Art Education Alumnus Featured on NPR
As part of NPR’s 50 Great Teachers series, LA Johnson (a visual journalist at NPR) created an illustrated profile of Art Education alumnus Jimi Herd. Johnson sits in on a day in the life of Herd,...
View ArticleArt Ed Professor Named SE Region Art Educator of the Year
The National Art Education Association has named Art Education‘s Pam Taylor the 2016 Southeastern Region Higher Education Art Educator of the Year. This prestigious award, determined through a peer...
View ArticleIDES Wins Awards of Excellence at Industry Conference
A student and a faculty member from Interior Design won awards of excellence at the Interior Design Educators Council annual conference in Portland, Oregon earlier this month. M.F.A. candidate Jessie...
View ArticleSeven Common Résumé Errors (And How to Fix Them)
Almost every job you’ll apply to will ask for a résumé, but as a student you may run into a couple of hurdles. What do I put on my résumé? How designed should my résumé be? Have no fear, because there...
View ArticleCreateAthon at VCU provides marketing, advertising help to nine Richmond...
Over a 24-hour, caffeine-fueled blitz that wrapped up Friday morning, teams of Virginia Commonwealth University students specializing in writing, graphic design, web development, video production and...
View ArticleVCUarts Remains #1 Public Fine Art Program in the United States
U.S. News & World Report 2017 Best Graduate School Rankings Announced Richmond, Va. – Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts has once again made the top of U.S. News & World...
View ArticleUndergraduate Student Shows Kickoff VCUarts Annual Exhibitions
VCUarts will kick off its annual end-of-year exhibitions with an opening reception for its undergraduate shows on Thursday, March 24 at 5 p.m. There will be three concurrent undergraduate exhibitions...
View ArticleAlumni Profile: Art Saves Lives
Ryan Mulligan (B.F.A. ’03, M.F.A. ’05) does not mince words. “I was a selfish bastard who made self-entitled art, to be totally honest.” But that all changed when Mulligan’s son, Hobbs, was diagnosed...
View ArticleDonor Profile: The Full Circle of Giving
“My love of the arts is immense,” says Josée Covington, who has generously provided an annual scholarship for undergraduate and graduate students in the School of the Arts since 2005. Beatrice Modisett...
View ArticleAlumni Profile: Gallery on a (Shoe) String
In dense urban neighborhoods, like Jessica Langley’s (M.F.A. ’08) in Ridgewood, Queens, neighbors reveal a lot about themselves on their clotheslines. You’re likely to know boxer or brief before you...
View ArticleCultural Passport Class: Interview with Lauren Ross
As part of the ARTS 391: Cultural Passport class, taught by John Freyer and Jill Ware, RVArts has evolved from the course as a crowdsourced list of cultural events in Richmond. Check out this interview...
View ArticlePhotography/Film Students Get Courtside Seats at NCAA Tournament
The madness that is March college basketball season has come to an end for our VCU Rams, but the excitement of the tournament is still fresh for two photography/film students. Brooke Marsh (B.F.A. ’16)...
View ArticleVCUarts Dean Joseph H. Seipel Announces Retirement
Joseph H. Seipel, who has served as dean of the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University for the past five years, has announced his retirement, effective June 30, 2016. “Joe’s leadership...
View ArticleComm Arts Alumna Designs Visual Arts Center Catalog
The Visual Arts Center of Richmond has launched an illustrator-in-residence program and will work with four illustrators over the next year. Each illustrator will design a catalog cover for the center...
View ArticleVCUarts Artists Included in 2016 TEDxRVA Line-up
TEDxRVA is an independently organized TED event since 2013. This year’s theme, Artful, has brought together an amazing group of speakers, some of which have ties to the school. Trey Hartt (B.F.A. ’08,...
View ArticleVCUarts Encourages Storytelling, Listening
In an effort to engage more deeply with its core community, VCUarts is participating in StoryCorps.me, a global platform for listening, connecting, and sharing stories of the human experience. Alumni,...
View ArticleWhich Art School is Right For You?
Whether you have a stack of admission letters, or you’re just weighing all the factors for going to college in general, there are a ton of things you should consider when deciding which art school is...
View ArticleBuilding the Monroe Park Campus Learning Garden
Generators, reciprocating saws, air compressors and circular saws roar and whirr as raised garden beds take shape for the new Monroe Park Campus Learning Garden at Virginia Commonwealth University....
View ArticleTheatre Professor Makes the Rounds: Variety, NYT, Broadway World
Theatre Professor Toni-Leslie James is on a roll! She’s worked on not one, not two, but FOUR productions, culminating in one busy spring season. With her assistants in tow [Michael Magaraci (B.F.A....
View ArticleCraft Faculty Member Finalist in Exhibition at Auburn
The Opelika‑Auburn News featured Craft/Material Studies faculty member Heath Matysek-Snyder as part of Auburn University’s “Out of the Box: A Juried Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition” coverage....
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