Artist Lecture | Dean Moss
Tuesday, February 10th at 3:00 pm at the ICA | Dean Moss is an interdisciplinary choreographer and video artist whose practice investigates the sense of becoming and the fluidities of identity. His performance projects are media entwined choreographic works that are deeply concerned with visual detail.
Panel | New Market: How Social Media is Changing Young Creatives
Wednesday, February 11th, 1:00 pm at The Anderson | A public conversation between two VCUarts students: moderator Noah Sandrowitz (Photo+Film) and Liam Weiss (Sculpture) about the prospect of Social Media success. The conversation will explore the intersection of art and social media and delve into the legitimacy of new art forms and the evolving nature of artistic collaboration in the digital age.
Panel | Makers at Work: Careers in the Video Game Industry
Thursday, February 12th, 5:30 pm on Zoom | Tune in to hear from esteemed alumni working in the video game industry. Panelists will discuss their career paths, current trends and innovations in the field and answer your questions.
Artist Lecture | Lauren Kalman
Monday, February 9th, 10:30 am in the VCU Student Commons Theater | Lauren Kalman is a visual artist based in Detroit, whose practice is rooted in contemporary craft, sculpture, video, photography, and performance. Through performances using her body, her work investigates constructions of the ideal and the feminine and their impacts on self-image and identity, the politics of craft, and the built environment.
Authors Talk | Cinema of Crushing Motherhood: A New Feminist Cinema
Monday, February 9th, 12:00 pm on Zoom | Join us for a Meet VCU Authors talk with Olivia Landry, Chair of the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, and author of Cinema of Crushing Motherhood: A New Feminist Cinema.
Workshop | Research Communication Series: Data
Tuesday, February 10th, 12:00 pm | Learn the simple principles of data visualization that help you present effective charts and graphs so your audience can better understand your quantitative information.
Workshop | Designing Candy Grams with Adobe Express
Tuesday, February 10th, 6:00 pm at The Workshop | Using Adobe Express, attendees will design playful Valentine’s cards and then bring them to life by cutting their designs on the Cricut machine.
Workshop | Research Communication Series: Design
Wednesday, February 11th, 12:00 pm | Learn the simple principles of data visualization that help you present effective charts and graphs so your audience can better understand your quantitative information.
Workshop | Research Communication Series: Dissemination
Thursday, February 12th, 12:00 pm | Learn the simple principles of data visualization that help you present effective charts and graphs so your audience can better understand your quantitative information.
Pop Up Event | Valentine's Day Pop Up at The Anderson
Friday, February 13th, 12:00 - 2:00 pm at The Anderson | The Anderson will be hosting a Valentine’s Day Pop Up event with a card making station and a photo booth! Bring a friend or lover and leave with homemade cards and a photo together!
Artist Lecture | Johanna Hedva
Friday, February 13th, 7:00 pm at the ICA | Writer, musician, and artist Johanna Hedva will join ICA exhibiting artist Lily Cox-Richard to build upon the ecological, astronomical, divinatory, and poetic frameworks that the two artists share in their understanding of the world.
Workshop | Community Media Center Photography Workshop
Sunday, February 15th, 1:00 - 3:00 pm at the ICA
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!
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.
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.
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 | 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.
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.
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
"Conspiracy of Silence" (1992) Film Screening
Monday, February 9th, 6:00 pm at Studio Two Three | We will screen Lynn Hershman Leeson’s short film, Conspiracy of Silence, on the subject of the artist Ana Mendieta’s untimely death. This will be followed by a lecture on the link between the early 20th-century surrealist movement and the unsolved Black Dahlia murder, delivered by artist and researcher Lachay Arrington.
"Monument" (2025) Film Screening
Tuesday, February 10th, 12:00 pm at University of Richmond | Join us for a conversation and audience Q&A on Jeremy Drummond’s latest film Monument.
"True Romance" (1993) Cinema Club Film Screening
Wednesday, February 11th, 7:00 pm at Envelope Services (1609 W Main St)
"Polyester" (1981) Film Screening
Saturday, February 14th, 7:00 pm at Studio Two Three | Join Nowhere Cinema and Good For Her Films for a Valentine's Day screening of Polyester (1981), complete with authentic Odorama scratch-and-sniff cards.
Author Lecture | Adrienne Brodeur
Monday, February 9th from 7:00 pm at University of Richmond | Join the English Department and Creative Writing Program for a reading by Adrienne Brodeur from her novel, Little Monsters, followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Artist Lecture | Titus Kaphar
Sunday, February 15th, 2:00 pm at the VMFA | Renowned artist Titus Kaphar will discuss his artistic practice and body of work. He currently has several pieces featured in Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
Performance | Richmond Synth Collective
Sunday, February 15th, 7:00 pm at Gallery5 | Richmond Synth Collective is hosting an electrifying night featuring Nova, 3151, Jeuw, and Karacell!
Call for Submissions | Black Queer Grits Exhibition
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, February 11th | Black Queer Grits Exhibition currently accepting works that connect to highlight the power of arts-based methods for reflection, self-expression, and collective healing.
Call for Submissions | 22nd Annual Rites of Passage Exhibition
Submission Deadline: Saturday, February 14th | Rites of Passage invites students to take their work beyond campus and share it with Manifest’s international public for a chance to win $500 Best of Show Award!
Study Abroad | VCU Summer: Beyond the Frame – Explorations in Meditative Filmmaking
Application Deadline: Sunday, February 15th | This 8-day immersive filmmaking workshop in Marrakech invites students to step beyond traditional narrative forms and into the realm of meditative, sensory, and experimental cinema. Through fieldwork, guided observation exercises, and collaborative production, students will craft short films inspired by Morocco’s visual and sonic landscapes — its movement, stillness, and everyday beauty.
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.
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 | CinemAsia: AAPI Film Festival
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, February 18th |CINEMASIA is an AAPI film festival from VCU students and alumni! First gen and AAPI stories take center stage, alongside an open section for stories from around the world. From international to local films, they look to highlight the diversity in the community we live in at VCU and Richmond.
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.
Call for Submissions | PWATEM 2026 Spring Anthology
Submission Deadline: Sunday, March 1st | 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.
Call for Submissions | NYU Sports Film Festival
Submission Deadline: Friday, March 6th | The NYU Sports Film Festival welcomes submissions from filmmakers around the world who tell compelling sports stories. We celebrate the diverse ways athletics intersect with human experience.
Call for Submissions | UnBound! at Candela Gallery
Submission Deadline: Friday, March 13th | Candela Gallery's Unbound! exhibition highlights photographic artworks and artist books from 40-50 fine art opportunities. It generates opportunities and exposure beyond the traditional group or juried show by providing collection and funding opportunities for artists.
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 Proposals | Student Exhibitions at VCUarts 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.
VCU Internship Funding Program
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, March 31st | Undergraduates, have you interviewed for or accepted an off-campus, summer internship that is unpaid or paid, but may not cover your internship expenses? Don't let your funding needs keep you from taking advantage of opportunities for personal and professional growth. Apply for funding for your summer semester experience through the VCU Internship Funding Program!