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Introducing Julia Carr What an exciting time to be a part of VCUarts, as we plan the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), a building that will serve as the showplace for this great art school. I began as executive director of development in November and come to VCU with a background in fashion and a love of art. I started my career at Miller & Rhoads department store as an assistant buyer and then as the fashion coordinator, later moving into development at the Science Museum of Virginia and most recently at ChildFund International. During my first few months at the School of the Arts I’ve been traveling to meet our alumni and learning about the exciting careers they’ve carved out in cities like Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C. It’s been a true privilege to spend time with these talented professionals and to share with them the new growth occurring at the #1 public art school in the country. In addition to all of the excitement surrounding the ICA (more on page 8), we’ve been expanding our programming for The Pollak Society, the VCUarts support group open to anyone who’s interested in learning more about the visual and performing arts that this great university has to offer our community. We’re planning to sponsor several trips in late 2012/2013, designed to highlight the presence and impact VCUarts has throughout the world. Our plans include travel to Miami for Art Basel; Paris to explore fashion; a visit to New York with VCU professors taking us through the galleries of Chelsea and the VCUarts MFA show; and to Qatar to attend Tasmeem Doha, the renowned international design conference. I hope this special spring issue of Studio gives you a taste of all the excitement we’re feeling right now at VCUarts. It does indeed feel like it’s our time right now. My best,
Julia Carr VCUarts Executive Director of Development
Photo: Tim Chumley
VCUarts Remains the Top Ranked Public Art School in the U.S. U.S. News & World Report graduate program rankings came out in March, and once again VCUarts is #4 when compared to public and private art programs. We maintain our #1 public ranking, and many of our programs have done the same, or even increased their standings!
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Sculpture
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Fiber Arts
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Legend: Increased Ranking *Fibers, Glass, and Metals/Jewelry were last ranked in 2009.
VCUarts Department of Interior Design is ranked #10 nationally by DesignIntelligence 2012 America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools and the Design Council. And Dance and Choreography is an invited member of the Council of Dance Administrators (CODA), a forum of the nation’s 25 leading dance programs. 2
On the Cover A garden-view rendering of the planned VCU Institute for Contemporary Art, to open in 2015. (More on page 8–9.)
VCUQatar Cross-Cultural Exchange in Italy qatar.vcu.edu
VCUQatar’s MFA Design Studies students recently collaborated with Fabrica, a cuttingedge design and research center in the Veneto Region of Italy, on a glass-blowing workshop and exhibition entitled Shared Glass. Through the workshop, students created a collection of pieces that mixed and matched Middle Eastern and Western influences, shapes and functions. “Design education today is inconceivable without global connecting,” said Constantin Boym, director of the Design Studies MFA program at VCUQatar. “Different universities, companies, different cultures in general, should be engaged in learning from each other…Italy, a country with established and sophisticated cultural traditions, came as a natural choice for such creative exchange.” Photo: Gustavo Millon
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Art and Science Collide arts.vcu.edu/communicationarts The Department of Communication Arts and VCU Libraries collaborated for Intersection: Art and Science, an exhibition of works by students, faculty and alumni in the Scientific and Preparatory Medical Illustration Emphasis Area of Communication Arts. The exhibition runs through September 28 at the TompkinsMcCaw Library for Health Sciences, 509 N. 12th Street, Richmond. Above and left: Communication Arts student Mary Carter's work
Alumni at Anthropologie Two Craft/Material Studies grads are putting their skills to work for bigname retailer Anthropologie. Anne Shaw (BFA ’09), pictured left, has just moved to Philadelphia where she has been hired at the Anthropologie headquarters as an assistant design coordinator for the printed wovens team. She coordinates all the woven fabrics designed in-house, which are used in blouses, dresses, skirts and more. Another alumna, Gillian Maniscalco (BFA ’08), works for Anthropologie’s sister company, Urban Outfitters, as a print design assistant.
