Christopher Cartmill is an award-winning playwright, actor, and director. He taught for six years at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and has directed plays, operas, and cabarets in New York (off-Broadway), Los Angeles, and Chicago.
BFA student Nora Sadek has created a series of 24″ circular paintings based on the 12 zodiac signs. The series begins with the first sign of the zodiac, Aries, and ends with the last sign, Pisces. Sadek—by the way, she’s a scorpio—says, “When I meet...
Mio Guberinic, costume designer for Madonna, Katy Perry, Saturday Night Live and Batman’s nemesis Bane, is training theater students to create wearable art through the technology of thermoplastics. The instruction takes place in Ellen Bredehoft’s costume crafts class,...
MFA candidate Valerie Suter (above) along with alumni Nell Irvin Painter and Layqa Nuna Yawar have contributed to the Zimmerli Art Museum’s centennial celebration exhibit on the many faces of Paul Robeson. Read more about the exhibition, which runs through April...
Thomas Lennon, the Academy Award-winning head of the Documentary Film Lab at the Rutgers Filmmaking Center, has directed a film that will premiere nationwide on PBS on December 10. Sacred is a feature-length documentary that weaves scenes from around the world by more...
After an eight-month renovation, the subway station at 30th Ave. in Astoria, Queens, has been reopened and features a large glass mural by Mason Gross Art & Design faculty member Stephen Westfall. MTA New York City Transit announced that the 30th Ave. and 36th...
Mason Gross School of the Arts welcomes Didier William to the Department of Art & Design. His appointment begins fall 2019. William is originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He earned a BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in...
The film program at Mason Gross evolved from a certificate program to a full-fledged degree, that trains students in the many facets of filmmaking: research and treatments, cinematography, lighting, field production, directing, script writing and story boarding, editing, and postproduction.