Rachel Debuque will present in the CAA Session " Building Resilience: Embracing Failure in the Foundations Classroom ". Debuque will be presenting “This Classroom is a Joke.” Debuque will explores the ways that classroom joy is linked to experimentation, risk taking and building resiliency. The presenation will discuss humor’s ability to reframe failure as productive...
Rachel Debuque will present in the CAA Session "Art Foundations: Core Values and Remote Learning". Debuque will be presenting “Building a Curriculum Centered on Inclusion.” In the wake of the dual health emergencies, of Covid 19 and racism we are presented with an opportunity to ask ourselves big questions like - what is essential to our...
School of Art and Design Professor Andy Yoder’s work at the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont is featured in New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and NY Observer. Andy Yoder’s exhibition “Overboard,” consists of more than 240 sculptural replicas of size 13 Air Jordan 5 shoes...
The College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) believes that the arts are vital in creating and strengthening community, with artists at the center of that effort. To that end, we invite recent CVPA graduates (2009 or later) to apply for new, immediate funds recently made...
April 3, 2020 / by Anna Stolley Persky When George Mason University announced it was moving all classes online because of the coronavirus pandemic, Chawky Frenn, an associate professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, was filled with dread. A self-described “dinosaur,” Frenn exalts in the personal...