Latest Events in Halsey(May Updated)

Welcome to the Artist Talk with Daphne Arthur! Join us on Thu Nov 21, 2024 at 6:00 PM for an evening filled with creativity and inspiration. This event will take place at Shine Portrait Studio @Express Newark, where you'll have the chance to hear directly from the talented artist herself. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to gain insight into Daphne Arthur's artistic process and vision. See you there! This Artist Talk is part of the Visting Artist series hosted by Rutgers University-Newark's Fine Art Program, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, (ACM) and SHINE Portrait Studio @ Express Newark. The Visiting Artist series connects students, staff, faculty, and the greater Newark community in the spirit of co-learning and co-creation, with insight into contemporary art practices, the creative process, and the evolving art landscape. Daphne Arthur's practice navigates the interconnection of experiences beyond boundaries, exploring the kinship between human relations and nature in the delicate thread that balances ecosystems of cosmic existence. Arthur received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 2007, and an MFA from the Yale School of Art Information Source: Express Newark | eventbrite

V3: VERSES VERSUS VERSES V3: Verses Versus Verses is an exciting head-to-head competition in the world of performance poetry, designed to inspire greatness among young poets. Held on Saturday, November 23rd, at Alkaline Oasis, located at 958 Halsey Street, this event showcases talented poets as they engage in a dynamic exchange of verses, with each performance building on the last. With creativity and confidence at the forefront, participants captivate both audience and judges through their powerful spoken word presentations. The competition not only highlights the impact of words but also provides a platform for poets to grow, overcome challenges, and inspire others through their performances. MOVE ME. Information Source: GENERATION VERB | eventbrite

Welcome to the Artist Talk with Dahlia Elsayed! Join us on Thu Feb 6 2025 at 6:00 PM for an evening filled with creativity and inspiration. This event will take place at Shine Portrait Studio @Express Newark, where you'll have the chance to hear directly from the talented artist herself. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to gain insight into Dahlia Elsayed's artistic process and vision. See you there! This Artist Talk is part of the Visting Artist series hosted by Rutgers University-Newark's Fine Art Program, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, (ACM) and SHINE Portrait Studio @ Express Newark. The Visiting Artist series connects students, staff, faculty, and the greater Newark community in the spirit of co-learning and co-creation, with insight into contemporary art practices, the creative process, and the evolving art landscape. Dahlia Elsayed uses visual elements of landscape, cartography, and cosmology to make myth pictures for placelessness: visual documents that recount unreliable oral histories and anticipate alternate futures. Her paintings, prints, textiles and installations use a symbolic vocabulary rooted in Southwest Asian & North African decorative traditions - lush, colorful, fantastical, immersive - that make reference to the actual landscape experiences of displacement over multiple generations of her family. Information Source: Express Newark | eventbrite

Welcome to the Artist Talk with Hadieh Shafie! Join us on Thu April 3 2025 at 6:00 PM for an evening filled with creativity and inspiration. This event will take place at Shine Portrait Studio @Express Newark, where you'll have the chance to hear directly from the talented artist herself. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to gain insight into Dahlia Elsayed's artistic process and vision. See you there! This Artist Talk is part of the Visting Artist series hosted by Rutgers University-Newark's Fine Art Program, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, (ACM) and SHINE Portrait Studio @ Express Newark. The Visiting Artist series connects students, staff, faculty, and the greater Newark community in the spirit of co-learning and co-creation, with insight into contemporary art practices, the creative process, and the evolving art landscape. Hadieh Shafie, is an interdisciplinary Iranian American visual artist based in USA. Her work collapses the space between, drawing, painting and sculpture and is at once process-oriented and overwhelming in its intricacy. Hadieh is known for incorporating hand written Farsi text into works that are at the same time paintings, sculptures, poems, books, and installations. Her work is both meditative and obsessive, intricate and expansive while rooted in memories and harmonies that connect to meditative practices and ritual center to her as an Iranian American and as a women. Hadieh’s work resides in collections of the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and in exhibits from Virginia to Dubai to Australia. Information Source: Express Newark | eventbrite