As a costume designer and illustrator, Shane Ballard says his life “revolves around clothes.” He’s worked on concepts for theater, film, and television—including NBC’s The Wiz Live!; the musical Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations, and the 2017 HBO film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
See a day in the life of choreographer and BFA ’11 dance graduate Kyle Marshall who received the 2018 NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Jury Award and is a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Award recipient.
In the fall of 2019, Mason Gross made its NBPAC debut which accommodates musical theater, orchestral, dance, opera, and theatrical productions, film screenings, and more.
Dean Geary provides details about the coming changes for the fall 2020 semester at Mason Gross.
In the calm and quiet of winter break on campus, Dana Caspersen encourages students to “step into messy situations” in the light-filled Nicholas Dance Studios on the Douglass Campus.
Read a message from Dean Geary, who was welcomed as the new dean of Mason Gross School of the Arts.
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.”
A COVID-19 educational video series being produced by the Rutgers Global Health Institute Student Council, led by committee co-chair Laura Palm, a medical school graduate and current DMA student.
MA Composition student Stephanie Leotsakos was named the winner of the Vocal Composition Award from the Masterwork Music and Art Foundation. The award was designed to aid an emerging singer with their career aspirations and development.
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.