School of Art

The National Art Education Association has named Justin Sutters, of Herndon, VA, to receive the 2021 Southeastern Region Higher Education Art Educator Award.

"For Nearly Six Decades, GDUSA Has Started Each Year By Choosing A Group of People to Watch Who Embody The Spirit of the Creative Community.

Every year, the College Art Association of America hosts a CAA Conference. This conference provides the value of shared scholarship, research, and practice among members and those dedicated to the visual arts. 

Rachel Debuque will present in the CAA Session “Art Foundations: Core Values and Remote Learning”. Debuque will be presenting “Building a Curriculum Centered on Inclusion.”

School of Art professor Andy Yoder’s work at the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont is featured in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and NY Observer. 

It takes only a brief tour of their art-filled home in Alexandria, Virginia to appreciate the way that art shapes the lives of George Mason supporters Gardner and Stevie Gillespie.

Mason artist in residence Abdulrahman “Abi” Naanseh studied interior design at Damascus University in Syria, but his true passion is art, specifically Arabic calligraphy.

The 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.

School 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.

In "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.