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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: 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! |
 "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." | |||||
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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. |
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| 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
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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.
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| Cathy Greenblat, Nurse Heloisy Visiting Man Who Had Stroke, 2008, Ernestine Ruben, Synagogue Spirits, 2006 digital print, 16 x 20 inches |
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| 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.