School of Art In the News
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July 5, 2023Eckert Art Gallery at Millersville University is honored to present Sanctuary, My Place in the World, a solo exhibition of exquisite and revelatory, richly layered, and deeply personal large-scale drawings by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz.
June 26, 2023Levee Contemporary is pleased to present It’ll Do Till It Gets Here... an exhibition featuring new paintings and sculpture works by artist Justin Plakas. This collection of vibrant and playful works serves as a reflection on the interconnected themes of loss, love, the transformative journey of new parenthood, and the power of memory.
June 20, 2023Join us on Thursday, June 22, 2023, from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm for “F[ull] Stop: Recalibration,” a thought-provoking roundtable discussion featuring a select group of 2023 Fellowship Awardees. We will delve into the power of art for healing, exploring how these artists incorporate catharsis into their creative practices.
June 20, 2023The Edges of What I Feel, an exhibition by the Healing Artist Collective curated by recently retired Mason professor Peter Winant, features the artwork of an eclectic group of Mason School of Art students and alumni. The diverse group of artists participated in the exhibition with the common goal of healing.
June 12, 2023Brooklyn Museum Presents A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration. This exhibition features 12 acclaimed Black contemporary artists, one being our very own Zoë Charlton.-
June 8, 2023Tribeca Festival and CHANEL today announced the artists selected as part of the 2023 Artist Awards Program. As in previous years, Tribeca and CHANEL bring together esteemed artists to generously donate an original work, which will be awarded to winning filmmakers of the Festival, which runs June 7-18.
May 15, 2023Sisc Johnson, a George Mason University School of Art student and staff member, will be the first in her family to graduate from college this May.
May 12, 2023As a movement and concept, ecological art, or eco art, stretches back decades. And EcoArt has been a part of George Mason University’s School of Art since 2010, thanks to Mark Cooley, associate professor and director of new media.
May 11, 2023Alaa Abu Asad is an artist, researcher, and photographer. Language and plants are central themes through which he develops alternative trajectories where values of (re)presentation, translation, viewing, reading, and understanding can intersect.
May 11, 2023Reynolds was recently featured in The Washington Post in an article titled, “GMU student’s experience as a felon now informs her work as an artist.” The article, written by Olivia McCormack of the Post goes on to say that eighteen years ago, Traci Reynolds became a felon who today is an artist who uses her work as a tool to remind people to, “stop and think about the lives of women who are behind bars.”
May 9, 202320 Art Shows to See in New York This May - Mason art professor, Sue Wrbican, shows 'Bodies We Inhabit And Doctrine Of Signatures'
May 1, 2023George Mason University’s Art and Design Senior Students’ Exhibition opens on May 8, 2023, at the Art & Design Building, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA under the title Kaleidoscope.