ICA at VCU to celebrate 5 years of art and community Oakwood Arts to launch apprenticeship program

The Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU will celebrate its fifth anniversary with an evening of casual conversation, music, performances, new works and more on Friday, April 21, starting at 5:30 p.m.

Steven Holl, who designed the ICA building, along with project architect Dimitra Tsachrelia and ICA’s executive director Dominic Willsdon will lead a conversation about the institute.

The 2022 Fall season’s program “Misread Unread Read Re-read Misread Unread Re-read (MURRMUR) will launch newly commissioned works from Richmond residents Sam Taylor and nicole killian along with New York-based artist Riley

Hooker. New works from artists in residency will be unveiled for the ICA’s ongoing exhibition “So it appears” — an intricate kaleidoscopic work by Australian born artist Tricky Walsh and an audio response to the exhibition by audio artist Sharon Mashihi. Another feature of the evening will be Richmond-based artist Vivian Chiu presenting some of her “sketches” created over the past decade.

The evening is free. For more information or to RSVP to attend the anniversary celebration, visit https://icavcu.org /. The Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU is located at 601W. Broad St.