In 1983, Allen Shawn was commissioned by Benny Goodman to produce his final classical piece, which will finally be performed by the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra for its world premiere at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.
Backstage.com recently named Mason Gross’s Filmmaking program among the 30 Film Schools You Should Know.
Meet some of the new members of the Mason Gross faculty for the 19-20 academic year.
Recent MFA graduate artist Will Robinson devoted approximately three months to planning, building, and installing his sculpture, The Conversation–Brutalist Song III, on view through October 1 as part of an outdoor public sculpture show.
Here, director John Giampietro, Co-Head of the Opera program at the Mason Gross School, discusses the work–as well as people’s fears of “not getting” opera.
In the several classes he teaches at Franklin dance alum Aaron Ramos is working on dances that he says “people need to see and hear,” with subjects including immigration and the #MeToo movement.
Mason Gross MFA student Kim Griffin shares what life was like as head seamstress for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus two years after the 146-year-old show gave its final curtain call.
The work of mixed-media and book artist Amee Pollack, which she describes as “handmade social commentary,” takes significant political and cultural ideas and presents them on a scale sometimes measured as small as three inches square.
Academy Award-Winner Thomas Lennon joined the Rutgers Filmmaking Center in Fall 2018, heading up the Documentary Film Lab. In December, PBS premiered “Sacred,” a global exploration of religious faith by 40 international filmmakers, which Lennon directed.
“In that risk-taking is where we’re fully alive—we’re fully alive, we’re fully present, we’re open, we’re wide open to chance and opportunity. I tell my students all the time, ‘Take a risk, get messy, try it, turn left...