‘UNcommon/UNconventional,’ celebrates unique people, places and images of VCU and RVA
Showing on the Cabell Screen beginning July 16, 2024
The exhibit celebrates the unique character of Virginia Commonwealth University and Richmond’s urban environment. Artists submitted paintings, illustrations, animations and photographs that capture, suggest, or evoke feelings of wonder, appreciation, and joy in the singular places and people who make up VCU and Richmond, Virginia.
This exhibit is related to VCU’s identity, which is built on the concept that there’s nowhere else like this and no one else just like us, that in a world of the common, VCU is the uncommon. The juried exhibition accepted submissions from faculty, staff, students, alumni and local artists.
The primary materials for the works vary. These are the featured artists:
- Jamie Arkin, adjunct faculty, Interplanetary
- Cardamom Beloin, graduate student, Self Portrait of the Universe, Stonehenge, Tesseract, Portals and Mandala
- Brad Birchett, faculty, Friends Forever
- Jayda Brooks, student, Beautiful Chaos
- Rebekah Carroll, student, Women Who Motor
- Abigail Gleeson, student, Horns in the Hill
- Kerry Hugins, alumni, A Doorway to Possibility/Inner Voice
- Shaeley Lincoln, student, Reminisce
- Julian McBain, alumni, Vero Rivera Mural
- Michele Olson Pancoast, staff, Undaunted – VCU EHS in the Snow
- Lily Robinette, alumni, Compass Cabell Library Screen, MCV Egyptian Building, MCV Science Building and Monroe Cabell Screen
- Pradip Singh, staff, Three E’s, Empathize, Empower and Educate
- Thuy Tran, alumni, #grammerchecks
- Van Vox, graduate student, Bloom
- Anaya Williams, student, Yellow Leisure, Blue Shadows
- Vernell Williamson, alumni, Sunflower and Butterfly
- Arrick Wilson, student, Shawnis Mural, Alexandrea Pangburn Mural, and Student Portraits
- VCU Enterprise and Marketing, various images of VCU