  {"id":90,"date":"2017-06-15T17:35:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/?page_id=90"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:27:13","slug":"message-from-the-dean","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/aboutthecollege\/message-from-the-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve arrived at this webpage, chances are good that you\u2019re interested in some aspect of the visual and performing arts. Well, you\u2019ve come to the right place. More than 2,000 students are pursuing degrees in the College of the Arts in over forty majors, minors and concentrations. And those cover virtually every area of art and design, music, and theater and dance.<\/p>\n<p>So whether you see yourself onstage or backstage, in front of a camera or a classroom, at a piano keyboard playing a Beethoven sonata or at a computer keyboard designing The Next Big Thing, the College of the Arts has a program for you.<\/p>\n<p>But you know the old expression \u201cseeing is believing.\u201d So I invite you to come to our beautiful campus in Montclair, New Jersey and see first-hand the kinds of truly exciting things that are happening here. In the meantime, keep connecting with us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/montclair_cart\/\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MontclairCART\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll see you at Montclair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Gurskis<\/strong><br \/>\nDean, College of the Arts<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"cartcomms@montclair.edu\">Email CART with feedback, questions or comments<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome. If you\u2019ve arrived at this webpage, chances are good that you\u2019re interested in some aspect of the visual and performing arts. Well, you\u2019ve come to the right place. More than 2,000 students are pursuing degrees in the College of the Arts in over forty majors, minors and concentrations. And those cover virtually every area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":1138,"parent":54,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-90","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210913,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90\/revisions\/210913"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}