Mason Gross School of the Arts

Mason Gross School of the Arts is a division of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey named for Mason W. Gross, the sixteenth president of Rutgers.

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Rutgers University - New Brunswick, New Jersey - Mason W. Gross

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Mason Gross was founded in 1975 as a school of the fine and performing arts within Rutgers and in 1976 became a seperate degree-granting institution from Rutgers itself.

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All fine arts departments at the other Rutgers colleges were merged into Mason Gross in 1981 and as of 2005 has expanded to ten buildings including the Livingston Theater, visual arts studios at the Kilmer campus, and the Downtown Arts Building in the center of New Brunswick. The buildings are all situated within Rutgers' Douglass College campus.

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The Blanche and Irving Laurie Music Library houses approximately 15,000 recordings and 30,000 monographs and scores, serving as a research a nd reference library at all levels.

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