Craft/Material Studies Reunion Saturday, May 5 3 – 5 p.m. Meet and Greet with open studios VCU Fine Arts Building, 2nd fl. 1000 W. Broad Street 5 – 7 p.m. Reception & Exhibition Visual Arts Center 1812 W. Main Street
Photo courtesy of Anne Shaw
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Professor Receives Creative Capital Grant arts.vcu.edu/creativecapital Congratulations to VCUarts Film Professor Sonali Gulati who won a 2012 Creative Capital Grant in Film/Video Arts for work on a nontraditional documentary uncovering the underground medical industry of “curing” homosexuality in India. Creative Capital is a nonprofit that awards risk-taking projects that are bold, innovative, genre-stretching and of the moment. They received 3,247 submissions for the 2012 grants in Visual Arts and Film/Video. Over the course of nine months, nearly 100 arts professionals and artists reviewed the submissions and selected 46. Gulati will receive $50,000 in funding and advisory support for her film.
Students Visit Fashion Capital for Spring Break Professors Kristin Caskey and Karen Videtic led a group of students, alumni and friends on a fashioninsider trip to Paris in March. The group visited the archives of Yves St. Laurent; attended a fashion show at Galleries Lafayette; saw the Louis Vuitton/ Marc Jacobs exhibition at the Les Arts Decoratifs museum; explored the fabric shops in Montmarte; shopped for vintage couture and more. VCUarts Executive Director of Development Julia Carr joined the group to gather information for upcoming Pollak Society travel. Très excitant, non?
Left to right: Cary Fitzgerald, Morgan Fross, Dominique Madrid, Katie Mangano, James Valdivieso, Hallie Spradlin, Emilia Hernandez. Front row: Katie Philippsen.
VCUQatar Design to Improve Worker Conditions arts.vcu.edu/vcuqdesign A new VCUQatar project aims to use good design to meet a need created by the country’s rapid growth. With $1.4 million in funding, a group designed an innovative modular housing system for temporary laborers that’s both economical and drastically improves living conditions for workers. The migrant worker housing project stemmed from VCUQatar’s biennial design conference, Tasmeem Doha, and is backed by The Center for Research, Design and Entrepreneurship at VCUQatar, which supports collaborative research endeavors that contribute to Qatar’s future. The housing project’s portable, modular design is economical and can be easily configured to respond to specific site conditions, and be modified as the labor camp expands and contracts. The connected style of the design is also meant to foster community, improve overall well-being among workers, and as a result, increase their quality of work. A prototype is currently being constructed in Education City. Interested in attending Tasmeem Doha in March 2013? Contact VCUarts Development at 804.827.4676. Photo: Markus Elblaus
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VCUarts in NYC
Dawn Kasper Stirs Up the Whitney Museum arts.vcu.edu/dawnkasper Congratulations to performance artist and Sculpture + Extended Media alumna Dawn Kasper (BFA ’99) who not only has her work in the prestigious Whitney Biennial this year, but got herself in along with it. For Kasper’s performance piece This Could be Something If I Let It (pictured above with Kasper at left) she has literally moved into the museum, along with all of her belongings for the duration of its three-month run. Kasper is considering the Biennial a full-time job, spending every day there making new work, holding studio visits, and playing music while the Museum is open. As a result, she’s created one of the most talked about pieces in the show. "Everything I own is in this room, except for some underwear and a few other items,” she said during a media preview. The L.A.-based Kasper’s been traveling her nomadic studio since 2008. You can find it, and her, on the Whitney’s third floor through May 27. Where will she be next?
Photo: Sheldan C. Collins
Dance Alumna on Broadway lionking.com VCU Dance alumna, Donna Vaughn (BFA ’06), pictured above left, was recently promoted to the Broadway cast of The Lion King. She had been a dancer in the original Las Vegas cast and before that, the Baltimore native danced with Chicago’s Hubbard Street 2 and Dance Works (directed by Julie Nakagawa Bottcher). “A tiny-boned, long-limbed dancer, who can make any movement look easy, Donna was wonderful in ballet, modern dance, jazz dance, and hip-hop, too,” says James Frazier, Dance and Choreography chair.
