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PUBLISHED WORKS

David Chentian, Mason Community Arts Academy

Released four albums Cello Spirit, Charming Cello, Melodious Cellotune, and Magnificent Cello

Rob Farr, Film and Video Studies

Contributed book chapter Chase! A Tribute to the Keystone Cops from BearManor

Claire Huschle, Arts Management

Chapter published in Field to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene Correlation Drawing/Drawing Correlations

Jonathan Katz, Arts Management

Four-part blog series published by Americans for the Arts Leadership Success in a Crisis Environment

Co-author and interviewee for Arts Education Partnership feature Reflecting Back and Projecting Forward: 25 Years of the Arts Education Partnership

SHAWN PURCELL

Shawn Purcell, Music

Released album on Dallas-based Armored Records Symmetricity

Carole Rosenstein, Arts Management

Published in International Journal of Cultural Policy Cultural Policy Archetypes: The Bathwater and the Baby

Ruth Yamamoto, Theater

Published in Taylor & Francis Online Improv as Creative Aging: The Perceived Influences of Theatrical Improvisation on Older Adults

CLAIRE HUSCHLE CAROLE ROSENSTEIN SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL

RESEARCH GRANTS

James Robert Casey, Computer Game Design

Innovative Methodologies in Gaming Technology for Outreach, Office of the Flood Insurance Advocate at FEMA Dewberry Engineers, Inc.

Niyati S. Dhokai, Veterans and the Arts Initiative

Community Connections Project: Ukelele Workshops for Military Families Creative Forces: National Endowment for the Arts Military Healing Arts Network

Community Connections Project: Effects of Ukulele Workshops on Sense of Community and Social Engagement for Veterans and Servicemembers Creative Forces: National Endowment for the Arts Military Healing Arts Network

Megan Lavengood, Music

A New Vision for Open Music Theory State Council of Higher Education

Mason Artists-in-Residence Program LADAMA and Bill T. Jones/Arnie

LADAMA and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company ARTSFAIRFAX

Mason Artists-in-Residence Program

Swing 2020 National Endowment for the Arts

Carole Rosenstein, Arts Management

Principal Investigator on A National Census of History Organizations American Association for State and Local History

Carole Rosenstein, Karalee Dawn MacKay, and Lisa Gilman, Arts Management & Folklore

Co-designed curriculum in Folklore and Festival Management with Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage IMPACT Curriculum Development Grant

Justin Peter Sutters, Art

Research: How is Art Education Looking? National Art Education Foundation

Gail Scott White, Art

Impacts of White-tailed Deer Herbivory on Vegetation in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park National Park Service

Multimedia Products National Park Service

White-tailed Deer Herbivory National Park Service

CLAIRE ALLEN

AHMAD MAATY Established in 2018 by Robert Purks, a longtime Arts at Mason Board member and arts supporter, The Robert K. Purks Faculty Enrichment Endowment provides perpetual support to further the research and creative activity of CVPA faculty. Emma Balázs, Arts Management

To conduct research in Minneapolis to create a People’s History of Prince for museum exhibition

Heather Green, Art

Tristan Tzara, The Power of Images: Symposium Presentation in Glasgow and Archival Research in Paris

Mimsi Janis, Theater

To train in new role of intimacy director/choreographer to safely choreograph the movements of intimate moments on stage

John Kilkenny, Music

To participate as a performer and guest lecturer with the Women Awake Project including four premiere performances of original works about female spiritual leaders from several world traditions

Claire Allen, Mason Community Arts Academy

Named 2019 Outstanding String Teacher Virginia Chapter of the American String Teachers Association

Cody Clarke, Development

Outstanding Achievement Award: Exceptional Support Award George Mason University

Cynthia Fuchs, Film and Video Studies

2020 Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion George Mason University

Ahmad Maaty, Mason Community Arts Academy/AFYP

WINNER Best Actor in a Community Theater Production

ROBERT K. PURKS FACULTY ENRICHMENT ENDOWMENT

Broadway World’s Regional 2019 Award

MIMSI JANIS MAURA UGARTE

Victor Provost, Music

To create multi-movement piece for Percussion and Steel Pan Ensemble commemorating the late honorable Dr. Elliot Mannette, known as “the father of the modern steel drum”

Maura Ugarte, Film and Video Studies

To film one interview and record location footage in San Francisco, California for feature-length documentary film, Death on Pier 14, which focuses on the arrest and trial of José Inez García Zárate

MOHAMMED SAFFOURI’S DOCUMENTARY The First

Abbesi Akhamie

Selected for feature residency program For Film’s Sake’s Attagurl

Sara Barger

Little but Fierce Advanced to the finals Student Academy Awards

Hans Charles

1 Angry Black Man Digital and DVD distribution Freestyle Digital Media

Rob Farr

Recorded commentary track Eureka Video’s new Blu-ray edition of Buster Keaton’s Our Hospitality Nikyatu Jusu (pictured below) 2020 Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Labs Fellow

Suicide by Sunlight WINNER Audience Award Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival

Alicia Rodriguez (FILM ALUM)

A Diasporic Boricua Princess Grace Foundation Scholarship

Mohammed Saffouri (STUDENT, WINTER ’20)

The First (pictured above) Capital Emmy in the Long Form Non-Fiction category

Russell Santos

Good as Hell, Lizzo music video Nominated for Best Editor MTV Video Music Award

Lisa Thrasher & Erblin Nushi (FILM ALUM)

I Love You More Second round Sundance Development Track