New Arts Justice is an incubator within Rutgers University-Newark that is committed to black feminist approaches to art’s relationship to place, social justice, and civic engagement in Newark and beyond.

Inspired in name and spirit by the 1968 film “The NEW-ARK,” created by poet, playwright, and activist Amiri Baraka about racial justice education, urban public theater, and political consciousness-raising in Newark, New Arts Justice keeps Newark as an artist-activist city at the core, while carefully considering its position within the university as well. 

Housed in Express Newark, under the directorship of Professor Salamishah Tillet, New Arts Justice is a joint partnership between the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and Modern Experience and Express Newark that:

• Curates inside/outside public art installations and exhibitions throughout the city of Newark

• Supports emerging to mid-career fine artists and curators who actively practice socially-engaged art

• Promotes and publishes innovative scholarly research and data collection on art and civic engagement