NEWS

MGSA receives largest-ever gift
Mason Gross School of the Arts (MGSA) has received the largest gift in its 49-year history—an anonymous $8.8 million gift to support the school’s ongoing Arts in Health initiatives.

Art & Design alum fuses art and STEM in data visualization career
Lia Petronio (BFA’14) has combined her experience in fine art, research, and coding to become a data visualization engineer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Jazz student named 2025 Quilting Water Undergraduate Prize winner
Undergrad Brandon Mejia will be part of Quilting Water, an international public art initiative that seeks to prompt artists and scholars to consider the relationship between ecological justice and racial justice.

MGSA receives largest-ever gift
Mason Gross School of the Arts (MGSA) has received the largest gift in its 49-year history—an anonymous $8.8 million gift to support the school’s ongoing Arts in Health initiatives.

Alum Sebastian Stan nominated for Oscar, wins acting Golden Globe
Stan (BFA’05) is nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his turn as a young President Donald J. Trump in “The Apprentice.”

Alum composes funeral march performed at ceremonies honoring former President Carter
Andrew Kosinski (BM’20) composed a hymn that has been performed by military bands in the nation’s capital at least four times this week as the country has honored and mourned the 39th president.