Join The Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick for Fun Events This Month

 

Join Us This Thursday Night at SparkNight: Opening Celebration and Dance Party for American Stories: Gifts from the Jersey City Museum Collection Find all details, including parking information & safety protocols, HERE.

 

 

 

Exhibition Talk: Meeting Tonight: Two South Carolina African American Camp Meetings Thursday, September 15 / 4:30 to 5:30 pm   Join us for a conversation about Southern history, the natural world, Black religious experience, and photographic practice, in conjunction with the exhibition Meeting Tonight: Two South Carolina African American Camp Meetings. Artist Holly Lynton and Rutgers professor Maurice Wallace discuss their collaboration on this project. Lynton's photographs of camp meetings in the sacred outdoors are accompanied by Wallace's homiletical meditations. Together, image and text convey an emotional history and materialize a prayer for its undefined future.   Visit go.rutgers.edu/ZAMSept15 for all details, including parking information and safety protocols.   On view through September 25, the exhibition is a collaboration among Holly Lynton, Maurice Wallace, and the Gospel Materialities Working Group in the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers.   Holly Lynton, Tall Pines, St. Paul, 2019, archival pigment print on paper. Courtesy of the artist.

 

Member Virtual Tour Wednesday, September 21 / 6 to 7 pm   Hear insights from the curators of two new exhibitions that spotlight various aspects of amateur photography and its role in art history.   Hannah Shaw, Graduate Curatorial Assistant, 2018-2022, and PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at Rutgers, explores Snapshots! Selections from the Peter J. Cohen Gift, a compilation of anonymous creators and subjects from the late twentieth century.   Austin Losada, Andrew W. Mellon Post-Graduate Intern, 2019-2021, discusses “Beauty Among the Ordinary Things”: The Photographs of William Armbruster, which focuses on this resident in turn-of-the-century Jersey City who sought to increase interest in the craft, while capturing the transformation of his surroundings.   Visit go.rutgers.edu/ZAMmembers921 for registration information. Not yet a member? Join here.    Unidentified artist, Untitled (Woman and two children in front of car), undated. Gelatin silver print on paper. Gift of Peter J. Cohen. Photo Peter Jacobs.

 

Stand Up! Reading and Book Signing Thursday, September 29 / 5 to 7 pm   Join us for a reading and book signing in conjunction with Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change, the exhibition that celebrates the debut picture book of the same title by Brittney Cooper, professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers, with illustrations by Cathy Ann Johnson.   Inspiring text and dynamic illustrations bring to life both famous and unsung Black women who took a stand and made the world a better place for future generations, offering young readers a call to action.   Plus: Learn more about casting your vote this fall with RU Voting. Voter registration and vote-by-mail application assistance will be available at this event and SparkNights through November.   Visit go.rutgers.edu/StandUp929 for all details, including parking information and safety protocols.   Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change is on view from September 28, 2022, through February 12, 2023.   Cathy Ann Johnson, Cover (detail) for Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change. Watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and digital, 2022. ©Scholastic Stand Up! Ten Mighty Women Who Made a Change by Brittney Cooper with illustrations by Cathy Ann Johnson.

 

ALSO ON CAMPUS

 

Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum   Featuring prints, photographs, and multimedia artworks, this exhibition is the first time the university has conducted a comprehensive and methodical review of its holdings of art by Black women artists. The artists range from canonical figures—and Rutgers faculty—Emma Amos and Kara Walker, to emerging artists Nona Faustine, Atisha Fordyce, and Daonne Huff.    The exhibition is curated by Dr. Amber Wiley, Assistant Professor, Art History, Rutgers University, and her students Jasmine Daria Cannon, Kyle b. co., Helen Gao, Grace Lynne Haynes, Emily Hu, Grace Kim, Desiree Morales, Michael Randall, and Audrey Roclore.   The exhibition is on view in the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries at Mabel Smith Douglass Library, from September 6 to December 14, with a satellite exhibition in the Focus Gallery at the Zimmerli Art Museum, from September 7 to December 11.   Visit the Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities website for a series of related programs: Tuesday, September 20: Scarlet Speakers Series with Dr. Amber Wiley Wednesday, September 28: Panel Discussion with Rutgers Alumnae Wednesday, October 26: Discussion with Artists Wednesday, November 9: Student Curator Roundtable Faith Ringgold, The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles, 1996. Color lithograph. Collection of Judith K. Brodsky. Gift of the Brodsky Center. ©2022 Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy ACA Galleries, New York.

 

 

Plan Your Visit   Please review the most current visitor information, including Health & Safety Protocols.   Learn more about all the new exhibitions.   Free Admission Wednesday & Friday 11AM–6PM Thursday 11AM–8PM Saturday & Sunday Noon–5PM Galleries are closed Monday & Tuesday, but the lobby is open.

 

 

The Zimmerli's operations, exhibitions, and programs are funded in part by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and income from the Avenir Foundation Endowment, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment Fund, and the Voorhees Family Endowment, among others. Additional support comes from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the donors, members, and friends of the Zimmerli Art Museum.  Zimmerli Art Museum Rutgers University 71 Hamilton Street | New Brunswick, NJ 08901 US