Second Thursday: New Neighbors Catalog Launch

Join Ulises in for a deeper dive into New Neighbors, recently exhibited at the Berman Museum of Art through November 26, 2025. The catalog includes four essays accompanied by exhibition photographs to highlight each featured artist pairing and provide greater context for their work.

Reception from 6pm until 9pm with an informal artist talk at 7pm.

Contributing authors:

• Jacob Feige, visual artist working mainly in painting, co-founded Title Magazine in 2011, Associate Professor of Art at Stockton University, New Jersey.
• Kati Gegenheimer, visual artist working in painting and printmaking, Assistant Adjunct Professor at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.
• Rebecca Robertson, photo editor, curator, teacher, and writer, working at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco.
• Stan Mir, poet and critic whose work has appeared in The Asian American Literary Review, Jacket2, Seedings, and The Tiny.

Book design by UC Visiting Professor of Graphic Design Jeanne Komp.

About the exhibition

New Neighbors explores relationships, synergies, and conversations across artists and artistic communities in the greater Philadelphia region. Ursinus College studio art faculty — David Aipperspach, Cari Freno, Sarah Kaufman, and Sarah Pater — were each invited to exhibit work alongside an area artist or creative entity of their choosing, with whom they feel an affinity. The resulting exhibition brings their work into visual, material, or conceptual dialogue with work by Sarah McEneaney, Chad States, Tony Bragg, and the duo Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib.

These artistic associations pushed existing relationships into unexplored terrain and generated new allegiances. Through diverse media and approaches, New Neighbors investigates themes of place, proximity, and the creative exchange that emerges when artistic practices intersect across communities. New Neighbors celebrates the dynamic relationships between the campus and the broader cultural landscape of the region, fostering conversation and connection through contemporary art.