Mason Gross School of the Arts is the arts conservatory at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It is named for Mason W. Gross, the sixteenth president of Rutgers. Mason Gross offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, Theater, Digital Filmmaking, and Visual Arts, Bachelor of Music, Master of Fine Arts in Theater and Visual Arts, Master of Education in Dance, Master of Music, Doctor of Musical Arts, Artist Diploma in Music, and MA and Ph.D. in composition, theory, and musicology. Mason Gross recently introduced a new program in the Visual Arts that offers a Bachelor of Design.
Mason Gross was founded in 1976 as a school of the fine and performing arts within Rutgers and in 1976 became a separate degree-granting institution from the other Undergraduate colleges.
All fine arts departments at the other Rutgers colleges were merged into Mason Gross in 1981 and as of 2005 has expanded to more than 20 buildings, including the spacious visual arts studios at the Livingston campus and the Civic Square Building in the center of New Brunswick and a variety of performing-arts spaces. The buildings are all situated within Rutgers' Douglass College campus with the exception of the Civic Square Building (on Livingston Avenue) in the city's Civic Square government and theatre district and the sculpture facilities (on the Livingston campus).
The Blanche and Irving Laurie Music Library houses approximately 15,000 recordings and 30,000 monographs and scores, serving as a research and reference library at all levels.
The Mason Gross School of the Arts has more than 500 events taking place annually on campus, alongside classes, rehearsals and numerous recreational activities.
Has an 18% application acceptance rate.
Notable alumni and faculty
- Marissa Paternoster (lead singer, Screaming Females)
- Sebastian Stan (actor, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Martian, Political Animals, Broadway's "Talk Radio" and "Picnic")
- Atif Akin (artist, designer)
- Emma Amos (painter)
- Andrea Anders (actress, "Mr. Sunshine," "Joey")
- Alice Aycock (sculptor)
- Roger Bart (Tony-Winning actor, "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown," "The Producers," "Desperate Housewives")
- Natalie Bookchin (media artist)
- Bill Bowers (mime artist and actor)
- Avery Brooks (actor, jazz and opera singer, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine")
- Kevin Chamberlin (Tony-nominated actor, "The Addams Family," Disney Channel's "Jessie")
- Michael Esper (actor, Broadway's "American Idiot")
- Paul Cohen (classical-contemporary saxophonist/saxophone historian)
- Mike Colter (actor, "Million Dollar Baby," "The Good Wife," "Marvel's Jessica Jones," "Marvel's Luke Cage")
- Kristin Davis (Emmy-nominated actress, "Sex and the City")
- Mike Dawson (cartoonist)
- Tim DeKay (actor, "White Collar," "Carnivale," "Tell Me You Love Me")
- Calista Flockhart (Golden Globe-winning actress, "Ally McBeal," "The Birdcage")
- Derrick Gardner (jazz trumpeter)
- Nancy Gustafson (soprano, faculty)
- Israel Hicks (1943-2010), stage director who presented August Wilson's entire 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle.
- Sean Jones (former lead trumpet in the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra)
- Jane Krakowski (actress)
- Allan Kaprow (artist) American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art (August 23, 1927 â€" April 5, 2006)
- Roy Lichtenstein (pop artist)
- Linda Lindroth (artist)
- Ardele Lister (media artist)
- Raphael Montañez OrtÃz (performance artist)
- Tarik O'Regan (composer)
- Nell Painter (artist, historian, author, The History of White People)
- Cristina Pato (musician with Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble)
- Tom Pelphrey (Emmy-winning actor, "Guiding Light," "As The World Turns"; Broadway's "End of the Rainbow")
- Tara Platt (voice actress)
- William Pope.L (performance artist)
- Molly Price (actress, "Third Watch," Broadway's "Death of a Salesman")
- Sheryl Lee Ralph (actress, singer, "Dreamgirls," "Moesha")
- Charles Ray (artist)
- Harry Romero (DJ and record producer known as "Harry Choo Choo Romero")
- Martha Rosler (artist)
- Gary Schneider (artist)
- George Segal (artist) (painter and sculptor)
- Dave Sirulnick (MTV executive)
- Joan Snyder (artist)
- Keith Sonnier (minimalist, performance, video and light artist)
- Terell Stafford (jazz trumpeter)
- Aaron Stanford (actor)*Arnold Steinhardt (first violinist, Guarneri Quartet)
- Terrell Tilford (actor)
- James Tupper (actor, "Men In Trees," "Grey's Anatomy")
- Dietlinde Turban Maazel (actor, faculty)
- Stephen Westfall (painter)
- John Yau (poet)
- Brandon Flynn (actor, 13 Reasons Why)
See also
- List of university and college schools of music
References
Related links
- Official website
- Design Area
- MGSA Sculpture
- Art Portal
- Rutgers University
