Rutgers welcomes Class of 2024
Painter Deena Jahama is among the incoming students featured in a Rutgers Today welcome to the Class of 2024.
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Alum creates public mural celebrating multiculturalism
To Break Bread, Raul Ayala, 18-feet-by-9-feet, acrylic paint on Polytab. Photo Credit: Raul Ayala In the sweltering heat of late July, MFA Art & Design grad Raul Ayala scaled a ladder erected outside a two-story building and realized a long-standing goal:...
Dance launches Big Ten collaboration
Dance Department chair and artistic director Julia M. Ritter is helming an initiative called the Big Ten UniDanceHub as a way to provide a substantive learning experience and to enhance alumni, faculty, and student ties across the Big Ten.
Five Questions For Dean Geary
The Mason Gross School’s new dean, Jason Geary, has been getting acquainted with the community through a series of virtual town halls. Geary is a musicologist who comes to us from the University of Maryland. Here are five questions we recently posed to our new...
Alum’s installation part of outdoor exhibit at The Clark Art Institute
Art & Design alum Jennie C. Jones’s “These (Mournful) Shores” is on view in a site-responsive outdoor exhibition at the The Clark Art Institute in the Berkshires.
Theater alum selected for playwright residency
The I AM SOUL Playwright Residency, part of the SOUL Series LAB (Liberating Artistic Bravery) Residency Programs at National Black Theatre, is the only theatrical program in the nation dedicated solely to the development of Black playwrights.
Student government welcomes incoming students with free swag
The MGSGA executive board sends each incoming Mason Gross student a piece of swag to welcome them to Rutgers during an unusually tough time.
Five Questions for Shane Ballard, Theater Department Faculty, Costume Design
As a costume designer and illustrator, Shane Ballard says his life “revolves around clothes.” He’s worked on concepts for theater, film, and television—including NBC’s The Wiz Live!; the musical Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations, and the 2017 HBO film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Work/Life: Dance Alum Kyle Marshall
See a day in the life of choreographer and BFA ’11 dance graduate Kyle Marshall who received the 2018 NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Jury Award and is a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Award recipient.
Mason Gross students take the stage at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center
In the fall of 2019, Mason Gross made its NBPAC debut which accommodates musical theater, orchestral, dance, opera, and theatrical productions, film screenings, and more.