NEWS
Recent News
- Nashville folk/country artist AJAYE to perform free concert
- The Hollywood Reporter ranks film program among top 25
- New to MGSA: Meet a member of the class of 2030
- Alum runs art-making space for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities
- Two Theater alumni nominated for 2026 Emmy Awards
Fall 2026: Meet our new faculty
This year we welcome to our full-time faculty new arrivals in Art & Design, Music, and Theater. Get to know the newest members of our teaching community.
Nashville folk/country artist AJAYE to perform free concert
The concert of AJAYE’s original Americana music, which will also include a short performance by a Rutgers music student, singer-songwriter Sam Tunkel, will take place from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, October 1.
The Hollywood Reporter ranks film program among top 25
The publication has named the Rutgers Filmmaking Center among the top U.S. film schools for 2026, commenting that “Mason Gross School of the Arts is well positioned to train the state’s entertainment workforce.”
New to MGSA: Meet a member of the class of 2030
While applying for colleges last fall, Hana Zemlicka faced two seemingly divergent paths of study: visual arts or astrophysics. At Rutgers, she plans to pursue both.
Alum runs art-making space for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities
As a nonprofit communal art-making space, Studio Route 29, co-founded in Frenchtown, NJ, by Art & Design alum Hop Peternell (MFA’19), aims to cultivate an environment for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities to create self-directed work and to share it with the public.
Two Theater alumni nominated for 2026 Emmy Awards
Tom Pelphrey (BFA’04) is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Season 1 of HBO’s “Task”; Larry W. Brown (MFA’98) is nominated for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Period or Fantasy Series for HBO’s “The Gilded Age.”