Ritual4Return is the brainchild of Kevin Bott, director of Rutgers Arts Online. The project works with people coming home after incarceration to develop a ritual through theatrical storytelling that helps them move on from their experiences.
Rao has been honored “for her contributions to musicology, in particular her achievements in fostering cross-cultural dialogue between Anglophone music studies and music research in Chinese-speaking lands, as well as her efforts to bridge the divide between musicology and her home discipline of music theory.”
Earlier this year, faculty Robinson McClellan made a rare discovery: a previously unknown waltz by none other than Frédéric Chopin.
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...
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.
“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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.