Keary Rosen

We’ve been so happy to see so many ACM Graphic Design capstone works produced in the Form Design Lab over the past few weeks! We’ve enjoyed hearing about your ideas and problem solving with you. Tonight is your moment to shine and celebrate your development and accomplishments! Please join us for the opening of their exhibition TRACEWORKS. TRACEWORK explores the theme of legacy: the cultural, social, environmental, and personal imprints that shape our present and inform our future. These legacies may be inherited, celebrated, or contested; visible or invisible. They live in traditions, stories, artifacts, and systems—and in the ways we choose to remember, challenge, or transform them. The exhibition presents 24 transmedia projects that use communication design to tell compelling stories. It invites viewers to reflect on the legacies we inherit, the ones we reinforce or resist, and the role we play in shaping what endures. Featured graphic designers include Afnan Saleh, Anthony Ramos-Oliveira, Cezar Regala, Daniela Murillo-Cifuentes, David De Luca, Ek Kong, Emily Anderson, Estrellita Matheu Roca, Giselle Serrano, Hajra Siddique, Helen Jaramillo, Jourdy Pridgen, Kamara Smith, Kevyncia Housen, Liam Fuller, Matheus Cueva, Meagan Ngetich, Melanie Lescano, Miranda Peña Galicia, Miuni Wijerathne, Nakayla Johnson, Narieles Guaba, Rufiashley Moranchel, and Theo Desloges. This year’s exhibition is led by Associate Professor Jennifer Bernstein and Visiting Adjunct Professor Rebecca Pauline Jampol. The Senior Graphic Design Capstone Exhibition marks the culmination of each student designer’s development within the program, providing a platform to showcase their evolution, practice, and interests. To learn more about the designers and exhibition programming, visit @acm_gd @rutgerssasn @expressnewark @rutgersnewarkofficial @rjampol @jennifer_bernstein

Keary Rosen ACM faculty and director of Form Design Studio was able to present the progress of a collaborative student design project at the Immersive Tech in the Classroom SASN Showcase with @alexachang2000 last week. It was so wonderful to learn how colleagues are using immersive technology in their teaching. Thank you Rutgers-Newark’s Hub for Innovation and Interactive Virtual Engagement Lab! Thank you Liam Gunning and Camilla Zarzuela for speaking about your design work. @acm_gd @priceinstitute @rutgerssasn @expressnewark @rutgers @rutgersnewarkofficial

OPEN STUDIO 2026 SCI-ART COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM The exhibition reception is on Wednesday April 15, 4pm – 6pm. Light refreshments will be provided – this event is free and open to all. The Open Studio display in the Robeson Campus Center Gallery until April 30, 2026 The Robeson Campus Center Gallery is open Monday to Thursday, 12.30pm - 4.30pm. Featuring creative projects exploring the intersection of Science and Art - come and learn more about experimental, eco-friendly materials being used by artists and designers. The Sci-Art Collaborate Program focuses on interdisciplinary learning, and is supported by the Paul Robeson Galleries, the Clement A. Price Institute, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Khadempour Lab), the Rutgers Business School (Public Private Community Partnership Program) and the Department of Arts, Culture & Media (Form Design Studio). Artwork in the exhibition has come from the Rutgers University – Newark “3-D Design Fundamentals” (Department of Arts, Culture and Media), Rutgers Business School (Center for Local Supply Chain Resiliency), students from Newark’s Science High School (Environmental Studies), and artists of the Greater Newark area. Image: Rachel Fawn Alban Mycelium, 2026, digital image The Robeson Campus Center Gallery is located at Rutgers University, Newark, 350 Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, Ground Floor, Newark, New Jersey USA 07102 Telephone +1 973 353 0615 Email [email protected] Website /about/

Hard at work in the studio with artist-in-residence @ayanavjackson ! @expressnewark @rutgersnewarkofficial @rutgerssasn #ruformdesignstudio #expressnewark

Yesterday, @corybooker stopped by @expressnewark and ended up being scanned in the #ruformdesignstudio ‼️ Thank you, @alessandrapuglisi_ , for your help in setting up the equipment in record time. Thank you to Express Newark’s very own Administrative Coordinator, Pat Sweeting, for bringing us together. It was a pleasure to meet you, Senator! #expressnewark #rutgersnewark #corybooker #newark #newjersey

