On The Cabell Screen

Showing on Jan. 19-20, 2020  dates related to MLK events at VCU.  In honor of MLK Day 2020, 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 big screen is […]

Showing Nov. 22 – Jan. 5 In addition to providing the VCU community with access to information, spaces and resources, the library personnel at Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences also enjoy photography. Showcasing a variety of subjects and locations, “Life Beyond the Library” offers a glimpse into the interests and perspectives of the people […]

Showing on the screen from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 3. More than one in three students experiences food insecurity during their time at VCU. On Dec. 3, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., staff at tables on The Compass outside James Branch Cabell Library will provide information about student hunger and accept financial donations. The […]

Showing Nov. 22 – Jan. 5 History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by […]

Showing on the Cabell Screen Nov. 1 – 30 VCU Libraries hosts “Ancarrow’s List: Native Plants at the River’s Edge” in James Branch Cabell Library. See the exhibit on the first floor during regular library hours. Inspired by Newton Ancarrow’s compendium of wildflowers native to the James River, the exhibit features selected botanical illustrations from […]

Showing during October The biggest show in RVA this fall is the annual Richmond Folk Festival, Oct. 11-13 2019.  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, a […]

The Agecroft exhibit will show on the Cabell Screen afternoons until July 2.  Agecroft Hall & Gardens is a majestic Tudor manor house brought to Virginia from Manchester, England. Built in Lancashire, England in the 16th century, Agecroft  was the home of the landed gentry Langley and Dauntesey families for four centuries. By the mid-1920’s, the […]

Showing beginning April 13 and periodically beyond that date are the winner, honorable mentions and other selected designs in a spring 2019 design contest sponsored by the Friends of VCU Libraries.  Kiersten Marshall,  a School of the Arts student in the class of 2020, is the winner of a $500 design prize for a Friends […]

Showing through April 19, 2019. Tasmeem Doha 2019, the biennial international art and design conference hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar) included three days of workshops, talks and exhibitions by renowned artists and designers from the region and around the world. This Cabell Screen exhibit shares a few […]

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 […]