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 –...
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...
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...
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....
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...
“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.”
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...
This year we welcome to our full-time faculty new arrivals in dance, music, and voice. Get to know the newest members of our teaching community.
Self-described “theater nerd” and “archive rat” Amanda Eubanks Winkler, the new director of our Music Department, shares what inspired her to study English music and theater.
BFA dance alum Anna Gichan explores how accessibility in the arts and beyond can create a world that is fully engaging to all.