Website: https://vmpa.rutgers.edu

Visual, Media, and Performing Arts

Chair: Kenneth Elliott

Undergraduate Program Coordinator: Joseph C. Schiavo

Administrative Assistant: Zulma Rodriguez

Program Manager: Stass Shpanin

Professors:

Julianne Baird, B.A., M.A., Eastman School of Music (Rochester); Graduate Diploma Mozarteum, Salzburg (Austria); Ph.D., Stanford

Allan Espiritu, B.A., Rutgers; M.F.A., Yale

LiQin Tan, B.A., Hunan (China); M.A., Concordia; Postgraduate Certificate, Sheridan College

Associate Professors:

Paul Bernstein, B.A., Ithaca College; M.F.A., California (Davis)

Elizabeth Demaray, B.A., M.F.A., California (Berkeley); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

Kenneth Elliott, B.S., M.A., Northwestern; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)

Cyril Reade, B.F.A., Lavel (Quebec); M.F.A., Montreal; Ph.D., Rochester

Joseph C. Schiavo, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers

Assistant Teaching Professors:

Robert A. Emmons, D.Litt., Drew; M.A., Rutgers

Ken Hohing, B.A., Rutgers; Postgraduate Certificate, Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Germany); Postgraduate Certificate, Gesamthochschule Kassel (Germany)

Chinghsin Wu, B.A., M.A., National Taiwan; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)

Teaching Instructors:

Stefán Örn Arnarson, M.M., Michigan

James H. Mobley, M.F.A., West Virginia

Stass Shpanin, M.F.A., Temple (Tyler School of Art)

Professors Emeriti:

Zeke Berlin, B.A., Temple; M.F.A., Yale; Ph.D., New York

John J. Giannotti, B.F.A., SUNY (Buffalo); M.F.A., Rutgers

William M. Hoffman Jr., B.F.A., Pennsylvania; M.F.A., Temple (Tyler School of Art)

Olga Moore, B.A., Roosevelt; M.A., Wisconsin; M.F.A., Art Institute of Chicago

Martin Rosenberg, B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania

Roberta K. Tarbell, B.S., Cornell; M.A., Ph.D., Delaware

Visual, Media, and Performing Arts includes major programs in the visual arts, art history, music, and theater. The art program offers areas of concentration in animation, arts education, art therapy, graphic design, intermedia and electronic arts, painting and drawing, photography, and sculpture. The art history program offers courses in museum studies in addition to an inclusive curriculum that covers Western and non-Western art. Music students can concentrate in the areas of composition and music technology, theories and histories, performance, and music education. The theater program offers concentrations in acting, design and technology, musical theater, and filmmaking. A combined five-year art/music/or theater education program--bachelor of arts (B.A.) and master of arts in teaching (M.A.T.)--is designed for students interested in active careers as practitioners and educators. Minor programs are available in each area. Major requirements for each of the programs can be completed only through daytime attendance. Additional information about the programs can be obtained from the department office on the second floor, Fine Arts Building.

All students at Rutgers University-Camden are encouraged to take arts courses to enhance programs of study in other areas. Prospective majors and minors in some of the areas in art, music, or theater may be required to take placement exams, audition, or submit a portfolio, as appropriate to the area of study, at the discretion of the faculty. For more information, contact the department's office, 856-225-6176.