NEWS
Recent News
- School receives grant to expand arts access
- Alum’s album translates bioelectrical signals from plants into music
- Students, alumni collaborate on film spotlighting rising sea levels
- Students design limited-edition Rutgers merchandise
- Ian Koebner named inaugural chair and endowed professor in Arts in Health
Mason Gross School of the Arts Announces New Dean
We are thrilled to welcome the next Dean of Mason Gross School of the Arts, Jason Geary, to Rutgers!
Watch the Chamber Jazz 1 Ensemble perform on WBGO
Jazz radio station WBGO 88.3/Newark Public Radio invited several students to New York City to record selections that aired in April, as part of the station’s Jazz Appreciation Month celebration.
Two Art & Design professors named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows
Marc Handelman was recognized in the Fine Arts category, Miranda Lichtenstein in the Photography category. They are among 198 fellows selected this year from a pool of nearly 3,500 across 53 disciplines.
Art & Design alum’s rooftop installation at The Met features “acoustic sculptures”
Jennie C. Jones’s (MFA’96) sculptural installation “Ensemble” is on view in New York City as this year’s Roof Garden Commission at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Every day is Earth Day in Theater faculty’s upcycling class
Costume Director Denise Wagner’s class on fast fashion helps students understand the work that goes into making their clothes.
Art & Design alum fuses art and STEM in data visualization career
Lia Petronio (BFA’14) has combined her experience in fine art, research, and coding to become a data visualization engineer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.