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Mary Del Popolo is currently Assistant Professor of Art Education and Art Education Advisor in the Art and Visual Technology Department. She has taught studio courses at Howard University, the Corcoran College of Art and Design and George Mason University. Mary Del Popolo has served as Artist/Teacher in the MFA program at Vermont College, Norwich, and Visiting Artist at the Montorno Art Workshop, Tuscany, Italy. Mary maintains a K-12 teaching certificate in the State of Virginia. She has taught art in both elementary and secondary schools in Fairfax County Public Schools, as well as at the Fillmore Magnet Arts Center, a Visual and Performing Arts Program in the District of Columbia. She holds an MFA in Painting from the Virginia Commonwealth University and a BA in Fine Arts from Marymount University. She has also studied at the Corcoran College of Art and Design as well as the Parsons American School for Artists, Paris, France. Her teaching specialization includes drawing, painting and design. With her expertise in color pedagogy, she has presented color workshops at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
From 2001 to 2005, Mary Del Popolo was Director of the Howard University Young Artist Academy (HUYAA), a high school art outreach program held in the Howard University Fine Arts Department. HUYAA was funded by a Fine and Performing Arts grant and through a partnership with the District of Columbia Public Schools, DCPS Office Visual Arts Education and DCPS Office of Special Talent.
Mary Del Popolo's creative work explores the body as metaphor for the human condition. Over the last two decades, her drawing, painting and photography uses passionate color and expressionistic means to mine the territory beneath the surface of the face, performing a cathartic ritual in the exploration of personal and universal truths. Mary Del Popolo was recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship Award. Exhibiting both locally and nationally her active exhibition record includes "Mary" at the McLean Project for the Arts, Room Full of Mirrors at 1708 Gallery, Richmond and Crosscurrents, University of Maryland. Mary's work was recently presented at the Gender and Visually Work Shop, University of Western Cape, South Africa. Her recent reviews include "Something About Mary" (Washington Post) and "Room Full of Mirrors"(WETA- Around Town, Channel 26). Mary Del Popolo's portrait paintings are currently on display in the Faces of the Fallen exhibition at the Woman's War Memorial, Washington DC.
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