School of Art In the News
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June 7, 2022The 15 students in the special topics class Facial Reconstruction started the semester with a generic plastic skull. Week by week, they sculpted different parts of their own faces, creating a portrait of themselves in clay and learning the forensic skills needed to put a face on a skull.
June 3, 2022Studio Thinking 3 is a new edition of a now-classic text, a research-based account of teaching and learning in high school studio arts classes. It poses a framework that identifies eight habits of mind taught in visual arts and four studio structures by which they are taught.
June 2, 2022George Mason University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) is pleased to announce the recipients of the fourth round of its Young Alumni Commissioning Project Awards.
May 9, 2022Sixty-nine students graduating with bachelor’s degrees in Art and Visual Technology present their final work at the Senior Art & Design Show in George Mason University’s School of Art.
May 6, 2022School of Art professor Christopher Kardambikis was determined to focus his operations and curriculum on printmaking processes that are nontoxic, energy efficient, and supportive of the repurposing of paper scraps into new usable sheets.
April 28, 2022Mason School of Art graduate student Jax Ohashi is one of six graduate students in the state of Virginia to receive a 2022-23 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) Visual Arts Fellowships.
April 25, 2022Suspended Inter-Spaces is a group exhibition coordinated by Helen Frederick and Amelia Hankin in collaboration with the VisArts curatorial staff members Frank McCauley, Susan Main, and Megan Koeppel.
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.