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The Bee’s Knees: Mason Beehives Involved in Collaborative Art Project

Parts of the 12-part sculpture were placed inside bee apathies at Mason as well as other apathies located along the Route 29 corridor from Fairfax Danville,Va. The sculpture is reassembled and is on display until Oct. 9 at the Danville Museum of History and Fine Art. The bees and beekeepers pictured here are from apathies in Chatham, Va. near Danville. Handout

Faculty and staff of George Mason University were minding their own beeswax all summer. As part of the Living Hive Project, artist Elsabé Dixon, a Mason alumna and Mason School of Art adjunct instructor, placed sections of a 12-part sculpture prototype made of plaster form and a drywall compound inside the hives of George Mason’s Honey Bee Initiative in May to track the activities of the honeybees.