Update on Diversity and Inclusion at the School of the Arts
Dear Faculty, Students, and Staff, Welcome back. I hope you had a productive and restful holiday break. As we mark the first day of the spring semester, I’d like to continue our conversation, work, and...
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What Is Your Favorite Thing About RVA?
We’re curious…what is your favorite thing about Richmond? We’re asking all of our VCUarts friends for their opinion, and we’d love to hear – and possibly share – yours! We’ll be attributing responses...
View ArticleVCUarts Announces Spring Visiting Artists
VCUarts is hosting dozens of artists from across the fine, design and performing arts as visiting artists this spring. These artists come to the classroom for one-on-one discussions with students and...
View ArticleVisiting Artist Gordon Hall Serves as Faculty Mentor to Graduate Students
VCUarts is pleased to announce that Gordon Hall will be a visiting faculty member in the sculpture department during the spring semester. Hall, a New York-based artist who uses objects to pose...
View ArticleRegistration Opens For The Commonwealth Society
The Commonwealth Society, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts’ educational organization for adult learners, opened its registration for its spring semester. The Commonwealth Society...
View ArticleVCUarts Artists Earn $94,000 From VMFA Fellowship Program
Every year around this time, we beam with pride when the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) announces the recipients of its fellowship program. This year, of the 28 artists, VCUarts faculty, staff,...
View ArticleVCU School of the Arts announces spring exhibition schedule
Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts will hold its annual undergraduate and graduate exhibitions from Thursday, March 24, through Sunday, May 15. “The end-of-year exhibitions represent...
View ArticleBlack History Month at VCU aims to spark dialogue, celebrate black excellence
Virginia Commonwealth University will celebrate Black History Month with a variety of events throughout February that are meant to provoke thought and conversation. “I am truly excited for this year’s...
View ArticleVCUQatar Students Search for Home in Their Work
Art Foundation students at VCUQatar were featured in the Gulf Times for a recent project that had them questioning the concept of home. Jesse Payne, an assistant professor in the AFO program in Qatar,...
View ArticleNew ‘Workshop’ offers 3-D printing, a laser cutter, sewing machines, a 4K...
Natalie DeMenthon, a junior communication arts and computer science student, loves making costumes, particularly ones inspired by video games. So when VCU Libraries’ new innovative media center opened...
View ArticlePainting + Printmaking Alumna Receives Fulbright U.S. Grant
Leah Beeferman (M.F.A. ’10) has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to Finland for 2016-2017. She will spend about five months from October 2016 through February 2017 in Finland as a Fulbright...
View ArticleAFO Director Named President-Elect for National Arts Organization
Elissa Armstrong has been named president-elect of the board of directors of the National Council of Arts Administrators. She will serve a two-year term. Armstrong joined VCU in 2006 and received the...
View ArticleExtraordinary Artistry – Torobaka/Flash: Cultural Intimacy in Motion
VCU Dance is kicking off its programming surrounding TOROBAKA/FLASH: Cultural Intimacy In Motion, a national conversation originating at the intersection of four artists whose work explodes...
View ArticleAssistant Professor Profiled in Art Pulse
Administrative director and assistant professor in Painting + Printmaking, Ron Johnson was profiled in Art Pulse, where he discussed with contributing reporter Owen Duffy (Art History doctoral...
View ArticleAlumna Named Citizen of the Year by Local National Association of Social...
VCUarts alumna Rachel Strawn (B.F.A.’98) has been selected as the National Association of Social Workers-Virginia Chapter Citizen of the Year. Strawn has served as the Director for Great Expectations,...
View ArticleCALL FOR ENTRIES: 2016 Juried Student Fine Arts Exhibition
The Anderson Building & The Depot Gallery are the homes for this year’s end of year, juried undergraduate student exhibitions. The undergraduate fine arts exhibition will run from March 24 – April...
View Article“A Chicken in Every Plot” Exhibition at The Valentine
Alyssa Salomon, adjunct faculty in Photography & Film and in the VCU Center for Creative Entrepreneurship, is part of an exhibition at the Valentine that’s all about chickens. This exhibition...
View ArticlePAPR Professor Featured in Encaustic Art Publication
Work by Painting and Printmaking professor Reni Gower was featured in the recent publication, “Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century,” by Anne Lee & E. Ashley Rooney. Her work is also cited in...
View ArticleVCU Dance emphasizes creating 21st-century ‘global artists’
With the start of the spring 2016 semester, the curtain rose on the 35th year of the Department of Dance and Choreography in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts. In recognition of...
View ArticleHERstory: A Woman’s Worth / B.A.S.E. Exhibition at ATLAS Gallery
“HERstory: A Woman’s Worth,” the newest exhibition at ART 180‘s ATLAS gallery, is a body of work created by members of B.A.S.E. (Black Art Student Empowerment), a pro-Black support group at VCU. The...
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