South Middlesex Times

Park McArthur, a conceptual artist and Rutgers University–New Brunswick educator recently named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow for her work in fine arts, will hold a virtual lecture next month at the Zimmerli Art Museum. The online event, free and open to the public, is scheduled from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 11. Attendees may register for the virtual lecture via Zoom, with American Sign Language interpretation and captioning provided.

Presented in collaboration with the Department of Art & Design at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, the lecture will mark the culmination of McArthur's term as Tepper Family Endowed Chair at Rutgers University.

Zimmerli officials described McArthur’s work as one that “varies in material and process, often questioning frameworks of dependency through the artistic form of the readymade.”

During her lecture, McArthur will discuss her art “as it relates to the collaborative process with her students” that has resulted in an exhibition at Westbeth Gallery in New York opening June 1, according to Zimmerli Director Maura Reilly.

“Park McArthur is an extraordinary conceptual artist whose practice requires us to think critically about disability and access,” said Reilly. She noted that McArthur works with and mentors Mason Gross students in the master of fine arts program.

In April, McArthur was one of three educators from Rutgers–New Brunswick who were among 188 Guggenheim Fellows selected for 2024 from a pool of 3,000 across 52 disciplines. The New York resident is using her fellowship to complete projects opening in spring 2025 in Austria and Germany.

Last year, McArthur wrote an essay for Rutgers Today for National Employment Disability Awareness Month.

The artist’s solo exhibitions include those at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Chisenhale Gallery in London. Her art has also been featured at Secession in Vienna, Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Jewish Museum in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.