Event Info: https://www.aclu-nj.org/event/express-newark-exhibition/
This free and open to the public exhibition grew from a year-long partnership between the ACLU of New Jersey and the Design Consortium, a student/faculty creative studio developed by the ACM Graphic Design program at Rutgers University-Newark, and a resident partner at Express Newark.
Rooted in Newark’s legacy of civil rights advocacy and the arts, this exhibition explores how design can help people understand, exercise, and protect their constitutional rights. Across two semesters, the partners explored communication as a process of meaning-making shaped through dialogue, participation, and shared experience, using design-driven research and co-building to generate new ideas, language, messaging, and forms of dissemination.
Bringing together work developed throughout the collaboration with new installations and participatory experiences created specifically for this exhibition, the work presented encourages reflection, conversation, and civic engagement. Visitors are invited to consider not only the constitutional rights explored here, but also the role communication plays in shaping how those rights are understood, exercised, and defended.
Your rights are here.
Know them. Protect them.
Express Newark
