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Galleries at Kean: Nature and Humanity, Exploring our Essential Relationship with the Natural World
Pristine Seas: Bringing the Ocean Back by National Geographic
In partnership with local and Indigenous communities and policymakers, the Pristine Seas team conducts expeditions worldwide to document and protect the ocean so it can heal, rebound and regenerate. The Pristine Seas traveling exhibition highlights the importance of marine-protected areas (MPAs) as a mechanism for illuminating and protecting the world’s oceans.
Pristine Seas: Bringing the Ocean Back is organized and traveled by the National Geographic Society
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Heroes of the Holocaust by Meryl Lettire
Heroes of the Holocaust is a series of textile portraits honoring artists who used creativity as resistance during the Holocaust. Built from layered fabric, each piece draws on quilting and collage traditions to tell stories of courage and survival. As a Jewish woman who has faced bullying and early experiences of being silenced, I’m driven to amplify voices that history tried to erase. This work, rooted in tikkun olam (“repairing the world”), is both memorial and call to action—urging viewers to remember, connect, and resist hatred in all its forms.
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In a Drop of Water by Joseph Castronova
The work in this show spans the last four years. This pictorial investigation, though, has been largely the same since I was a child. Water has always been central to my work, not so much as a form or object but instead as a framework, an environment. These works range in concept of scale from the microscopic to the macroscopic. It is an apt metaphor for the way I think about art. It feels infinitely scalable. The art piece is a droplet, I am a droplet. My community is a droplet. The world is a droplet and onwards. It is insignificant and it is everything.
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My Still Life by Teddy Benfield
Teddy Benfield's work explores the blurred boundaries between public and private, nostalgia and immediacy, and tradition and transformation. His compositions reflect a post-pandemic consciousness, where interiority serves as both a physical and psychological space. Through still-life arrangements and domestic artifacts, these images prompt viewers to reflect on their own environments, what they reveal, conceal, and how they've changed.
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Group Tour Benefits
Outside groups and school groups are invited to enjoy a comprehensive and enriching experience at the Liberty Hall Academic Center & Galleries. Each visit includes:
Full access to all on-campus galleries, featuring dynamic exhibitions that explore history, art, and culture.
A guided tour led by a highly qualified docent, who brings the exhibits to life with expert insights and engaging storytelling.
Whether you're planning a school field trip or a group outing, our tours offer a unique opportunity to learn, explore, and connect with the arts in a meaningful way.
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Rooted in her Caribbean and African heritage, spirituality and identity, Heather Williams’ work explores the concept of damage and repair. Known for her abstract paintings, figurative sculpture, and film, Williams’ artistic voice is clear, purposeful, and unwavering. An introspective person with a thoughtful narrative to share with the world, she does not shy away from difficult subject matter.
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After six decades of artistry, Minch, an award-winning New Jersey artist and Kean Alumna, returns to Kean with a powerful body of work: a collection of collages, sculptures, and paintings. The work exudes strength in a subtle feminine way that draws the viewer in closer for deeper inspection. Identity is a theme that threads through each piece giving her art depth and a genuine richness that celebrates her family’s diverse heritage, friends, and the human experience.
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Ubuhle Beads is a collective of female beadwork artists founded in 1999 by Bev Gibson and master beader Ntombephi Ntombela on a sugar plantation in South Africa that empowers and changes the perspective of African women. The organization has allowed for women artists of South Africa to have a platform to use their generational talents for financial independence that was not previously available.
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Weiling Pan thrives in creating multimedia works that tell original storylines and memories from her life. The texture and Impressionist-inspired style of her oil pastels mimics the warm, fuzzy feeling of thinking back fondly on places, people and experiences.
