Art Faculty and Staff

  • Melissa Kehoe

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Kehoe creates object-based performances and site-specific installation, often incorporating duration, social engagement and adaptive reuse of materials as defining artistic elements.
  • Jeff Kenney

    Associate Curator for Mason Exhibitions and School of Art, CVPA

    Jeffrey Kenney is Associate Curator for Mason Exhibitions and the School of Art. Kenney is responsible for coordination of art exhibitions and related programming for the Gillespie Gallery of Art in the Art and Design Building (Fairfax), the Buchanan Atrium Gallery at Buchanan Hall (Fairfax), and the Buchanan Partners Gallery at the Hylton Performing Arts Center (Manassas).
  • Mallory Kimmel

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Mallory Kimmel is a Washington-D.C.-based artist, who makes conceptual furniture to address exclusionary design practices. She focuses on disrupting loopholes used to deny human rights.
  • Jeremy Kunkel
  • Forrest Lawson

    Printmaking and Letterpress Studio Manager, School of Art, CVPA

    Forrest Lawson draws on the history of blood, as is tied to Queer identity, from the AIDs crisis through present-day uses of socio-political tools that continue to relegate Queerness.
  • Mary Liles

    Office Manager, School of Art, CVPA

    Mary has more than two decades of experience in administration and educational programming.  As the Office Manager for the School of Art, Mary is the first point of contact for our School.
  • Jennifer Lillis

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Jennifer Lillis
  • Rahshia Linendoll-Sawyer

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    MFA Photography, 2014 (alumna)

    Rahshia Sawyer is a conceptual photographer based in the Washington DC area. She was the 2012 recipient of the Contemporary Talents award from France’s François Schneider Foundation. Exhibited in the 2012 Inaugural Dublin Biennial...
  • Harold Linton

    Full Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    Harold Linton, Full Professor, has served as Director of the School of Art from 2005 – 2013, College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Previously, Harold served as Chairman of the Department of Art at Bradley University, 1998 – 2005...
  • Mary Mailler

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Mary Mailler is an art theorist and historian whose area of expertise pertains to pre-Columbian cultures of Central and North America, spatial perceptions, critical cartography, rhizomes, nomadism, and cultural landscapes.