On The Cabell Screen

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

  Runs in the mornings through Oct. 29 Comic industry giant, Mike Mignola is coming to Richmond to join in conversation Oct. 29 with TyRuben Ellingson, chair and professor of the VCUarts Department of Communication Arts. Mignola is best known for his distinctive art style and creation of the pulpy genre-bending Hellboy, a multimedia franchise rooted […]

Showing through in the afternoons beginning Sept. 17. The hippies, the hair, the fashions,the intense looks and serious poses, the stop-the-war protests and the arts festival. This Cabell Screen exhibit, “1969: The Start of VCU” captures images from the 1969 yearbooks, The Cobblestone and the X-Ray, from the newly minted VCU. The images showcase people […]

Showing May 1 12:30-3 p.m. The Feminist Social Theory class (GSWS 301) dedicated its semester-long social action project to the topic of mass incarceration. This project involved working with Health Brigade and access to the Chesterfield Women’s Diversion Center to have a workshop day with women incarcerated there.  The workshop, “A Creative Visionary Perspective of […]

Showing March evenings (4-10 p.m.) As Outreach Director for Life Sciences and Center for Environmental Studies, Anne Wright spends her days helping to disseminate scientific knowledge to the community at large. “A problem in this country is science not being accepted and digested by the general public,” she said. “The scientific community has got to […]