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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...
R. Michael Miller, former head of scenic design, taught the craft with a meticulous work ethic and legendary sense of humor
R. Michael Miller, former head of scenic design in the Theater Department who taught at Rutgers for nearly three decades until his retirement in 2019, died February 2, 2024, at age 70. Miller’s work was seen on Broadway (Souvenir, Eminent Domain, The Boys in Autumn),...
Printmaking Helps Visual Arts Grad Student Heal From Traumatic Events
Kabi Lama’s ink drawing and mixed media work “Manjushree Hand & Sword” is a bold and chaotic depiction of the creation of Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, inspired by Buddhist scripture. As the story goes, Lama says, the deity slashed through the mountains with his...
Acting student is on a mission to blur the lines of “what certain identities can play”
Theater student Alena Rose BFA ’24 is blazing a trail for other actors. “The biggest thing for me, especially being a Black plus-sized woman in this industry, is truly actually blurring the lines of what certain identities can play,” says Rose....
Alum Peggy Chiang’s installation featured in NY Times
Art & Design MFA alum Peggy Chiang’s show “Wasted” — which consists of a single installation titled “Toss in the asphalt” — was included in The New York Times’ list of “What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in February.” Chiang’s sculpture of the...
Art & Design professor discusses exhibition of his work at the Zimmerli Art Museum
Didier William, assistant professor of expanded print at Mason Gross, will discuss his mixed-media paintings and the work of fellow Haitian American artist Paul Gardère next week at the Zimmerli Art Museum, where their work is featured in the new exhibition...