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Alumni Perform in NYC Guggenheim Lab arts.vcu.edu/guggenheim VCUarts Kinetic Imaging alumni Hassan Pitts (MFA ’09), Jennida Chase (MFA ’09), Nathan Halverson (MFA ’11), along with Media, Art & Text doctoral candidate Belinda Haikes, performed their experimental sound piece The Future Is Now: Community Interventions for First Park at the BMW Guggenheim Lab during its residency in New York this fall. Pitts, Chase and Haikes are the core members of The Robert Rauschenberg Pilottone Experience, an experimental sound ensemble with a revolving cast. They make electronically driven sound improvisation and employ video and occasionally traditional instrumentation in live performances. The Guggenheim Museum’s lab is a think tank created to explore and discuss issues of urban life, which will travel to nine cities around the world in six years.
Sculpture Alumna Showing at VMFA arts.vcu.edu/alhadid Sculpture alumna and rising star Diana Al-Hadid’s (MFA ’05) large sculpture Trace of a Fictional Third is showing at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts through September 2. The work weaves landscape, architecture and the human figure and is accompanied by graphite drawings. Visit esterknows.com to see Diana featured in a recent BBC video. Courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery 7
Announcing the
VCU Institute for Contemporary Art Coming in 2015
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“The ICA will be a major contributor to the international conversation in the arts.” – Joseph H. Seipel, VCUarts Dean
ica.vcu.edu In 2015, VCU will open the doors to an exciting new center for the arts that’s part exhibition and performance space, and part lab and incubator. The 38,000-square-foot Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) will be a noncollecting institution presenting the work of artists from around the world. Designed by architect Steven Holl, the ICA was conceived to facilitate the way artists are working today by accommodating the increasing lack of barriers among different media and practices. The building will also include spaces for teaching and social interaction, as well as a café and garden. When it’s built, the VCU ICA will become an icon for the city and a beacon for contemporary art that projects the university’s forward-looking vision. One of the most respected architects living today, Steven Holl was named “America’s Best Architect” by Time Magazine for “buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye." In May 2012 he will be awarded the American Institute for Architects Gold Award, the highest honor an individual architect can receive. This collaboration of top-ranked arts school and world-renowned architect deserves a good stage, and we have it: the most traveled intersection in Richmond. The ICA will sit at the southwest corner of Broad and Belvidere streets, just off I-95, creating a new gateway to VCU, and to Richmond. Ica Campaign Committee Kathie and Steve Markel, co-chairs Pam and Bill Royall, co-chairs Brad Armstrong Elizabeth Cabell Meg Gottwald Freddie Gray Jil and Hiter Harris Neil Kessler True Luck Nancy Lund Abby Moore Bev Reynolds Carolyn Snow Anne Waleski
ICA INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Frances Lewis, arts patron, honorary chair Diana Al-Hadid, artist, VCUarts MFA alumna Jeffrey Deitch, director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Tara Donovan, artist, VCUarts MFA alumna Teresita Fernández, artist, VCUarts MFA alumna Roger Mandle, director, Qatar Museums Authority
Events to Celebrate the ICA New York April 25 VCUarts alumni gathered at Meulensteen Gallery to celebrate the opening of an exhibition of Holl’s watercolors of the ICA. The show runs through June 2, if you’re in the NYC area, check it out! Washington May 17 VCUarts alumni celebrate Steven Holl in conjunction with his AIA Gold Award win in the Holl-designed Swiss Ambassador's Residence. Richmond September 13 to October 18 the exhibition of Steven Holl watercolors of the ICA will be at the Virginia Center for Architecture. September 12, Holl to give the 2012 Windmueller Lecture (location TBD). We want you at our events! Update your contact info here: www.vcu-mcvalumni.org/alumni/update 9
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Dr. Pamela G. Taylor, associate professor and former chair of VCUarts Art Education, was awarded the prestigious 2012 Ziegfeld Award by the United States Society for Education through Art. The award honors educators who’ve made an outstanding and internationally recognized contribution to art education. Taylor developed an electronic learning and assessment tool to push students to think in more interconnective ways.
