Dear Members of the Mason Gross Community, I want to take a moment to address the violent insurrection that occurred yesterday in Washington. I offer these remarks not from a partisan perspective or in an effort to shape political views, but rather in light of what I...
Costume design student Ashley Kong has been named a grand-prize winner of the 2020 CosBond Creator Contest for her cosplay replica of the costume worn by the character Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy.
Head of Lighting Design faculty member Don Holder recently wrote an op-ed for The United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc. (USITT) exploring the future of Broadway and the impact the pandemic will have on theater students and future graduates looking to...
Jason Geary, dean of the Mason Gross School and Distinguished Professor of Music, recently had chapters appear in The Cambridge Companion to Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen and Richard Strauss in Context, both published by Cambridge University Press. Both...
Photo Credit: Haynes [right] Photography by Nick Romanenko, Howard [left] Photography by Bill Cardoni Art & Design alum Mary Howard and current Art & Design graduate student Grace Lynne Haynes are featured in the fall 2020 issue of Rutgers Magazine. Set...
Photo Credit: Jorge Bordello, Ministry of Health, 2020. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020. Still courtesy of Visual AIDS Join us for live virtual programming during Art Before/After Hours on December 1 to mark Day With(out) Art/World AIDS Day and...
“I know of so many people in music schools, and people who have jobs in orchestras later on, who develop medical issues from singing or playing, and it’s so hard to find doctors who understand what it means to spend five hours in the practice room,” says Palm. “It...
Sculpture professor Patrick Strzelec has been awarded the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Educator Award for 2020. Out of the 79 faculty nominations from 25 institutions of higher learning around the world, Strzelec was the unanimous selection for the...
Richard Deane played his last concert with the New York Philharmonic on March 12, and then, like the rest of the city, hunkered down to endure the COVID-19 crisis. Four months later, with New York reeling in the pandemic’s aftermath, Deane, the orchestra’s principal...
This six-week course guides students to explore how the artistic tools employed by choreographic thinkers can be used in conjunction with practices and principles from the field of conflict resolution toward the creation of participatory events spanning a wide range of human activities.