School of Art In the News
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July 25, 2024A 55-gallon rainwater collection barrel is now the newest addition to the School of Art's Sculpture Studio Yard. The collected rainwater will irrigate a variety of non-edible plants emerging in sculptural form from the nearby drainpipe and other artistic additions to the barrel.
July 1, 2024As a Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Professor Chawky Frenn will conduct international research while teaching at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, in the fall.
June 24, 2024George Mason University has joined the Alliance of Art Research Universities (a2ru) as an institutional member. This action uniquely positions George Mason among other R1 institutions to support an emerging research culture in the arts.
March 26, 2024Prof. Andy Yoder is featured in a new exhibition on April 6, 2024 called 'Strata of Synthesis' at Mono Practice in Baltimore, MD. The work in the exhibition examines the natural world as a fantastical state and proposes connections in historical and contemporary crises relating to intricate layers of domestic and societal narratives.
February 29, 2024The School of Art (SoA) is a dynamic, interdisciplinary unit with a roster of 33 full-time professors and more than 50 adjunct faculty, and over 20 dedicated staff members. Combined, our community represents the breadth of creative practices and art and design focused scholarship.
November 15, 2023Art and visual technology major Keryssa Ward credits her parents for helping her get through a health crisis after her first year at Mason. It's just part of the reason she nominated her family for the Family of the Year.
September 18, 2023The first major museum exhibition devoted to the subject, Multiplicity presents over 80 major collage and collage-informed works that reflect the breadth and complexity of Black identity.
August 27, 2023LaRissa Rogers and Luis Vasquez La Roche’s collaborative project, Operations of Care, reposition a long tradition of reaping from the ground and sustaining oneself from ground provision to offer what Vanessa Agard-Jones articulates as “going to ground” or “ground thoughts” as a birthing place for something we urgently need now
August 18, 2023Two generations and as much as two millennia removed from their sources, the artworks in “Metamorphosis” are paper-pulp castings of plaster replicas of sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome. Previously the property of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the nearly 70 plaster pieces now belong to George Mason University.
August 3, 2023Free student tickets to events at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University.
July 12, 2023MACAM is pleased to host a lecture and workshop by Chawky Frenn, painter, art professor at George Mason University in the United States, and Fulbright Scholar. Join us on Saturday, July 22nd, from 2:30 to 5:30 pm.
July 6, 2023Twenty Works From P. Bruce Marine And Donald Hardy Collection Strengthen Holdings Of Black Artists From The 19th Through 21st Centuries