It’s almost here! The reception for this year`s thesis show, Ask Me Anything, will be this Friday May 9th in the Stedman Gallery. Come and celebrate some of our excellent graduating students with us! Light refreshments will be available, and all are invited to this celebration. We look forward to seeing you there!

When: Friday May 9th, 5 – 8 pm
Where: Stedman Gallery

Art by: Chaniyah Rhone, Don Cook, and Lewis D. Officer
📸 : Abby Vanono

Happy Feature Friday! This week we have the pleasure of featuring Sam Niedbalski! Sam is a Graphic Design major who is graduating this spring. Before their current major, they were studying Cinematography in high school and at Rowan University. They studied cinematography for 8 years before switching to Graphic Design here at Rutgers–Camden. Growing up, she says that her grandmother really wanted her to go to art school but like many people, her goal was to find a job that she liked and that was stable enough to give her a comfortable life. When she learned how graphic design could do that for her and allow her to use her creativity, then it was an easy choice. Prof. Allan Espiritu and Prof. Alejandro Loureiro Lorenzo are two professors who have inspired Sam a lot during her time here on campus. Some of her biggest accomplishments thus far have been bringing back The Gleaner, which is a campus online newspaper, and helping to design Tenure Packages for teachers. Sam’s work shows her attention to detail and her goal is to bring a sense of communication and community with each piece she makes.

📸 : Abby Vanono

It’s open! ✨The Thesis Exhibition, Ask Me Anything, is now open in Stedman Gallery! The show will be up from today until May 16th, and it consists of artwork from our first group of graduating students that are part of our BFA Visual Arts program. On May 1st, there will be a Thesis Tour where the students will give a tour of their work. The opening reception will be on Friday, May 9th, in the Stedman Gallery, and all are welcome and encouraged to come celebrate our graduating students and their work with us! We hope to see you there!

Thesis Tour: Thursday May 1st, 12:45 – 1:45 pm
Opening Reception: Friday May 9th, 5 – 8 pm

📸: Abby Vanono

It’s time for another Student Feature Friday! This week, we are excited to feature Lucy Rowe! She is a senior set to graduate at the end of this semester ‘25, majoring in Natural Sciences in Narrative and Image, which is one that she was able to curate with the help of her advisor. When making her major, Lucy “wanted as full of an experience from each thing without giving one up for another.” She ultimately wants to work with people, and this allows her to have many different avenues of communication, which is important for her. One of her favorite classes during her time here at Rutgers–Camden was her Drawing 2 class with Prof. Stass Shpanin. She feels that the class taught her to learn differently and changed her view on education. The class also introduced her to our Fine Arts Program and made her realize that she wanted to continue taking Fine Arts classes. This year, Lucy had some of her artwork displayed at one of her first gallery shows. Her work entered the William Way Gallery for their 3rd Art Student Biennial. She was also awarded an environmental stewardship internship, which has been one of her favorite jobs so far. Lucy says that her art “creates a new lens that distorts photographs of the male body in an uncomfortably vulnerable way,” which makes her art stand out. She strives to successfully translate her ideas onto her canvases in a way that can be read by other people with each piece she creates.

📸 : Abby Vanono