KI Student Silvia Valladares interns with NASA’s Psyche Inspired program
This past fall KI student, Silvia Valladares was selected as one of sixteen interns to participate in NASA’s Psyche Inspired program. The Psyche Inspired program brings undergraduate students from any...
View ArticleKI Alumna Emma Cregan Wins Fulbright Award
VCUarts Department of Kinetic Imaging would like to congratulate alumna Emma Cregan on her recent Fulbright Artist Research Award win! Cregan will be traveling to Indonesia to study puppets and how...
View ArticleCinema Summer Electives! Open to All Students!
Unleash your inner screenwriter this Summer with our amazing faculty — Select the best time for you, email Nikita Moyer (moyernr@vcu.edu) for a course override, and get ready to kick start your...
View ArticleIn memoriam: VCUarts Qatar founding director Paul Petrie
The VCUarts community is saddened by the passing of Paul Petrie, founding director of the Shaqab College of Design Arts in Doha, Qatar—now known as VCUarts Qatar—on May 2, 2020. Petrie also served as...
View ArticleStudent Video Work: Round 3 Screening & Artist Talk
Student Video Work: Round 3 Screening & Artist Talk Thursday 5/14 at 8pm via Zoom The Zoom link will be posted to our Instagram account on Thursday.You can also email theanderson@vcu.edu for the...
View ArticleVirtual Senior Show: Crown Shy & Perennial Roots
VCUarts Kinetic Imaging senior shows are MOVING ONLINE! Crown Shy & Perennial Roots will open virtually on July 5 with an opening screening in the virtual theater on June 6 at 7pm followed by a...
View ArticleHow a creeping clay sculpture shows that we’re all connected
In February, Magdolene Dystra (MFA ’18) was installing her latest work Polyanthroponemia at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. It’s a hulking mass of clay, intended to resemble an infectious ooze, and...
View ArticlePsyche Inspired
In 1852, Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis made a discovery. Orbiting the sun, somewhere between Mars and Jupiter, is a giant metal asteroid—potentially the remnants of an early planet that lost...
View ArticleSTUDENT SPOTLIGHT: MEG
What’s your second major/double minor/why did you choose it? My second major is Digital Journalism. I chose it because I think it complements Cinema well in regard to what I hope to pursue after...
View ArticleKeeping Up with the KI Faculty
Members of the Kinetic Imaging faculty have been hard at work making the transition to teleworking and teaching the remainder of the semester remotely. Thanks to major efforts from the KI staff, the...
View ArticleCreative training
Through his company The Abstract Athlete, Painting + Printmaking professor Ron Johnson teaches athletes, veterans and others about the therapeutic benefits of creative practices. He further extends...
View ArticleTesting the limits of liberty
For one of his next projects, Sandy Williams IV (MFA ’19) is taking flight. The plan for his piece 40 Acres and a Mule—in reference to the Union’s unfulfilled promise of land ownership to freed slaves...
View ArticleJunior cellist wins fellowship to study mindfulness in music
Amora Mikell, a junior music major and cellist, was awarded an Undergraduate Fellowship for Clinical and Translational Research from the VCU Center for Clinical and Translational Research for her...
View ArticleFall 2019 Dean’s List
Congratulations for your inclusion on the VCUarts Fall 2019 Dean’s List! This special recognition is given to students earning a minimum GPA of 3.5 for the semester. Benjamin K. Weingartner Katelynn M....
View ArticleInterdisciplinary team wins big at Demo Day
The VCU da Vinci Center’s Demo Day is an annual showcase of student innovators and entrepreneurs, with thousands of dollars in seed funding on the line. This year, an interdisciplinary team—with...
View ArticleKinetic Imaging and Computer Science students collaborate on virtual...
The Spring Senior Capstone Exhibition was canceled for many VCUarts seniors as a result of pandemic-related university closures. Hoping to bring the community together and boost morale, staff members...
View ArticleALUM SPOTLIGHT: ALEX
What class/professor impacted you the most and why? I took Directing with Professor Bouchtia during my second to last semester of Cinema, and it really put into practice everything I had learned...
View ArticleImprovisation is a game: how Victor Haskins writes, plays and teaches jazz
Music alumnus Victor Haskins (BM ’13) is a composer, performer and teacher. He is currently a professor of jazz trumpet and the director of the jazz ensemble at the College of William and Mary, as well...
View ArticleVCUarts stands with its community
Dear VCUarts students, faculty, and staff, I am writing to you today deeply saddened and distressed by the horrific and tragic incidents against Black citizens, including the recent killings of Ahmaud...
View ArticleJoin a global network of creatives
A degree in the arts is more versatile than ever before. Graduates from VCUarts join a global network of creative talent that is the engine for today’s businesses and creative industries. 85% of alumni...
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