Rutgers-Newark’s 2025 commencement speaker Ramy Youssef – creative force behind the new animated series #1 Happy Family USA and several award-winning films and performances – will be at Express Newark art center on Monday for a screening of his new show and a conversation with Salamishah Tillet, the center's director.
Rutgers-Newark is planning to partner with the University of the Virgin Islands on a program that would bring graduate students pursuing STEM careers to Rutgers-Newark.
Pulitzer prize-winning professor Salamishah Tillet has joined the newest cohort of Emerson Collective Fellows, a nationwide program that encourages people of exceptional talent to advance bold new projects in education, immigration, the environment, social justice, media, and health.
Images and art by Muslim artists in America and overseas–including portraits of Black Muslims in Newark–were the focus of “Ritual,’’ a months-long series of Express Newark programs launched at a recent opening.
Express Newark on Tuesday will launch Ritual, a series of exhibitions and events that explore the relationship between Islamic spiritual practices, rituals, and art.
Pulitzer prize-winning Rutgers-Newark professor Salamishah Tillet has been awarded a fellowship from the Gordon Parks Foundation, which supports work on representation and social justice inspired by Parks’s legendary photography, writing, and filmmaking.