Mason Gross celebrates the Class of 2024
This year’s Mason Gross School of the Arts convocation ceremony was held on May 9 at the State Theatre in downtown New Brunswick, where the Class of 2024 crossed the stage to receive their degrees.
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Zimmerli Art Museum hosts virtual talk with Park McArthur
The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers–New Brunswick and the Department of Art & Design at Mason Gross present a special lecture on June 11 with Park McArthur to mark the culmination of her term as Tepper Family Endowed Chair at Rutgers University. McArthur, a 2024...
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Nancy Yunhwa Rao elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Distinguished Professor and head of music theory, is one of three Rutgers professors elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) this year. Rao is included in the Humanities and Arts in the Field of Performing Arts category for her...
Rutgers Filmmaking Center makes Variety’s list of top film schools in North America
Variety has included the Rutgers Filmmaking Center in its 2024 list of top film schools in North America, which is compiled each year by the entertainment business publication. Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts offers a myriad of programs and...
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Senior co-founds Rutgers Rainbow Symphony, university’s first collective of all queer musicians and allies
Mal Malone knew she was a musician long before she knew she was a trans woman. Nearly a decade after picking up the recorder in elementary school, the Mason Gross School of the Arts bass trombone player embraced her full identity as a queer musician last year. After...
Alumna Creates Award-Winning Web Resource for Reproductive Rights
Website designer and Art & Design alum Heather Pinheiro won the 2022 365: AIGA Year in Design award for Power + Voice, a website that serves as a resource for those seeking reproductive rights access and provides information on the history of the Roe v. Wade case....
Park McArthur Named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
Park McArthur, a conceptual artist and the Tepper Family Endowed Chair in Visual Arts, has been named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in the field of fine arts. McArthur will use her Guggenheim fellowship to complete projects opening in spring 2025 in Austria and Germany....
“He ceaselessly challenged us to think.” – Tributes to alum and artist Pope.L
Alum Pope.L (William Pope), a conceptual and performance artist who explored themes of race and class, passed away December 23, 2023, at age 68. He earned his MFA in visual arts at Mason Gross in 1981 and was renowned for work that directly connects to the criticality...