On The Cabell Screen

Hillary Waters Fayle received a MFA from VCUarts in 2013 , and a BFA from Buffalo State College. She is an Assistant Professor and directs the fiber program in the department of Craft/Material Studies. In Rooted: Botanical Connections she explores concepts of humanity’s interaction with the natural world. Fayle uses leaves as her medium and […]

Public monuments and memorials have a profound impact on our collective understanding of the past and help to determine which histories we will preserve and honor in the future. Professor Newman’s HIST 300: Historical Methods class investigated the histories and contemporary legacies of a variety of commemorative symbols located in the greater Richmond area and […]

Cabell Screen is featuring the art of students from Elissa Armstrong’s Art Review Honors Course. During Art Review, a Fall 2020, five week Honor College module course, HONR 399-701, Fall 2020 , students visited prominent Richmond art sites, like the VMFA, the ICA, Kehinde Wiley’s Rumors of War statue, and Robert E. Lee’s monument, recently […]

Open Access Week, a global event now entering its tenth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the benefits of Open and inspire wider participation to make Open a new norm in scholarship, research and education. Open is the movement to remove access barriers to educational and research materials. […]

Showing Sept. 1 through Oct. 2 VCUarts student Audrey Reed, who is currently getting her MFA in Costume Design, designed the costumes for the VCU stage production of Spring Awakening which was unfortunately postponed due to COVID-19. Artist Statement: The color palette for this production and design reflect on the natural beauty of the earth. […]

Showing from Sept. 1 through Oct. 2 Stephen Alcorn is a professor with VCU Arts Communication Arts department. He spent his formative years in Florence, which influenced his artistic style and created a lasting desire to share the experience with others. The Florence Revealed program provides the opportunity to spend an entire month in Florence, Italy drawing […]

Showing on screen August 2020 VCUarts Animation Club creates a space for students interested in animation to be able to create and interact with other animators. They make animation resources like programs, portfolio building, exhibiting and critique more readily available.  The animation club videos range from the photographic stop-motion to cell animation of varied  lengths, […]

Showing on screen August 2020 Cabell Screen reprises Associate Proffesor Bob Kaputof’s Kinetic Imaging Fall 2019 class exploration of video or animation for an outdoor projection on a large screen. Kinetic Imaging is a department in VCU’s School of the Arts that focuses on work made within the disciplines of video, animation and sound. The experimental […]

Showing through March 21 Between 1968 and 1971, Richmond environmentalist and James River advocate Newton Ancarrow snapped thousands of photographs of wildflowers, documenting more than 400 species, as he walked along the banks of the James, searching for evidence of illegal sewage dumping into the river. Ancarrow, who is perhaps best remembered today for his […]

Showing through March 16 2020 March 2-6 is Open Education Week, an international observation that aims to raise awareness about the positive impact of open education on teaching and learning worldwide. Open education is comprised of resources, tools and practices created through the use of free and openly licensed materials. These materials, known as Open […]