The Arts in Health initiative’s program calendar opened on September 23 with a Well-Being Concert for Rutgers-Newark nursing students created in partnership with the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall.
“Rutgers was my first musical refuge,” says Batista (BM’20), who made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2023. “I felt cared for and believed in.”
Allsop’s residency will begin with a virtual event on October 28 at 5 p.m. EST. The event, which is open to all, will allow participants to meet him, learn about his work, and hear about his upcoming Rutgers visits.
The Golden Globe-winning Theater alum sat for an extensive feature interview with the magazine. The cover story was published on September 7, 2026.
The concert of AJAYE’s original Americana music, which will also include a short performance by a Rutgers music student, singer-songwriter Sam Tunkel, will take place from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, October 1.
The publication has named the Rutgers Filmmaking Center among the top U.S. film schools for 2026, commenting that “Mason Gross School of the Arts is well positioned to train the state’s entertainment workforce.”
While applying for colleges last fall, Hana Zemlicka faced two seemingly divergent paths of study: visual arts or astrophysics. At Rutgers, she plans to pursue both.
As a nonprofit communal art-making space, Studio Route 29, co-founded in Frenchtown, NJ, by Art & Design alum Hop Peternell (MFA’19), aims to cultivate an environment for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities to create self-directed work and to share it with the public.
Tom Pelphrey (BFA’04) is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Season 1 of HBO’s “Task”; Larry W. Brown (MFA’98) is nominated for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Period or Fantasy Series for HBO’s “The Gilded Age.”
This year we welcome to our full-time faculty new arrivals in Art & Design, Music, and Theater. Get to know the newest members of our teaching community.