Mason Gross School of the Arts
Create Yourself at Mason Gross
Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University–New Brunswick offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in dance, design, filmmaking, music, theater, and visual arts on an inspiring campus closely networked with the local and NYC arts communities. Join a dynamic community of artists who study, teach, create, perform, and exhibit together. Mason Gross gives you myriad opportunities to explore and refine your craft, on campus and in the larger arts community around the region.
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Choose Your Path
Mason Gross provides the freedom to study, practice, and create in intimate settings as you collaborate with a faculty of professional artists. Students are encouraged to cultivate their own artistic voice while honing the technical skills needed to be masters of their craft.
Degrees and Programs
Mason Gross offers both graduate and undergraduate degree options.
Mason Gross Alumnus Named an Executive Producer for ABC News
Eric Ortega was recently hired by ABC to serve as executive producer of ABC News Live and executive producer of evening programming for the news organization’s streaming channel. With degrees in dance and political science, Ortega has always merged his passions and recognized opportunities to achieve his goals.
Ortega studied dance at Mason Gross School of the Arts and continues to keep his love of the art form alive as an instructor with local studios while working as an executive producer for ABC News.
Music Alumna Wins MacArthur "Genius Grant"
Courtney Bryan was recently named as a member of the 2023 Class of MacArthur Fellows. Bryan, whose socially conscious work is steeped in jazz, classical, and sacred music, studied jazz piano performance at Mason Gross. She is one of 20 new fellows recognized by the foundation.
Bryan credits her time at Mason Gross with exposing her to a wider world of piano styles. Her work has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Program Spotlight: Art and Design
Drawing on the resources of a large public university, the Department of Art & Design at Mason Gross School of the Arts seeks to cultivate a diverse community that values visual literacy, critical dialogue, experimentation, and the skills necessary for sustaining a creative life that can extend well beyond the studio.
Whether you're interested in visual arts or design, Mason Gross offers many undergraduate and graduate degree programs to develop your craft and hone your artistic voice.
Mason Gross Graduate Designs Black History Month T-Shirt for Old Navy
Less than a month after earning her Master of Fine Arts degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts, a t-shirt Grace Lynne Haynes designed for Black History Month hit the racks at Old Navy. After sharing one of her designs on Instagram, Old Navy spotted it and asked Haynes to participate in Project We, a graphic t-shirt series celebrating diversity. The shirt design Old Navy chose became a best seller.
Haynes said her experience at Mason Gross helped her take risks, refine her voice as an artist, understand the psychology of color, and verbalize her work with more clarity.
Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London Celebrates 20 Years
Now in its 20th year, the marquee study-abroad program founded as a partnership with the Globe, an international education and research center, immerses third-year acting and design students in all things Shakespeare and theater.
"Studying at the Globe, I was immersed in a community of artists whose love of language, knowledge of theatrical history, and commitment to technique made me excited to work with them and learn from them," said Jasmine Carmichael, who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mason Gross in 2011.
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