Fall 2022: Meet Our New Faculty
This year we welcome to our full-time faculty new arrivals in dance, filmmaking, photography, acting, music education, and orchestra conducting. Get to know the newest members of our teaching community.
NEWS
Art & Design alum helps communities in southwestern U.S. with conservation work
Johanna Cordasco enjoys working with her hands. It’s why the recent Rutgers University graduate was a visual arts major in the Department of Art and Design at the Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, N.J., where she concentrated on sculpture. It’s also why...
Mason Gross events return to the stage at NBPAC for fall 2022 semester
The fall semester at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC) features contemporary dance, as well as jazz and various film showcases. As of June 1, 2022, NBPAC no longer requires proof of vaccination to attend a performance at NBPAC. Face masks are still...
Faculty member Steven Kemper composes music for interactive COVID memorial
Steven Kemper, interim director of the Music Department and head of music technology, has partnered with NJ Advance Media and the New Jersey Youth Symphony to create the soundtrack for In Memoriam: COVID in New Jersey, an interactive memorial dedicated to the more...
Mason Gross artist honored for work sketching struggling populations in New Brunswick
Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University In September 2020, Mason Gross School of the Arts Art & Design student Tehyla McLeod grabbed her sketchbook and headed to the New Brunswick Train Station. Her goal: create portraits of the displaced and struggling community of...
Mason Gross celebrates the Class of 2022
This year, for the first time since 2019, Mason Gross School of the Arts hosted an in-person convocation ceremony. Approximately 260 undergraduate and graduate students attended the event, which took place on May 16 at the State Theatre in downtown New Brunswick. BFA...
Students Teach Social Justice Through Dance to Children in New Brunswick
Every Wednesday after school this spring, students at the Paul Robeson Community School for the Arts in New Brunswick have been moving, dancing, leaping, and twisting, all while learning about community, emotions, and identity. “Kinetic Connections,” a 10-week program...
Gerald Casel appointed chair of Dance Department
Photo credit: Katherine Helen Fisher Bessie Award-winning dance artist Gerald Casel has been named professor and chair of the Mason Gross School’s Dance Department. Casel comes to Rutgers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he currently serves...
Remembering dance faculty Kim Elliott
“I will never be the institution. It’s not in my DNA to. But it’s always in my DNA to contribute and to move the institution forward. Because that’s what hip-hop is. Hip-hop is a way of living.” Assistant Professor Kim Elliott died on March 23, 2022. In...
Rutgers Giving Day: 3.23.22
Thank you to everyone who supported Mason Gross School of the Arts on Giving Day. Your donations will make a difference in the lives of Rutgers students, and we are grateful for your support! Below are the three funds we highlighed this year. These funds support all...