Student artwork featured at Mexico’s first consulate in New Jersey
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.
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Art & Design alum Jason Baerg featured in MGSA’s contemporary Indigenous artist exhibit series
Rutgers University is presenting a solo exhibition by Jason Baerg, MFA Department of Art & Design alum, in the second iteration of our annual exhibition series featuring Contemporary Indigenous artists.
Music alumni perform in pit orchestras across the country this fall
Three Music alumni are performing in pit orchestras this fall: Mariana Ramirez plays electronic percussion and midi keyboard for SIX: The Musical on Broadway; Mikayla Bertelsen plays an array of orchestral percussion instruments with the Broadway Sinfonietta on a...
Design student pitches gender-neutral clothing line for Macy’s
Disha Basu spent her childhood bouncing around the globe. Each time her father relocated the family for work – India, Malaysia, Singapore, London and New Jersey – Basu learned to adapt to a new school, new friends and a new culture. The only constant in her life –...
Alum Alonzo Adams captures contemporary Black experience in new paintings at the Zimmerli
The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers–New Brunswick is presenting Alonzo Adams: A Griot’s Vision, a show of the Art & Design alum’s paintings on view from September 13, 2023, to February 25, 2024. The exhibition features nearly 25 works, including six oil...
Dance student serves as Scarlet Service intern with Trust for the National Mall
Amanda Osborne can’t imagine her life without dance. The daughter and granddaughter of educators says she wants to change people’s lives in the classroom by teaching dance to those who aren’t as lucky as she was growing up. “The teachers around me have altered my...
Meet Rutgers Class of 2027
Tyler Riscoe has the distinction of entering Mason Gross as an award-winning filmmaker. “I love that with each step I feel more confident in my ability,” says Riscoe, one of more than 13,400 first-year and transfer students arriving at Rutgers University this fall....
Interdisciplinary minor in Disability Studies launched
Mason Gross is one of four schools at Rutgers University–New Brunswick collaborating to launch a new minor this fall in interdisciplinary disability studies. The minor is designed to support the lived experience of those with disabilities and examine how society views...
Dance alum’s improv skills serve her well on Capitol Hill
“Employers like my dance background with political science,” says BFA alum Megan Amen, a legislative aide on Capitol Hill. “That background showed I could multi-task and acclimate to different things.”
Alum leads summer program encouraging youth to heal through the arts
Standing on the stage at Paul Robeson Community School for the Arts, several productions are happening at once. Groups of students rehearse their dance steps on stage, in hallways and among chairs in the auditorium for the final presentation. It is a group of about 40...