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CoStar Center for Arts and Innovation taking shape

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Qatar Week brings overseas extension of VCUarts to Richmond

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Fashion Design and Merchandising present Access 2023

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VCUarts Lecture Series: Loie Hollowell (M.F.A. ’12)

October 6, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Grace Street Theater

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Blending Art and Advocacy: A conversation with award-winning actress Mikayla Bartholomew

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A Rising Star: CoStar Center for Arts and Innovation taking shape

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Qatar week gallery exhibit. Eleven faculty-led Creative Research Labs were the focal point of last year’s Qatar Week Exhibition at the Anderson

Qatar Week brings overseas extension of VCUarts to Richmond

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Qatar Week 2023

Legacy & Horizon

October 9, 5:00 pm – November 1, 5:00 pm The Anderson

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VCUarts Lecture Series: Hope Ginsburg

October 3, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU

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#VCUArts alumnus Raul De Lara, who earned his MFA

#VCUArts alumnus Raul De Lara, who earned his MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media, has been honored with a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Craft Sculpture.

Raul De Lara is a sculptor based in NYC. De Lara’s practice is rooted in storytelling via woodworking. He immigrated from Mexico to the United States at the age of 12, and has been a DACA recipient since 2012. Growing up in Texas as a non-English speaker, and still currently unable to leave the USA, his work questions ideas around nationality, queer identity, and the immigrant experience. Exploring forms inspired by flora, mask makers, furniture design and architecture, De Lara imbues his sculptures with a hybrid mixture of Mexican/American cultural references, and functions. His research preserves, honors and propels forward traditional uses of wood while combining them with new developments in the global industry of woodworking.

De Lara received his MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University (2019), and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin (2015).

Learn more about Raul De Lara's work by visiting @rauldelaraa !

Images provided by Raul De Lara.

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🌟 Qatar Week 2023, hosted by #VCUarts Dean Carm

🌟 Qatar Week 2023, hosted by #VCUarts Dean Carmenita Higginbotham and VCUarts Qatar Dean Amir Berbić, marks the joyous celebration of the 25th anniversary of VCUarts' overseas branch campus. Join us for a series of exciting events and networking opportunities that promise to inspire and engage.

Every year, we eagerly welcome VCUarts Qatar to our Monroe Park campus in Richmond for Qatar Week, an enriching exchange that highlights the accomplishments of our overseas branch. Together with researchers, alumni, students, and faculty, we explore the shared success of these two remarkable campuses. 🎉 #VCUartsQatar #QatarWeek2023

Join Hope Ginsburg, professor in the Department of

Join Hope Ginsburg, professor in the Department of Kinetic Imaging, for the first VCUarts Lecture Series event of the semester.

Meditation Ocean works for human and more-than-human well-being through oceanic meditation and responsive terrestrial action. The project emphasizes the interdependence of individual and communal healing and the nonduality of the social and the environmental. In October 2021, a group of eight divers spent four days in Biscayne National Park in the Florida Keys on an “underwater meditation retreat” that was both a live experience and a video production. The resulting footage was used to create M.O. Turtlegrass Meadow, a six-channel video installation, soundscape, and platform for public programming. Conceived and directed by Ginsburg, Meditation Ocean is realized by the Meditation Ocean Constellation, an ecosystem of artists, curators, writers, musicians, meditators, divers, and scientists.

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