Three former VCU Music students got major career boosts when artists they collaborate with won major awards at the Grammys this year. Congratulations to Michael D. Congdon and Dustin Faltz who engineered and produced the Chris Brown song Deuces, featured on the rap artist’s latest album F.A.M.E, which won the Grammy for Best R&B Album. And congrats also to Reginald “Reggie” Pace, who has recently joined musical forces with indie-folk band Bon Iver, which was nominated for four Grammys, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The group won Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Album.
Graphic Design Grad Students Go Global TheatreVCU Production of The Elephant Man arts.vcu.edu/theatre TheatreVCU students worked with veteran TV, film and stage actor Casey Biggs, who was on campus this semester to direct The Elephant Man. In the production, Theatre Performance major Austin Seay played the title role without the help of prosthesis. Biggs was impressed with his TheatreVCU experience, from set design to costumes to the actors on stage. “What is astounding to me is how professional every department here is,” he said. “I’d take this production anywhere.”
arts.vcu.edu/graphicdesign Seven Graphic Design MFA students are traveling the globe presenting papers at conferences in Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, Turkey, Australia, Greece, England, Honolulu, Boston, and closer to home in Blacksburg, Va. That’s right. Not faculty, but students. This is an impressive feat from our extraordinary group which includes Anne Jordan, Cassie Hester, Jorge Silva Jetter, James Walker, Lucia Weilein, Mitch Goldstein and Sarah Weber. “I’m willing to bet $100 to a doughnut that not only has no grad program in the School of the Arts ever matched that, but that no graphic design grad program in the country ever has,” says Graphic Design Chair John Demao. Congratulations to you all for helping make us look so good. Lucia Weilein will present in Greece about a typeface she designed. Above: glyph designs from those characters.
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Alumni Reunite in L.A. Dean Joe Seipel shared the renderings of the planned Institute for Contemporary Art to an enthusiastic group of approximately 60 VCU alumni at the Manny Silverman Gallery in West Hollywood in February. “I think the ICA is fantastic, it’s very forward-looking and I think it will give high-profile exposure to VCU,” said film, TV and themepark composer William Kidd (BM ’78, MM ’82), adding: “And it’s always fun to see how many people from VCU are actually in L.A.” VCU alumnus Dick Robertson (BS ’67), a retired president of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, co-hosted the event. The next night, Fashion alumni gathered at 327 Sherbourne restaurant, and a few days later Art History hosted a luncheon during the College Art Association Conference at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.
Photos: Jana Cruder
Top: Ilene Ivins, Brien White (BFA ’98, BFA ’01) and Joanna Ramos. Above: Cindy Ripley (MFA ’79), VCUarts Dean Joe Seipel and Curtis Ripley. Left: Carole Ann Klonarides (BFA ’73) and Ainslee DeWolf (BFA ’84).
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Get Involved in VCUarts arts.vcu.edu/give Nationally recognized painter Teresa Pollak started VCUarts 84 years ago. Would she have ever guessed she was founding what would grow into the #1 public art school in the country? Today, her legacy lives on in many aspects of VCUarts including the dynamic group of supporters in The Pollak Society. Comprised of donors with an unrestricted annual gift of $1,000 and above, The Pollak Society members are deeply committed to the arts at VCU, in Richmond and beyond. Their support affords the school opportunities for student scholarships, visiting artist lectures, study abroad, and other priorities that strengthen the school’s role in teaching, research and service. Thanks to their generosity, VCUarts was able to provide 32 scholarships for our talented students and emerging artists last year alone. During the course of the academic year, members of The Pollak Society explore the art world through a series of events including intimate talks with visiting artists, behind-the-scenes previews of studios, and exhibitions. Next year, for the first time, The Pollak Society will invite members on artfocused experiences nationally and internationally. In 2013, Pollak members will take a guided tour of the galleries in Chelsea, New York; explore the country’s most important art fair in Miami; travel to France to get an inside look at the fashion capital; and even visit the VCUarts sister campus in Qatar for a world-renowned design conference. Won’t you join us? For information on joining The Pollak Society contact the VCUarts Development Office at 804.827.4676 or carrj@vcu.edu. Below: Pollak Society members Joan Gaustad and Bill Royall
