School of Art

  • June 12, 2023

    Brooklyn 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, 2023

    Tribeca 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 11, 2023

    Alaa 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, 2023

    Reynolds 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, 2023

    20 Art Shows to See in New York This May - Mason art professor, Sue Wrbican, shows 'Bodies We Inhabit And Doctrine Of Signatures'

  • May 1, 2023

    George 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.

  • February 15, 2023

    At a festive ceremony this evening, Villa Albertine announced the two winners of the first Albertine Translation Prize. Honoring the best contemporary French literature in English translation, the 2022 award went to Isabelle Sorente’s La femme et l’oiseau (JC Lattes), translated by Heather Green (seeking American publisher)...

  • June 20, 2023

    The 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.

  • May 16, 2023

    Murals at Mason commissioned School of Art student Nadya Steare to design two murals that reflect the research focuses of faculty and students at Mason's Potomac Science Center. The staircase mural 'Sediment to Sky' focuses on each layer of the Potomac River watershed, highlighting native flora, fauna, and microorganisms. 

  • May 15, 2023

    Sisc 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.