Research Spotlight: Robinson McClellan
Earlier this year, faculty Robinson McClellan made a rare discovery: a previously unknown waltz by none other than Frédéric Chopin.
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Dance chair performs with “Godmother of Punk” Patti Smith
The New York Times singled out Dance chair Gerald Casel in their review of Oliver Tompkins Ray’s spoken-word opera Woolgathering, based on singer-songwriter and author Patti Smith’s memoir about growing up in South...
Arts Online director’s theater and social justice project wins award
Kevin Bott’s Ritual4Return is a 12-week program that establishes a public storytelling ritual for formerly incarcerated individuals returning to their lives outside the prison system. R4R has won the NJ Council for the Humanities’ Katz Prize.
Artist Chat Travieso wants students to collaborate with the broader community
“The work is successful when people are engaging with it, whether that’s someone sitting on a bench that I designed, or someone liking the way it looks, or a child finding joy and playing with one of my projects,” Travieso says.
Zimmerli installs sculpture by alum and professor emeritus Patrick Strzelec
Strzelec, an award-winning artist and educator on faculty from 2010 to 2021, says the sculpture, created to honor the university’s class of 1965, “seeks to reflect their magic, their trajectory, their innocence, the fervor to do right.”
Faculty work featured in Zimmerli exhibit on abstraction
Julie Langsam and Stephen Westfall have work on view from September 11 through July 31, 2025, as part of “Crossing Borders: Geometric Abstraction 1960 to Now.”
Fall 2024: Meet Our New Faculty
This year we welcome to our full-time faculty new arrivals in Art & Design and Theater. Get to know the newest members of our teaching community.
Stephanie Cronenberg to serve as inaugural director of Research
This new position is meant to build on the interdisciplinary initiatives underway at the school and to help enhance MGSA’s standing across the university and beyond by building much-needed research infrastructure.
Ellen Bredehoft to serve as associate dean for Academic Affairs
Professor Ellen Bredehoft of the Mason Gross Theater Department has agreed to serve as the school’s associate dean for Academic Affairs for a three-year renewable term. Her appointment is effective August 1.
Zimmerli Art Museum hosts virtual talk with Park McArthur
The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers–New Brunswick and the Department of Art & Design at Mason Gross present a special lecture on June 11 with Park McArthur to mark the culmination of her term as Tepper Family Endowed Chair at Rutgers University.McArthur, a...