At the age of 27, Pete Petrine saw a nine-foot self-portrait by Chuck Close which changed his life. In his senior semester, as a conflict resolution major at George Mason University, Pete took a drawing class elective and immediately changed his major to fine art.
Ryan McCoy is an artist based in the Washington DC area and a resident artist at Arlington Arts Center. He works in various media but his primary body of work, developed over the last 15 years, includes paintings...
Harold Linton, Full Professor, has served as Director of the School of Art from 2005 – 2013, College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Previously, Harold served as Chairman of the Department of Art at Bradley University, 1998 – 2005...
Jeffrey Kenney is Associate Curator for Mason Exhibitions and the School of Art. Kenney is responsible for coordination of art exhibitions and related programming for the Gillespie Gallery of Art in the Art and Design Building (Fairfax), the Buchanan Atrium Gallery at Buchanan Hall (Fairfax), and the Buchanan Partners Gallery at the Hylton Performing Arts Center (Manassas).
Maria Karametou is a mixed media artist who has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally including at The Ludwig Museum for International Art, Aachen, Germany; The Vorres Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; The National Gallery of Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria; Apartman Projesi, Istanbul Turkey, among many others.
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.
Rahshia Sawyer is a conceptual photographer based in the Washington DC area. She was the 2012 recipient of the Contemporary Talents award from France’s François Schneider Foundation. Exhibited in the 2012 Inaugural Dublin Biennial...
Xang Mimi Ho is a fashion photographer in the Virginia area as well as an adjunct professor at George Mason University. Ho received her Bachelor of Fine Art from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia...
Born in Zahlé, Lebanon, Chawky Frenn lived his formative years in a country that nurtured him not only with mysticism, spirituality and beauty, but also with paradoxes, conflicts, and delusions. Before emigrating to the United States in 1981, he witnessed six years of civil war...
My research and art practice has been centered on five major areas that I have been developing in parallel. It is the idea of Environmental Theater by Richard Schechner; -in situ or contextual theater-, that best describes my art practice.