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.
Art & Design alum Hannah Finkelshteyn and Filmmaking student Aakef Khan will be honored at the Washington National Cathedral on July 3 as part of the nation’s 250th-anniversary celebration.
Min Kwon’s Laureate project, entitled America/Beautiful – Reimagining our Nation, Its Democracy and Civic Engagement through the Arts, aims to build and expand her America/Beautiful project.
Amanda MacLeod’s credits include “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Westworld,” “Hocus Pocus 2,” and a Super Bowl LX Liquid Death commercial.
Min Kwon, head of piano and professor in the Music Department, has been named Rutgers–New Brunswick Laureate. Kwon will hold the Laureate position through the 2026–27 academic year.