ZIMMERLI ART AFTER HOURS: THE VERBAL & THE VISUAL

ART AFTER HOURS WHEN: Wednesday, October 3, 5 to 9 PM WHERE: Zimmerli Art Museum, Hamilton & George Streets, New Brunswick   LANGUAGE AS ART: The Verbal & the Visual Rap Music ~ Poetry Slam ~ Collaborative Drawing Project Stephen Dean, Untitled (Help Wanted Half Page), 1994. Watercolor on newsprint. Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Werner H. and Sarah-Ann Kramarsky. © Stephen Dean. Experience the visual and verbal power of language at this month's Art After Hours. The evening includes an exhibition tour of Art=Text=Art, a performance by rap artist David Rush, a collaborative drawing project with Mason Gross School of the Art's alum Rita Leduc, and an open mic student poetry slam. For program times and other details, please visit the webpage. This Art After Hours continues the museum's celebration of its feature exhibition Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists. Art=Text=Art presents more than 100 American drawings, prints, conceptual works on paper, and artists' books selected from the internationally respected collection of Sally and Wynn Kramarsky. An online catalogue features essays, works of fiction and sound pieces by more than 35 guest contributors, as well as a discussion forum. ADMISSION: $6 general admission includes complimentary refreshements and 20% discount in the Museum Store. FREE to Rutgers University faculty, staff, students, and Zimmerli members.   Art=Text=Art and related programs at the Zimmerli are made possible in part by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and donors to the Zimmerli’s Annual Exhibition Fund: Sustainer/Voorhees Family Endowment; Supporter/Jerome A. Yavitz Charitable Foundation, Inc.— Stephen Cypen, President. The Zimmerli Art Museum's operations, exhibitions, and programs are funded in part by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; the Estate of Victoria J. Mastrobuono; the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; and the donors, members, and friends of the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers.