As a nonprofit communal art-making space, Studio Route 29, co-founded in Frenchtown, NJ, by Art & Design alum Hop Peternell (MFA’19), aims to cultivate an environment for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities to create self-directed work and to share it with the public.
Tom Pelphrey (BFA’04) is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Season 1 of HBO’s “Task”; Larry W. Brown (MFA’98) is nominated for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Period or Fantasy Series for HBO’s “The Gilded Age.”
This year we welcome to our full-time faculty new arrivals in Art & Design, Music, and Theater. Get to know the newest members of our teaching community.
Art & Design alum Hannah Finkelshteyn and Filmmaking student Aakef Khan will be honored at the Washington National Cathedral on July 3 as part of the nation’s 250th-anniversary celebration.
Min Kwon’s Laureate project, entitled America/Beautiful – Reimagining our Nation, Its Democracy and Civic Engagement through the Arts, aims to build and expand her America/Beautiful project.
Amanda MacLeod’s credits include “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Westworld,” “Hocus Pocus 2,” and a Super Bowl LX Liquid Death commercial.
Min Kwon, head of piano and professor in the Music Department, has been named Rutgers–New Brunswick Laureate. Kwon will hold the Laureate position through the 2026–27 academic year.
The class of 2026 said their goodbyes to Mason Gross on May 14 with a ceremony at the State Theatre New Jersey in downtown New Brunswick. See more photos, and view the livestream recording.
“Don’t sweat the small stuff. Being able to let things go may be the most important skill you can have in this business. And in life.” Read more tips from acting alum Bianca Leigh (Broadway’s “Oh, Mary!”).
Maya Ramdayal has worked to make the Theater Department’s scene shop more environmentally friendly. As a part of that effort, the department has forged a partnership with the Broadway Green Alliance to implement best practices behind the scenes.