Photo by Tori D'Amico To celebrate the hard work of Ramapo’s senior art students, the Kresge and Pascal Galleries in the Berrie Center is hosting “COLLECTIVE DISTANCE,” an exhibition of senior thesis projects. Works featured range across mediums, from photography and acrylic paintings, to sculptures and animations. The works featured […]
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Ramapo announces new 2021-22 theater season
Photo courtesy of Ramapo College of New Jersey After a particularly challenging year for Ramapo College’s theater program, which (quite successfully) had to turn into virtual productions and the plays that should be performed live on stage in fall 2021 and spring 2022 have been officially announced. First up will […]
RCNJ Theater’s “Stop Kiss” turned dorms into sets once again
Photo courtesy of Hanna Allison Common areas and individual dorm rooms were transformed into stages last weekend when Ramapo’s theater department live-streamed a virtual production of “Stop Kiss” by Diana Son. The play tells the story of finding love in unlikely places and dips into topics like homophobia and […]
Visiting Broadway actors discuss how theater is surviving COVID
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 […]
Berrie Center features Kelly Dolak in faculty film series
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 […]
Berrie Center launches 2020 senior thesis exhibition
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 […]
Berrie Center’s continued art series reflects on the pandemic
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.” […]
Berrie Center’s spring art galleries explore various themes
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 […]
Ramapo’s 3D printers spark creativity in students
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 […]
Art at Berrie Center highlights feminist perspective
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 […]