Mason Hall
Students venture through Italy in unique art exhibit
|Last summer, twelve School of Art students traveled to Italy to unleash their creativity in a course called “Seeing and Responding in Italy.” Their resulting works are now featured in an exhibit titled after the class and will be available for all Mason students, free of charge, between Feb. 10 and March 7.
Situated in Mason Hall’s Atrium gallery, the exhibit displays the students’ work in several mediums, mainly painting and photography.
Dr. Jane Hooper contextualizes "Africans in India" exhibit with historical lecture
|Dr. Jane Hooper, a historian and professor at Mason, spoke at a lecture and reception held in Mason Hall’s Meese Conference Room on Jan. 30.
Although the general public was invited, History and Art History students and professors made up a majority of the audience.
The lecture was organized by the Office of Global & International Strategies in order to add an extra layer of depth to the neighboring art exhibit, “Africans in India: From Slaves to Generals and Rulers.”
Mason shares the magnitude of art in Mason Hall exhibit
|Jennet Inglis creates art to unify humanity in her Mason Hall exhibit “MAGNITUDE."
Students, Mason officials agree to keep polling location at University Hall for coming year
|After an hour long discussion between students and George Mason University officials, both parties agreed to keep the on-campus polling location at University Hall for another year.
“I don’t feel like we have enough information to make a different decision than one we have at this point,” said Rose Pascarell, vice president of University Life, at the March 29 meeting. “I think this needs to stay at University Hall for the next year until we have enough information for a reliable alternative.”
Students speak out against polling location change
|At a public hearing held by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, students spoke out in opposition to a motion that would have changed the polling location on campus from University Hall to Mason Hall.
“There were challenges with the University Hall location. We had people voting in a concession area rather than in a closed room,” said Cameron Quinn, general registrar for the county. “There have also been issues with parking over at University Hall.”
State of the Union: Juxtaposition of past and present
|“Photography is a way of collecting. It is the ultimate ideal of nostalgia.” That’s exactly how California-based photographer Gregg Segal sums up the focus of his work Segal’s set of photographs titled “State of the Union” contrasts two distinct eras of an “idealized Civil War embodied by Civil War reenactors versus the commercialism of contemporary life,” as detailed on his website.