Northern Virginia Community College and George Mason University Foundations Students, Spring 2025.

When artists turn their gaze to themselves, what do they examine? How do they express what makes up their sense of self?

This exhibition challenges students to reinvent (or elaborate upon) the traditional self-portrait, investigating identity through a variety of materials and forms.

Works could define identity through ideas of demographics like race, gender, religion, nationalism, and others. Students are also encouraged to explore their identity's evolution as they have grown as artists, as well as more abstract understandings of identity, like community, culture, interests, and perspective.

On View: March 29 - May 3, 2025
Reception: April 12, 6pm – 8pm

Workhouse Arts Center
McGurire Woods Gallery, Building W-16, 2nd Floor

Reception is open to the public. Join students, staff, and faculty from George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College for refreshments and the juror awards ceremony.

Juror: Mary Higgins

Mary Higgins was born and raised in Washington DC. After graduating with a BFA from Corcoran College of Art and Design in 1986 and her MA in Visual Information Technology from George Mason University in 1995 where she received a Graduate Teaching Fellowship and taught a graduate level computer animation course. Higgins has worked for The Philips Collection, George Mason University, and as Curator for the Schlesinger Center at Northern Virginia Community College. Presently, she is an independent curator and consults with working artists on the development of their marketing and digital media presence through her consultancy, Distinct Studios. Throughout her career, Higgins had maintained her artistic practice of drawing and exhibiting throughout the Washington DC region and participated in her first international exhibition experience in Seoul, South Korea in January of 2023.

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George Mason University Juniors & Seniors, Spring 2025 Showcase

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