Behold the Magnificent: A VCUarts Kinetic Imaging Juried Screening
Tuesday, March 24th, 6:00 pm at City Stadium (3201 Maplewood Ave) | The Department of Kinetic Imaging is pleased to present BEHOLD THE MAGNIFICENT, a juried show of animations and video on a 65′ wide screen! This event is FREE and open to ALL student, friends, and family!
James River Film Festival Cinema Student Showcase
Sunday, March 29th, 11:30 am at the VMFA | The James River Film Festival and VCUarts Cinema present four films produced in the Summer 2025 intensive.
Workshop | Photoshop Mockups
Tuesday, March 24th, 6:00 pm at The Workshop in Cabell Library | Join Adobe Club for a Photoshop workshop focused on designing and editing clothing mockups.
Author Talk | VCU Visiting Writers Series: Melissa Faliveno
Tuesday, March 24th, 7:00 pm at Cabell Library Lecture Hall (Room 303) or Zoom | The VCU Visiting Writers Series hosts a reading by acclaimed author Melissa Faliveno.
Artist Talk | Creative Inquiries Presents: Zach Blas
Wednesday, March 25th, 2:00 pm at Cabell Library Lecture Hall | Artist, filmmaker, and writer Zach Blas will be discussing his critical inquiry, technical experimentation, and concept engineering during his creative process.
Study Abroad | Fulbright Information Session
Wednesday, March 25th, 3:00 pm in the Pollak Building, room 201 or virtual | The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides funding to recent graduates and graduate students so that they can spend an academic year in one of 140+ countries across the world out a creative project, conducting research, pursuing postgraduate study, or teaching English.
Workshop | HyperLabs Arduino
Wednesday, March 25th, 6:00 pm at VCU Engineering West Hall, Rooms 103 & 104
Artist Talk | Pouya Ahmadi - Object + Methods Lecture Series
Thursday, March 26th, 12:30 pm on Zoom | Pouya Ahmadi is a typographer, publisher, and educator. He is the founder of Amalgam, a design and publishing studio and a journal that explores the intersection of typography, language, and power.
Lecture | More than a Store - The Art & Strategy of Retail Brand Experience
Thursday, March 26th, 5:30 pm in the Academic Learning Commons, Room 1107 | Join the Department of Fashion Design + Merchandising in welcoming alumnus Taylor Tyssen for a lecture of the art and strategy of retail brand experience!
Career Fair | Creative Careers Showcase
Friday, March 27th, 1:00 - 3:00 pm at the VCU Student Commons | During this event, selected VCUarts students will showcase their creative work and academic training , and all students in attendance will have the opportunity to network with industry professionals and learn about participating organizations.
The Anderson | Between Signal & Spirit
Friday, March 20th - Saturday, March 28th | The Anderson and VCUarts are pleased to present the Between Signal & Spirit exhibition for the 2026 BFA Senior Capstone exhibition for the Kinetic Imaging program! The students will be showcasing the knowledge and skills they have acquired while pursuing their degree.
The Anderson | Total Liquidation: Everything Must Grow!
Friday, March 20th - Saturday, March 28th | The Anderson and VCUarts are pleased to present Total Liquidation: Everything Must Grow!, the 2026 BFA Senior Capstone Exhibition for the Craft/Material Studies program.
ICA | 2026 VCUarts MFA Thesis Exhibition - Round 1
Friday, March 20th - Sunday, April 5th | The 2026 VCUarts MFA Thesis Exhibition will premiere cutting-edge works from twenty-eight emerging artists and designers, representing the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts departments of Craft/Material Studies, Graphic Design, Kinetic Imaging, Painting + Printmaking, Photography + Film, and Sculpture + Extended Media.
Candela Gallery | she sees, pictured as she pictures - Natalie Krick
Friday, March 6th - Saturday, April 18th | Natalie Krick is a Seattle based interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the medium of photography, visual perception and pleasure through a feminist lens.
Candela Gallery | Daytona - Larry W. Cook
Friday, March 6th - Saturday, April 18th | Larry W. Cook is an interdisciplinary artist and archivist working across photography, video, and mixed media.
Bond Millen Gallery | Reach
Thursday, March 5th - Saturday, April 18th | A trio exhibition featuring the work of Jackie Battenfield, Kazaan Viveiros, and Naomi McCavitt, with works that explore the forms, structures, and visual language of trees, branches, flowers, and botanical life.
Eric Schindler Gallery | Tracey St.Peter: All My Monkeys Are Cats
Friday, March 20th - Saturday, April 18th | All My Monkeys Are Cats is a meditation on chaos, care, survival, and the fragile structures we inhabit.
1708 Gallery | Isabella Whitfield: Present Perfect
Friday, March 6th - Sunday, April 19th | Present Perfect asks how to move forward when the present feels dictated by an impermeable past and the future appears increasingly calcified: a collapse of destiny into fate.
VMFA | Alvin Lester: Portraits of Jackson Ward and Beyond
Friday, February 13th - Tuesday, May 5th | This exhibition showcases 20 portraits photographed by Alvin Lester in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when he set out to capture the people and businesses that defined Richmond's historic Jackson Ward, as well as nearby neighborhoods such as Northside and Church Hill.
