School of Art In the News
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- April 20, 2022Sculpture NOW 2022 is an annual non-thematic exhibition of new works, finished within the last two years. The exhibition features work by 48 artists from the Mid-Atlantic region. Rooney Prize: an honorarium of $500 will be given to an artist/artist team selected by the juror whose work reflects the best qualities for the overall WSG Sculpture NOW 2022show.
- April 13, 2022The College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) is proud to encourage the continued creative development and expansion of our faculty, offering them time and resources to pursue the interests that energize them beyond their classrooms.
- March 10, 2022In "Undeleted," McDermott curates content found on seven discarded cell phones. The exhibit displays two kinds of found data, intact and deleted—or what people had hoped they had deleted.
- March 10, 2022George Mason University's College of Visual and Performing Arts alumnus Joseph Le talks about his journey from making his own independent films to working on a Marvel Studios blockbuster.
- February 23, 2022Amidst the arcade games, ping pong tables, and neon lights of the Corner Pocket sits a brand-new addition: a mural by art and visual technology student Lecsi Pillar.
- February 13, 2022Walking together: for them and for us brings together a group of 15 artists from Latin America whose work denounces violence against women and the perpetuation of hegemonic models where the subjugation of women has become the norm.
- January 27, 2022Graphic Liberation is an exhibition and poster-making workshop which highlights the role of graphic design in international social change movements, including civil and gender rights, labor, AIDS, punk, hip-hop, and other movements.
- December 14, 2021Lily Patterson knew she wanted to make things when she began her studies at George Mason University. “I just wanted to turn physical things into something that’s really cool and awesome,” she said.
- November 30, 2021Mason School Of Art Alumnus Jeremy Kunkel's Work Featured In 'The Washington Post.'
- November 22, 2021Conjuring Presence is an exhibition of visual art and poetry featuring George Mason University students, faculty, and alumni at the Fenwick Gallery in Fenwick Library on the Fairfax Campus.
- November 8, 2021Carroll Sockwell (1943-1992) was a prominent figure in the Washington, DC art scene in the 1970’s. Often using the simplest of tools–pencil, charcoal, and pastel; Sockwell was an internationally acknowledged master of non-representational abstraction and belongs to the last generation of American Abstract Expressionists, with such influences as Paul Cezanne, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, and Cy Twombly.
- October 18, 2021From October 14th -16th, students and faculty from Mason’s Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program attended the Virginia Art Education Association’s (VAEA) annual conference in Virginia Beach.