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.
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...
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...
Mason Gross Galleries presents retrospective exhibition of modern Chinese sculptor Liu Shiming
Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University is pleased to announce a retrospective exhibition of the renowned modern Chinese sculptor Liu Shiming, whose body of work engages the past and present, the epic, the mythological, and the everyday. The exhibition, LIU SHIMING: Life Gives Beauty Form, features over 80 sculptures made over Shiming’s 60-year career including 20 works that are being exhibited for the first time in the United States. The exhibition also features 12 drawings that illuminate Shiming’s approach to close observational study of the human form and everyday life. The retrospective will run from July 31 through September 22, 2023, with a public reception on September 6 from 5–8 p.m.
Art-science collaboration initiated by Rutgers professors encourages enrollment in NJ SNAP
The windows of the Hudson County Community College (HCCC) library on Sip Avenue in Jersey City have been transformed into a massive work of student art as part of Food Fuels Minds, an interdisciplinary visual project created to raise awareness of and participation in...
Portfolio development program brings New Brunswick High School students to campus
During the fall 2022 semester, Mason Gross School of the Arts and Rutgers Community Arts partnered with the Arts Institute of Middlesex County to present a portfolio development program to New Brunswick High School students. The series of art classes and artist talks,...
Interactive “Interplay” course focuses on collaboration
Introduced at the start of the fall 2022 semester, “Interplay” is designed to bring all five departments together to focus on the themes of play, experimentation, and exploration.
Two Rutgers Professors Named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows
Two Rutgers professors were named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows by The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, which recognizes individuals making their mark in the social sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. David Greenberg, a professor...