Faculty F

  • Tanner Fant

    Adjunct Faculty (Jazz), School of Dance, CVPA

    Tanner Fant is a Mississippi native who has devoted her life to advocacy through dance and the performing arts. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Alabama with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and minor in psychology.
  • Ana Farnham

    Assistant Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    Ana Farnham is a multimedia designer and educator with a broad range of specialties within the design world. She believes in the accessibility of multi-modal design. Her research focuses on experiential graphic design with accessibility at its core.
  • Rob Farr

    Adjunct Faculty, Film and Video Studies, CVPA

    Adjunct Faculty, Film and Video Studies, CVPA
  • photo of Taylor Fleshman with her harp against blue background

    Adjunct Faculty, HARP, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Praised by the Pizzicato Magazine as “enchanting,” Taylor Ann Fleshman is an award-winning soloist and active ensemble performer with a diverse performance history. Prof. Fleshman performed the world premiere of Mosolov’s Harp Concerto with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra in Russia and recorded the work with Naxos Records in 2019
  • Adjunct Faculty, CELLO, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Gerald Fowkes, cellist and conductor, is a graduate of Louisiana State University where he graduated summa cum laude in Cello Performance.
  • Edward Fraedrich

    Adjunct Faculty, SAXOPHONE, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Ed Fraedrich, saxophone, joined the faculty of GMU in the fall of 2011 after having established a successful private studio in the area. He has performed solos with many ensembles, including the National Symphony Orchestra and the Fairfax Wind Symphony.
  • Adjunct Faculty, TROMBONE, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Katie Franke, tenor trombonist, is the newly appointed adjunct applied trombone professor of George Mason University’s Dewberry School of Music, effective Fall 2024 semester. In October 2023, Katie Franke commenced her role as the first-ever female trombonist and low brass player in the history of the “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band. As a member of “The President’s Own,” she regularly performs at ceremonies and concerts at the White House, as well as around the D.C. area and throughout the United States.
  • Kirstin Franko

    Associate Director of Communications and Content, CFA, Hylton, CVPA

    Kirstin Franko brings nearly two decades of communication strategy within the arts to the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
  • Helen Frederick

    Professor Emeritus, School of Art, CVPA

    Helen Frederick is recognized as a distinguished artist, curator, educator, coordinator of international projects, and as founder of Pyramid Atlantic, a center for contemporary printmaking, hand papermaking and the art of the book.
  • Jeremy Freer

    Green Machine Associate Director and Music Technology/Theory, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Jeremy Freer is Administrative Faculty and is Associate Director of Green Machine Ensembles and works closely with Dr. Glenn Smith with the Music and Wellness program. He has taught Music in Motion Pictures, Popular Music Arranging, Jazz History, and Brass Techniques for the School of Music and teaches student arrangers, acoustic groups, photobombing techniques, and rock bands for the nationally acclaimed Green Machine.