Past Events

Between Experience and Reality

The spring 2024 exhibition Between Experience & Reality, featured a dynamic collection of photography, blending works from Brookdale students with pieces by renowned 20th-century artists. In addition to the visual display, the exhibition pioneered a significant initiative in accessibility and technology integration, enhancing the way art was interpreted and experienced.

As part of the exhibition, the CVA Gallery, in partnership with Brookdale’s DEI services, hosted the Alt-Text as Poetry workshop led by Bojana Coklyat and Shannon Finnegan. This online workshop taught participants how to write creative alt-texts for digital platforms, providing greater access to visual art and design for individuals with low or no vision. Based on the open-source “Alt Text as Poetry” workbook, the workshop emphasized the importance of equitable access to art, underscoring the exhibition’s theme of bridging experience and reality for all viewers.

Within the Anthropocene: A Thought-Provoking Exhibition by Karen Bright

Showcased diverse artistic mediums, including encaustic, fresco, sculpture, and graphic design, all created by the talented Karen Bright, a professor emerita at Monmouth University. Within the Anthropocene explored the opportunity to expand our imagination to consider a new, just and sustainable interrelationship between nature, planet, humans, non-human animals.

The Charles Sills Memorial Group Art Exhibit: Belonging.

Presented by Monmouth Arts, Belonging ran from November 11 – December 15, 2022. The exhibit was an exploration of how our community imagines and celebrates a collective vision of belonging.

 Voices and Votes: Democracy in America

“Voices and Votes: Democracy in America” traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution examines the nearly 250-year-old American experiment of a government “of, by and for the people,” and how each generation since continues to question how to form “a more perfect union.”