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Donor Chat: True Farr Luck Arts patron, Pollak Society member since ’07 Why do you give to VCUarts and the ICA? I have a tremendous interest in the arts and have been a Pollak Society member for five years. Since the day I was introduced to Steven Holl, I’ve been so excited about VCU’s Institute for Contemporary Art. I knew what an outstanding national architect he is so when the drawings progressed I knew I very much wanted to be a part of what was taking place in that building. It truly is a gateway for the city of Richmond, but also people from other parts of the state, and people from other parts of the world can visit, too. They don’t need to speak the language to appreciate art. What made you want to get involved in The Pollak Society? If you have a love of the arts and are interested in the arts you just keep on learning more. The Pollak Society has wonderful events and speakers that come from VCU. Plus, when our daughter went back to get another degree she studied interior design at VCU. What has been your favorite Pollak Society event? There are a number of them but one of the favorite ones for my granddaughter is the fashion show. It’s incredible! Also, the speakers from the School of the Arts; over the years it’s been such an enlightening and educational experience. What’s something interesting you’ve learned or seen with The Pollak Society that you wouldn’t have known about? In particular I remember a panel of three African artists talking about an exhibit at the Anderson Gallery – I wouldn’t have otherwise had an opportunity to meet and hear these people. It just really made me realize how small the world is. And I don’t know that I would have known the dean, Joe Seipel, either. It’s such a dynamic group and they continue to add members, which is great. Above and left: photos by Meghan McSweeney
Another Artist to Keep an Eye On
Cinema Alumni, Students Work on Spielberg’s Lincoln
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arts.vcu.edu/cinema First-year Painting and Printmaking MFA student R. Scott Whipkey was recently recognized by NY Arts Magazine as one of the 30 Artists To Watch in 2012. His work explores images of the body removed from context. Above: Black Mirror, 2011; oil and hardware on canvas, pencil on paper, cast-resin, metal frames, modified Ikea furniture, foam core & tape, 120 x 96 x 96 inches. Photo courtesy of the artist.
If you could work with any director who would it be? Nine Cinema alumni and 13 current Cinema students lived the dream, gaining valuable on-set experience working on the Steven Spielberg movie Lincoln, as production assistants and paid crew members during pre-production and principal photography stages of filming in Richmond this winter. Additionally, 10 current sophomores and seniors interned on the film, which stars Daniel Day Lewis, Sally Field, James Spader and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Marlee Kamis (above right) was an assistant director's department intern and says VCU prepared her well. “Cinema taught me how to act and present myself on a film set…who the important people are, who to talk to, who to not talk to, etc. Having good ‘set-iquette’ will set you apart from other industry newcomers.” Another thing that will set them apart: having Spielberg on their résumés. Above: Autumn Dea, Ana Lucia Figueroa, Evan McLeod, Steven Spielberg, Eliot Hagen, Marlee Kamis
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Clark Receives U.S. Artists Grant & Exhibits in Qatar Sonya Clark, Department of Craft/Material Studies chair, is a recipient of a $50,000 unrestricted grant from United States Artists, a national grant and advocacy organization that invests in the value of American artists and their work. Each year, the USA Fellows program awards 50 unrestricted grants of $50,000 to artists across the country. In March, Clark headed to VCUQatar to present her Beaded Prayers Project, a collaborative project that she began in 1999. She was joined by Art Education chair Sara Wilson McKay.
Dedalus Foundation Taps MFA Student Sculpture + Extended Media MFA student, Alina Tenser, has won a prestigious Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship. This foundation awards two annual fellowships to U.S. students in painting or sculpture who are entering their final year in an M.F.A. degree program, with a stipend of $20,000. Applications are solicited annually only from invited M.F.A. programs, with each program nominating two candidates. The fellowship is intended as a bridge at that crucial juncture between being a student and being an independent artist. The Dedalus Foundation, which was founded by the artist Robert Motherwell, supports public understanding of modern art and modernism by facilitating research, education, publications, exhibitions, and museum collections in this field.
