Mason Gross School of the Arts
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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 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 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) and the sculpture facilities (on the Livingston campus). The school is set to break ground on the Robert E. Mortensen Hall in December 2011. Mortensen Hall will house, among other things, a recital hall for dance and music, a choral rehearsal hall, practice suites, faculty offices and a technology studio for sound recording and engineering.
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.
On average, the school accepts only 19.8% of its applicants per year, making it the most competitive school at Rutgers-New Brunswick for first-year undergraduates.
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
in New Brunswick, New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey
New Brunswick is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA. It is the county seat and the home of Rutgers University. The city is located on the Northeast Corridor rail line, southwest of Manhattan, on the southern bank of the Raritan River. At the 2010 United States Census, the population of...
. It is named for Mason W. Gross
Mason W. Gross
Mason Welch Gross was an American television quiz show personality and academic who served as the sixteenth President of Rutgers University, serving from 1959 to 1971.-Biography:...
, the sixteenth president of Rutgers. Mason Gross offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, Theater 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 was founded in 1976 as a school of the fine and performing arts
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
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) and the sculpture facilities (on the Livingston campus). The school is set to break ground on the Robert E. Mortensen Hall in December 2011. Mortensen Hall will house, among other things, a recital hall for dance and music, a choral rehearsal hall, practice suites, faculty offices and a technology studio for sound recording and engineering.
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.
On average, the school accepts only 19.8% of its applicants per year, making it the most competitive school at Rutgers-New Brunswick for first-year undergraduates.
Notable alumni and faculty
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(Tony-nominated actor, "The Addams Family") - Michael Esper (actor, "American Idiot")
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(musician with Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble) - Mike Dawson (cartoonist)
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(film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress) - Calista FlockhartCalista FlockhartCalista Kay Flockhart is an American actress who is primarily recognized for her work in television. She is best known for playing the title character in the Fox comedy-drama series Ally McBeal for which she won a Golden Globe Award...
(Golden Globe-winning actress, "Ally McBeal," "The Birdcage") - Tina GharaviTina GharaviTina Gharavi is an Iranian/American filmmaker and screenwriter. Gharavi, is known for making innovative films about outsiders, outcasts and marginalised people in extraordinary situations. Best known for her work on diversity, her subjects include migration, terrorism-related discrimination,...
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(design producer, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition") - Sean JonesSean Jones (trumpeter)Sean Jones is an American trumpeter and composer featured on the 2007 Grammy Award-winning Turned to Blue from Nancy Wilson. As a bandleader, Jones has released five albums under the Mack Avenue Records label...
(former lead trumpet in the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra) - Michael Klein (television producer)
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(pop artist) - Raphael Montañez Ortíz (performance artist)
- Adam Mucci (actor, "Boardwalk Empire")
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(actor) - Tom Nozkowski (painter)
- Nell Painter (artist, historian, author, "The History of White People")
- Tom PelphreyTom Pelphrey-Early years:Born in Howell, New Jersey, Pelphrey graduated from Howell High School in 2000, and from Rutgers University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.-Guiding Light:...
(Emmy-winning actor, "Guiding Light," "As The World Turns") - Michael Powell (musician), trombonist in the American Brass QuintetAmerican Brass QuintetWhen the American Brass Quintet gave its first public performance on December 11, 1960, brass chamber music was still relatively unknown to concert audiences...
- Philipe D. Preston (actor)
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(actress, "Third Watch") - Matt Rainey (Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist)
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(actress, singer, "Dreamgirls," "Moesha") - Charles Ray (artist)Charles Ray (artist)Charles Ray is a Los Angeles-based sculptor. He is known for his strange and enigmatic sculptures that draw the viewer’s perceptual judgments into question in jarring and unexpected ways...
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- Rob Ruggiero (Broadway director)
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(actor)*Arnold SteinhardtArnold SteinhardtArnold Steinhardt , is an American violinist, best known as the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet....
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(actor) - Qiang Tu (cellist, New York Philharmonic)
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(actor) - Xin Zhao (first violin, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra)
- John YauJohn YauJohn Yau is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978...
(poet)
Related links
- Mason Gross School of the Arts official website
- MGSA Sculpture
- Art Portal
- Rutgers University