Percussionist keeps the beat for MGSA dancers
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.
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Episode 14: Kirsten Pasewaldt (Filmmaking)
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.
Mason Gross alum Dave Cicirelli moves art installation into VR amidst COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Art & Design Professor Steffani Jemison named 2020 Guggenheim Fellow
Department of Art & Design media professor Steffani Jemison is one of 175 scholars, artists, writers, and scientists named Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellows.
Episode 13: Sana Colter (Music) and Ariana Speight (Dance)
Dancer Ariana Speight and flute performance major Sana Colter met as Douglass Residential College students. That rich friendship eventually yielded C.R.E.A.T.E., Cultural Rhythm Expressing Art To Empower.
A Message from Interim Dean Beegan
Interim Dean Gerry Beegan delivers a message to the Mason Gross School community.
Mason Gross School of the Arts Announces New Dean
We are thrilled to welcome the next Dean of Mason Gross School of the Arts, Jason Geary, to Rutgers!
Associate Director of Music Department receives Chancellor’s and Provost’s Awards for Faculty Excellence
Associate Director Rebecca Cypess is a recipient of a Provost’s Award, which honors faculty whose research area aims to achieve disruptive or transformative impacts at the interface of two disparate fields of scholarship or inquiry.
Episode 12: Lee Savage (Theater)
Theater faculty member Lee Savage serves as head of scenic design at Mason Gross. Savage says he believes scenic designers should be committed to their ideas but also flexible enough to collaborate and leave a concept behind.
Music student Sana Colter starts support group for underrepresented musicians
Music student Sana Colter, a classically trained flutist at the Mason Gross, remembers growing up in Harlem, learning to play the flute and piano in fourth grade and thinking that she would have to stop because her parents couldn’t afford the lessons.