Events

Dinner
2024-09-01 17:00 - 18:30, 2024-09-02 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Magill Commons Dining Hall

Sunday Mass
2024-09-01 18:30 - 19:30 | Catholic Center, 16 Beechwood Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, 07764, United States

Speed Friending
2024-09-01 19:00 - 20:00 | Student Center Cafeteria

Pitch Perfect Outdoor Movie Bingo
2024-09-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Residential Quad

Open Rec
2024-09-02 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-09-02 15:00 - 17:00 | Boylan Gymnasium

Continuous Shuttles from the Birch Loop to Seaview Square Shopping Center
2024-09-02 10:00 - 16:00 | Birch Hall Loop

Continuous Shuttles from the Birch Loop to the Beach at The University Bluffs
2024-09-02 10:00 - 16:00 | Birch Hall Loop

Classroom Tours
2024-09-02 11:00 - 13:00 | The Great Hall

RHA (Residence Hall Association) Club Session
2024-09-02 11:00 - 13:00 | Shadow’s Lounge

Speed Friending
2024-09-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Pinewood Hall

Paint & Sip
2024-09-02 12:00 - 13:30, 2024-09-02 14:30 - 16:00 | Anacon Hall, 2nd Floor, Student Center

Hawks Debate & Political Science Club Session
2024-09-02 13:00 - 15:00 | Bey Hall

SOTA (Student Occupational Therapy Association) Club Session
2024-09-02 13:00 - 15:00 | Pozycki Hall

Wrestling Club Session
2024-09-02 15:00 - 17:00 | Residential Quad

Lawn Games
2024-09-02 15:00 - 17:00 | Residential Quad

Welcome to MU Bingo
2024-09-02 20:00 - 21:00 | Student Center Cafeteria

Classes Begin
2024-09-03 00:00 - 23:59

I Wish That I Had Spoken Only of It All: 20 Years of Sheryl Oring’s I Wish to Say
2024-09-03 00:00 - 2024-12-20 23:59 | DiMattio Gallery at Rechnitz Hall
Curated by Corey Dzenko, Associate Professor of Art History
With backgrounds in journalism and fine art, Sheryl Oring began her ongoing project I Wish to Say in 2004 from a concern that many people’s voices were not being heard. She started to take dictation from the public about what they wanted to say to the (next) President. Dressed as a 1960s secretary with a typewriter, she records whatever participants say onto a postcard, making copies with carbon paper. During larger events, a secretarial bank takes dictation. Oring mails the postcards to the White House and exhibits copies. To date she has typed over 4241 postcards.
For this exhibition, MU’s DiMattio Gallery will chronologically display hundreds of I Wish to Say postcards, photographs, and videos of performances, along with larger prints of select postcard texts. A timeline on the wall will note the presidential elections that span Oring’s project. The empty wall space for 2024 will fill as MU student-typists add postcards they collect during the current election season. The other half of the gallery will showcase a selection of Oring’s related projects that all involve a question, active listening, and a typewriter for a secretary to record dictation. These include Collective Memory (September 2011), recorded memories of the 9-11 attacks; Travel Desk (2014), travel stories that were then carved into a wooden table now installed in the San Diego International Airport; and other artworks.
Multi-part programming will include an artist’s talk to showcase Oring’s timely and inclusive artmaking practice. MU students will participate as typists at numerous live events throughout the exhibition’s duration. MU faculty from various disciplines will hold public teach-ins in the gallery about topics related to Oring’s project. Finally, MU is collaborating with nearby Neptune and Long Branch school districts so that high school students can dictate their own postcards to the future president. As an educator, Oring has involved younger constituencies, empowering the next generation of participants in both US democracy and artmaking.
Oring performs I Wish to Say: Thursday, September 19, 2024, 11am-1pm, Rebecca Stafford Student Center Patio
Artist talk: Thursday, September 19, 2024, 4:30-5:30pm, Great Hall Auditorium
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 19, 2024, 5:30-7:30pm, DiMattio Gallery, Rechnitz Hall
About the Artist
Sheryl Oring examines critical social issues through projects that incorporate old and new media to tell stories, examine public opinion, and foster open exchange. Using tools typically employed by journalists (the camera, the typewriter, the pen, the interview, and the archive), she builds on her experience in her former profession to create installations, performances, artist books, and internet-based works that address themes of citizenship, free expression, first amendment rights, story-telling, and activism through art. Oring received her MFA from the University of California at San Diego. She is currently a board member for the National Coalition Against Censorship. She has held several academic positions, most recently serving as the Dean of the School of Art at University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Oring has shown her work at the O1SJ Biennial; Bryant Park in Manhattan; the Brooklyn Public Library; and the Jewish Museum Berlin. She has also presented work at Art in Odd Places in New York; the Art Prospect festival in St. Petersburg, Russia; Encuentro in São Paolo, Brazil; and the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Dubai. She has completed public art commissions at the San Diego and Tampa International Airports. Collecting institutions include the Library of Congress; Museum of Modern Art; Tate Britain; Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg; and many others.
For more information, see: https://www.sheryloring.org/
Or contact Dr. Corey Dzenko, cdzenko@monmouth.edu
This exhibition was made possible with funding from the Edna Wright Andrade Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation and from the Diversity Innovation Grant Program coordinated by the Office of the Provost and Intercultural Center at Monmouth University. Thank you also to ArtNOW, the Helen Bennett McMurray Endowed Chair of Social Ethics, and Monmouth University’s Department of Art and Design and Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

Michael Anthony Donato: Angels & Devils
2024-09-03 05:00 - 2024-12-10 04:59 | Pollak Gallery
Michael Anthony Donato, a School of Visual Arts graduate, is an award-winning children’s book illustrator. His work on Squanto and the First Thanksgiving aired on Showtime and earned honors from the American Library Association. His illustrations for Tales Alive, a collection of global folktales, received a Parents’ Choice Award. Donato also collaborated with Simon & Schuster and the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Voyage Up the Nile. He currently teaches drawing and advanced painting at Monmouth University.
Artist Reception: October 18, 5-7 PM

Hawk Hot Spots
2024-09-03 08:30 - 16:30, 2024-09-04 08:30 - 16:30 | Various Locations

Student Center Open House
2024-09-03 09:00 - 17:00 | Student Center – Various Locations

Commuter Student Luncheon
2024-09-03 11:00 - 14:00 | Student Center – Anacon Hall

Student Activities Board (SAB) Silent Disco
2024-09-03 19:00 - 22:00 | Residential Quad
Rain Location: Anacon Hall

The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers
2024-09-03 19:30 - 21:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium/Virtual, 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, 07720, United States
It’s just like book club but with albums! With new advances in technology, the way we consume music through our devices, apps and on demand streaming services like Pandora, Spotify and iTunes is making the idea of the “album” as an art form extinct. Get together with other music enthusiasts on Tuesday nights to discuss some of the greatest records of all-time! Listen to the album beforehand and then come prepared to discuss. This event will feature The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers.
This event is offered BOTH in person and via Zoom. Join us in person at the Great Hall Auditorium on the Campus of Monmouth University or join us via zoom. When you register you will be provided the ZOOM meeting link to join the conversation.
Free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Welcome to the Neighborhood Local Vendor Fair
2024-09-04 11:00 - 13:30 | Shadow Lawn
Rain Location: OceanFirst Bank Center

Academic Welcome
2024-09-04 14:30 - 16:30
