Art Faculty and Staff

  • Rick Heffner

    Assistant Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    Fresh from design school, Rick got his start at one of D.C.’s premier design firms, Supon Design Group. He then moved on to be one of the initial members of the design team for Discovery Communications as Senior Design Manager.
  • Jordan Higgins

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Jordan has been designing websites and digital experiences since the early days of the World Wide Web. Inspired and excited by the potential for people to connect with each other around the world, Jordan went to work as a web designer helping people realize the potential of the web as a new medium for entertainment, education, and business.
  • Xang Ho

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    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...
  • Kay Hwang

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Kay Hwang is a multidisciplinary artist who works and lives in Great Falls, VA with her family and a rescued dog, Mr.Kite. Past several year, she has been working mostly on Schematic Drawing series on sheets of Denril exploring the idea of building meditative visual unit through very much ordered & calculated profusion of geometric forms.
  • Sisc Johnson

    Assistant Director of Operations and Business, School of Art, CVPA

    Sisc Johnson joined the staff of the School of Art in 2023 as the Assistant Director of Operations and Business. Sisc graduated from George Mason University with a BFA in Photography.
  • Jessica Kallista

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Jessica Kallista is an artist working in collage, video, sound, and performance. She is also an educator, curator, and gallerist. She received her MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in poetry from George Mason University in 2002.
  • Christopher Kardambikis, photo by Elizabeth Kartchner

    Associate Professor and Director of Studio Art, School of Art, CVPA

    Photo credit: Elizabeth Kartchner

    Christopher Kardambikis explores space, process, and form through books, printmaking, and drawing. He has co-founded three artist book and zine projects: Encyclopedia Destructica in Pittsburgh, Gravity and Trajectory in San Diego, and 90 Proof Press in Los Angeles.
  • Melissa Kehoe

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Kehoe creates object-based performances and site-specific installation, often incorporating duration, social engagement and adaptive reuse of materials as defining artistic elements.
  • Jeff Kenney

    Associate Curator for Mason Exhibitions and School of Art, CVPA

    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).
  • Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Peter Kery is an adjunct faculty member at CVPA School of Art at George Mason University.