, he compiled a digital slideshow of over 2000 found photos with an exclusive full-length soundtrack of original sound collages. Brian Bellott attended Cooper Union, New York, NY (thrown out)1994, and graduated with a BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1995. In 2008 Bellot’s books were in the "Book / Shelf" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and “I Won’t Grow Up”, Cheim Read, NYC.

Civic Square Building Room 117

FREE


Thursday, April 9, 10:00 a.m.

Visiting Artist Series

Jane Gavan
Through her studio practice and commitment to student learning in the Visual Arts, Jane Gavan has been interested in exploring the parameters of contemporary object design and making.  Her national and international experience brings an informed, broad and interdisciplinary understanding of the role of glass as a material in object art and design.  Jane’s current projects include research into the controlled de-vitrification of glass as a surface effect, the structure and effects of photonics and bio-fluorescence explored through glass, and the development of a series of forms of glass beads and wire that have a blown glass interiors.
Civic Square Building Room 117

FREE


Thursday, April 9, 8:00 p.m.

Mason Gross Presents

Bill Bowers

It Goes Without Saying
Featuring Mason Gross alumnus Bill Bowers in his one-man show.
It Goes Without Saying is a scenic tour of Bill's life from his childhood in the wilds of Montana, the whirlwinds of Broadway, and studying with the legendary Marcel Marceau.
Nicholas Music Center
FREE

Co-sponsored by the School of Arts & Sciences Office of Undergraduate Education and the Cook Campus Dean for Undergraduate Education


Thursday, April 9-Friday, April 17

Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m.

Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m.

BFA Thesis Exhibition II

Reception: Thursday, April 16, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Mason Gross Galleries

FREE


Friday, April 10, 8:00 p.m.

School-wide Interdisciplinary Arts Showcase

Wondrous Mirror: an Interdisciplinary Collaboration

A student directed and performed show combining all four departments at Mason Gross.
Sponsored by the Mason Gross Student Government Association

Free reception to follow.

Nicholas Music Center

FREE


Tuesday, April 14, 10:30 a.m.

Clarinet Masterclass

Featuring Osiris Molina, clarinet

Schare Recital Hall

FREE


Tuesday, April 14, 8:00 p.m.

Rutgers Jazz Ensemble

Ralph Bowen, director

Nicholas Music Center

FREE


Wednesday, April 15, 6:30 p.m.

Visiting Artists Series

Dona Nelson

Dona Nelson is a painter whose practice has been characterized by her abiding interest in how to make a painting without making an autographic mark, a refusal to own a signature style and a constant push for new approaches and fresh originality. Deeply rooted in Abstract Expressionism, Nelson actually came to attention in the 1980's for large-scale figurative work. The relative abstraction or representation in each of Nelson’s pictures underscores her interest in painting processes and how they generate symbiotic images. Nelson has exhibited extensively throughout the past 35 years, and has been the recipient of many prestigious awards and grants, including The Tesuque Foundation Grant in 2000, the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1994, and an NEA Painting Grant in 1987.  Her exhibition, Brain Stain, in 2006 at Thomas Erben Gallery received much critical attention, including reviews in The Brooklyn Rail, jameswagner.com and The New York Times.

Civic Square Building Room 117

FREE


Wednesday, April 15, 8:00 p.m.

Osiris Molina, clarinet

Nicholas Music Center

FREE


Thursday, April 16, 6:30 p.m.

Visiting Artists Series

Diane Torr

Diane Torr will be giving a talk about her work and the work of fellow women performance artists titled "25 Years of Sex and Drag".  Diane Torr is known for her solo performances, in which she impersonates various male characters “rendered with an understated intensity in their close inspection of so-called masculine characteristics.” (The Villager, NYC). Her group works, in which she directs and sometimes performs, are frequently adaptations from literature and deal with specific issues such as identity and cross dressing and are produced by such venues as The Arches, Glasgow, Oval House Theatre, London, Judson Church and La Mama Theatre, New York. Torr received her MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate Center for the Arts, Bard College, 2003, and is a fellow of the Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program and the MacDowell Art Colony.

Civic Square Building Room 117

FREE


Friday, April 17, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Mason Gross Career and Networking Fair

Sponsored by the Mason Gross Student Government Association

Rehearsal Hall 104

FREE


Monday, April 20, 8:00 p.m.

