Award-winning collaboration brings coding and hip hop together
As the tech industry grows, a lack of diversity and inclusion in the world of computer science remains a problem; African Americans serve as only 2% of the workforce at major Silicon Valley companies....
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Kinetic Imaging alumna Kimberly Barnes talks grad school, Boston, and life as...
Kimberly Barnes (BFA ’14) is a Kinetic Imaging alumna currently living and working in Boston. In 2018, she earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts...
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Why I Chose VCUarts
VCUarts graduate programs attract exceptional artists, designers and educators who are interested in rigorously deepening their practice and fueling their creative endeavors. We asked a few current...
View ArticleVCUarts awards $28,000 for undergraduate research and innovation
In the 2019–20 academic year, VCUarts awarded $28,026 in grants to 12 undergraduate teams to support research, innovation, and entrepreneurship projects. First established in 2006 with the purpose of...
View ArticleMusic faculty member named in Grammy nomination
Yesterday’s 62nd Grammy Awards included work directed by VCUarts music faculty member Erin Freeman. The Richmond Symphony Orchestra and Chorus’s recording of Mason Bates’ Children of Adam and Vaughan...
View ArticleKinetic Imaging students’ VR game featured in student publication
A collaborative VR game designed by Kinetic Imaging students Aliyah Decker, Caitlin Dinoia, Michael Shea, El Tucker, and Tay Williams was featured in the December 2019 issue of Digital America. The...
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Theatre students explore the dark side of the Roaring Twenties in their...
If you know who Ruth Snyder was, you already know how Machinal ends. “Spoilers—she kills her husband,” explains theatre senior Laura Holt, costume designer. “And she ends up being executed by the...
View ArticleExhibitions feature Craft/Material Studies faculty and students
This spring is your chance to see the latest work coming from the Department of Craft/Material Studies. Faculty and MFA students will have their work on display in galleries—and a national ceramics...
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Photo alum wins $10,000 Best in Show prize at Southern arts exhibition
At the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, Johannes Barfield (MFA ’18) took home the $10,000 Atrium Health Best in Show Award for his work included in the exhibition Coined in the South. The...
View ArticleThe Menuhin Competition comes to Richmond and VCU
The Menuhin Competition, the world’s leading international competition for young violinists, will be held in Richmond, Va., in May through a partnership between VCU, the Richmond Symphony, VPM, the...
View ArticleVCUarts students, alumni and faculty sweep 2020-21 VMFA Fellowships
Students enrolled in BFA and MFA programs at VCUarts were well-represented among the winners of the 2020-21 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowships, alongside their faculty and alumni peers. As many...
View ArticleCan sustainable pet food save the world? Forbes thinks so
The email came in at 9:18 am on December 4: Congratulations! On behalf of Forbes, I’m thrilled to welcome you to the 30 Under 30, Class of 2020. But when Laura Colagrande (BFA ’13) and her business...
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Collaborative critique brings together craft and music
On a recent Monday evening, four Craft/Material Studies graduate students gathered in the Fine Arts Building to present and discuss their work. It was a standard meeting of their graduate critique...
View Article54th Annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Conference...
More than 6,000 artists, designers, educators and scholars expected to attend event co-hosted by VCUarts and Visual Arts Center of Richmond RICHMOND, Va. (March 2, 2020) – The National Council on...
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Alumna creates a community around clay
When asked how they would describe their work, ceramic artists Emily Wicks (BFA ’16) and Alexis Courtney look at each another. “Can you talk about my work?” Courtney asks Wicks. “You really love...
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For Hannah Altman, photography is a “steady constant”
In a photo, Hannah Altman sits on a bed, hugging her knee and cradling her mother’s head on her chest. A lamp mounted on the wall casts a warm glow on an otherwise somber scene. In another, they sit in...
View ArticleMusic major tests his video skills in Adobe Creative Jam
If you had 24 hours to make a video, what would you do? Music major Thomas Levine had to come up with his answer fast when he signed up for the Adobe and Disney Creative Jam. The event opened in a...
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Theatre students explore the dark side of the Roaring Twenties in their...
If you know who Ruth Snyder was, you already know how Machinal ends. “Spoilers—she kills her husband,” explains theatre senior Laura Holt, costume designer. “And she ends up being executed by the...
View ArticleVCUarts named to 2021 best MFA programs
To the VCUarts community, I am thrilled to share some good news with all of you. This morning, U.S. News and World Report released rankings for 2021 Best Master of Fine Arts Programs. VCUarts is again...
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Lesson plans for a happier practice
In the field of music, there are a staggering number of injuries. Recent surveys have shown nearly three-fourths of professional musicians have experienced injuries and pain that affected their...
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