On The Cabell Screen

Showing in the mornings in April are two works tied to the annual MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Anderson.  The annual MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Anderson is a signature event in the VCUarts student exhibition calendar. The MFA Thesis Exhibition showcases works by talented emerging artists and professionals. Participating Departments are: Craft and Material […]

The Pattern Project began as an annual Interior Design project challenging students to explore craft, material, concept, color, place and time. It has grown to be a transdisciplinary color-focused project called Tutto Bianco involving VCUarts students from Painting + Printmaking, Fashion, Interior Design, and Sculpture. Now in its fifth year The Pattern Project continues to […]

A few images from the 2019 Undergraduate Juried Show “Home Sweet Home” are on view beginning March 18. Undergraduate student work is now on display at the Anderson. The gala opening for this end-of-semester show was Friday, March 15. Artists created works from this prompt: “Perhaps home is not a place but an irrevocable condition,” contends […]

VCU students, faculty and staff will celebrate  VCU Unity on March 11, from 9 – 11 a.m. in Park Plaza. (Park Plaza is the courtyard/small amphitheater located behind Hibbs Hall and to the east of the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts.) This event will provide an opportunity to celebrate VCU’s diverse community and to show […]

Showing during the mornings on the Cabell Screen,  VCUarts Communication Arts alumna Emily Herr’s female-focused mural work of “Girls! Girls! Girls!” Alumna Emily Herr (Arts, 2013) is widely known in Richmond for her large murals.  Inspired by the Women’s March, Herr started the series with a mural on a Richmond garage door. She had been […]

Showing in the afternoons on the Cabell Screen Nickolai Walko, a graduate of the VCU School of the Arts, has developed a unique and eye-catching form of image-making that hybridizes classical drawing and pop art. After placing a layer of black masking tape on a brightly colored panel or wall, covering the surface from edge […]

Showing on Jan. 21, 2019 and on other dates related to MLK events at VCU.  In honor of MLK Day 2019, a portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King displays on the Big Screen today. The piece is by Dallas-based illustrator Richie Pope, a former VCU School of the Arts student. The artwork displaying on the […]

Kyle Williams, a Communication Arts major (class of 2020) is the recipient of a $500 prize for the best-in-show entry in a VCU Libraries’ Cabell Screen contest honoring VCU’s 50th anniversary as a university. His video/gif “You Belong Here” depicts bold illustrations of VCU students from different decades. Williams sought photos of actual VCU students […]

As Virginia Commonwealth University marks its 50th anniversary in 2018-19, the VCU Libraries invites students to submit their own vision or artistic articulation of “50” for a special anniversary exhibition on the Cabell Screen. Work can take the form of still images (photography or illustration), gifs or short videos. The Cabell Screen has no sound. […]

“The First Year” exhibit honors 1968-69 and the newly formed VCU and will show on the Cabell Screen all day on Nov. 30 and throughout December and into January 2019. When the Wayne Commission formed Virginia Commonwealth University in 1968, it merged two institutions – the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) and Richmond Professional Institute […]