Rough Cuts Screening | A night of student dance and experimental video works
Friday, January 30th, 7:30 pm at the Grace Street Theater | Join us for a night of 14 different student dance and experimental video works from across VCUarts.
Lecture | VCU Global Speaker Series - Arturo Saavedra
Tuesday, January 27th from 12:00 - 1:30 pm in the James Branch Cabell Library, Room 303 | This series features accomplished professionals who bring a global perspective through their lived, studied, or professional experiences across cultures. Each event includes a talk followed by an open Q&A with students, designed to inspire leadership, intercultural agility, and career-ready skills valuable across all disciplines.
Lecture | VCU Visiting Writers Series: Edgar Kunz & Devon Walker-Figueroa
Thursday, January 29th from 7:00 - 8:30 pm at Cabell Library Lecture Hall, Room 303 | The VCU Visiting Writers Series hosts a joint-reading by recently hired VCU faculty Edgar Kunz & Devon Walker-Figueroa.
The Anderson | "Alright can you read this?"
Friday, January 16th - Saturday, January 31st | An experimental documentation of personal conversations through digital screens and physical space, reimagined and materialized as a flipboard.
The Anderson | High Functioning
Friday, January 16th - Saturday, February 7th | A solo exhibition of student artwork by Ryder Paley (Craft/Material Studies). This solo exhibition explores the autistic experience through functional tableware and features work created by the artist through an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).
The Anderson | The way things could be...
Friday, January 23rd - Saturday, February 21st | The way things could be… is an exhibition of work selected from VCUarts Art Foundation Faculty that explores individual thresholds for believing something to be “real” and how something typically understood to be intangible could be perceived to be concrete.
The Anderson | E4
Friday, January 16th - Saturday, February 21st | A two-person exhibition of artwork by graduate students Erin Ehren (Sculpture + Extended Media) and Daša Kulikova (Painting + Printmaking).
The Anderson | Animal Instincts
Friday, January 16th - Saturday, February 21st | A group exhibition by Craft/Material Studies majors Kristiana Curran, Tzvia Feldman, and Gracie Sager that examines the untamedness of true human nature.
The Anderson | Beyond the Grains Exhibition
Friday, January 16th - Saturday, February 21st | Beyond the Grains is a juried group exhibition that explores experimental woodworking through the hands of craft students at all levels.
Candela Gallery | MIMESIS - Claire A. Warden
Friday, January 9th - Saturday, February 21st | Tucson-based Claire A. Warden’s Mimesis reframes the urge to ask “what am I looking at?” within a larger context of ethnic identity. The large, monochromatic alternative process works blur the lines of photography, inviting the viewer to question their experience.
Candela Gallery | Lost Pine, Double Pine - Leigh Merrill
Friday, January 9th - Saturday, February 21st | Dallas-based artist Leigh Merrill’s Lost Pine, Double Pine brings the viewer into an alternate universe of mysterious cotton candy colors and echoes of reality. The exhibition includes works from her series, Garden of Artificial Sugar and Thesaurus of Air, which utilize digital collage techniques to reshape perception of natural and urban landscapes.
ICA | Ayida
June 27th, 2025 - February 22nd, 2026 | "Ayida" is a new group exhibition of five early- to mid-career artists celebrating the Caribbean and its diaspora. Through a combination of new and existing works, the contributors investigate and pay attention to the material, spiritual, and intellectual cultures of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, among other sites.
ICA | Julien Creuzet: Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon
August 15th, 2025 - February 22nd, 2026 | Julien Creuzet (b. 1986, Le Blanc Mesnil, France, lives Paris) has reimagined his French Pavilion from the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) for the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. Creuzet has created an immersive video and archipelagic sculptural installation that extends his focus on water as a site of both historical and contemporary traumas and emancipatory futures.
ICA | Lily Cox-Richard: Disquiet in the Sand
August 15th, 2025 - February 22nd, 2026 | Lily Cox-Richard’s solo exhibition Disquiet in the Sand presents a newly commissioned body of work that examines how land serves as both a witness and a guide amid our current global crises.