VCUarts Dominates the VMFA Fellowships
Alumna’s Collection Showing at VMFA
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The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Visual Arts Fellowships were awarded this spring and once again there were many winners with ties to VCUarts. In fact, more than half of the 2012 recipients are alumni, faculty or students. The VMFA Fellowship Program supports professional and student artists in Virginia who demonstrate exceptional creative ability in their chosen discipline. Congratulations to all our winners!
Art History alumna Meg Gottwald (MA ’11), pictured left, didn’t know how much her life would change when she and her husband, John, acquired a deteriorating collection of 20thcentury African American art. The collection came from a pioneering gallery in Washington, D.C., which showed work across the racial divide during segregation. Meg immersed herself in their restoration which led her to VCUarts to get her Masters in Art History during the process. After researching the works and writing her thesis on Elizabeth Catlett’s “I Am the Negro Woman” linocut series (above), she decided the works needed to be shown publicly and that VCUarts Art History graduate students should curate the show. The culmination of her work, which Meg describes as “an extraordinary combination of happenstance, providence, synchronicity, perseverance, and passion – with a little bit of midlife crisis thrown in,” called Making History: 20th Century African American Art is showing at the VMFA through June 10.
Undergraduate Awards: Christina Costello, film/video (Kinetic Imaging) Elizabeth Crawford, photography (Photography & Film) Alexander Curley, drawing (Art Education) Sean Donlon, crafts (Craft/Material Studies) Omri Glaser (Kinetic Imaging) Natalie Kaminski, sculpture (Sculpture + Extended Media) Gabriel Kendra, photography (Photography & Film) David Reinhold, film/video (Kinetic Imaging) Graduate & Professional Awards: Katie Baines, painting (Painting & Printmaking BFA, 1998 alumna) Corin Hewitt, mixed media (Assistant Professor, Sculpture) Matt King, sculpture (Assistant Professor, Sculpture and Art Foundation) Melanie MacLain, mixed media (Sculpture + Extended Media MFA) Dana Ollestad, mixed media (Photography & Film MFA) Richard Robinson, film/video (Photography & Film MFA, 2008 alumnus) Edward M. Schenk, mixed media (Painting & Printmaking BFA, 2009 alumnus) Above: Art by Sean Donlon. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Above: Elizabeth Catlett, I’m Harriet Tubman I helped hundreds to freedom from The Negro Woman series, 1946–47. Linocut on paper. Collection of Margaret and John Gottwald. Art © Elizabeth Catlett/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
Pollak Goes Green with New Roof VCUarts’ Pollak building recently got a top-floor makeover courtesy of the Department of Interior Design. Last fall, Associate Professor Camden Whitehead and 15 students planted a vegetated roof of succulents, grasses and perennials, now open to the VCUarts community. “I’m interested in how older buildings can continue to be ‘built’ over their lifespan,” says Whitehead, “allowing them to become more responsive to their users and their site over time.” The project was in the works for about 18 months, beginning with $20,000 in support from the Monroe Park Student Government Association. Capital Greenroofs and Prestige Construction Group aided the students.
Photo: Mike Porter, VCU Office of Communications and Public Relations
The Next Generation arts.vcu.edu/andersongallery In March, April and May, student work once again takes over the VCUarts Anderson Gallery and several other venues. Juried undergraduate Fine Arts, Design & Kinetic Imaging exhibitions run March 29–April 15 with an opening March 29 from 5–7 p.m. Anderson Gallery Shot
MFA Thesis Exhibitions, Round 1 run April 20–29 with an opening April 20 from 5–7 p.m. MFA Thesis Exhibitions, Round 2 run May 4–13 with an opening May 4 from 5–7 p.m. The AFO Show runs April 9–14, opening April 11 from 5–7 p.m. in Fine Arts Building, 1000 W. Broad St. This features work of first-year students. Department of Graphic Design MFA Exhibition is May 4 from 5–8 p.m. Department of Graphic Design Senior Show is May 11 from 5–8 p.m. The Annual VCU Juried Fashion Show is May 6 at 7:30 p.m. at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (sold out)
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