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.
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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.
Department of Art & Design announces Park McArthur as New Tepper Chair
On February 18, the Rutgers Board of Governors officially appointed Park McArthur to the Tepper Family Endowed Chair in Visual Arts in the Department of Art & Design.
Episode 11: Windows of Understanding (Art & Design)
Rutgers art students and alumni are among those exhibiting work in window displays in New Brunswick and Highland Park, championing social justice issues, including food insecurity; immigration; LGBTQA+ issues; mass incarceration and human trafficking; mental health; and violence.
Art & Design students participate in Windows of Understanding social justice project
A total of 21 local artists were paired with a social justice organization to create artwork on display in downtown business windows in New Brunswick and Highland Park.