Bond Millen Gallery | Viewfind XIV
Thursday, January 15th - Saturday, February 28th | VIEWFIND 14 will showcase photographic works from Peter Cochrane, Jeri Eisenberg, Dale Goffigon, Riley Goodman, Thoman Jackson, Amanda Means, Mejung Park, and Phoebe Shuman-Goodier.
Bond Millen Gallery | STILL LIGHT by Pam Fox
Thursday, January 15th - Saturday, February 28th | Bond Millen Gallery is pleased to present STILL LIGHT, new works by photographer and Photography + Film Alumna, Pam Fox.
VMFA | Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
Sunday, November 22, 2025 - Sunday, March 1, 2026 | Free admission with VCU Student ID
The Branch Museum of Design | Undeniable: The Designs of Christian Siriano + Ashley Longshore
Saturday, January 17th - Sunday, March 22nd
The Great Train Robbery (1903) Screening and Workshop with VCU Cinema Reel Film Club
Wednesday, January 28th, 7:00 pm at the Depot, Cyc Wall | Join VCU Cinema Reel Film club for a screening and projector workshop!
"The Gray House" (2024) Premiere Screening and Talk-Back
Thursday, January 29th, 7:00 pm at the Virginia Museum History & Culture
"Echoes of a Dream" Film Screening and Community Panel
Saturday, January 31st, 2:00 - 4:00 pm at the Black History Museum
Lecture | Reimagining Gender: Esotericism, the Medieval Imagination, and the Proliferation of Identity
Thursday, January 29th, 4:30 - 6:00 pm at University of Richmond | C. Libby is assistant professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. Their current book project, Engendering Feeling: Religious Affect, Transphobia, and Historicity, uses medieval religious texts to explore the intersections of religion, embodiment, and affect through the lens of trans studies.
Call for Submissions | HOMEGROWN Short Film Series
Submission Deadline: Monday, February 2nd | Firelight Media invites emerging and mid-career underrepresented filmmakers living in and/or originating from the Appalachian Mountain region to submit works-in-progress for the fourth season of the award-winning, regionally-focused documentary short film series, HOMEGROWN. Selected filmmakers will receive up to $40k to produce an 8-to-15 minute nonfiction short.
Call for Submissions | VCU Library Jurgen Comics Contest
Submission Deadline: Monday, February 2nd | Imagine a comic book centered around the suppression or censorship of visual art, books, music, film or performance at a particular historical moment. You might tell this story using any one of a number of comic book genres such as real life, comedy, horror, romance, weird/uncanny, fantasy or science fiction. Now draw only the comic book’s cover.
Study Abroad | VCU Brandcenter: Study Abroad at Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity
Application Deadline: Sunday, February 15th | Travel to Cannes, France with VCU Brandcenter this June! Visit local towns and gain full access to the Cannes Lions Festival, where students will engage with leading professionals in advertising, design, digital innovation, and marketing.
Scholarship | The Society of Illustrators
Submission Deadline: Friday, February 20th | The Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship aims to recognize outstanding illustrations, comics, and animations, this year awarding over $60,000 in scholarships. Accepted works will be exhibited at the Museum of Illustration in New York City, featured in an online gallery, and celebrated during an Award Ceremony & Reception.
Call for Proposals | National Gallery Open Call: $3000 for Your Idea
Submission Deadline: Sunday, February 28th | The National Gallery is inviting artists across the U.S. to submit proposals to reimagine one artwork from the museum's collection. Up to 50 will be selected, and top creators will produce a 15-30 second vertical video and receive up to $3000.
Fellowship | VCU Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Summer Fellowship
Application Deadline: Monday, March 16th | The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) funds a limited number of undergraduate student fellowship awards for projects mentored by VCU faculty. Successful student applicants will receive a cash stipend of $1,500 and their Research Fellowship will appear on their official academic transcripts. The student's faculty mentor will receive an additional $500 to defray expenses associated with the fellowship project or to use for professional development.