Assistant Professor, Director of Provisions Research Center for Art and Social Change, School of Art, CVPA and Museum Curator for Mason Exhibitions, CVPA
Contact Information
Campus: Fairfax
Building: Art and Design Building
Room L001
Mail Stop: 1C3
Personal Websites
Biography
Don Russell has been an active contemporary art curator and arts administrator since 1979. His research focuses on the exploration and development of new social contexts for art. He is currently Mason's University Curator, responsible for programming exhibitions and public art on the Fairfax, Manassas and Mason Square (formerly Arlington) campuses. Additionally he directs Provisions Research Center for Art & Social Change, providing creative resources for community-engaged public art projects. He is co-founder with Edgar Endress of Floating Lab Collective.
Don has produced over one hundred exhibitions as well as public art commissions, residencies, conferences and field projects. His work spans all contemporary art media with particular emphasis on research-as-art, public art, new media, photography and artists’ publications.
Don has extensive experience managing and directing contemporary arts, philanthropic and publishing ventures. He is President of Art Resources International and previously served as Executive Director of Washington Project for the Arts and had various leadership roles at Visual Studies Workshop.