The Gallery's mission and programming embody Paul Robeson's life-long commitment to unfettered artistic freedom, cultural democracy, and transnationalism. This mission is carried out in the presentation of visual arts exhibitions, gallery education and other public programs, and in partnerships with community organizations.

The Paul Robeson Gallery is an artistic and cultural center dedicated to presenting art and cultural artifacts as well as educational and public programming in the spirit of the diverse metropolitan context of Rutgers University at Newark, the Greater Newark communities, and the northeast region of New Jersey. The Gallery's programs strive to:

• Present arts and visual culture exhibitions and events of the highest quality
  
  
• Enrich the University arts programs with cross disciplinary collaborations
  
  
• Provide gallery educational experience to local and regional communities
  
  
• Strengthen collaborative relationships with Greater Newark's artistic, cultural,
  and educational organizations
  
  
• Advance Paul Robeson's legacy of encouraging cross-cultural artistic
  freedom and cultural democracy
  
  
• Emphasize the role of arts and culture in the shaping and functioning of society
  
  
• Reflect the spirit of the University's diverse metropolitan context
  
  
• Enhance the quality of life for the campus and Greater Newark communities.
  
  
  

The Paul Robeson Galleries strive to provide every visitor with the opportunity to experience
contemporary art. Click here for information on access services for visitors with disabilities.

The Paul Robeson Galleries’ programs are supported, in part, by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by private donations. We are also supported by the Robeson Campus Center, the Office of the Chancellor and the Cultural Programming Committee, Rutgers-Newark.

Civic Partners

New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine and State Secretary Nina Wells
        Inaugurated Ni modo: The Imperative Mood in Recent Latino Art at the Governor’s Mansion

U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Corrado Gigante, Newark Area Director
        Co-sponsor, Ni modo: The Imperative Mood in Recent Latino Art

N.J. Division on Civil Rights/Deptartment of Law & Public Safety,
J. Frank Vespa-Papaleo, Director
        Co-sponsor, Ni modo: The Imperative Mood in Recent Latino Art

Documentation Center of Cambodia, Phnom Penh and Newark, Youk Chhang, Director
        Co-organizer, Night of the Khmer Rouge: Genocide & Justice in Cambodia

Newark Public Schools, Office of Visual and Performing Arts, William May, Director
        Partnership in the Art in Society education program

Newark Public Library, William J. Dane, Keeper of Prints and Works of Art on Paper
        Co-Organizer, The World in Prints: An International Survey of Graphic Arts, Contemporary and Historic

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Adult Day Health Care Center, Cecelia Flack, Director, Gwen Cole, Therapist
        Partnership in the ArtReach education program

Essex County Youth Detention Center, Todd Warren, Director
Lisa Weathers, Activities Coordinator
        Partnership in the ArtReach education program

The AIDS Museum, Ashley Grosso, Executive Director
        Co-organizer, The Edge of Light: Art in the Age of AIDS
        Co-organizer, Positive Still: Artists Respond to AIDS

Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Center, Yoland Skeete-Laessig, Executive Director
        Co-Organizer, No Country is an Island: Figures of Freedom in Caribbean (American) Art

New Jersey Institute of Technology Gallery, Matt Gosser, Director
        Co-Organizer, Neo-Constructivism: Art Architecture, and Activism

New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, Paul Winkler, Executive Director
        Publicity Partnership, Night of the Khmer Rouge and Art in Society

University Partners

Office of Associate Vice President for Academic & Public Partnerships in the Arts & Humanities,
Isabel Nazario, Rutgers-New Brunswick
        Co-sponsor, Ni modo: The Imperative Mood in Recent Latino Art
        Participation in Civic Engagement and Service Education Partnership Program

The Institute on Women and Art, Rutgers-New Brunswick, Judith Brodsky, Ferris Olin, and Greg Perry, Founders
        Co-sponsor, Imago: The Drama of Self-Portraiture in Recent Photography

TheFeministArtProject, Rutgers-New Brunswick, Judith Brodsky and Ferris Olin, Directors
        Co-sponsor, Rosalyn Drexler and the Ends of Man

Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Rutgers-New Brunswick,
Ferris Olin and Francoise Puniello, Directors
        Co-sponsor, Imago: The Drama of Self-Portraiture in Recent Photography

The Department of Urban Education, Carolyne J. White, Chair,
        Partnership in Teacher Professional Development Program
        Partnership in The Paul Robeson Prize in Critical Writing

MFA in Creative Writing Program, Jayne Anne Phillips, Director
        Co-sponsor, Writers at Newark Reading Series

The Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Ian Watson, Chair
        Sponsor of Senior Thesis Exhibitions

School of Public Affairs & Administration, Rutgers-Newark, Marc Holzer, Dean
        Partnership in the organization of Reinventing Newark
        Student Internships in community outreach programs

College of Nursing, Lori Van Walters, EOF Program Coordinator
        Partnership in ArtReach arts therapy and service learning

American Studies Program, Rutgers-Newark, Charles Russell, Director
        Sponsor of Robeson Galleries’ Graduate Teaching Assistant

Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights, Alexander Hinton, Director
        Co-organizer, Night of the Khmer Rouge: Genocide & Justice in Cambodia

Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, Clement Price and Charles Russell, Directors
        Co-sponsor, Writers at Newark Reading Series

Office of Student Life and Leadership, Clayton Walton, Robeson Campus Center Director,
and Angela Vena, OSLL Assistant Director
        Co-sponsor, The Lens Program, select lectures