SparkNight: Holiday Cheer & Artful Joy
McKay Imaging Photography
Meet up with old friends—and make new ones—to kick off the holidays!
- Enjoy festive music from Mike Bond Trio, a drop-in winter art activity, and cookies from Paparazzi Café. (5:00-7:30 pm)
- Join a half-hour exhibition tour of The Roar of the Crowd in 19th Century Paris, which closes December 23 (starts 5:00 & 6:30 pm)
- Gira de historias americanas en español (7:00 pm)
- Get creative during a Styrofoam printmaking workshop. (drop in 5:00-7:30 pm)
- Catch the film The Color of Pomegranates (1969; with English subtitles), directed by artist Sergei Parajanov, whose work is featured in Locating Georgia: Selections from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. The screening is part of a closing reception for the exhibition. (6:00-8:00 pm)
And don't miss these exhibitions before they close December 23:
- Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum (Please Note: Closes December 11!)
- American Stories: Gifts from the Jersey City Museum Collection
- Snapshots! Selections from the Peter J. Cohen Gift
- “Beauty Among the Ordinary Things”: The Photographs of William Armbruster
Free and open to the public. Complimentary light refreshments. And wear your favorite ugly sweater or jumper!
Free visitor parking is available by pre-registration at go.rutgers.edu/zamparking1201. Registration allows you to park in Lots 1, 11, 16, 26 & 30. 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.
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. Additional support is provided by the New Brunswick Parking Authority.