Jazz Ensemble Too

Nicholas Music Center

FREE


Wednesday, April 22, 6:30 p.m.

Visiting Artists Series

Jill Magid

Jill Magid’s video and performance works are linked by the investigation of the emotional and philosophical relationship between "protective" institutions and conventions, and individual identity. "I seek intimate relationships with impersonal structures. The systems I choose to work with, such as police, secret services, CCTV and forensic identification, function at a distance, with a wide-angle perspective, equalizing everyone and erasing the individual.” -Jill Magid

 

Jill Magid was born in Bridgeport, CT in 1973. She received her Master of Science in Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge and was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Magid has had solo shows in various institutions around the world including Gagosian Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art Teipei (2003), Tate Liverpool (2004), the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2005), Sparwasser, Berlin (2007) and the Centre D'Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona (2007). Jill Magid lives and works in New York and Amsterdam.

Civic Square Building Room 117

FREE


Wednesday, April 22, 8:00 p.m.

Felix Mendelssohn 200th Birthday Celebration

Min Kwon, director

Songs Without Words piano extravaganza

Schare Recital Hall

FREE


Thursday, April 23, 8:00 p.m.

Rutgers Jazz Chamber Ensemble

Schare Recital Hall

FREE


Thursday, April 23, 8:00 p.m.

Voorhees Choir

Barbara Retzko, conductor

Voorhees Chapel

FREE


Thursday, April 23-Friday, May 8

Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m.

Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m.

BFA Thesis Exhibition III

Reception: Thursday, April 30, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Mason Gross Galleries

FREE

This event is part of the first Rutgers Day!


Friday, April 24, 8:00 p.m.

Sounds of Chamber Music

Karina Bruk, coordinator

A concert featuring the winners of the Mason Gross Chamber Music Competition.  Piano, vocal, string, brass and woodwind duos, trios, quartets, quintets as well as larger ensemble groups will present chamber works of the centuries.

Nicholas Music Center

FREE

Saturday, April 25, 8:00 p.m.

Rutgers Percussion Ensemble

Nicholas Music Center

FREE


Sunday, April 26, 2:00 p.m.

Opera at Rutgers
Pamela Gilmore, producer

Schare Recital Hall

FREE


Monday, April 27, 8:00 p.m.

Collegium Musicum

Andrew Kirkman, conductor

Christ Church

FREE


Tuesday, April 28, 8:00 p.m.

Rutgers Jazz Chamber Ensemble

Schare Recital Hall

FREE


Wednesday, April 29, 6:30 p.m.

Visiting Artists Series

Richard Tuttle

Born in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1941, Richard Tuttle is a leading American artist of the Post-Minimalist generation. He has created a strikingly original body of work that has been critically appraised and internationally acclaimed for more than three decades. Since his first solo exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery in 1965, Tuttle has adopted a direct and improvisational process of making art. Forty years after his first solo show, Tuttle’s art continues to question concepts of composition and frame, to explore the balance between line and volume, and to merge the mystical with the material. Tuttle has had numerous solo exhibitions and his work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad. He is represented by Sperone Westwater in New York City and by Galerie Schmela in Dusseldorf and by Annemarie Verna Galerie in Zurich. Richard Tuttle is married to the poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and lives and works in New York City and New Mexico.

Civic Square Building Room 117

FREE


Wednesday, April 29, 8:00 p.m.

Rutgers Symphony Band

Darryl Bott, conductor

Nicholas Music Center

FREE


Thursday, April 30, 8:00 p.m.

Rutgers Concert Band

Tim Smith, conductor

Nicholas Music Center

FREE


Friday, May 1, 8:00 p.m.

Rutgers Wind Ensemble

William Berz, conductor

Nicholas Music Center

FREE


Sunday, May 3, 2:00 p.m.

Rutgers Children's Choir

Rhonda Hackworth, artistic director

Nicholas Music Center

FREE


Sunday, May 3, 5:00 p.m.

Rutgers Sinfonia

Nicholas Music Center

FREE


Monday, May 4, 8:00 p.m.

Rutgers University Choir

Mark A. Boyle, conductor

Kirkpatrick Choir

FREE

No tickets are required for free events unless noted.