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THURSdAY, OCTOBER 5, 2017
Mason Gross Visual Arts Department hosts co-curate show Abner Bonilla Contributing Writer
Mason Gross’ Visual Arts Department continued their fall gallery season with an opening reception Friday night of the co-curate shows, a collaborative mixture between 50 undergraduates and Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) artists practicing their craft in seven different exhibitions. Mid-way through the co-curate reception, attendees were invited to the back alley behind the Mason Gross Galleries for live spoken word performances to showcase the different mediums of artwork on display. For the co-curate shows, it was the first time they utilized the back alley for performances and will use it again for The Daily Targum’s Beat Fest Friday night, according to Daonne Huff, Mason Gross’ graduate program administrative assistant and gallery coordinator. “It’s one of my favorite shows of the year because it’s the opportunity that grad and undergrad students have to create the shows they want to see,” Huff said. “So they’re recruiting their peers to create work, they come up with the concept of the show, they handle the lighting and installation, and they really have free reign to do whatever they want in the space.” While there are seven different exhibitions showcased within the Mason Gross Galleries, each exhibit conceptualizes its own conversation to viewers. Every room has its own set of paintings, photographs, sculptures, media and prints, and are all submitted by Mason Gross visual arts BFA and MFA students and alum of the BFA/MFA programs. While Mason Gross is the artistic powerhouse behind Rutgers, student artists are a part of the
The co-curate show at Rutgers combined work by undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of visual arts program. Friday’s reception was comprised of seven exhibitions, including a live spoken word performance in the alley behind the Mason Gross Galleries. CASEY AMBROSIO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Scarlet Knights community but are also interwoven into a larger place in the world, according to Malcolm Peacock, a second-year visual arts MFA candidate. “The show is a big mash-up of undergrad and grad students,” Peacock said. “But it also does something else outside of Mason Gross which is speaking towards where
these artists are positioned as artists in the world. I think that’s a lot more important.” The co-curate shows embody “curation, creation and collaboration,” Huff said. It was a change of pace for visual artists who are working alone in their studios most of the time to work on a more communal project.
“It’s an opportunity to link with other people, discover that they’re having the same ideas and are navigating the same emotions or thoughts as you,” Huff said. “It’s an important time for these artists to get out of their comfort zone and see how their work relates to other people.” For two second-year visual arts MFA candidates Beatrice Orlandi and
Colleen Billing, the show unveiled the inaugural edition of MARTHA, an online periodical magazine that highlights written work by undergrads, grads, alumni and other artists brought in through their own connections. Orlandi, who is originally from Italy and studied in Sweden, said See show on Page 4
Writers at Rutgers Series features esteemed poet, Evie Shockley Emre Ugurlu Contributing Writer
Evie Shockley, an author, poet and associate professor in the Department of English read excerpts from her newest poetry collection on Wednesday at the Writers at Rutgers Reading Series. The program was held in the multipurpose room in the College Avenue Student Center and featured members of the Department of English. Students, as well as faculty, attended the event and about 100 people were there in total. Writers at the Rutgers Reading Series is meant to showcase various
writers that are currently active in the Rutgers community. This event was created to showcase Shockley’s highly anticipated collection of poems, entitled “Semi-automatic.” With a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan and a Doctorate in English from Duke University, Shockley is now teaching at Rutgers. Her specializations include African American and African diaspora literature, twentieth century and contemporary poetry and poetics and gender and sexuality. “Reading, visual art, music and living. What always makes me want
to write is having a new feeling. What keeps me interested is finding a new way to deal with it,” Shockley said in response to a question from the audience. Shakur Mozelle, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, attended the event and was impressed by Shockley. “I think she is one of the few artists that had that special gift of striking you in numerous ways. You think of a lot of curators, artists, rappers, singers, poets, you know a lot of times they strike you in one way, but the measure of a See poet on Page 4
At Wednesday’s event, Professor Evie Shockley performed a reading from her new poetry collection, “Semi-automatic,” with about 100 audience members in attendance. COURTESY OF NANCY CRAMPTON
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