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Hot Box in a Metal Box

2007-08-08T16:10:45Z

Locker 50b Project
Thursday, August 4, 5-6pm
Hot Box Exhibition runs: August 2nd-31
Featuring the work of VCUarts Summer Studio Program participants.

What are Those Summer Intensive Kids Up To?

2007-07-23T15:22:13Z

Find out exactly what this year's Summer Intensive students have learned at Show Your Stuff, Friday, 7/27, 9-11 a.m. 2D/3D, Photography & Animation will premier in the Fine Arts Building, 1000 W. Broad St.
Dance, Fashion, Theatre & Film will show their stuff in the Singleton Center, 922 Park Ave.

Fashion Seniors Take the Challenge

2007-07-18T13:58:22Z

Collection above by Michael Birch-Pierce, who created and printed the fabric and designed and constructed the dresses. Photo by Jay Paul.

The good press continues this week with a story in July 17th's issue of the Times-Dispatch about seniors in the Department of Fashion Design and Merchandising.

Kate Horne at Every Turn

2007-07-16T15:21:31Z

Photo: Bruce Parker, Richmond Times-Dispatch
Kate Horne graduated from VCUarts with a BFA in 2004, currently works for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, was part of June's Locker 50B Gallery exhibition, and was just featured in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Read the article about Kate Horne.

VCU Jazz's Doug Richards Makes Front Page

2007-07-11T18:42:12Z

Doug Richards, who founded the VCU Jazz Studies program in 1980, is featured in this week's Style Weekly

Master Pieces Features One of Our Own

2007-07-09T15:06:08Z

Josh Rodenberg, '07 Craft/Material Studies MFA, is one of 11 artists in Master Pieces at Manifest in Cincinnati Ohio July 13-Aug. 10. 2727 Woodburn Avenue.

VCU Jazz Featured at Flowers After 5

2007-07-02T15:12:28Z

Flowers After 5 at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Features VCU Jazz. The performances are July 5, 12, 19, 26, August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and September 6, 13, 20, and 27.
Flowers After 5 takes place from 5-8p, with music and wine sampling from 6-8p. The evening events take place rain or shine. Garden admission is $10 for adults, $9 for seniors, and $6 for children ages 3-12.

]]> Flowers After 5 is a series of evening events that will feature VCU Jazz trios and wine sampling provided by Total Wine. The second Thursday of each month (July 12, August 9, and September 13) bring your pooch and enjoy Fidos After 5 in conjunction with the Richmond SPCA. You can enjoy the music and wine sampling with your faithful companion.

Flowers After 5 takes place from 5-8p, with music and wine sampling from 6-8p. (The Garden is open until 9p.) The evening events take place rain or shine. Garden admission is $10 for adults, $9 for seniors, and $6 for children ages 3-12. Members are admitted to the Garden for free. Wine-sampling tickets will incur an additional fee. The Garden Cafe and the Tea House will be open, and both feature a nice assortment of dinner fare.

The roster of performers is as follows:
* TH 7/5, 6p: Mike Ess (guitar), Skip Gailes (piano), David
Ashby (bass)
* TH 7/12, 6p: Bryan Hooten (trombone), Matt Walton (guitar),
Brian Sulser (bass)
* TH 7/19, 6p: Antonio Garcia (trombone, vocals, percussion),
Mike Ess (guitar), Rusty Farmer (bass)
* TH 7/26, 6p: Taylor Barnett (trumpet), Skip Gailes (piano),
and Matt Hall (bass)
* TH 8/2, 6p: Skip Gailes (piano), Randall Pharr (bass), and
Rudy Faulkner (vocals, percussion)
* TH 8/9, 6p: Mark Ingraham (trumpet), Trey Pollard (guitar),
and Devonne Harris (drums)
* TH 8/16, 6p: Marcus Tenney (trumpet), Matt Walton (guitar),
Brian Sulser (bass)
* TH 8/23, 6p: Jon Gibson (sax), Karl Morse (guitar), Colin
Greggs (guitar)
* TH 8/30, 6p: Jason Arce (sax), Mike Ess (guitar), Randall
Pharr (bass)
* TH 9/6, 6p: David Hood (sax), Skip Gailes (piano), David Ashby (bass)
* TH 9/13, 6p: The Flyin' Sulsers, featuring John Conley
(guitar), Alan Parker (guitar), and Brian Sulser (bass)
* TH 9/20, 6p: The RJR Trio, featuring Fran Ahern (vocals),
John Conley (guitar), and Ryan Hughitt (bass)
* TH 9/27, 6p: Antonio Garcia (trombone, vocals, percussion),
Mike Ess (guitar), Randall Pharr (bass)
Flowers After 5 is brought to you by: Total Wine, Oldies
107.3, NBC12, and _STYLE Weekly_. For more information about Flowers
After 5 or any other event at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, log onto
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Craft MFA Alum Makes NYT Cover

2007-06-28T14:16:24Z

Rebecca Murtaugh, '01 Craft/Material Studies MFA alumna, has her work featured on the cover of today's New York Times Home & Garden section. Her Post-It note projects, which are highlighted toward the end of the NYT article, are intriguing and temporary.

