CVPA faculty

Britney Ordonez Lavine is the new Photo Lab Manager at the School of Art Photography department at George Mason University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Zahra Carpenter, a Washington, D.C. native, is a dance educator advocating for safe dance environment guidelines, onsite or local dance healing practitioners, and acceptance for many minority dancers.

Maya Harr grew up in Alexandria, Virginia where she studied ballet at The Washington School of Ballet under the tutelage of Kee Juan Han, former LINES Ballet company dancer, Kristina Windom and award-winning choreographer Mimmo Miccolis.

Horizon Miguel is a DMV based dance artist, educator, choreographer, and K-pop cover dancer. A Maryland native, he began formal dance training at Baltimore School for the Arts.

Ronae Jones is Film and Video Studies Marketing and Events Coordinator.

Shanice Mason (she/her) is a Washington, D.C.-based dance artist, arts administrator, digital media consultant, and educator. Shanice’s skills, at the intersection of art and digital media, include graphic design, media production, and content creation.

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.

David Arce, born in San Diego, California, began his training at Ballet Yuma (AZ) with Jon Cristofori and Kathleen Sinclair. He then danced with San Francisco Ballet for 13 seasons, Artistic Director of Juline Regional Youth Ballet for 10 seasons...

Paloma Vianey Martinez Acosta is an interdisciplinary artist from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico who currently lives and works in Washington D.C. Her work explores the vulnerabilities and violence of her community and narrates her experience crossing the U.S.-Mexico border daily, questioning the political corruptness of this division.

Sue Slagle (stage name SUE-C) is a video artist and engineer bringing ideas to life at the intersection of creative coding and live performance. For the past 20 years she has created handmade videos and live media performances, traveling extensively in the U.S. and around the world.