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@vanvnv 🇵🇪
artist in resident at @buinhocreativehub
interdisciplinary
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The mocked garment I displayed alongside my project for my Free People design internship this summer! I designed a small capsule collection for the intimates department targeted toward their more sensual consumer. So grateful for this opportunity!!

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Many thanks to the Society for College and University Planning Mid-Atlantic Conference 2026 for inviting Scarlet Arts Rx Director Dr. Peichi Waite to deliver a keynote speech for 428 architects, engineers, construction companies, and other university planners on how to creatively activate campus spaces for student well-being. Additional thanks to two-year Scarlet Arts Rx student teaching artist and Mason Gross School of the Arts Art + Design senior Van Aileen @partofseas for doing a beautiful live interpretative painting of a warm, safe campus for the attendees to experience art and data in action.

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*I love lesbians (the s got cut off <33)

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SPITFIRE (select spreads)
2026
8.5”x11”

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✺ Van Aileen ✺

A Transient Space to Return To

""A Transient Space To Return To" is a sculptural installation that invites viewers to reconsider home as something intangible, traveling with us through our loved ones, our memories, and the roots we carve. It asks how we might create spaces of gathering, joy, and culture in a time when these narratives are often suppressed. And perhaps, how it feels to be a hermit crab, moving from shell to shell."

Come see Van's work in gallery room C, on view March 10-28 2026 in the Mason Gross Galleries.

33 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick, NJ

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Sophomore review !

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how quickly do you fall for love? do you melt into it?

Obsessed with the ethereal @partofseas

#themarías #notforradio #puddles #loveendures

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El frío, la noche. Siempre me acuerdo de ti. Miles de canciones. Siempre me acuerdo de ti…

@vanvnv and I shared our mutual love of @themarias through this shoot. 🙂‍↕️ I had a ton of fun and lots more to share we even had a visitor 🦌 thanks again for the trust :)

#themarías #deer #lejosdeti

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This event is for 30 Under 30 Zimmerli Art Museum Members only. ***Rutgers - New Brunswick graduate and undergraduate students ages 18-30 can get a FREE membership through Scarlet Arts Rx, while supplies last.*** Additionally, if you attended the Sex and Art Tour and have not redeemed your membership yet (check your emails from the Zimmerli Art Museum) please do so soon! You can use this membership to attend pop-up events for an entire year! Tell your friends, get memberships together! DM us if interested in getting a free membership!
More info: https://zimmerli.rutgers.edu/event/membership-event-30-under-30-1

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UPDATE - EVENT POSTPONED DUE TO RAIN!

Excited to join the amazing RCSA with guided landscape painting by Scarlet Arts Rx painting instructors Van @partofseas and Skye @lifeafterthisone and Mia, plus live music by Scarlet Arts Rx saxophonist and our Jazz on the Lawn leader Brandon @brandonw.mejia . Art supplies plus more outdoorsy crafts provided for free!

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Last year, I spent a lot of time questioning my decision to pursue art. It felt silly given the state of the world to pursue creativity over more utilitarian paths. I felt selfish and useless to what the world needed.

When my friend and fellow artist Henna Aslam passed, my relationship with art was fragile and my commitment to it wavered heavily. I somehow felt the most pressure to create and the least willing to that I had ever. One day, I opened a zine from ZAHA — an art collective co-founded by Henna — and read a poem called prayer from the heart (of empire) by Kenia Hale. The words comforted me while I completed my final art projects last semester.

There is a helplessness felt amongst conscious minds on how to continue everyday with an acknowledgment of the crimes our governments commit and uphold. Within this helplessness, sometimes we create. I wanted to recognize art in protest and the historically powerful role it plays in healing. I wanted to shed light on the restorative nature of everyday protest, small acts of defiance, resistance in the mundane. The things we do at a smaller scale that feel futile in the face of larger global forces, but continue to do nevertheless. I wanted to talk about the importance of response; not as an engine to provoke change but as a documentation of the way humanity survived in the face of genocide. To show that the people cared, to prove that they stood for justice.

STEREOTOMY explores themes of community, resistance, grief, hope and what it means to build. It is a counter-response towards the feeling that what we do is ineffectual and pointless. The show title comes from the architectural practice of stereotomy: the art of cutting stones so they can be assembled into a larger configuration.

A huge thank you to my co-collaborators Skye Jung and Brenna Hasselmann; sincerely the best team I could have asked for. Thank you to everyone who came together to help make this happen, I am so deeply grateful.

Henna and I had planned to do a co-curate together Fall 2025. This gallery show is not without her recognizable initiative, passion, and drive. 💗💗💗💗

Bonnie

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Thanks to everyone who joined our second Sex and Art Tour and helped make this Fall 2025 semester kick-off event a memorable one!

To the students - we enjoyed welcoming all of you and were honored that you joined us. Do feel free to visit the Zimmerli Art Museum again to explore their art work at your own leisure and/or join one of their upcoming events.

To Asst. VC for Health + Wellness/Interim Senior VC for Student Experience Francesca Maresca @rustudenthealth @rutgerssa @rugetinvolved and MGSA @mgsarutgers Art and Design @rutgersartdesign student and Scarlet Arts Rx teaching artist Vanessa Nuckols @partofseas for co-leading the tour presentations.

To Scarlet Arts Rx teaching artist and MGSA Art and Design student Micah Steinerman @blue_boymick for curating this tour. To Scarlet Arts Rx coordinator Pickle Almosd @bigdillpickle100 for coordinating the tour experience.

To Graduate Student Life @rugradstudentlife Asst. Dean Ghada Endick and Zimmerli @zimmerliartmuseum Asst. Curator and Community Engagement Barbara Cepeda and Shayne Judge with the HOPE sexual health advocates for co-leading with wisdom and enthusiasm!

And to @rutgerstransition for including this among your welcome weeks activities.

@rutgersu @rutgersnb

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