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Graduate and Professional Student DeStress and Appreciation Week
October 14, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Zimmerli Opening Celebration for Campus and Community – REOPENING
Thursday, October 14 | 5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. EST | In-Person Event
Co-sponsored by Zimmerli Art Museum
Join us in celebrating the reopening of the museum and the new exhibitions.
Location: Zimmerli Art Museum: 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901
For more information and COVID-19 Protocols, go to:https://zimmerli.rutgers.edu/event/zimmerli-opening-celebration-campus-and-community
Free parking is available but you must register your vehicle at:https://rudots.nupark.com/events/Events/Register/f2e55d7f-ad1f-4805-b11e-afa89ab3de4b
Angela Davis — Seize the Time Exhibit — Zimmerli Art Museums, In Person Event
Thursday, October 14 | During museum open hours until June 15, 2022.
Co-sponsored by Zimmerli Art Museum
In 1969, Angela Davis, a twenty-six-year-old black activist, was fired from her teaching position at UCLA, accused of involvement in a shootout that resulted in the deaths of four men, put on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, and spent several months as a fugitive. In October, she was arrested in New York and returned to California to stand trial. Her image became the focus and the tool of an unprecedented international effort to free an incarcerated black woman. Her trial and acquittal, in 1972, made her a lightning rod for fears and hopes on the right and left about revolutionary change, and she has remained an active agent of change in the years since.
This exhibition focuses on Davis and her image. It provides a compelling and layered narrative of Davis’s journey through the junctures of race, gender, and economic and political policy. The exhibition is inspired by an archive in Oakland, California, collected and curated by Lisbet Tellefsen. This archive of materials includes materials produced by an international community that assembled to protect Davis in a campaign to “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners.” It also contains magazines, press photography, court sketches, videos, music, writings, and correspondence. Materials also document her activist work in defense of the Soledad Brothers, her teaching, and her controversial writings and activities on issues related to freedom, oppression, feminisms, and prison abolition. Admission at the Zimmerli is FREE to everyone. Tickets are not required for exhibitions.
Location: Zimmerli Art Museum: 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901