Jurgen Comics Contest honorees explore banned art and censorship
Images from the annual Jurgen Comics Contest will be showing on the Cabell Screen through February This exhibit showcases student artwork from VCU Libraries’ annual Jurgen Comics Contest. The Contest focuses on telling stories of banned art as a way to consider the complex relationship between art and society and the long history of censorship. […]
“Reflections” exhibit celebrates new space and local artists’ work
To celebrate the opening of its new Reflection Room, VCU Libraries offers “Reflections,” an exhibit of student, faculty, alumni and community art on the Cabell Screen. The exhibit debuts Jan. 16 when classes resume on the Monroe Park Campus. The Reflection Room in James Branch Cabell Library is a new space designed to help students […]
Screen is dark until Jan. 15
Programming on the Cabell Screen is suspended until the spring semester. The first exhibit of 2024 will be “Reflections,” a collection of faculty, student and community artists’ work.
Student Media Showcase
Showing through January 2024 Student media at VCU is big and broad–from legacy publications like the student newspaper that’s been around since the school was formed to cutting-edge digital publications. The Student Media Center on Broad Street houses nine student-run media organizations available on various media platforms — newspaper, radio, literary and arts journals, digital […]
Emeritus faculty Chuck Scalin: 50+ years of collage and assemblage works 1971-2023
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 […]
Study Abroad Snapshots
In partnership with the VCU Global Education Office, VCU Libraries presents “Study Abroad Snapshots,” an exhibit on the Cabell Screen. These photos are snapshots taken by VCU students during their experience abroad during spring and summer 2023. The Fall 2024 Global Learning Fair will be held on the Commons Plaza from 10 a.m to 2 […]
Creepy images from the Comic Arts Collection
Showing through Oct. 31. Images of creepy comics from Cabell Library’s vast Comic Arts Collection are on view in honor of Halloween and the haunting season. See all of them on VCU Libraries Flickr channel.
Images showcase free and open resources
Showing on the Cabell Screen fall semester October 23-29, VCU Libraries is celebrating Open Access Week. Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the benefits of open access, coordinate in taking action to make openness the default for research and education, and ensure that equity is at […]
Richmond Folk Festival Posters and Ties to VCU
Showing during October The biggest show in RVA in the fall is the annual Richmond Folk Festival, Oct. 13-15, 2023. The multi-day event brings some 200,000 people to the riverfront “to celebrate the roots, richness and variety of American culture through music, dance, traditional crafts, storytelling and food.” The festival offers more than 30 performers, […]
Students explore the concept of censorship in Jurgen Comics Contest
Showing on the Cabell Screen this fall semester, images from the annual Jurgen contest. This exhibit showcases comic arts from a VCU Libraries-sponsored contest in the last academic year. These student artists brought wit, imagination and passion to the challenge of creating comics on the topic of censorship and self-censorship. This exhibit celebrates artists’ talents […]