Programs

Artist’s Talk: Sandra Erbacher on Making Innovation

“I like to create my exhibitions in direct response to the space I’m given,” Sandra Erbacher says about her work process and artistic aims. On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 visiting artist Sandra Erbacher spoke about the trajectory of her work, where she draws her inspirations, and how she engages with the space around her to…

Making Innovation: Artists, Engineers, and the Sarnoff Collection Panel Discussion with Imin Yeh and Florencia Pierri

Making Innovation: Artists, Engineers, and the Sarnoff Collection offered an interdisciplinary lens of invention, innovation, and creativity. The exhibition combined the work of contemporary artists Imin Yeh, Sandra Erbacher, and the late Pati Hill, along with artifacts from the Sarnoff Collection itself. The David Sarnoff Collection at the College is a small but significant museum…

Artist’s Talk: Andrea Carlson on Ravenous Eye Exhibition

“My work started from language,” visiting artist Andrea Carlson says of her career as a storytelling and an artist. Storytelling in Carlson’s Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) culture is a living tradition, where the philosophy of language differentiates between the animate and inanimate. On Wednesday, November 1, 2017, Andrea Carlson’s Ravenous Eye Exhibition opened in the Art Gallery.…

2017 Cuba Art Show March 22 to April 12

The students of the College of New Jersey, in conjunction with the Department of Art and Art History and the School of Arts and Communication invite you to the 2017 Cuba Art Show. This exhibition features painting, photography, videos, audio, and poetry created by nine TCNJ students from across academic disciplines who spent two weeks in January studying in Cuba, AAH262 Landmarks: The Art and…

Artist’s Talk: Suzanna Zak on Nov. 29 at 1 pm

Interested in photography, artist’s books, and travel? Photographer, Suzanna Zak will present the next Artist’s Talk on Tuesday, November 29 at 1 pm in AIMM 125. Come join us!

Artist’s Talk: Justin James Reed

Artist’s Talk | Wed 10/19 | 2:00pm | AIMM 125 Justin James Reed’s photographic based works conflate ideas of past, present, real, and perceived. Through a variety of materials and methods, Reed explores how meaning is constructed, producing images that focus on sensorial qualities of the medium. At the core of his investigations is engagement…

TCNJ’s Art Gallery Collaborates with Trenton Central High School Students to Explore What Photography Means Today

In today’s digital age of selfies, Instagram, and Snapchat, what does photography mean to teenagers? After a visit to TCNJ’s Art Gallery to experience the exhibition, An Unfixed Image: The Photographic Across Media, Trenton Central High School students have created their own artworks exploring what photography means today. Their artworks will be exhibited at TCNJ’s…

Caldecott Award-winning artist E. B. Lewis to lecture in conjunction with the Visual Voyage exhibition

On Friday, November 7, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Mayo Concert Hall in the Music Building, Caldecott Award-winning artist E. B. Lewis will speak about Exploring an Artist’s Craft. His lecture is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition A Visual Voyage: Exploring the Media and Styles of Award-Winning Children’s Illustrators, which is on…

Leading Scholar of Children’s Book Illustration to Speak October 22

On Wednesday, October 22, at 4:00 p.m., Dr. Nick Clark, from the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, will speak about Innovation and Appropriation in 20th-Century Picture Book Art. His lecture, which will be held in the Art and Interactive Multimedia (AIMM) Building, Room 125, will be presented immediately prior to the opening of…

Five Public Programs Examine “Art Amongst War: Visual Culture in Afghanistan, 1979-2014”

In conjunction with the exhibition Art Amongst War: Visual Culture in Afghanistan, 1979-2014, the Art Gallery and Department of Art and Art History are pleased to present a series of five public programs and discussions. March 5, 2014, “Beyond the Images on the Evening News: Afghanistan’s Visual Culture in Context,” lecture by Dr.…