FORM + VISION

Carole Garmon, Professor of Art, holds an MFA (1996) and a BFA (1993) in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has taught at UMW since 1998 and is a recipient of UMW’s Outstanding Young Faculty Member Award.  She teaches a senior capstone course, Professional Practices in Studio Art along with all areas of sculpture, video, performance, and installation art.  She is a member of the College Art Association and the National Council of Art Administrators. Garmon’s research acknowledgements include the accessioning of select images and research materials on Rembrandt into the Rijks Museum Library in Amsterdam, Holland, and participating in a BBC 2 documentary on Rembrandt’s painting, The Night Watch. The segment is part of the larger series, The Private Life of the Masterpiece. She was one of two Americans chosen to participate in the international exhibition, Inspired By Rembrandt, commemorating Rembrandt’s 400th birthday. In addition to numerous private collections, her work has been exhibited at the Main Art Gallery and 1708 Gallery in Richmond, the WPA/Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C., the Arlington Arts Center, as well as Lima, Peru and Berlin, Germany.

Jon McMillan is an artist and educator residing in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he is an Associate Professor of ceramics and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Mary Washington.  He holds an MFA in ceramics from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and a BFA from James Madison University, where he also earned a minor in Art History.  After undergraduate school, Jon worked for seven years as a full-time studio potter before pursuing his terminal degree.  Currently, he makes sculptural and functional ceramic artwork, both of which are exhibited widely.

Jason Robinson is a filmmaker and new media artist working primarily in the medium of single-channel experimental video, animated .gifs, and live performance. His worked has been screened at festivals and galleries both nationally and internationally including The Virginia Film Festival (Charlottesville, VA), Cinesonika (Vancouver BC), The Asheville Art Museum (NC), Multiplexer (Las Vegas, NV) and The eMerge Media Space (James Cook University, Australia). He is also the creator of Screensavers, an annual video performance series held at the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative in Charlottesville, VA.

Ashe Laughlin is an arts educator and artist who lives in Rapidan, Virginia. He has taught in university settings for over 20 years. Prior to his appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor at UMW, he served as adjunct and then Senior Lecturer of Art at Texas State University from 2001-2015, where he taught drawing, painting, and design courses. Since moving to Virginia in 2015, Ashe has taught at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Mary Washington. Ashe received a M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York and a BA in studio art from the University of Texas at Austin.

Aimee George is an artist and an educator residing in the Shenandoah Valley. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art in Multiple Imaging at UMW. She holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree with concentration in photography from James Madison University, and a BFA from Shepherd University. After graduate school, Aimee has worked as a photographer/videographer for herself and various studios and companies in the area including the Creative Services team at James Madison University. She specializes in black and white traditional film photography and expands through digital photography/videography and printmaking. She also loves learning and teaching alternative processes and creating hybrid artwork that combines several different mediums. She is currently opening a Gallery/Studio in Edinburg, Va that showcases her own work as well as the work of various artists covering a variety of mediums.