On The Cabell Screen

Showing on the Cabell Screen through fall semester.  “A Career of Collage” celebrates the multi-layered artistic life of longtime educator Chuck Scalin. In addition to the Cabell Screen show, some of these works are on exhibit at the  Boyd Realty Art Gallery,  6784 Forest Hill Ave., through Sept. 16.    Scalin makes his mixed-media collages with […]

The Art Browsery, a dedicated book display on the fourth floor, James Branch Cabell Library, offers new, beautiful books that can inform creativity and inspire creations.  During the Covid crisis, the section was retired for safety reasons because glossy paper stock was known to retain the virus. Now, it’s back. Arts librarians at Cabell have […]

On the screen from Sept. 26 – Oct. 28 The first few days of the school year are always buzzing with activity at Virginia Commonwealth University. And there’s no better place to capture the vibe and the excitement than on The Compass. In what’s become an annual custom, University Marketing set up a basic white […]

Showing Aug. 29-Sept. 19 Images on the Cabell Screen are from an exhibition on view at the Branch Museum of Architecture and Design through Sept. 11. Creative expression and design – both directly and indirectly – influenced Richmond activists, artists, organizers, and others who mobilized during the summer of 2020 to collectively respond to communal […]

Providing a showcase and a sharing space for student artwork is a key role of the Cabell Big Screen. This Student Showcase, on display through Jan. 31, shows work produced in 2021. Students, please contact us if you have ideas for projects or simply want to share some of your work. Works were self-submitted by students […]

In an age where every 60 seconds 140,000 images are uploaded to Facebook, image production and literacy are more important than ever.  Learn how to use the photographic tools we already have with us everyday, to create compelling images, stories and videos that will cut through the digital clutter of our daily image feeds. John […]

Showing through spring semester 2021 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 River, searching for evidence of illegal sewage dumping into the river. Ancarrow, who is perhaps best remembered today […]

The fourth version of the Richmond Virginia Black Lives Matter Art Show is all-virtual in 2021 and the Cabell Screen is showing select works from this significant community exhibit. University Public Affairs article about the project The full 2021 exhibition is available for viewing online. BLM RVA ART 2021 includes more than 130 works from […]

Showing Jan. 17-18, 2021 related to MLK events at VCU.  In honor of MLK Day 2021, a portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King displays on the Cabell Library Screen. The piece is by Dallas-based illustrator Richie Pope, a former VCU School of the Arts student. The artwork displaying on the big screen is a cropped […]

Showing Friday, June 19, 2020. This is a reprise of an earlier exhibit. In 2017 and 2018, VCU Libraries partnered on a community art show by local artists who explored the theme of Black Lives Matter at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond, 1000 Blanton Ave. The show was organized by three Richmond artists: Lynn Stevens, […]