For art students, evaluations of their work by faculty can be a nerve-wracking experience.
Steffani Jemison, an associate professor with the Department of Art and Design at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, also noticed how students had limited time to connect with each other and their teachers: Some art classes run six hours long and many students either commute or are transfers adjusting to a new setting.
Middlesex County awarded the school’s Pop-Up Arts Across Middlesex County initiative $19,000 to widen the scope and impact of the program, which seeks to promote and sustain community engagement among MGSA students. The next phase of Pop-Up Arts kicks...
Eric Ortega keeps his foot in multiple worlds, whether working as an executive producer for ABC News or keeping his love of dance alive as an instructor with local studios.Ortega was recently hired by ABC to serve as executive producer of ABC News Live with Linsey...
Less than a month after earning her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, a T-shirt Grace Lynne Haynes designed for Black History Month hit the racks at Old Navy.Haynes is the latest artist of color to partner with Old Navy’s Project We graphic tee series...
Photo: Zack DeZon, courtesy Public Art Fund; Artwork: Layqa Nuna Yawar, Between the Future Past, 2021-22 Acrylic paint and inkjet print on fabric mounted to aluminum panel 18’h x 350’ w Commissioned by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey...
Recent BFA Filmmaking alum Sam Spencer’s short autobiographical documentary film We Are Suns has been selected for screening at the Montclair Film Festival on October 25. The film follows Spencer and a fellow MGSA student cross-country. Spencer, who hasn’t seen his father in years, sets off on this road trip to find him. He and his best friend grapple with what it means to love a father and to lose him.
“Exploring human stories against the backdrop of science has consistently reminded me of the value in leaving my intellectual, artistic, and narrative comfort zones to put my mind in the most personally unlikely places.” Shawn Snyder is an assistant...
Mason Gross School of the Arts is partnering with the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the Rutgers School of Engineering on a multimedia concert event, Deep Blue: The Beauty of Our Water...
Maiwenn Raoult for The New York TimesTheater alum Midori Francis has been cast as Mika, one of the new medical residents in the 19th season of ABC’s long-running hit series Grey’s Anatomy. Francis also stars in HBO’s The Sex Lives of College Girls.In...
“I am concerned with the historical processes, both visible and invisible, that shape performance traditions, musical imagination, and compositional strategies, as well as theoretical inquiries.” Dr. Nancy Yunhwa Rao is a music theorist and musicologist...
