Studio Foundations Faculty

  • Brian Barr

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Brian Barr is an artist and independent curator from Detroit, MI, currently based in Richmond, VA. His work explores the space between function, meaning and aesthetics.
  • Rebecca Basch

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Bekí Basch is an interdisciplinary artist who creates objects and experiential installations in the context of field research and ruminations on psychospirituality. Using a vocabulary associated with simulated environments and curated experiences (museums, aquariums, ice rinks, dioramas, artifacts), she draws together personally resonant and ostensibly disparate elements to express a new narrative of interconnectivity and possibility.
  • Brian Davis

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Brian Davis lives and works in Northern Virginia. Born in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, Mr. Davis was raised in Guam and South Carolina. He teaches New Media and Sculpture at The George Washington University and George Mason University.
  • Rachel Debuque

    Associate Professor, Director of Studio Foundations, Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Art, CVPA

    Rachel Debuque is an artist and designer who focuses on sculpture, installation, and performance work. She has an extensive national exhibition record including shows at The Cue Foundation (New York, NY), Institute of Contemporary Art (Baltimore, MD), and Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA).
  • Mary del Popolo

    Assistant Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    Mary Del Popolo’s specializations include drawing, painting and mixed media, with expertise in color pedagogy. Prior to her position in the School of Art, Del Popolo was a faculty member at the Corcoran College of Art and Design and Howard University’s Fine Arts department...
  • Natalie Guerrieri

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Natalie Guerrieri is an artist that specializes in Painting, Drawing, Mixed Media, and Collage. She has been faculty at the George Mason University School of Art since 2005 where she has taught Drawing I, II, and Studio Foundations.
  • Nataliya Gurshman

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Nataliya has been teaching college-level students at NOVA and privately for over 20 years. She has established a Pre-College Art Portfolio small business and has been preparing students for art school admissions with a great success.
  • Mallory Kimmel

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Mallory Kimmel is a Washington-D.C.-based artist, who makes conceptual furniture to address exclusionary design practices. She focuses on disrupting loopholes used to deny human rights.
  • Robert Yi

    Assistant Director of the School of Art, Assistant Professor, Academic Advisor, School of Art, CVPA

    Robert Yi was born in Seoul, South Korea, and immigrated to the United States at the age of four. He received his MFA from American University, graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in Foreign Affairs and the Corcoran College of Art & Design with a BFA.