Current Exhibition:
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE:
50 YEARS OF ART BY FAITH RINGGOLD
May 17 - June 26, 2009
Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries
Rutgers University
33 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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Please visit http://www.njn.net/artsculture/showcase/ where the State of the Arts has posted a story from 1998 featuring renowned artist Faith Ringgold and her exhibition The French Collection at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. There will be an exhibition catalog and more press available shortly.

The Institute is thrilled to announce that in conjunction with the opening of Faith Ringgold's retrospective at the Mason Gross Galleries, "Declaration of Independence: 50 Years of Art by Faith Ringgold," we are selling playing card decks custom-designed by Faith Ringgold while supplies last. Ringgold spent months creating a beautiful and truly one-of-a-kind full color custom face poker deck of playing cards, 3.5 x 2.5 inches, in full color boxes. The card set titled Yes I Can (2009) vibrantly captures elements of the American cultural and political landscape--both currently and historically. Yes I Can is published by the Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ. Printing is provided by Ad Magic, Netcong, NJ. Please visit Ad Magic Online Custom Playing Cards to learn more about their wide-range of services.

Do not miss your opportunity to own a piece created by a true national treasure, Faith Ringgold!

Ringgold Working Women
"Working Women" by Faith Ringgold, 1996,
Acrylic on Canvas, 41 x 31
Image courtesy of Faith Ringgold and ACA Galleries.
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Click here to view pictures from the February 11th Faith Ringgold Celebration Kickoff Party in New York City. Very special thanks to our hostess Marjorie Martay, special guest of honor Faith Ringgold, and all of the many friends and supporters who attended.
View candid moments from the Institute's gala occasion, "Faith Ringgold: A Celebration."
Click here for a download-able copy of the "Faith Ringgold: A Celebration" program booklet.

Click here for an "answer key" which provides detailed information about all of the Silent Auction exhibiting artists.
Thank you to all who contributed to the success of "Faith Ringgold: A Celebration." Our donors, attendants, volunteers, exhibiting artists, and countless other players helped make Sunday, May 17th 2009 a memorable night for the Institute for Women and Art and our guest of honor, Faith Ringgold.

Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series current exhibition

Download the
Exhibition Catalog
here

Alive at the End of Life: Photographs by Cathy Greenblat/Destiny: Photographs by Ernestine Ruben
March 19 to June 8, 2009

Reception & Artists' Talks
Thursday, April 16, 2009, 4:30 - 7 pm, Douglass Library
Re-visioning the End of Life - Cathy Greenblat / Life in Photography - Ernestine Ruben

Cathy Greenblat and Ernestine Ruben have been working on the visual imagery of life and death, one from a documentary perspective and the other metaphorically. Greenblat is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Rutgers University, Artist-in-Residence at the Hospital Network of Nice, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the International Observatory on End of Life Care, Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, UK. Ruben, based in Princeton, NJ, is internationally known through exhibitions, publications and workshops. Her photographs are included in many major museums and private collections.

Cathy Greenblat, Nurse Heloisy Visiting Man Who Had Stroke, 2008, Ernestine Ruben, Synagogue Spirits, 2006 digital print, 16 x 20 inches
Ernestine Ruben, Synagogue Spirits, 2006

Exhibitions and events have been organized by the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the Institute for Women and Art (IWA) in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries. The Institute for Women & Art (IWA) is a unit of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and a center of the Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic & Public Partnerships in the Arts & Humanities. Co-sponsors include: Associate Alumnae of Douglass College, Department of Art History, the Institute for Research on Women, The Feminist Art Project, Global Initiatives, Women Artists Archives National Directory, and the Women's and Gender Studies Department. These events are made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.


Forthcoming Exhibitions & Events

Fall 2009
Cecilia Vicuña
2009-10 Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist-in-Residence

Poet and artist, born in Chile, she performs and exhibits her work widely in Europe, Latin America and the US. She is also a political activist and founding member of Artists for Democracy. Since l980 she lives in New York and Chile.

Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series
8 Chapel Drive
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
More information to come.


For a national calendar of feminist art events and activities visit: http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu



The vision of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art is to transform values, policies, and institutions, and to insure that the intellectual and aesthetic contributions of diverse communities of women in the visual arts are included in the cultural mainstream and acknowledged in the historical record.

The mission of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art is to invent, implement, and conduct live and virtual education, research, documentation, public programs, and exhibitions focused on women artists and feminist art. The IWA strives to establish equality and visibility for all women artists, who are underrepresented and unrecognized in art history, the art market, and the contemporary art world, and to address their professional development needs. The IWA endeavors to serve all women in the visual arts and diverse global, national, regional, state, and university audiences.

Founded in 2006, the Institute for Women & Art is actively engaged in:

  • Exhibitions and public programming organized by the award-winning and nationally recognized Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, founded in 1971 by Joan Snyder, and other sponsored events through the US and abroad.
    http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/exhibits/dana_womens.shtml
  • Educational and curricular development led by The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) website and the soon-to-be launched FARE: Feminist Art Resources in Education for K-12, college students and their teachers.
    http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu
  • Research and documentation facilitated by the Getty and New Jersey State Council on the Arts-funded Women Artists Archives National Directory (WAAND), as well as the archival collections found in the Miriam Schapiro Archives on Women Artists
    http://waand.rutgers.edu

IWA Co-directors

Ferris Olin, Ph.D., Co-curator of the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Founder and Co-director of The Feminist Art Project, and Project Co-director for WAAND: Women Artists Archives National Directory.
Judith K. Brodsky, Professor Emerita, Founding Director of the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Mason Gross School of the Arts

IWA Advisory Council, 2008-11 

Betsy Barbanell, Art Advisor, New York, NY
Joan Bartl, President, Payment Management, Princeton, NJ
Anonda Bell, Acting Director, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers Newark
Elizabeth Cohen, Vice-President, American Express (retired), New York, NY
Marianne I. Gaunt, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian
Dr. Mary S. Hartman, Director, Institute for Women's Leadership
Dr. Mary Hawkesworth, Chair, Women's & Gender Studies Dept., Editor of SIGNS journal
Lisa Hetfield, Director of Development, Institute for Women's Leadership
Dr. Dorothy Hodgson, Director, Institute for Research on Women
Dr. Beth Hutchison, Associate Director, Institute for Research on Women
Marjorie Martay, Arts Consultant, New York, NY
Dr. Joan M. Marter, Professor, Art History Department & Editor of Woman's Art Journal
Dr. Leslie Mitchner, Editor-in-Chief & Associate Director, Rutgers University Press
Dr. Muriel Moss, Art Collector, Princeton, NJ
Isabel Nazario, Associate Vice President for Academic & Public Partnerships in Arts & Humanities
Dr. Nell Painter, History Department, Princeton University (retired), Newark, NJ
Dr. Joanna Regulska, Dean, International Programs, SAS
Dr. Martin Rosenberg, Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Camden Campus
Ernestine Ruben, Artist, Princeton, NJ
Virginia O. Steel, Director, Rutgers Camden Center for the Arts
Anne Swartz, Professor, Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design, GA
Courtney Taylor, Art Collector, New York, NY
Dr. Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Director, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Dr. Cheryl A. Wall, Professor, Department of English

The Institute for Women & Art (IWA) is a unit of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and a center of the Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic & Public Partnerships in the Arts & Humanities. In addition, the IWA is a consortial member of the Institute for Women's Leadership. The IWA gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Rutgers Academic Excellence Fund, the Maria and Henry Leon Memorial Fund, Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin. IWA programs are also made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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