On The Cabell Screen

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. 

Showing on the Cabell Screen starting August 14 are exhibits for Kinetic Imaging, Emanata, and Home Sweet Home.  Kinetic Imaging students experimented with concept, medium, technique and narrative for their projects. Emanata is a student-run publication dedicated to providing avenues for comic creators to publish their work. The staff of Emanata works with contributors to amplify their […]

Showing on the Cabell Screen throughout summer 2019 are selected works from Emanata, the student-run comic arts review. Started in 2014 with its first anthology, Weird, Vol. 1, Emanata is a student-run publication dedicated to providing avenues for comic creators to publish their work. The staff of Emanata works with contributors to amplify their skills […]

From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. during the annual employee-student walk-a-thon to support scholarships, the Cabell Screen displays an image in homage. VCU employees and students join together for the 15th annual Marquita Aguilar Walk-A-Thon on April 25. Participants will gather at the Plaza of the University Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave., and walk around Monroe […]

A few images from the 2019 Undergraduate Juried Show “Home Sweet Home” are on view beginning March 18. Undergraduate student work is now on display at the Anderson. The gala opening for this end-of-semester show was Friday, March 15. Artists created works from this prompt: “Perhaps home is not a place but an irrevocable condition,” contends […]

As Virginia Commonwealth University marks its 50th anniversary in 2018-19, the VCU Libraries invites students to submit their own vision or artistic articulation of “50” for a special anniversary exhibition on the Cabell Screen. Work can take the form of still images (photography or illustration), gifs or short videos. The Cabell Screen has no sound. […]

Showing Oct. 5 and throughout October, which is Archives Month.    Every October, the archival community celebrates American Archives Month to raise public awareness about the importance of preserving and sharing cultural and historical documents from families, communities, states, and the country at large. Archivists reach out to their communities during this month to make […]

Showing through October (evenings). The first few days of the school year are always buzzing with activity at Virginia Commonwealth University. And there’s no better place to capture the vibe and the excitement than on the Compass. University Marketing set up a basic white backdrop on the Compass – just outside James Branch Cabell Library […]

Are you a student who wants to submit your artwork to the Cabell Screen to be shown during regular Student Showcases? Email [email protected] or submit your information online. The first showcase is scheduled for late fall, 2017. It will run through January. Submissions are due by Dec. 1. Details and the blog about content on […]

During the summer  (May – August), the Cabell Screen will showcase selections of student and faculty art and some selections from library collections. The shows will run continuously throughout the days.. Viewers will see title screens between groups of images and works that will include: “Wildflowers” photographs from  VCU Libraries Digital Collections (pictured at right) “Emanata” […]