Composer and pianist Courtney Bryan, who earned a master’s degree in music from Mason Gross School of the Arts, was named today as member of the 2023 Class of MacArthur Fellows. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has administered the prestigious awards,...
Artwork by five Mason Gross Art & Design BFA students is featured in an exhibition at the new home to the Mexican Consulate in New Brunswick–its first headquarters in New Jersey.
Rutgers University is presenting a solo exhibition by Jason Baerg, MFA Department of Art & Design alum, in the second iteration of our annual exhibition series featuring Contemporary Indigenous artists.
Three Music alumni are performing in pit orchestras this fall: Mariana Ramirez plays electronic percussion and midi keyboard for SIX: The Musical on Broadway; Mikayla Bertelsen plays an array of orchestral percussion instruments with the Broadway Sinfonietta on a...
Disha Basu spent her childhood bouncing around the globe. Each time her father relocated the family for work – India, Malaysia, Singapore, London and New Jersey – Basu learned to adapt to a new school, new friends and a new culture. The only constant in her life –...
The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers–New Brunswick is presenting Alonzo Adams: A Griot’s Vision, a show of the Art & Design alum’s paintings on view from September 13, 2023, to February 25, 2024. The exhibition features nearly 25 works, including six oil...
Amanda Osborne can’t imagine her life without dance. The daughter and granddaughter of educators says she wants to change people’s lives in the classroom by teaching dance to those who aren’t as lucky as she was growing up. “The teachers around me have altered my...
Tyler Riscoe has the distinction of entering Mason Gross as an award-winning filmmaker. “I love that with each step I feel more confident in my ability,” says Riscoe, one of more than 13,400 first-year and transfer students arriving at Rutgers University this fall....
Mason Gross is one of four schools at Rutgers University–New Brunswick collaborating to launch a new minor this fall in interdisciplinary disability studies. The minor is designed to support the lived experience of those with disabilities and examine how society views...
“Employers like my dance background with political science,” says BFA alum Megan Amen, a legislative aide on Capitol Hill. “That background showed I could multi-task and acclimate to different things.”