New Brunswick, NJ – The Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities (CWAH) at Rutgers University is pleased to announce that in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Douglass Residential College renowned feminist artist and Rutgers graduate, Mimi Smith, has been named the 2017-18 Estelle Lebowitz Endowed Visiting Artist at Rutgers University.

RECEPTION – October 24, 2017:
There will be a reception in honor of Mimi Smith and a public lecture by Smith with introductory remarks by the Dean of Douglass Residential College, Jacquelyn Litt Ph.D., on Tuesday, October 24th from 5:00 – 6:30pm in the Mabel Smith Douglass Room at Douglass Library.

RSVP requested but not required for the reception: womenart@cwah.rutgers.edu.

EXHIBITION – September 5 – December 15, 2017
Smith’s solo exhibition at Rutgers entitled Mimi Smith: Protection and Other Time Considerations will be on view in the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries in the Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Rutgers University (8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901) from September 5 – December 15, 2017.

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9am – 10pm, and are subject to university libraries operating schedule. To accompany the exhibition, CWAH will publish a comprehensive online catalog with an essay in 2018.

The exhibition and event is free and open to public. Further information about the exhibition, event, accessibility, and parking can be found at cwah.rutgers.edu.

As a student at Rutgers in the 60’s attending classes on the Douglass Campus, Smith studied with Fluxus and Conceptual artists and began making sculptural works. She became a pioneer in early feminist and conceptual art focusing on clothing sculpture and drawing installation, and attributes her time at Rutgers to this development in her work when clothing and materials became both subject and form.

Her various bodies of works include clothing made from plastic and steel wool, traditionally
rendered drawings, drawings made from knotted thread and tape measures, clocks, and knitted sculptures. Her work embodies the relationship between everyday life, intimacy, anxiety, and time.

During her 50 plus year career as an artist, Smith’s work has been both misunderstood and highly regarded. Her work is included in public collections such as The Getty Center, Los Angeles; the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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The exhibition and event is funded in part by: the Estelle Lebowitz Memorial Fund and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Co-sponsors: Art Library-RUL; Center for Cultural Analysis, and the Department of Art History-School of Arts and Sciences; Department of Visual Arts-Mason Gross School of the Arts; Douglass Residential College-DRC; Express Newark, Rutgers-Newark; Global Village-DRC;
Institute for Research on Women; Institute for Women’s Leadership; Margery Somers Foster CenterRUL; Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers-Newark; Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers-Camden.