Sunday, December 3, 2023
Photo courtesy of Ramapo College of New Jersey When the shutdown first happened, Broadway performer Leah Hoffman experienced a gradual cancellation of projects. During the first week, everyone in New York City was frightened, wondering where they should go to stay safe. After a small period of innocent bliss, theater […]
Photo by Emily Melvin Ramapo’s Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts will be hosting a virtual Faculty Film Series every Tuesday in February. The event will showcase four Ramapo professors' feature films. On Feb. 2, the first Tuesday viewing featured Associate Professor Kelly Dolak’s 2017 documentary “Loyalty Code.” Students […]
Photo by Danielle DeAngelis In the second floor Berrie Center art gallery, students, faculty and visitors explored the 2020 visual arts senior thesis exhibition during the week of Sept. 27. The collection, titled “Here Now,” presents various mediums of art created by graduated Ramapo art students, as it was postponed […]
Photo by Matthew Wikfors On Saturday Sept. 26, Ramapo’s Berrie Center presented the second part of its “Leaning Into The Unknown” series via a YouTube premiere at 8 p.m. According to the event’s description, it was “a glimpse into how artists create new work drawing on world events around them.” […]
Photo by Amanda Karp On Wednesday, the Berrie Center hosted the opening reception for two new spring exhibitions. “Mawewi: A Place Where Paths Meet,” an installation by Camille Hoffman and Two Clouds, her collaborator and member of the Ramapough Lenape Nation, is hosted in the Kresge Gallery and explores indigenous […]
Photo courtesy of Waag, Flickr The idea of a 3D printer is fascinating, and it has brought Ramapo's students artistic avenues and intrigue in the years the college has had them. 3D printers are generally accepted as having been invented in the late 1980s and becoming readily available to the […]
Photo by Dana Wehmann The work of Melanie Baker and Anonda Bell are on display in the Berrie Center’s Kresge and Pascal Galleries until Friday, Oct. 19. Both artists incorporate the feminist perspective in their striking and thought-provoking works. Baker’s immensely dark charcoal drawings bring attention to the power of […]
Photo by Michael Pacheco Over the past weekend the Ramapo College theater department produced the acclaimed broadway production “Urinetown.” Set in a post-apocalyptic world where a 20-year drought has caused severe water shortage, a malevolent government has banned private toilets and forced citizens to pay to use public amenities. Allowing […]
Photo by Kim Bongard The cast and crew of “medea and medea/for medea” are prepping for opening week at the Adler Theater. Co-writer Peter Campbell, an associate professor of theatre at Ramapo, describes the play as a mash-up of contemporary and mythological stories. Starring an all-female cast, the plot revolves […]
Photo courtesy of Ramapo College Elementary and middle school students from Bergen County were treated to a holiday spectacle last Thursday morning when Verona, New Jersey’s Pushcart Players performed their enchanting “A Season of Miracles” show in the Berrie Center’s Sharp Theater. The Pushcart Players, a twice Emmy-nominated, “award-winning […]