Arts, Culture & Media Fine Arts faculty member @layqanunayawar working with the FDS lab on design ideas for the @priceinstitute healing garden. @pricehealinggarden @expressnewark @acm_finearts @rutgerssasn #rutgersnewark

We are excited about new collaborative programming with @glassrootsinc , connecting digital design and glass casting. Students learn to 3D model and print objects that are transformed into glass forms with the expertise of GlassRoots' dedicated educators. Pictured are GlassRoots fellows from our summer session and YES program students and their glass casts from our fall session. #expressnewark #glassroots #rutgersnewark

@ruformdesignstudio Artist-in-Residence Ayana V. Jackson’s @ayanavjackson “Image # 6, Mary Fields - One of the Freest Souls ever to draw a breath or a thirty-eight,” 2023, spurs us on for our yearly theme, “Rhythm Changes.” Join us on October 9, from 5-9 pm, for a kick-off celebration that will include a fireside chat featuring Rutgers University-Newark’s Chancellor Tonya Smith-Jackson @chancellortonyasmithjackson with EN Co-Director, Stefon Harris @stefonharrismusic . Sharing our plans for expanded studios and educational programming, the event will also feature comments from community partners and studios, followed by the opening of four exhibitions, including: “Touching the Earth,” Curated by Yvonne Shirley, @cmcexpressnewark An omnibus composed of moments from the filmworks of Express Newark’s Community Media Center Members. “Reimagining and Uniting Newark’s Downtown Parks. A Collaboration: Design Consortium & Newark City Parks Foundation.” Exhibition Design: Camilla M. Zarzuela and Liam L. Gunning, with support from Visiting Professor Rebecca Pauline Jampol @rjampol , and Professor Chantal Fischzang @chantista @newarkcityparks @design.consortium @acm_gd “PURE JOY,” Curated by Adrienne Wheeler @adrienneewheeler and Cheyenne Allegra Ceasar @cheyalli for Newark Arts @newarkarts inaugural group exhibition at Paul Robeson Galleries @paulrobesongalleries celebrates Newark Arts Festival 2025 and features over 70 visual artists responding to the festival call to explore joy as a creative force. “Grounds of Memory: Self-Portraits in Senegal, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn” @laylahb Presents self-portraits made in landscapes shaped by beauty, resistance, and memory, reflecting on twenty-five years of the artist’s engagement with Senegal. This event is FREE and open to the public. Doors open at 5 pm, Program begins at 6 pm. RSVP at the link in bio. @rutgerssasn

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Printing on fabric experiments with the Form Design Studio and Lab’s Visual Arts Coordinator @alessandrapuglisi_ @expressnewark @rutgerssasn #ruformdesignstudio #expressnewark #rutgersnewark

A sneak preview before this evenings reception. Please join us to celebrate our students! 5pm – 7pm Wednesday April 23, 2025 Paul Robeson Galleries Robeson Campus Center 350 Dr MLK Blvd Newark, New Jersey 07102 Free and open to everyone (Pizza will be provided) A first ever open studio display of work created as part of the Arts, Culture & Media class focused on the fundamentals of three-dimensional design with an emphasis on spatial awareness, problem-solving, concept development, material exploration, and the many varieties of sculptural form. In this class various traditional sculptural materials were used, as well as newer forms including 3D printing, and bio-art materials including mycelium (grown from mushrooms) and bio-plastic. Students have used microscopes to examine specimens found on campus as a source of inspiration for their sculptures. This class has been taught by Professors Rosen and Cacciatore, in collaboration with the Paul Robeson Galleries Sci-Art Program. Special thanks to Assistant Professor Khadempour at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences for her guidance and mycelium expertise. . @cosmic.worm #sciart #sciartists #mycelium @grow.bio #bioplastic #bioplastics @khadempourlab

Sci-Artist in Residence andrea haenggi created two versions of maps of the Passaic River. One earlier version 1905 and the most recent one, described by the artist as a “dioxin mask” to reflect the chemical abuse over the river from industrial processes/factories located along its path. These were created as 3D prints in collaboration with Keary Rosen at Form Design Studio, at Express Newark. This exhibition is on display until April, 5, 2025 at the Robeson Campus Center Gallery, 350 Dr MLK Blvd, Newark NJ 07102. Open Monday to Thursday, 12.30-4.30pm. Free and open to everyone. . . #passaicriver #ecoart #sciart #sciartist @alexachang2000 @priceinstitute @rutgersnewarkofficial @newarkarts #newarknj #bioart #bioarte