‘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 […]
Call to artists: Submit by June 17 to ‘UNcommon/UNconventional’ exhibit
To celebrate the unique character of VCU and RVA, VCU Libraries seeks visual works of art for a curated exhibit for The Cabell Screen. The art selected for “UNcommon/UNconventional” should capture, suggest, or evoke feelings of wonder, appreciation, and joy in the singular places and people who make up Virginia Commonwealth University and the urban […]
“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 […]
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, […]
Maggie Colangelo
Showing through August Maggie Colangelo is a VCU alum of communication arts and environmental studies. While volunteering in the Virtual Curation Laboratory, she developed the idea of Founding Monsters and was awarded a VCU Fellowship for Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry to pursue the project.
Reprise DEEPER: An Illustrative Experience of the Mind and Body
Showing through August This solo exhibition is an inviting portrayal of alumnus Nickolai Walko’s medically inspired works. The title, “DEEPER” references not only the idea of physically going further into the body but also explores the ever- expansive realm of the mind. Each individual piece is activated by the action of being hand-cut with an […]
The Mystery of Missing Megafauna combines comic arts and archaeology
Showing through May Artist Maggie Colangelo, VCU alum of communications arts and environmental studies , and Bernard K. Means, Ph.D., assistant professor in the VCU School of School of World Studies and director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory, collaborated once more to create a new more scientific exploration on megafauna. The Mystery of the Missing Megafauna explores […]
DEEPER: An Illustrative Experience of the Mind and Body
Showing through April This solo exhibition is an inviting portrayal of alumnus Nickolai Walko’s medically inspired works. The title, “DEEPER” references not only the idea of physically going further into the body but also explores the ever- expansive realm of the mind. Each individual piece is activated by the action of being hand-cut with an […]