“What Can’t Be Cured Must Be Endured”

Since the time of the ancient Egyptians, the history of western art has been littered with depictions of medicine and healing—a topic which continues to inspire artists to this day. This exhibition explores the artistic representation of the frailty of the human form, when all is not well and how people have coped. Traditional western discourses generally focus on the detection of damage or illness in the body, the diagnosis, and the application of relevant treatments, hopefully cures and recovery. Other approaches may explore ideas of ritualistic or spiritual responses to the notion of illness, remedies outside the mainstream, and interventions to prevent illness. Artists whose work explores ideas about medicine and healing are encouraged to submit proposals for an exhibition that encompasses a broad array of responses to these themes.

Exhibition will be on display October 2012 – January 2013

A proposal should consist of:

1. Your name and contact details
2. An artist statement
3. An image list and
4. A CD with images in JPEG format, or photographs of your work.

PLEASE DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL MATERIALS AS WE WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM AND THEY WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

Send to:

Anonda Bell, Director & Curator
Paul Robeson, Galleries
Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey
350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr. Blvd
Newark, New Jersey 07102

Proposals must be postmarked no later than January 15, 2012.

“There is no place like home”

The home is not only the place where the heart is, but also a site for politics and the imagination. Everyday we hear incessant news about foreclosures, vacancies, homelessness, tumbling property values, and the subsequent disruptions in people’s lives, and communities. At the same time the media generates programs celebrating real estate shenanigans, and the most extreme of home renovations. This exhibition will include the work of contemporary artists who use the idea of ‘home’ as a source of inspiration. It may be that they look at the physical and psychological notions of home (or neighborhoods) or specific rooms within the home. Or ideas about US utopian suburbia or homes in other countries, dolls houses or haunted houses, and the where/what of the many places that various people call home.

Exhibition will be on display January – March, 2013

A proposal should consist of:

1. Your name and contact details
2. An artist statement
3. An image list and
4. A CD with images in JPEG format, or photographs of your work.

PLEASE DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL MATERIALS AS WE WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM AND THEY WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

Send to:

Anonda Bell, Director & Curator
Paul Robeson, Galleries
Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey
350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr. Blvd
Newark, New Jersey 07102

Proposals must be postmarked no later than March 26, 2012.

The Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University, Newark has five exhibition spaces within the Robeson Campus Center at the Newark campus of Rutgers University. We display a wide range of work in our exhibition program. If you would like your own artwork or exhibition proposal to be considered for inclusion in our schedule please send us a proposal.

This should consist of:

1. Your name and contact details
2. A rationale for the project
3. Reasons for submitting the proposal to the Paul Robeson Galleries
4. Resumes of all individuals involved in the project
5. Support material, such as images (digital, print), texts about the
work, other support material you consider relevant to your proposal.

PLEASE DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL MATERIALS AS WE WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM AND THEY WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

This material should be posted to:

Exhibitions Department, Paul Robeson
Galleries, Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey, 350 Dr. Martin
Luther King Jnr. Blvd, Newark, New Jersey 07102