Future Yonder through July 27

2007-06-27T15:48:43Z

Left: The Great Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond
2006, 22" x 30", gouache and ink on paper
Right: Tallgrass Prairie
2006, 20" x 26", gouache on panel
Amy Chan, a current Painting and Printmaking MFA student will be part of this New York show, which also features Christopher Rose (a VCU alumnus who is curating the exhibition), Bill Brown, Martin Esteves, Saine Gruffat, and Deborah Stratman.
Reception: Thursday, June 28, 6pm-8pm
Hudson Franklin
508 West 26th Street, #318
New York, NY 10001
212-741-1189

]]> The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory. -Jean Baudrillard, "The Precession of the Simulacra"

As Americans, most of us today find ourselves encircled by either beltway traffic, gated communities, hi-tech security systems, or La-Z-Boy lounge furniture. And yet we live in a country where all citizens are declared "free" and "liberty" is held to be one of our most cherished ideals. Mapping such known sites as traffic jams, rural developments, cowboys, unattended ATMs, and natives, this exhibition plays with the pathos behind the American dream and reanimates the anomalies that have been produced by its marketing triumph.

The charged borderline between "civilized society" and "nature" inform the work and imaginative investigations of this group of contemporary artists. Through the creative process of collage, many of these artists seize upon iconic elements from American culture and then recontextualize them into a strange future, revealing what lies uncannily underneath our familiar present. In this upside-down world, where nature is a corporate resource and where views of spectacular landscapes turn toward office development sites, these artists stake their claims.

It is no wonder that our nostalgia for the Wild West is so remarkable today, since we live in a time when consumer purchasing power seems to be one of the last viable vestiges of a life of action. Perhaps because we live in a moment when the last frontier has faded away to a blip on the screen, we are entering into another "new world." But this new world does not have geographical boundaries - it is a dream world where the past becomes the future, the future becomes the past, and the present is always negotiable. -Mary Billyou

Summer gallery hours are Tuesday to Friday, 11 to 6, and by appointment. For more information, contact Nicole Francis at 212-741-1189, email nicole@hudsonfranklin.com or visit http://www.hudsonfranklin.com .

TRANSFORMER Opening at Anderson Gallery

2007-06-26T18:29:59Z

Guests contemplate the meaning of the work. (Or perhaps they're thinking of where to catch a bite after the show.)

FEAST artist Rebecca Witt performs traditional Mexican music.
Guest artist, Mark Newport, and a gallery visitor view "Fantastic Four."
Opening night Friday had the Anderson Gallery transformed, but if you missed it, the show runs through August 11. The exhibit features the work of FEAST, Mark Newport, McCallum & Tarry, and Annie Schap. Anderson Gallery, 907-1/2 W. Franklin St.

Project to Surface Features VCUarts Grad

2007-06-25T19:42:00Z

Leah Raintree, 03 Painting and Art History BFA, is part of a group show, Project to Surface, that opens June 28th from 7-10pm at m127 Gallery, 127 Madison Ave., NY.
Leah works at PS1 as Director of Visitor Services. Other artists in the show include David Diao and Tomokazu Matsuyama. An article about the show is in the current Annual Design Issue of Surface Magazine.

Recent MFA Grads Take NYC by Storm

2007-06-25T17:24:54Z

Taylor Baldwin, War Saguaro

Rachel Hayes, Blue Black Smash

]]> Kim Foster Gallery presents More Fresh Meat featuring works by recent grads from the Department of Sculpture and Extended Media. 529 West 20th Arts Building Ground Floor. Runs through July 28.
Denise Bibro Gallery presents So Inclined featuring works by recent grads from the Department of Painting and Printmaking. 529 West 20th Arts Building 4th Floor. Runs through July 14.

Pass the Tartar Sauce

2007-06-22T13:57:25Z

It's not exactly arts news, but noteworthy nonetheless. Earlier this week, Joe Seipel and friends on the Skiligal emptied the Outer Banks waters of its largest inhabitants. The Skiligal's captain is Tom Ross, a native Richmonder and '81 VCU alumnus.
Lower photo from left to right: Dr. James K Deveney, VCU math professor, George Cruger, VCUarts adjunct faculty; Joe Seipel, VCUarts Sr. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Director of Graduate Studies; Peter Cruger, first mate; Lester Van Winkle, Professor Emeritus, Sculpture; Blake Huff, faculty, Sculpture; Les Smith, VMFA

Building Picturing

2007-06-17T21:19:43Z

Stain 0126, 60"x60" Oil on canvas 2007, Vaughn Garland
NY Show with Ties to VCUarts

June 19-July 14
The Painting Center, 52 Greene St., 2nd floor
NY, NY 10013 | 212.343.1060
Opening Reception June 21, 6-8pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11-6pm
Curated by Vittorio Colaizzi and featuring the work of our very own Vaughn Garland and 15 others

The Power of Art: Monday night on PBS

2007-06-16T12:33:48Z

Wheatfield with Crows, Vincent van Gogh
The new PBS series The Power of Art incorporates re-enactments, location shooting and narration to bring well-known artworks to their moment of creation. Read more about it in this Richmond Times-Dispatch article. 9pm Monday, 6/18 on PBS.