Once you are graduated from Mason Gross School of the Arts, the world opens up for you. Our alumni are actors, playwrights, dancers, artists, designers, musicians, conductors, composers, choreographers, and teachers. Because of their grounding and training at Mason Gross, they become major contributors to our cultural wealth -- performers and artists very much at home in the creative and scholarly realms.

For example...

Calista Flockhart
Best known for her title role in Ally McBeal, Calista Flockhart graduated from the Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1988. Awarded a Best Actress Golden Globe Award for her work in the Fox TV series, Flockhart has also appeared on Broadway in the 1995 production of The Glass Menagerie.

Derrick Gardner
After playing lead trumpet for the Count Bassie Orchestra and touring Europe as the featured soloist in the Broadway show Black and Blue, Derrick Gardner enrolled at the Mason Gross School of the Arts to complete his master's degree in music. Gardner has also played with Dizzy Gillespie and Tony Bennett.

Although Mason Gross School of the Arts is a young school, the fine and performing arts have had a long and illustrious history at Rutgers. The school's roots include such talents as the late artists George Segal, who studied and taught here and Roy Lichtenstein, who began developing "pop-art" while on faculty in the 1960's. Their presence encouraged the formation of the arts conservatory at Rutgers.

Roy Lichtenstein
Pop art iconoclast Roy Lichtenstein arrived on campus to teach design in 1960. It was at Rutgers that he began experimenting with popular cartoon imagery, and the 1962 faculty show included several of his earliest commercial art parodies.

George Segal
Widely recognized as one of the foremost sculptors of the 20th century, George Segal produces haunting life-sized human shapes frozen awkwardly in familiar environments. Segal came to Rutgers in 1953 as a drawing instructor and received his M.F.A. in 1963.

We'd like to hear from you as well.  Please contact Renita Reichard at alumni@masongross.rutgers.edu with any request or question.  Due to staffing and website transitions, there will be a hiatus on alumni credit updates until fall 2008.