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People in fancy dresswear dance in front of a patterned abstract background of red and purple.

Faith Ringgold, "Somebody Stole My Broken Heart", 2004. Color lithograph on Arches Cover paper. Gift of the Brodsky Center (formerly RCIPP). © 2024 Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Dates

September 04- December 08, 2024

Location

Zimmerli Art Museum

71 Hamilton Street New Brunswick, NJ, 08901

Information

Admission at the Zimmerli is FREE to everyone. Tickets are not required for exhibitions

Conversations: A Curricular Exhibition for “College Writing”

Conversations is an inquiry-based exhibition designed to expand the innovative curriculum of “College Writing,” the gateway composition course for first-year students at Rutgers University. It examines the ways in which a diverse range of artists have harnessed the power of image/text relations and visual culture to make critical arguments about the world through themes such as political activism, identity, community, and mediation. Throughout the Fall 2024 semester, students will interpret the artworks through in-gallery assignments and other creative activities that focus on object-centered learning and careful visual analysis.

Organized by Brandon Truett, Ph.D., Head of Learning and Community Engagement; Christine Giviskos, Ph.D., Curator of Prints, Drawings, and European Art; and Faculty of the Writing Program in the English Department at Rutgers University.

Generous support for bilingual text was provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.

Exhibition Preview

This exhibition examines the ways in which a diverse range of artists have harnessed the power of image/text relations and visual culture to make critical arguments about the world through themes such as political activism, identity, community, and mediation.

AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP), Silence = Death, 1987. Color offset lithograph on paper. Gift of Richard Eagle. 2015.013.001

Will Barnet, Introspection - 5733, 1972. Color screenprint on paper. Gift of Charles and Caryl K. Sills. © 2024 Will Barnet Trust / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY 2021.012.001

Faith Ringgold, Somebody Stole My Broken Heart, 2004. Color lithograph on Arches Cover paper. Gift of the Brodsky Center (formerly RCIPP). © 2024 Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2007.0026

Tim Rollins and K.O.S, America X, 1987-1988. Graphite, watercolor, and charcoal on bookpage from Kafka's "Amerika". Jersey City Museum Collection, gift of Jersey City Museum, purchase for the museum by Friends of the Jersey City Museum. 2018.032.072