How does one cultivate an artistic practice growing up in a city such as Newark? How do grassroots organizations specifically centered around the LGBTQIA+ experience provide space for artistic expression? This will be the start of the conversation with multidisciplinary artist Kiyan Williams and curator/multidiscplinay artist Noelle Lorraine Williams. RSVP required. Zoom details will be sent via email
Express Newark Partner, Humanities Action Lab, is opening a studio for developing and expanding anti-racist, decolonial, and community-centered learning practices that activate history and memory for justice-centered movements and mutual aid in the current moment. This studio will be “translocal,” a core tenet of HAL that honors the unique circumstances, autonomy, and tools of hyperlocal
Join Express Newark Partner, Newest Americans as they host a Facebook Live event with First Generation Voters. The event will be moderated by Yeimy Gamez Castillo. Yeimy is a DACA student (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), artist and activist. Read her story here. (Click Link).
Building healthy financial habits can be a challenge for anyone… And in the arts, we have the added complication of managing cash flow, measuring success in creative and financial terms, and relying on sometimes uncertain sources of income. Plus, we’re in the midst of a global pandemic. That complicates things. In this interactive, hands-on workshop,
Paul Robeson Galleries, Project for Empty Space and the Newark Artist Database present a two part presentation on The Power of Collaboration with Newark based artist group LAND Collective. Part One will take place on November 11th: GROUP ETHOS AND SUPPORT STRUCTURES. LAND Collective will discuss how to develop a manifesto that outlines the purpose
Paul Robeson Galleries, Project for Empty Space and the Newark Artist Database present a two part presentation on The Power of Collaboration with Newark based artist group LAND Collective. During Part 2: Collective Making, LAND Collective will discuss harnessing the power of what each artist brings to the collective and the value it brings to
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 Arts Festival. At 12:30pm, hear MFJ organizers and artists speak about the 2020 action. From 1 - 2pm enjoy a performance by the Keith Brown
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 explores the theme of play and performance in past and contemporary African diasporic art and performance and will conclude with a series of groundbreaking keynote
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 is Play and Performance, which explores the role of “play” in past and contemporary African diasporic art and performance. Thursday, Feb 17 & Friday, Feb
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 fracture, our University is once again called upon, as a public, anchor institution, to provide a space for critical conversation that can lead toward understanding,
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 by @sherphotographs & @zoraida365 The event is free and open to the public and all are welcome. Black Girl Takeover Sunday, July 10th 9am – 5pm REGISTER
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 the concept of Aliveness can be an innovative and timely exploration of contemporary art, racial freedom, and environmental justice. On Thursday, February 2nd, as part
