Dance Student Work Selected For Presentation at Kennedy Center
Kara Robertson’s (B.F.A. ’16) work, Amid, will be performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on Friday, June 10, 2016 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. as part of the...
View ArticleSculpture Graduate Uses His Face for His Art
Maxwell Runko (B.F.A. ’16) has a lot on his plate. In addition to his full time work as a student, Runko is also is a part time model, represented by Modelogic and Two Management in Los Angeles. “It is...
View ArticleStudent Cross-Stitches a China-U.S. Craft Exchange
Just before arriving at VCUarts, Craft/Material Studies BFA candidate Cassie Yushan Sun discovered something in her native China that would change the course of her studies. After high school in...
View ArticleSubvert the Standard
The gender gap is real for Madeline Hill, so she decided to do something about it. The Kinetic Imaging senior spent last summer pursuing ambitious research that culminated in Ad-Fem.com, a curated...
View ArticlePainting Senior Guides Himself and Prospective Students Through VCUarts
Every weekday, VCUarts holds tours for prospective high school and transfer students to give them a sense of what life is like on campus and in Richmond. Malcolm Peacock (B.F.A. ’16) has been a tour...
View ArticleDouble Major Studies the World, In and Out of the Classroom
Getting a degree is tough. Getting two degrees at the same time? Tougher, but that didn’t stop William Neer (B.A. ’16) from double majoring in art history and history. “The two disciplines overlap and...
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VCU School of the Arts May Commencement
Alumnus Jarvis W. Jefferson to deliver keynote address The Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts will celebrate the graduation of 471 students on Saturday, May 14. Four hundred and one...
View ArticleAuf Wiedersehen Undergrad, Hello Co-Founder
Photography & Film senior Alex Kreher (B.F.A. ’16) has been around the world during his academic career, documenting people and places wherever he goes. Through his CoLab internship at VCUarts, he...
View ArticleThe Fountainhead Fellowship Program; A Chat with Tom Papa
“I do believe artists are underappreciated. They are the people who imagine things we can’t. They imagine our future,” says Tom Papa, co-founder and Managing Partner of Fountainhead Properties, who has...
View ArticleSenior Interior Design Major Has Sights on Start-up Life Post Graduation
When Jordan Greene (B.F.A. ’16) started looking at colleges, he thought an architecture program would be the best fit for him – until he discovered the VCUarts Interior Design program. “I found that...
View ArticleMusic Undergrad Crescendos Into Graduate School
Piano extraordinaire Lanjiabao Ge (B.F.A. ’16) knows a good thing when she sees it. Ge grew up in China, but had the great opportunity to continue her education in the United States. She found her...
View ArticleJarvis Jefferson’s 2016 Commencement Address
“Thank you, Dean Seipel, for that extremely generous introduction. And thank you to University President, Michael Rao, the Department Chairs, faculty and staff of this, the #1 Public Fine Arts...
View ArticleAlumna Participates in Doha Residency
Richmond summers can be hot and humid, but not even that prepared Nastassja Swift (B.F.A. ’15) for the August heat when she landed in Qatar. Swift, who studied painting and printmaking on the Richmond...
View ArticleDean Seipel named Richmonder of the Month
Richmond Magazine has named Dean Joseph H. Seipel the Richmonder of the Month. In their article, the Richmond Magazine staff pays homage to Seipel and his role(s) at VCUarts and in the arts community....
View ArticleRichmond is Happy (And we Know it)
Richmond, Virginia (RVA) is the happiest city in the U.S. It’s true! The U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research said so (2014). There’s even a RVA Happy website with a Pharrell-inspired, RVA...
View ArticleArt as activism: Using art to tackle ‘the human rights issue of our time’
Thank you VCU News for featuring Mark Strandquist (B.F.A. ’13), a rockstar alumnus from Photography + Film. Here is an excerpt from VCU New’s feature about Strandquist’s project “Performing...
View ArticleVCUarts Announces $10,000 Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship Recipient
VCUarts has awarded Steven Randall (M.F.A. ’16) the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship Award, a $10,000 stipend to be used at the recipient’s discretion. Emily Smith, executive director of 1708 Gallery,...
View ArticleAFO Faculty Member Exhibiting at Rawls Museum
Art Foundation’s Amie Oliver will host the Emerging IV Juried Show at Rawls Museum Arts in Courtland from June 10 through July 23. “There is a lot of strong work that has been submitted [by the general...
View Article$20,000 awarded to VCUarts mOb Studio and Storefront for Community Design
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects and partnerships in the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2016....
View Article“Women of Abstract Expressionism” Featuring Painting Alumna
Painting alumna Judith Godwin (B.F.A. ’52) will be featured in the landmark exhibition “Women of Abstract Expressionism” at the Denver Art Museum, opening June 12. After graduating from VCU (when it...
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