VCUarts Connections Make Style Weekly Lists
Style Weekly has released its annual Power List, which is broken out into four smaller lists highlighting the top 10 RVA influencers in politics, food, business and the arts. Check out the VCUarts...
View ArticleVCU School of the Arts Announces New Hires for 2016-2017
VCUarts has 15 degree programs in the visual and performing arts, with a full-time and adjunct faculty of over 200 members. The school is part of a major, urban public research university with national...
View ArticleWelcome VCUarts Class of 2020!
Over 600 students have joined the incoming freshman Class of 2020 at VCU School of the Arts (VCUarts). As a group, the class represents a cross-section of talent, creativity, socio-economic...
View ArticleTheatre Faculty Member Starring in “The Little Foxes”
While the students are away, the faculty will play! Literally. David Emerson Toney, artistic director and assistant professor in theatre, has been working on his next production, “The Little Foxes,”...
View ArticleVCUarts Alumni Use Art to Bring Hope to At-Risk Children
VCUarts students Woojin Ahn (B.F.A. ’15), Song Han (B.F.A. ’16), and Jane Lee (B.F.A. ’16) are self-initiators. A demanding figure drawing class cemented their friendship. When they began, they had a...
View ArticleAlumna’s Art History Lesson with Nudity
A lesser writer might start by telling you that Katie Brennan (M.A. ’98) knows the intimate details of Leo DiCaprio’s art-buying habits, but brushes with celebrity seem far from the driving force...
View ArticleContemporary Art Fair Comes to RVA
Style Weekly’s Amanda Dalla Villa Adams highlighted an upcoming contemporary art fair that’s sure to be a hit with our students and faculty. Here is a quick excerpt from “A New Richmond Art Fair Takes...
View ArticleGet Out of the Classroom and Into a Student Organization
College is more than projects and crits. Getting involved in a student organization can add so much more to your experience. You get exposed to new groups of people and perspectives–and this can only...
View ArticleVCUarts Announces Fall Visiting Artists
VCUarts is hosting dozens of artists from across the fine, design and performing arts as visiting artists this fall. These artists come to the classroom for one-on-one discussions with students and...
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Work by VCUarts Alumna Selected for Annual Folk Festival Poster
Katie McBride (B.F.A. ’04) is the latest in a long line of VCUarts connections to be the artist behind Richmond’s annual Folk Festival poster. McBride’s poster was revealed this week at the Glave Kocen...
View ArticleJohn Bullard’s Classical Banjo Hits the Perfect Note
For years, John Bullard (B.F.A. ’05) struggled to find his place in the music world as an artist with southern bluegrass roots and a love of classical music. In 1985, he first auditioned at Virginia...
View ArticleKI Professor Has a Full September
Kinetic Imaging Professor Stephen Vitiello has a full September ahead! First up, Vitiello will be performing at the Fridman Gallery in New York on September 17 as part of its 9 Evenings + 50 event...
View ArticlemOb Project Travels to University of Texas – Austin
The mOb / Storefront project, plakat, has traveled to the University of Texas – Austin and is now in the hands of Jim Walker (M.F.A. ’13), a lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History. Walker...
View ArticleDonor Profile: Leadership in Fashion
Fashion alumna Kieran Donahue (B.A. ’93) attributes her professional success to VCUarts and her strong bond with Fashion Merchandising Professor Karen Videtic, who retired in May. Donahue is currently...
View ArticleBust Gallery Announces its Third Season
Bust Gallery’s third season introduces new and recent works by a global assembly of mixed media and performance artists, Klaus Pinter, Julio Orto and Beth Campbell and printmaker Mary Rouncefield,...
View ArticleVCUarts Events during Make It Real Campaign Launch
Virginia Commonwealth University is on the brink of kicking off one of its largest capital campaigns, with a goal of raising hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years. Events surrounding...
View ArticlePieces From VCU Libraries’ Collections at New African American History and...
Two digitized photographs and a digitized postcard from VCU Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives will be featured in inaugural exhibitions at the National Museum of African American History and...
View ArticleVCUarts Alumna Gives Styling Tips for Anthropologie
Anne Douglas White (B.F.A. ’10) is a Home Personal Stylist at Anthropologie, a new service that gives customers styling tips, helping them with everything from curtain conundrums to wallpaper ambitions...
View ArticleComm Arts Students Rock VMFA’s Emerging Artists + Innovators Showcase
VCUarts and the VMFA have been collaborating on the Emerging Artist + Innovators showcase for over a year now, and this year’s final three budding innovators all come from the Department of...
View ArticleKI Professor to Guest Speak for SONICBernheim
Department of Kinetic Imaging professor, sound artist and electronic musician Stephen Vitiello will be speaking for SONICBernheim/Hunter’s Moon on October 16 to talk about his project, “Sound and...
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