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.

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