VCUarts Alumni utilize VisArts studios
VCUarts 2017 graduates Jonah Hacinas (Interior Design and Craft/Material Studies), Austin Miles (Communication Arts and Painting + Printmaking) and 2016 graduate Elson Bickford (Photography + Film)...
View ArticleVCUarts students help VCU’s SpaceX Hyperloop final team
VCUarts students are collaborating with Business, Engineering, and Humanities and Sciences students to represent VCU in the 2018 international Hyperloop competition. The SpaceX-sponsored event...
View ArticleAlumni featured in Blossom Art Lecture Series
Craft/Material Studies alumnus Grant Garmezy (BFA ’09) and Craft and Art Education alumna Erin Garmezy (BFA ’07) were featured in Kent State University’s Blossom Art Lecture Series. The pair of...
View ArticleCommunication Arts alumni design mural in Northern Virginia
Communication Arts alumni Eleanor Doughty (BFA ’13) and Emily Herr (BFA ’13) have designed a mural for the Vienna Shopping Center that depicts landmarks around Vienna, Va., and the Washington, D.C.,...
View ArticleVCUarts Fashion professor remembers Kate Spade
Deidra Arrington, associate professor in the Department of Fashion Design + Merchandising, remembers Kate Spade and how much joy her designs brought to the world. As her brand expanded, “the fun,...
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Painting alumnus debuts ‘52 Weeks’ of paintings in Tribeca
Paolo Arao (BFA ’99) came to New York in 2000 to be an independent artist. Eighteen years later, that goal is coming to fruition. After working for many different artists, including Sol LeWitt and...
View ArticleCommunication Arts chair used Viewpaint in art direction for Jurassic Park
To mark the 25th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, Communication Arts Chair TyRuben Ellingson was interviewed about his experience as the visual effects art director for the film. My...
View ArticleNY Times: This ‘Othello’ is powered by women
While working on the costume design for this year’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Othello VCUarts Theatre Professor Toni-Leslie James has worked amongst a group of talented technicians, most of...
View ArticleSculpture MFA candidate receives Sculpture Center’s 2018 Outstanding Student...
Sculpture + Extended Media MFA candidate Raul De Lara has been awarded the prestigious International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award for 2018. The...
View ArticleVCUarts Qatar professor discusses recent book with Marina Koren, Senior...
Jörg Matthias Determann, VCUarts Qatar associate professor, recently spoke with Marina Koren, senior associate editor of The Atlantic, about his new book Space Science and the Arab World: Astronauts,...
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VCUarts Alumni Featured in the ICA Shop
We are pleased to announce that there is a growing list of VCUarts alumni featured in the ICA Shop, managed by Sculpture + Extended Media alumnus Egbert Vongmalaithong (BFA ’12). The ICA Shop offers a...
View ArticleVCUarts Sculpture alumna featured in NY Times
Sculpture + Extended Media alumna Diana Al-Hadid (MFA ’05) was recently interviewed by The New York Times discussing how she balancing her studio practice with being a wife and the mother of a toddler....
View ArticleShawn Brixey: scientist, artist, inventor and dean
After nearly a year as the dean of VCUarts, Shawn Brixey continues to draw on his knowledge in arts, design, science and engineering to pioneer a dynamic, cross-disciplinary future for the school....
View ArticleKinetic Imaging and Sound Arts Richmond collaborate on summer programming
VCUarts Kinetic Imaging and Sound Arts Richmond developed a summer workshop series, “Experiments in Sound,” which explores the creative side of audio, acoustics and everyday sounds. The workshops,...
View ArticleCommunication Arts professor describes the many approaches to teaching figure...
An article by Communication Arts professor Stephen Alcorn was recently published in VOICES, a magazine published by the New York Folklore Society. In it, Alcorn talks about how he attempts to bring...
View ArticlePhotography + Film professor combines art and technology in ICA’s ‘Declaration’
VCUarts Photography + Film Professor Jon-Phillip Sheridan is showing a recent work, “Fixed Air,” in the Institute for Contemporary Art’s inaugural exhibition, “Declaration,” on view until Sept. 9,...
View ArticleQuestions You Didn’t Think to Ask on Tour
When you come to tour VCUarts, you are getting access to one of the most untapped resources on campus – our tour guides! Current undergraduate students lead our tours, and these are the questions...
View ArticleJohn Freyer brings his Free Hot Coffee bike to London
John Freyer and his bright red coffee bike are a familiar sight around VCU’s campus. The assistant professor in the Department of Photography + Film has been using the free pour-over coffee—as well as...
View ArticleA VCUarts professor takes his recovery program across the pond
As VCUarts associate professor John Freyer’s weeklong Tate Exchange residency continues, Style Weekly covered his plans for bringing his Fifty/Fifty project to London. He invites pairs of people to...
View ArticleFashion Merchandising Program Ranked in Top 50 in US
We are pleased to announce that VCUarts Fashion Merchandising has been named one of the top 50 programs in the U.S. by Fashion Schools. This is in the top 20% of schools considered for the 2018...
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