MA Composition student Stephanie Leotsakos was named the winner of the Vocal Composition Award from the Masterwork Music and Art Foundation. The award was designed to aid an emerging singer with their career aspirations and development.
Meet Joy Johnson, comic artist, devoted My Chemical Romance fan, and a first-year student in the Department of Art & Design’s BFA in Visual Arts program.
Graduating BFA student Alessandra Puglisi reflects on the three major pillars of Sicilian life: family, food, and faith in her thesis project.
Flute performance major Sana Colter was one of two Rutgers students featured at the “I’m Still Graduating” virtual worldwide commencement hosted by Her Campus. Colter blended a performance on the flute with an original rap song during her...
When 15 actors of the Rutgers Theater Company began plans to produce William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” they never imagined that instead of performing before a live audience they would be at home trying to bring the production to life as a radio play.
Johsian Martinez, a BFA/EdM Dance Education student, says his experiences at a performing-arts charter school, with teachers who accepted him as he was made all the difference and informed his own choice to become an educator.
Students of Mason Gross School of the Arts, we know this is a difficult and uncertain time for you. Many of you rely on an audience, a stage, or a gallery wall to complete your work, and we want to continue to give that to you–virtually, at least.
Percussionist and Dance Department Music Coordinator (MGSA alum, DMA 2016) Mesia Austin serves as an accompanist, providing improvised music, on the spot, for MGSA Modern Dance Technique classes.
Meet filmmaking student Kirsten Pasewaldt who felt pressure to pursue a more-practical path, and inched her way from a major in communications, to a major in cinema studies, and, eventually, to the BFA in Filmmaking program at Mason Gross.
When Dave Cicirelli, an alum of the Department of Art & Design, had his Manhattan gallery debut interrupted by the COVID-19 crisis, he had to pivot quickly to present his work in a different medium.