SADAH News

Mark Rooker Receives 2021-22 CVPA Beck Faculty Fellowship

Mark Rooker figured out how to teach meticulous processes to remote students

SADAH Professor Elected Vice President of African Studies Association

Influential role at international organization is a three-year term

SADAH Students Transform Unsellable Guitars into Home Goods

Artists join community effort to raise money for local music initiative

CVPA Spotlight Series: Joanne Sakamoto

Freshman Joanne Sakamoto finalized her decision to study art studio at JMU after receiving two CVPA scholarships.

Industrial Design Student Turns Plastic into Profit

A change in career led to an Earth-saving way to start a business

CVPA Spotlight Series: Lavely Miller ('00)

JMU art alumna Lavely Miller is an award-winning painter and former mental health professional whose work focuses “on the visual narration of the effects of trauma.”

Beth Hinderliter Explores the New BLM Protest Environment

Book compares BLM movement with civil rights movement of 70 years ago

Mini-Grant Helps Student Create Exhibition About Effects of Pandemic

Photographs capture COVID-19 experiences coast-to-coast

Dr. Sarah Brooks Named 2020-21 CVPA Distinguished Teacher

Professor's innovation has improved classes, advising and school morale

SADAH Alumna Earns Bennett Prize Nomination

10 finalists nationwide for $50,000 prize offered solely to women figurative realist painters