Visit Express Newark this Saturday!
Join Express Newark and neighborhood partners Saturday, October 9 from 12pm - 2pm for a reception of THERE IS THIS WE: MURALS FOR JUSTICE held in conjunction with the Newark
Join Express Newark and neighborhood partners Saturday, October 9 from 12pm - 2pm for a reception of THERE IS THIS WE: MURALS FOR JUSTICE held in conjunction with the Newark
Express Newark at Rutgers University-Newark is hosting Black Portraiture: Play and Performance, the seventh annual Black Portraiture Conference from Thursday, February 17 to Saturday, February 19, 2022. The three-day conference
Rutgers University–Newark and The Newark Museum of Art will host the seventh annual Black Portraiture Conference from Thursday, February 17 to Saturday, February 19, 2022. Our theme for the conference
2021-2022 marks the 75th Anniversary of Rutgers University-Newark’s designation as a public institution of higher education. In this 75th anniversary, as our nation reckons with deep racial, political, and ideological
Join us this Sunday, July 10th, for THE BLACK GIRL TAKEOVER, a day-long festival full of intimate conversations & immersive workshops inspired by the landmark exhibition, Picturing Black Girlhood: Moments of possibility co-curated
Inspired by scholar Kevin Quashie’s recent book, Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being, Express Newark's year-long programming of art installations, immersive films, public lectures, and community classes, reflects how
"Humanities Action Lab Hosts 2023 National Convening: "Communities Joining Forces" to Address Climate Crisis The Humanities Action Lab is calling upon organizers, scholars, and students from ten communities at
“Blues People has always meant a great deal to me. It was a dramatic self-confirmation, as a personal intellectual and artistic ‘presence,’ but also as the expression of a set
Newark Master Plan & Street Views Cesar Melgar Born in Newark, Cesar Melgar presents twenty-five digital c-prints from his series “Newark Master Plan.” With the black-and-white photographs taken between 2018
The Holdout II Derrick Adams With “The Holdout II,” Adams revisits a social sculpture that he initially debuted at Alijira: A Center for Contemporary Art in Newark in 2015. Now,
Who We Be Adama Delphine Fawundu Delphine Fawundu revisits her experimental video “Who We Be,” which follows performer James “Biggie Flighter” Benjamin Lewis, through Freetown, Sierra Leone, in West Africa.
Occupying Wall Street & Covid Journals Accra Shepp Weaved throughout the main floor of Express Newark is Accra Shepp’s “Occupying Wall Street,” an installation that features nineteen black-and-white portraits from