VMFA | Titus Kaphar and Junius Brutus Stearns: Pictures More Famous than the Truth
Saturday, February 14th - Sunday, July 26th | Titus Kaphar and Junius Brutus Stearns: Pictures More Famous than the Truth juxtaposes famous 19th-century paintings of George Washington with contemporary portraits and sculptural works that offer 21st-century perspectives of those same subjects.
"Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain" (1983) New Habit Cinema Film Screening
Monday, March 23rd, 7:00 pm at Studio Two Three
"Saint Omer" (2022) Exposure Cinema Film Screening
Monday, March 23rd, 7:00 pm at Ours (2309 W Main St)
"The Central State Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane" (2022) Film Screening
Tuesday, March 24th, 3:00 pm at University of Richmond | A film by Shawn Utsey, VCU Professor of Psychology.
"Millennium Actress" (2001) Nowhere Cinema Film Screening
Tuesday, March 24th, 7:00 pm at Studio Two Three
"Against The Current: Life on the Eastern Shore" (2024) Film Screening
Wednesday, March 25th at 6:30 pm at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Screening | Maya Deren Screening w/ Optic Sink Score
Thursday, March 26th 1:58 pm at Studio Two Three | 1 Part: Work of Influential filmmaker Maya Deren + 1 Part: live musical score written and performed by acclaimed Memphis post punk band = Inspired multidisciplinary experience.
"Homegrown Stories" (2013) Film Screening
Friday, March 27th, 6:00 pm at Studio Two Three | Homegrown Stories is an online collaborative media project featuring the work of nationally and internationally recognized film, video and sound artists.
Italian & French Film Festival at Richmond
Friday, March 27th – Monday, March 30th | Join us for four days of Italian and French cinema on campus and in the city! Screenings of nine films from Italy and France on the University of Richmond campus and at the historic Byrd Theatre.
James River Film Festival
Sunday, March 29th - Saturday, April 4th | The 32nd annual James River Film Festival (JRFF), established in 1994, is a volunteer-run festival celebrating independently produced film and video, featuring a diverse lineup of avant-garde, experimental, cult, and classic art house cinema
Author Lecture | Tell-Tale Talks: Levi Lionel Leland
Wednesday, March 25th, 5:30 pm at the Poe Museum | The first Tell-Tale Talk of 2026, featuring author Levi Lionel Leland, who will discuss his newest work, Edgar Allan Poe: The Master of the Macabre.
Author Lecture | Writers Series: Carmen Maria Machado
Thursday, March 26th, 7:00 pm at the University of Richmond | Join the English Department and Creative Writing Program for a reading by Carmen Maria Machado followed by a Q&A and book signing. Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties.
Virginia Inter-Collegiate Game Jam
Thursday, March 26th - Sunday, March 29th | The Virginia Inter-Collegiate (VIC) Game Jam is pleased to announce the second ever game jam hosted by university game design clubs throughout Virginia. Participants are tasked with making a video game from scratch within a given theme in 72 hours!
Fellowship | Google Creative Fellowship
Submissions Deadline: Monday, March 23rd | The Google Creative Fellowship places emerging talent on dedicated creative teams at Google, gaining exposure and hands-on experience across many of their in-house creative departments. You must be a new professional, meaning that you will have graduated once the Fellowship starts and you have 5 years or less of work experience.
Travel Funding | American Library Association Convention with VCU Libraries
Application Deadline: Wednesday, March 25th | VCU Libraries invites students to apply for funding to attend the American Library Association Convention in 2026. The recipient will receive funding to attend the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago, June 25- June 29, 2026.
Call for Applications | Book Art Residency
Submission Deadline: Sunday, March 29th | VCU Libraries Special Collections and Archives (SCA) is accepting applications from students for the Summer 2026 Book Art Residency. Residences will have the opportunity to learn more about SCA's collections with support from library staff to gain deeper knowledge of Book Arts.
Call for Submissions | School of Art Landmark Arts SRO Photo Gallery
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, March 31st | The SRO Photo Gallery at the Texas Tech University School of Art are seeking portfolios that utilizes lens-based art in styles, techniques, and aesthetics approaches which speak to the ever developing and shifting landscape of contemporary photographic art practice.
Call for Submissions | Photography Contest: Sharing and Caring Cities - Portraits of Collective Urban Life
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 15th | The Penn Institute for Urban Research invites photographers and visual storytellers around the world to enter our 10th annual photo contest.
Participate in a Living Shoreline Charette with VCU Rice Rivers
Saturday, April 25th, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm at VCU Rice River Center | The VCU Rice Rivers Center (RRC) and the James River Association, with support from the Virginia Environmental Endowment, will install a 300 linear foot living shoreline on the James River.
Artist Residency | Olympic Heritage
Application Deadline: Monday, April 30th | This initiative provides artists with the opportunity to take part in three-month residencies at either institution to develop innovative, boundary-pushing artworks that deepen public engagement with Olympic culture and heritage.
Grant | The Hopper Prize
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, May 12th | The Hopper Prize is a grant-making institution and digital archiving platform offering a series of individual artist grants on a bi-annual basis.
VCU Internship Funding Program
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, March 31st | Apply for funding for your summer semester experience through the VCU Internship Funding Program! It can be used to supplement the costs for your initial travel to your internship, daily commuting via public transportation, housing, childcare, professional attire, supplies, and other expenses.