Student designs two recent New Yorker covers
Painter Grace Lynne Haynes has created two covers featuring Black women for “The New Yorker” in the span of one month.
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Rutgers welcomes Class of 2024
Painter Deena Jahama is among the incoming students featured in a Rutgers Today welcome to the Class of 2024.
Alum creates public mural celebrating multiculturalism
To Break Bread, Raul Ayala, 18-feet-by-9-feet, acrylic paint on Polytab. Photo Credit: Raul Ayala In the sweltering heat of late July, MFA Art & Design grad Raul Ayala scaled a ladder erected outside a two-story building and realized a long-standing goal:...
Dance launches Big Ten collaboration
Dance Department chair and artistic director Julia M. Ritter is helming an initiative called the Big Ten UniDanceHub as a way to provide a substantive learning experience and to enhance alumni, faculty, and student ties across the Big Ten.
Alum’s installation part of outdoor exhibit at The Clark Art Institute
Art & Design alum Jennie C. Jones’s “These (Mournful) Shores” is on view in a site-responsive outdoor exhibition at the The Clark Art Institute in the Berkshires.
Five Questions for Didier William
Department of Art & Design’s Didier William joined the faculty in the fall as a professor of expanded print. The New York Times said that William’s works “incorporate collage, oil paint, and acrylic as well, making them as multifarious as the Afro-Caribbean diaspora itself.”
Visual artist Joy Johnson boasts more than 58,000 Instagram followers
Meet Joy Johnson, comic artist, devoted My Chemical Romance fan, and a first-year student in the Department of Art & Design’s BFA in Visual Arts program.
Visual artist Alessandra Puglisi presents final thesis project in reflection of Sicilian roots
Graduating BFA student Alessandra Puglisi reflects on the three major pillars of Sicilian life: family, food, and faith in her thesis project.
Mason Gross alum Dave Cicirelli moves art installation into VR amidst COVID-19 pandemic
When Dave Cicirelli, an alum of the Department of Art & Design, had his Manhattan gallery debut interrupted by the COVID-19 crisis, he had to pivot quickly to present his work in a different medium.
Art & Design Professor Steffani Jemison named 2020 Guggenheim Fellow
Department of Art & Design media professor Steffani Jemison is one of 175 scholars, artists, writers, and scientists named Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellows.