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Amidst 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.

Art is essential to a university's learning environment and invites research partnerships across all disciplines, said George Mason University Curator Don Russell. A new arts space in Arlington—Mason Exhibitions Arlington at 3601 Fairfax Drive—is one such partnership that is already generating a buzz.

Mason is celebrating its first half-century as an independent institution and setting the tone for the next 50 years with a yearlong celebration that includes a week of festivities in April.

Walking together: for them and for us brings together a group of 15 artists from Latin America whose work denounces violence against women and the perpetuation of hegemonic models where the subjugation of women has become the norm.

Shá Norman (They/She) joins George Mason University with over ten years of experience in program administration in education non-profits and higher education institutions. 

The LIVE Center (or the Center for Live Interactive Virtual Education) within George Mason University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts has been approved for a $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This funding will support future programming from this groundbreaking center at Mason: the LIVE Center Mentoring Series.

Graphic Liberation is an exhibition and poster-making workshop which highlights the role of graphic design in international social change movements, including civil and gender rights, labor, AIDS, punk, hip-hop, and other movements.

In December 2021, the College of Visual and Performing Arts opened submissions for 2022-2023’s Young Alumni Commissioning Project (YACP), an annual grant awarded to CVPA alumni in support of projects in film, dance, theater, arts management, visual art, music,