Past Events

Tuesday, April 18 2023 6:00pm

Public Talk on Craft and Globalism

Folk-arts for peace: HemisFair '68 and the Cultural Olympics in México’s 1968 Olympiad during the Global Cold War Guest: Dr. Deborah Dorotinsky Alperstein Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas of the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) This lecture will center on folk...

Thursday, April 13 2023 5 pm

Negotiating Authenticity: Reproducing the Past for the Present

Please join us Thursday, April 13th at 5PM for the graduate thesis exhibition opening of Negotiating Authenticity: Reproducing the Past for the Present curated by David Symanzik-Stock. The exhibit will be open until May 11th, 2023 and, as always, the...

Open Parameters Poster
Thursday, April 13 2023 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Open Parameters—late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s Chinese calligraphy and painting from the Zhou Cezong’s donation

Please join us Thursday, April 13th at 5PM for the graduate thesis exhibition opening of Open Parameters---late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s Chinese calligraphy and painting from the Zhou Cezong’s donation curated by Jingwei Zeng. This exhibition explores the diversity...

Body Bound Exhibition Announcement
Thursday, February 23 2023 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Mathis Art Gallery Exhibition: Body Bound

Body Bound traces the historically grounded and long-standing tradition of using bodily material as the basis for bookmaking. This practice has not subsided entirely in its traditional form but has also branched off and informed contemporary book-making practices. Contemporary books,...

Tuesday, December 13 2022 1:00pm - 1:30pm

4th Art Exposé

The Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery invites you to a series of “Art Exposé” Gallery Talks   In these 15-minute presentations, Mathis Gallery Interns will discuss a mystery art object in the gallery collection that they have researched this semester. This is...

Material Agents Exhibition
Thursday, December 8 2022 5pm

Material Agents: Objects as Intermediaries

We are pleased to announce a new art exhibition, Material Agents: Objects as Intermediaries, at The Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery. It was curated as part of the course Introduction to Art Museum Studies II. The show will run from December 8, 2022, to...

Tuesday, December 6 2022 12:30pm - 1:00pm

3rd Art Exposé

The Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery invites you to a series of “Art Exposé” Gallery Talks   In these 15-minute presentations, Mathis Gallery Interns will discuss a mystery art object in the gallery collection that they have researched this semester. This is...

Wednesday, November 30 2022 1pm - 1:30pm

Art Exposé

The Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery invites you to a series of “Art Exposé” Gallery Talks   In these 15-minute presentations, Mathis Gallery Interns will discuss a mystery art object in the gallery collection that they have researched this semester. This is...

Musee Guimet, Paris
Wednesday, November 16 2022 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Presentation by Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, Elizabeth Emery

Hidden Treasure: Finding Women Dealers and Collectors of Far Eastern Art in Paris, 1858-1914 Elizabeth Emery, Professor of World Languages and Cultures, Montclair State University will be giving a free public talk about her recent book Reframing Japonisme: Women and...

Tuesday, November 15 2022 1:00pm - 1:30pm

Art Exposé

The Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery invites you to a series of “Art Exposé” Gallery Talks In these 15-minute presentations, Mathis Gallery Interns will discuss a mystery art object in the gallery collection that they have researched this semester. This is a...