Department of Sculpture + Extended Media

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Sculpture + Extended Media is a place that legitimizes and fosters restless becoming, where intellectual, emotional, and physical emancipation is as crucial for the individual as it is for the community. We rigorously engage the burgeoning philosophical, critical and technical conditions that shape art making today. Our mission is to continually develop a rigorous yet supportive environment that leads to the expansive growth of individual artists.

The Sculpture Department welcomes a broad range of approaches: from spatial-, object- and material-based practices; to performance, film and lens-based media; from social and relational to web-based and evolving technologies. Moreover, within the School of Arts and art community at large, Sculpture + Extended Media tests the limits of objects, images and actions, acting as a speculative laboratory that branches into science, philosophy, anthropology, ecology, ethnology, media studies, history and other practices.

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Faculty Directory

Kendall Buster

Professor
Kristin Caskey

Associate Professor

Chair
Lily Cox-Richard

Assistant Professor
Corin Hewitt

Professor
Massa Lemu

Assistant Professor
William Lenard

Assistant Professor
Chris Mahonski

Assistant Professor
Michael Jones McKean

Associate Professor
Alex Matzke

Instructor/Adjunct Faculty

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Programs

The Department of Sculpture + Extended Media offers an MFA, BFA and a minor.

Sculpture + Extended Media alum, Nima Jeizan (BFA ’18), in his studio

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture attracts challenging, talented and curious students who thirst for exploring the edges of today’s art world.

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Master of Fine Arts in Fine Arts with a Concentration in Sculpture

Led by an active and accomplished group of working artists, the Master of Fine Arts in Fine Arts with a concentration in sculpture promotes a fluid, liberated, experimental and progressive exploration of the transformative role of art.

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Minor in Sculpture

The minor in sculpture allows students from outside of the program to enrich their degrees with rigorous and engaging coursework in Sculpture + Extended Media.

Visiting Artists

Each year Sculpture + Extended Media invites a diverse and intergenerational group of 8–12 artists, critics, curators, philosophers and thinkers to visit and spend time with us.

Curious

Curious is a biennial publication created by students in the Graduate Seminar of the MFA program.

Student Resources

Student Resources

Sculpture + Extended Media Events

Dave McKenzie Visiting Artist Lecture

April 6, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Bowe Street Parking Deck, Room 535 Free

Sculpture + Extended Media News

Call for the 2023 Excellence in Adjunct Research Exhibition

March 20, 2023

Spring 2023 VCUarts Senior Capstone Exhibitions

March 7, 2023

Signal(s) — A Kinetic Imaging Pop-Up Event

February 28, 2023

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*DATE CHANGED TO APRIL 5* Join The Department of

*DATE CHANGED TO APRIL 5*

Join The Department of Sculpture + Extended Media for a visiting artist lecture by Dave McKenzie on Thursday, April 6 at 12pm at the Bowe Street Parking Deck, Room 535, 609 Bowe St, Richmond, VA.

Dave McKenzie uses video, sculpture, performance, and installation to explore how public space and the private self are simultaneously alienated, connected, and restricted. At the center of this practice lies a desire for interactions that lay bare the complications of social rules and obligations with which we navigate personal relationships.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1977, McKenzie received a B.F.A. in printmaking from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2000. McKenzie is the recipient of several awards including: Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome; Guna S. Mundheim Visual Arts Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin; USA Rockefeller Fellowship, United States Artists; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award; William H. Johnson Prize. Residencies include the Studio Museum in Harlem and PS1 National and International Studio Program.

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Join The Department of Sculpture for the senior ca

Join The Department of Sculpture for the senior capstone exhibition "A Secret Third Thing" on view from March 15th - March 20th at the Anderson Gallery. There will be an opening reception on March 15th from 5pm-8pm.
Go support our seniors and check out their amazing work!
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Join the Department of Sculpture + Extended Media

Join the Department of Sculpture + Extended Media for a visiting artist lecture by Lucy Raven on March 1st at the ICA in Richmond.
Lucy Raven’s distinct and methodical practice combines an extended and interdisciplinary enquiry into the form, function and apparatus of the moving image – whether animated, digital, mechanical or cinematic – with an ongoing appreciation for the landscapes, labours and myths surrounding the American West. Previous films China Town (2009, actually a photographic stop-motion feature) and Ready Mix (2020, a major installation premiered at Dia Chelsea) reappraise the empty, heroic deserts of Nevada and Idaho as heartlands of industry and technology, focussing on the rhythmic and fluctuating removal of materials and minerals undergoing alchemical processing, for her contemporary takes on the grandiloquent western epic. Raven reveals the art and artifice taking place within and behind the camera’s act of documentation, in works such as Curtains (2014) and The Deccan Trap (2015) focussing on the mechanics of movement between 2D and stereoscopic 3D projection in addition to the painstakingly hand-wrought and hidden nature of Hollywood visual effects. Spectators become participants in Raven’s mises-en-scènes (or even her mises-en-abîmes), whether as objects of surveillance in Casters (2016), under the gaze of gyroscopic robotic arms performing a synchronised, balletic illumination, or while perambulating her coloured light cells for a recent architectural commission, Lichtspielhaus (2019) at the new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Germany. Whether through audiovisual collage or phenomenological experience, Raven’s important deep-dives into systems of power, image-making and filmic history are reflected back upon by the viewer as self-generating narratives forged by their means and manner of production.

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Join the Department of Sculpture + Extended Media

Join the Department of Sculpture + Extended Media for a visiting curator lecture by Valerie Cassel Oliver on Monday, February 13 at 2pm at the Bowe Street Parking Deck, Room 535, 609 Bowe Street, Richmond, VA.

Valerie Cassel Oliver is the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Prior to her position at the VMFA, she was Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Over her curatorial career, she organized numerous exhibitions including the acclaimed Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970 (2005); Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art (2012) and major survey exhibitions for Donald Moffett; Benjamin Patterson, Jennie C. Jones, Angel Otero and Annabeth Rosen.

Her debut at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts was the critically acclaimed retrospective entitled, Howardena Pindell: What Remains to be Seen co organized with Naomi Beckwith (2018). Most recently, she opened the groundbreaking exhibition, The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture and the Sonic Impulse (2021) that toured nationally.

Cassel Oliver is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including a fellowship from the Center of Curatorial Leadership (2009); the High Museum of Art’s David C. Driskell Award (2011); the James A. Porter Book Award from Howard University (2018) as well as the Alain Locke International Arts Award, Detroit Institute of Art ; the College Arts Association’s 2022 Excellence in Diversity Award; the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies , Bard College; and Brandywine Workshop and Archives’ Lifetime Achievement Award (all 2022).

Cassel Oliver holds an Executive MBA from Columbia University, New York; an M.A. in Art History from Howard University in Washington, D.C. and, a B.S. in Communications from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Richmond, Virginia 23284

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