New exhibition features Kinetic Imaging alum’s ‘familiar and alien’ visuals
Beginning September 6, the Cody Gallery at Marymount University in Arlington, Va. will feature the work of Emma Cregan (BFA ’17), Kinetic Imaging alumna, whose animations create distorted realities...
View ArticleSharing practices
Before Wes Taylor and MK Abadoo could co-teach their new course—Dance, Design, and Community Justice—they wanted to get to know each other. Both have creative practices that are rooted in...
View ArticleIn the studio: Chris Visions, comic artist
Chris Visions (BFA ’07) is a Richmond-based artist whose work inspired the most recent issue of Studio. He works in graphic design, game design, storyboarding, illustration and comics. In June, he...
View ArticleSeeking diversity in design, UX Collective recommends two VCUarts faculty
Anna Saraceno, a senior product designer at software company Atlassian, wants to see a wider range of viewpoints in design discourse. Writing for the blog UX Collective, she says she was disappointed...
View ArticleVoicingHan: Managing pain through avatar technology
When Semi Ryu performed Parting on Z—her work about a farewell between symbolic lovers: user and avatar—in London in 2013, something unexpected happened. She found herself sobbing in the middle of it....
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A conversation with painting alumna Loie Hollowell
From September 14 to October 19, Pace Gallery in New York is hosting a solo exhibition by painting and printmaking alumna Loie Hollowell (MFA ’12). Hollowell’s autobiographical work investigates the...
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Get creative to tackle health, education and poverty
The future is in your hands. As VCUarts students, you have the creative power and innovative spirit to change the world. And at VCU’s 2nd Annual Innovation Challenges event, you’re invited to submit...
View ArticleAlumni talk needle and ink at Richmond’s annual tattoo festival
Sept. 12 marks the 27th annual Richmond Tattoo, Art and Music Festival. Over three days of seminars, performances and competitions, artists from around the world will share their professional knowhow...
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The ICA wins 2019 American Architecture Award
The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University has won the American Architecture Award for 2019. Since its launch last year, the ICA has brought internationally relevant...
View ArticleStudio Two Three founder has a ‘long-haul vision’ to make Richmond arts more...
Ashley Hawkins (BFA ’08), co-founder and executive director of the nonprofit Studio Two Three, recently wrote in to Style Weekly with a new pledge to the Richmond community. Ahead of the studio’s 10th...
View ArticleAustralia sings again: retrospective revisits immersive field recordings by...
In Western Australia, the wind blows dust across the mountains and gorges, waterfalls crash over cliffs and wildlife chatter to themselves. This symphony of natural sound is unique to the region, but...
View ArticleVCUarts community well-represented at the NY Art Book Fair
On September 20–22, MoMA PS1 hosts the annual New York Art Book Fair, the largest of its kind in the world. Among the event’s 170 international exhibitors are a group of first-year graphic design...
View ArticleCatching live fish for dinner was this alum’s favorite project at Thrillist
At Zauo, New Yorkers can get a taste of Japanese fishing life in their cuisine. The new restaurant allows patrons to catch live fish to cook for their dinner, right on the premises. Graphic design...
View ArticleDance alum influenced by a legacy of black teaching
Christine Wyatt (BFA ’18), in an interview for Dancers of RVA, said that dance has been a part of her life since she was a little girl. In embracing her identity and heritage, dance educators have been...
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Singers in the hall: choir students prepare to belt ‘Carmina Burana’ in...
Everything about Carmina Burana is huge and imposing. It takes more than 100 performers to interpret it. Its libretto is written in Latin and Middle High German. And the whole production is based on...
View ArticleGo behind-the-scenes with Cinema students
VCUarts Cinema students Sam Labella (writer/director) and Kat Docalovich (producer) received a VCUarts Research and Innovation Grant for their film “Here Lies Beatrice.” Take a look behind the scenes!...
View ArticleVCUarts Theatre praised for technical and design training by New York theatre...
The VCUarts Theatre program was included among “The Top 30 College Theatre Design and Tech Programs for 2019-2020” by the New York-based outlet OnStage Blog. The theatre program’s technical track was...
View ArticleHow a virtual reality startup wants to end bullying and harassment
PeerSpective members outside the Capital One Innovation Center in Shockoe Bottom. From left to right, Veronica Lopez, Brett Bowker and Sarah Carter (BFA ’19). When you put on a VR headset, your eyes...
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International Research Grant: Samuel Lo, Hong Kong
Each year, the Dean’s International Research Grant program awards $2,500 to up to 10 students to fund independent travel that informs their research and provides an experience related to their creative...
View ArticlePassion and discipline: how Rex Richardson masters the trumpet
Rex Richardson could not shake his cough all summer. No matter where he went—a residency in France, a jazz club in Austria, a festival in Spain—he wrestled with a respiratory ailment that was fighting...
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