SparkNight: Disability Awareness
Graphic by Shriya Chunduri
Join us for SparkNight in October to celebrate Disability Awareness Month at Rutgers with museum-wide activations of the Zimmerli’s major special exhibition Smoke & Mirrors! This event is open to everyone and aims to highlight and honor the diverse experiences and talents within the disability community. Throughout the evening are a variety of inclusive activities including:
Art Workshop / Drop-in, interactive workshop to create Alt-Text Selfies with artists Bojana Coklyat, Finnegan Shannon, and Olivia Dreisinger.
Performance / Jerron Herman presents Lax, a site-responsive, interactive performance and score which the interdisciplinary artist has activated at museums like The Met and The Guggenheim. Designed to guide visitors’ energy to create moments that honor our bodies’ needs for comfort, play, and rest. With specially designed objects and costume by artist Sugandha Gupta.
Conversation / Sugandha Gupta, artist featured in Smoke & Mirrors, in conversation with Jerron Herman, moderated by Francisco Eraso.
Thank you to all our campus and community partners in presenting this event!
Rutgers Office of Disability Services @rutgersods | Planning Committee for Disability Awareness Month at Rutgers | RU Voting @rutgerscypp | Scarlet Arts Rx @mgsarutgers
Pre-register here for free visitor parking, which allows you to park in Lots 11, 16, 26, 30, & College Avenue Deck. Until this process is completed, your vehicle is not registered and you may receive a citation. Special event parking and special event permits are only for visitors to the university and does not include free metered parking. Faculty, staff, and students must park only in lots where they are authorized to park. Please note, this is a unique link for this event and not valid for any other dates or events.
- For directions to campus parking lots, search by the lot number on the Rutgers map.
- Lot 16 is the closest to the Zimmerli, located behind the museum. For directions, you also may use the address 536 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, which is the building located next to the lot entrance.
Smoke & Mirrors is made possible by the leadership support of the Ford Foundation. Additional grant funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund.
Generous support for bilingual text was provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.
Jerron Herman was commissioned by the Stephen Petronio Company for the 2023 Bloodlines(future) Program, made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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