On The Cabell Screen

Showing Oct. 17-21  Activist artist Regina Holliday will speak at Virginia Commonwealth University on Thursday at noon. Part of the movement known as participatory medicine, Holliday believes that the patient should be a partner with their provider and both should work together as a team. She also argues for speedy access to digital medical records, has strong opinions about patient care […]

Showing Oct.3 – Oct. 9 The biggest show in RVA this week is the annual Richmond Folk Festival, Oct. 7-9 2016. Last year, according to the festival website, the multi-day event brought 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 […]

Showing Sept. 30-Nov. 20  During the spring 2016 semester, graduate and undergraduate VCU interior design students took their studies beyond the studio and into the university’s high-profile construction project, the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) at the corner of Broad Street and Belvidere Avenue. In this collaboration among ICA staff, VCU School of the Arts Interior Design faculty and the […]

Showing Friday, Sept. 23 as part of gala events surrounding the launch of the Make It Real Fundraising campaign. Selected works of Charles Vess will appear on the Big Screen until 4 p.m. today. Charles Vess (B.F.A ’74/A) is a fantasy artist and comic-book illustrator who has specialized in myths and fairy tales. (“A Chance […]

New exhibit beginning Sept. 19: Images from Matt Lively’s current show, “Helium Ghost” at Glavé Kocen Gallery (1620 W. Main St.), are haunting and ethereal. Lively (B.F.A./ ’93, A) studied sculpture at VCU and he is the first alumnus to exhibit on the Cabell Big Screen. He has enjoyed an active career. Close ties to his alma […]

Showing starting September 12 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, searching for evidence of illegal sewage dumping into the river. Ancarrow, who is perhaps best remembered today for his […]

  The first day of classes is always a day to see and be seen at VCU. That’s why on Aug. 25, 2016, photographers and videographers from VCU’s Division of University Relations set up a simple white backdrop outside of Hibbs Hall, pointed their cameras and let VCU students do the talking. And the smiling. […]

  Richmond is an art-filled city, in part due to the Richmond Mural Project, which by 2016 had created 100 large-scale pieces of public art. You can see them throughout VCU’s neighborhoods. VCU photography student Julian McBain captured images of some murals, which are posted in the Flickr album “In Our Neighborhood.” Showing: Beginning Sept. 6 (Do you […]