The Department of Arts, Culture, & Media at Rutgers University-Newark is pleased to announce the 2024 Senior Graphic Design Capstone exhibition, LANGUAGE LAYERS, presented at Paul Robeson Galleries located at 350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The exhibition will open with a public reception on Thursday, April 18, 2024 from 5 pm - 7 pm.

LANGUAGE LAYERS, explores language, its layers, and its complexities. The exhibition examines intersections where perception, perspective, and power converge, revealing critical layers that inform, disinform, empower and/or disempower.

The exhibition presents seventeen transmedia projects that use communication design to share compelling stories. It serves as an invitation to recognize the intricate web of affordances within language and its capacity to impact society by shaping and reshaping narratives.

2024 presenting designers include Princess Andrews, Nigeria Brown, Kassandra Crespo, Ashley Felix, Donna Forteau, Mathilda Galano, Laura Gomez, Ravin Melville, Traci Moore, Kai Nix, Eliana Rivera, Adriana Salazar, Trenton Soto, Briana Thomas, Matthew Totillo, Brenda Villanueva, Melanie Woj. This year's exhibition is led by Associate Professor Jennifer Bernstein, and Visiting Adjunct Professor Rebecca Pauline Jampol.

The Senior Graphic Design Capstone Exhibition is a culmination of each student-designer's development within the program, creating a platform to present their evolution, practice and interests. To learn more about the designers and exhibition programs, visit acmbfa.design/language-layers