Two sculpture alumni chosen for Storm King arts residency
Graduate sculpture alumni Ellie Hunter (MFA ’17) and Pallavi Sen (MFA ’16) will be part of the Shandaken: Storm King residency program in New Windsor, New York, this June. As part of the residency,...
View ArticleIn the front yard of a Colorado home, a sculpture MFA installs life-size...
David Grainger (MFA ’08) has a new show at The Yard—which is not a gallery but the literal front lawn of curators Jessica Langley and Ben Kinsley at their home in Colorado Springs. The site has hosted...
View ArticleSculpture alum earns Black History in the Making Award
Joy McMillian (BFA ’19), who graduated from the sculpture program in May, earned a Black History in the Making award during the spring 2019 semester. The award is presented each year by the Department...
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Five things to do in Richmond this summer
Photo by Sidd Kumar Welcome to a city of inspired contrast. Richmond is cobblestones and tattoos, history and modernism, urban and rugged outdoors. It’s home to the James River Park System, one of the...
View ArticleWall Street Journal reviews Monument Avenue exhibition at Valentine
General Demotion/General Devotion was featured in the Wall Street Journal in May, when architecture critic Michael J. Lewis published his review of the exhibition at the Valentine museum. General...
View ArticleAlum’s ‘Hundred Dresses’ exhibition opens at Penn Gollege
The Gallery at Penn College has mounted an exhibition by Crystal Cawley (BFA ’82) titled “The Hundred Dresses Project: We Are All in This Together,” open through July 23. The show features dress prints...
View ArticleCommunication Arts student wins Adobe Design award
Mary Metzger, a communication arts major, was selected as a Top Talent in illustration for the 2019 Adobe Design Achievement Awards. She was honored for her work “But You Don’t Look Sick!”, an...
View ArticleStephen Vitiello chosen as featured artist on Principia College’s ‘Mistake...
Stephen Vitiello, professor and chair of Kinetic Imaging, was recently featured in Mistake House, an annual magazine from the English department of Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. The feature...
View ArticleRecent MFA grad premieres show at Page Bond Gallery
Peter Cochrane (MFA ’19), an alumnus of the photography and film program, debuts his latest body of work, “The Wild Beasts,” at Page Bond Gallery on June 6. The solo exhibition, which will hold its...
View ArticleArt Education grad students and alumni teach summer classes
Graduates and current students from the VCUarts art education master’s program are teaching in the summer program at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond this year. The ArtVenture Summer Camp is a series...
View ArticleA chat with Lea Marshall
Lea Marshall is the associate chair of Dance + Choreography, and has served as a producer for dance companies since 1999. Her academic background is in writing, with a BA in English from the University...
View ArticleAlum’s documentary profiles his father, the baseball fan who became a ‘free...
Michael Volpe was a die-hard New York Giants fan—even after they moved across the country to San Francisco. But when they traded away his favorite player, third baseman and shortstop Matt Williams,...
View ArticleVCUarts professors chosen for 2019 Faculty Success Program
Elissa Armstrong and Karen Kopryanski are two of the seven faculty members chosen from across VCU to join the summer cohort of the Faculty Success Program from the National Center for Faculty...
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The art of looking
Observation is a nurse’s most important skill. No matter which hospital unit they work in, nurses must be attentive to patients’ needs, sensitive to their symptoms and aware of their emotional state....
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Embodied Empathy: Bringing virtual reality from the classroom to health care
What happens when you use virtual reality (VR) to understand what it’s like to be in someone else’s body? Can VR create empathy? These are the core questions being asked by Embodied Empathy, an...
View Article‘Improv saved my life’
Elizabeth Byland, director of VCU Improv, believes that everyone should have the opportunity to participate in improvisational theatre. Byland’s class is open to any VCU student who wants to try...
View ArticleAIGA Eye on Design highlights assistant professor Nontsikelelo Mutiti
The American Institute of Graphic Arts, the oldest and largest professional design association in the United States, has featured Nontsikelelo Mutiti, assistant professor of graphic design, in their...
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Communication Arts student wins Tombow scholarship
VCUarts Communication Arts student Bailey Wilson has been awarded a Tombow Create Your Best Work Art Scholarship for the 2019–2020 academic year, worth up to $5,000. As a winner, Wilson also receives...
View ArticleVCUarts Music choral director to lead 2019 Wintergreen Music Festival
Erin Freeman, director of choral activities, will serve as the artistic director of this year’s Wintergreen Music Festival in Nellysford, Va, as well as the associated Wintergreen Music Academy. This...
View ArticleLearn more about Pamela Lawton, VCUarts’ 2019 Tate Exchange associate
Pamela Lawton is an associate professor of the VCUarts art education department, and this summer she’ll serve as the school’s second Tate Exchange Associate at Tate Modern in London. During her...
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