Spring @ SoA

A beautiful day to hold class outside.

 Bird Tea Party in SoA garden.

SoA Sculpture Yard

SoA Senior Show coming in May

 

Join Mason’s School of Art & Design graduating class as they show off their final projects in the Art & Design Senior Show. The show will be on display May 7th-11th, with the closing reception on Friday, May 11th from 6–10pm. The three-story, 88,900 square-foot building will be bursting at the seams with art and design. Grab a complimentary refreshment as you weave through the hallways and into unique studio spaces to view the 62 students’ work on display, which will feature painting and drawing, digital arts, graphic design, sculpture, photography, print-making, and interdisciplinary arts. Don’t miss out on Mason’s best senior show yet!

Free parking will be available in parking lots A and K on May 11th. Gather up your friends and family and come check out a wide variety of art and design work showing off the creativity and talent of the seniors! Hope to see you all there.

To see a list of students participating, go here:  http://www.facebook.com/events/400291029981461/

The Center for Global Studies announces its annual
Spring Conference:

Arts after Atrocity:

Global Human Rights and Local Representations of Violence and Resistance

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Research 1, Room 163
George Mason University,
Fairfax, VA.

The conference Arts after Atrocity: Global Human Rights and Local Representations of Violence and Resistance explores the connections between the arts, broadly conceived, and human rights and social justice. Specifically, the event aims to explore the myriad ways in which the arts are deployed to promote notions of human rights and social justice particularly in societies that are currently experiencing or that have recently emerged from periods of violence, civil conflict or authoritarian rule. In such societies, traditional mechanisms of transitional justice such as trials and truth commissions have played an important role in addressing the legacies of violence.
Yet scholars, practitioners and human rights advocates have noted that in many cases these mechanisms fail to reach broad audiences. Artistic expression, whether through art, film, music, dance, theater, performace, or mixed media, offers another arena in which the memory of the lived experience of violence is expressed and conveyed, to potenially larger and more massive publics. Indeed, artistic expression is a powerful means to interpolate societies toward new understandings of violence, power, and justice. We are interested in exploring ways in which artists and others in diverse settings have used artistic mediums and forms of representation in these ways.
The symposium is being organized by the Center for Global Studies at Mason, a research center with over 100 affiliate faculty members from the full range of academic fields whose central goal is to promote interdisciplinary research on globalization and international affairs. Recent conferences organized by the Center have focused on the “new” South-South relations and efforts to achieve accountability in Latin America and Africa after periods of atrocity.
For information on this event, contact CGS Co-Director Professor Jo-Marie Burt: jmburt@gmu.edu

 

OutLook on Mason: The LGBTQ PhotoVoice Project

Photo by Jay Banks
OUTLook on Mason:  The LGBTQ PhotoVoice Project, April 3 - 13, 2012.

Community Forum and Opening Reception in Mason Hall D003 A & B.

Thursday, April 5, 2012, 4 - 6 p.m.

The OUTLook on Mason PhotoVoice project brought together nine undergraduate students to share their experiences as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) community at Mason.  Through witnessing their visual images and reflecting on their written narratives, you are invited to join a critical dialogue about the strengths and concerns of the LGBTQ community and the campus climate at Mason.

During the Community Forum, these students will share their work, their experiences, and their recommendations for improving Mason's campus climate.  All students, faculty, staff, and administration at Mason are encouraged to attend.

PhotoVoice is a participatory research method that gives creative voice to members of a community who often feel silenced. 

"The ReMuseum" by The Floating Lab Collective

The “ReMuseum” by The Floating Lab Collective (FLC) is a participatory, mobile experiment that investigates museum processes such as collecting, valuing and displaying objects.  Through discussions with DC communities, such as Deanwood, Brentwood, Petworth and Anacostia, the Floating Lab Collective selected and replicated personal objects of value. These objects, along with unique stories delivered by their owners, will be displayed in a retrofitted taco truck. 
These items will be displayed:

Corcoran Gallery of Art March 17th from 10:00am – 5:00pm

The Pepco Edison Place Gallery, Sunday March 25th from 12:00pm – 7:00pm.

Deanwood Recreation Center Saturday, April 7th (all day)

More events will we posted soon.  More info at: www.floatinglabcollective.com

CURATED BY LAURA ROULET
Commissioned by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’
5x5 Temporary Public Art Project
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SoA Olympics 2012

Book Signing for Maureen Lauran's new Book

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