Communication Arts Showcase - Opening Reception
Friday, February 6th, 5:00 - 8:00 pm at the Anderson
Primordial Birth: Miri Sluis - Opening Reception
Friday, February 6th, 5:00 - 8:00 pm at The Anderson| The Anderson and VCUarts are pleased to present Primordial Birth, a solo exhibition by graduate student kodiCrone (aka Miri Sluis) (Kinetic Imaging).
Brain Stew - Opening Reception
Friday, February 6th from 5:00 - 8:00 pm at the DePillars Building, Seipel Gallery | The opening reception for the Brain Stew exhibition will introduce weird, dreamy, surreal, and abstract short films created by some of our talented students!
Artist Lecture | Em Rooney
Wednesday, February 4th, 10:00 am at the ICA | Rooney’s multimedia practice is anchored in a study of film, photography, and the material indices of these seemingly ephemeral, auratic genres.
Lecture | VCU Libraries Black History Month Lecture 2026
Thursday, February 5th, 7:00 pm at Cabell Library | The lecture will explore examples of these fashion objects and how they can open a portal into a rich facet of American history.
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).
Seipel Gallery | Brain Stew
Wednesday, February 4th - Wednesday, February 11th | The Seipel Gallery is excited to present the Brain Stew exhibition, showcasing weird, dreamy, surreal, and abstract short films from some of our amazing students!
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.
The Anderson | Black Fidelity: Crafted in the Storm
Friday, February 6th - Sunday, February 28th | This exhibit will explore themes of creative agency, relief in times of anguish, and radical joy. Join us as we brave the storm through the power of artistic expression.
The Anderson | I'm So Glad Met You
Friday, February 6th - Sunday, February 28th | I’m So Glad I Met You is an exhibition centered around the theme of chosen family and its role in the survival of the queer community. In the current political climate, community and found family play a special role and are important in our everyday life now more than ever.
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 Anderson | Primordial Birth - Miri Sluis
Friday, February 6th - Wednesday, March 4th | Primordial Birth speaks to human existence as part of a greater planetary whole. Depicting the creation of life as begot from water, light, and sound, the piece aims to deepen awareness of the fragile underpinnings and ecological basis of human life.
The Branch Museum of Design | Undeniable: The Designs of Christian Siriano + Ashley Longshore
Saturday, January 17th - Sunday, March 22nd
"Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust" (2000) Film Screening
Monday, February 2nd, 7:00 pm at Studio Two Three
"The Last Black Man in San Francisco" (2019) Film Screening
Wednesday, February 4th, 2:00 pm at the Richmond Public Library
New Spiritualities: Film as Ritual | Film Screening Series
Thursday, February 5th, 6:00 pm at the ICA | Ayida curator Serubiri Moses and ICA Assistant Curator Egbert Vongmalaithong select short experimental films by Alicia Díaz and Patricia Herrera; bryan ortiz, Mariana Parisca, and Luis Vasquez La Roche; Thomas Allen Harris; Tesora Garcia; and Serubiri Moses.
"A Night of Knowing Nothing" (2021)
Sunday, February 8th, 1:30 pm in Richmond Public Library, Main Library
Lecture | Know Your Poe: Poe and the “Peculiar Institution”
Wednesday, February 4th, 6:00 pm at the Poe Museum | Explore the lives of the men and women who labored in the Allan family home throughout Edgar Allan Poe’s childhood.
Virtual Artist Talk | 3 in 30: Comics, Classics, and Crafted Objects
Thursday, February 5th, 11:00 am | Join Dr. Alisa Chiles, the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Decorative Arts, 1890 to the Present, as she explores three decorative art objects from VMFA’s permanent collection.
Artist Talk | Claire A. Warden
Friday, February 6th, 6:00 pm at Candela Gallery | Phoenix-based Claire A. Warden’s Mimesis reframes the urge to ask “what am I looking at?” within a larger context of ethnic identity.
First Friday | After 5 Fridays at the VMFA
Friday, February 6th, 6:00 - 8:00 pm at the VMFA | Bring your student ID for a college night inviting students to experience Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys for free!
Call for Entries | PWATEM 2026 Spring Anthology - VCUarts
Are you a writer? Want your work to be published? Submit your writing to PWATEM! Now accepting submissions for poems, short stories, proses, and essays; as well as illustrations, sculptures.
Online Workshop | Lucrecia Martel: The Adventure/La Aventura
Sunday, February 8th and Sunday, February 15th | Have the opportunity to meet Argentine film director, Lucrecia Martel, as she shares ideas for the adventure of cinema.
Call for Submissions | VCU Library Jurgen Comics Contest
Submission Deadline: Monday, February 9th | 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.
Call for Student Exhibition Proposals | The Anderson
Submission Deadline: Sunday, March 22nd | The Anderson is accepting proposals for exhibitions of artwork by VCUarts graduate and undergraduate students for the 26 - 27 academic year. Interested students are invited to attend an info session on Friday, February 20th, 1 pm at The Anderson.
Job | Light House Studio - Summer Film Academy Teaching Artists
Light House Studio equips young people with the skills and confidence to tell their stories and build community through collaborative filmmaking. Light House Studio is looking for experienced filmmakers to lead and assist in mentoring workshops for students ranging from 8-21 years old.