Student with disabilities works to expand access in arts spaces
Art & Design student Gabrielle Carmella says seeing the work of “artists who are like me” on view at the university’s Zimmerli Art Museum has been a revelation.
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Alum’s Paul Robeson mural to be unveiled at SHI Stadium
Art & Design alum Alonzo Adams (BFA’84) is set to unveil a massive mural depicting 1919 Rutgers alum Paul Robeson October 19 at the Rutgers’ homecoming football game against UCLA.
Box office gold: Meet MGPAC’s operations manager
“When Federal Work Study students are assigned to us as first-year students, they arrive with a wide variety of life and work experiences,” says Cogan, a 24-year RU employee. “My favorite type of moment is watching the students grow, mature, and learn new skills during their journey as employees at the MGPAC.”
Intro to Arts Leadership cited as one of Rutgers’ “innovative courses”
The Arts Management and Leadership minor, open to all MGSA and SAS students, supports students seeking to gain skills or build careers in arts administration.
Artist Chat Travieso wants students to collaborate with the broader community
“The work is successful when people are engaging with it, whether that’s someone sitting on a bench that I designed, or someone liking the way it looks, or a child finding joy and playing with one of my projects,” Travieso says.
Zimmerli installs sculpture by alum and professor emeritus Patrick Strzelec
Strzelec, an award-winning artist and educator on faculty from 2010 to 2021, says the sculpture, created to honor the university’s class of 1965, “seeks to reflect their magic, their trajectory, their innocence, the fervor to do right.”
Music alum’s album awarded five stars from DownBeat Magazine
Classical composition alum Brian Landrus (PhD’19) is having a banner year: Not only has the sax player been appointed associate professor of jazz composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston; he also released an album awarded a five-star review by DownBeat...
Faculty work featured in Zimmerli exhibit on abstraction
Julie Langsam and Stephen Westfall have work on view from September 11 through July 31, 2025, as part of “Crossing Borders: Geometric Abstraction 1960 to Now.”
Dance alum’s work to screen at N.J. Film Festival
Lecturer and alum Kiana Rosa Fischer’s (BFA’16) “These Years” will be among the short films screened on September 13 at the Fall 2024 New Jersey Film Festival.
Art & Design alum’s billboard on view in NYC
Look for alum Raque Ford’s billboard near the Highline in New York City, a project organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art.