Park McArthur, a conceptual artist and the Tepper Family Endowed Chair in Visual Arts, has been named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in the field of fine arts. McArthur will use her Guggenheim fellowship to complete projects opening in spring 2025 in Austria and Germany....
Website designer and Art & Design alum Heather Pinheiro won the 2022 365: AIGA Year in Design award for Power + Voice, a website that serves as a resource for those seeking reproductive rights access and provides information on the history of the Roe v. Wade case....
Alum Pope.L (William Pope), a conceptual and performance artist who explored themes of race and class, passed away December 23, 2023, at age 68. He earned his MFA in visual arts at Mason Gross in 1981 and was renowned for work that directly connects to the criticality...
Kabi Lama’s ink drawing and mixed media work “Manjushree Hand & Sword” is a bold and chaotic depiction of the creation of Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, inspired by Buddhist scripture. As the story goes, Lama says, the deity slashed through the mountains with his...
Art & Design MFA alum Peggy Chiang’s show “Wasted” — which consists of a single installation titled “Toss in the asphalt” — was included in The New York Times’ list of “What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in February.” Chiang’s sculpture of the...
Didier William, assistant professor of expanded print at Mason Gross, will discuss his mixed-media paintings and the work of fellow Haitian American artist Paul Gardère next week at the Zimmerli Art Museum, where their work is featured in the new exhibition...
The Zimmerli Art Museum presents two events this week at Rutgers University–New Brunswick celebrating Black History Month: On Thursday, February 1, the Zimmerli hosts SparkNight, a free monthly art party that will include tours of exhibitions featuring works by Alonzo...
Filmmaker, media, and performance artist Natalie Romero’s photo series Transitions I, II, and III, made in collaboration with CUNY theater and performance PhD student Melissa Flower-Gladney, explores the connection between humans and the natural world. Photos are arranged on a wall above a semicircle of fresh soil. The images depict fallen trees and free-flowing hair; subjects stand with their feet in the sand or in a bathtub. One photo was taken in the wake of the devastation that Hurricane Maria wrought upon Puerto Rico; another was taken moments after the birth of Flower-Gladney’s child.
Art & Design alum Marissa Paternoster has been named one of the 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by Rolling Stone. Paternoster is the co-founder of the rock band Screaming Females, which was formed in New Brunswick in 2005 while Paternoster was a student....
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.