University Galleries

Objectives

Build Relationships
Facilitate interactions between artists, scholars, curators, and the community, introducing artists from around the world to new audiences, and generating original work and scholarship in the field.

Enhance Interdisciplinary Teaching Through Art
Grow object-based and experiential learning programs. Through collaboration with academic departments, centers, and programs we can use the presentation of art as a jumping-off place for discourse and dialogue across a range of disciplines.

Cultivate Student Engagement
Students are the heart of the university and they should be integrated into all gallery operations including exhibition development, design, collections work, programs, events, and educational outreach.

Make Art Accessible
The University Galleries is an extension of visual arts teaching and learning across campus and beyond the walls of the Segal Gallery, its primary exhibition space. Enhancing a digital presence through virtual tours, video and audio content, collection digitization, upgraded facilities, and accessible space for permanent collections.

History

In 1969, Montclair established the School of Fine and Performing Arts (now the College of the Arts), along with its first gallery space on campus. In 2006, the university committed to creating a gallery with support from the George and Helen Segal Foundation. The George Segal Gallery is the University Galleries’ flagship exhibition space. Through generous donations of artwork, the university’s permanent collection has grown and some of works are on display throughout campus buildings and public sculptures installed across the campus.