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Support VCUarts

Donations from alumni and friends ensure educational resources, research opportunities and program development for students, faculty and staff. All gifts are tax-deductible and gifts of all amounts are appreciated and help keep VCUarts the #1 public art school in the country. To make a gift, please go to:

Annual Fund

Gifts of any size that will support VCUarts students and programs.


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Your unrestricted gift will:

  • provide student scholarships
  • invite visiting artists for lectures and workshops
  • enable travel abroad for students and faculty
  • support your department
  • nurture the dynamic, creative environment that makes VCUarts #1

 

Click here to support the Annual Fund support.vcu.edu/arts or contact Sarah Kim for more information at smkim@vcu.edu or (804) 828-4692

Pollak Society

Donors at the $1,000 level and above are accorded membership in the Pollak Society.


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The Pollak Society is the premier philanthropic group of VCU School of the Arts. Named in memory of Theresa Pollak, founder of the School, the Pollak Society was founded in 2005 to uphold her principles of advocacy for the arts, education and philanthropic support. Members are committed to the arts at VCU and provide critical support for the School. Each year, Pollak Society members experience special opportunities to pursue their common interests in the visual, design, performing arts, education, research and community programming.

  • Pollak Society Benefactor — $5,000 or more
    (includes membership in the VCU President’s Club)
  • Pollak Society Patron — $2,500 – $4,999
  • Pollak Society Member — $1,000 – $2,499


Click here to join the Pollak Society support.vcu.edu/arts or contact Sarah Kim for more information at smkim@vcu.edu or (804) 828-4692

VCU Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA)

Capital gifts may be made by pledge, stock, estate planning or outright.


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Part exhibition and performance space, part lab and incubator, the 38,000-square-foot building will feature a series of flexible programming spaces for the presentation of visual art, theater, music, dance and film for both on-campus and public audiences. The facility also encompasses a 240-plus seat performance space, outdoor plazas, a sculpture garden, classrooms, a café and administrative offices.

Scheduled to open in 2015, the ICA will be located on a site defined by Belvidere and Broad Streets, one of Richmond’s busiest intersections, and will feature dual entrances—one facing Richmond and the other fronting VCU’s campus—to advance its mission as an educational and cultural resource for both the University and the City. The ICA will enhance and expand the role of the arts on campus, serving as both an academic and extracurricular resource for students and faculty from every department, including VCU’s acclaimed School of the Arts (VCUarts) which U.S. News & World Report ranked as the top public university graduate arts and design program in the country.

For more information, please contact Julia Carr, VCUarts Executive Director of Development at 804.827.4676 or click here to visit the ICA website.

Other Ways to Give

Additional ways to support VCUarts include planned gifts which encompass bequests made through testimony devices such as wills, retirement plans, life insurance plans, and revocable trusts. You can also make lifetime gifts, such as charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts, and charitable lead trusts. We are here to help you navigate these options. Please contact Julia Carr, Executive Director of Development at carrj@vcu.edu or (804) 828-4676 or Thomas Burke, Director of Gift Planning at tcburke@vcu.edu or (804) 828-3958.