School of Art

The Edges of What I Feel, an exhibition by the Healing Artist Collective curated by recently retired Mason professor Peter Winant, features the artwork of an eclectic group of Mason School of Art students and alumni. The diverse group of artists participated in the exhibition with the common goal of healing.

Murals at Mason commissioned School of Art student Nadya Steare to design two murals that reflect the research focuses of faculty and students at Mason's Potomac Science Center. The staircase mural 'Sediment to Sky' focuses on each layer of the Potomac River watershed, highlighting native flora, fauna, and microorganisms. 

Sisc Johnson, a George Mason University School of Art student and staff member, will be the first in her family to graduate from college this May.

Latela Curatorial’s second annual Women in the Arts exhibition and programming series is open now, October 11-November 21.

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.

Carroll Sockwell (1943-1992) was a prominent figure in the Washington, DC art scene in the 1970’s. Often using the simplest of tools–pencil, charcoal, and pastel; Sockwell was an internationally acknowledged master of non-representational abstraction and belongs to the last generation of American Abstract Expressionists, with such influences as Paul Cezanne, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, and Cy Twombly.

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.

Suspended Inter-Spaces is a group exhibition coordinated by Helen Frederick and Amelia Hankin in collaboration with the VisArts curatorial staff members Frank McCauley, Susan Main, and Megan Koeppel.

Mason School of Art graduate student Jax Ohashi is one of six graduate students in the state of Virginia to receive a 2022-23 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) Visual Arts Fellowships.

The first time Katherine Ashby saw her artwork installed at Gunston Hall, the historic home of U.S. Founding Father George Mason IV, it was surreal. “I had never done something that felt that important or that had been installed physically,” the senior painting major from George Mason University said.