October 6, 2025Raising more than $289,000 to support Mason Arts, the 20th ARTS by George! benefit featured Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe winner Darren Criss as the headliner.
May 2, 2025The evening raised $162,500 and featured a cocktail reception, dinner on Merchant Hall Stage, special tributes to Honorees Marion Wall and Dominion Energy, a lively after-party, and more.
February 6, 2025Following renovation, the performing arts venue on the Fairfax Campus will be renamed the Barry Dewberry and Arlene Evans Center for the Arts.
January 16, 2025New content will launch throughout January 2025 on Mason Arts Amplified, Mason Arts’s digital venue which features live and on-demand performances, lectures, behind-the-scenes talks, and more from 91°µÍø’s Center for the Arts, the Hylton Performing Arts Center, and College of Visual and Performing Arts.
December 4, 2024Four students in George Mason’s College of Visual and Performing Arts will have original animations displayed on screens in six Metro stations as part of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s Art in Transit Program, beginning the first week of December 2024. These animations will be on rotation in the stations for a full year.
March 28, 2024On Tuesday, March 19, 2024, Delegate Kathy Tran presented Mason Community Arts Academy Executive Director Mary Lechter with House Resolution 804, in honor of Acting for Young People’s (AFYP) 25th anniversary in 2022. AFYP is a partner program within Mason Community Arts Academy (MCAA) the community arts education division of Mason’s College of Visual and Performing Arts.
March 7, 2023Professors from Mason's Dewberry School of Music and Mason's School of Dance collaborated to create a performance that brought together dancers and musicians live onstage.
