Students in Communication Arts explore the powerful and timeless relationship between art and narrative through drawing. A major in Communication Arts will help to broaden your artistic skills and conceptual understandings while giving you the opportunity to explore and expand your interests in observational drawing, digital image making, concept design, comics and graphic novels, storyboarding and mixed-media illustration. Our alumni are character and creature designers, concept artists, illustrators for print and web publishing, graphic novelists and scientific illustrators.
Our Faculty
are Teachers and Doers
![V C U arts professor presenting in lecture hall](https://arts.vcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/RS18850_20241108_CommArts_AIForum00186-lpr-300x129.jpg)
Exhibitions + Showcases
Annual opportunities for students to showcase their work.
![Student exhibition at the Anderson gallery](https://arts.vcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/RS8000__lpr-e1733165472196.jpg)
Annual student exhibition at the Anderson
![Student selling their works at the Communication Arts Senior Expo](https://arts.vcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/RS16751_20240504_SeniorExpo_0096-lpr.jpg)
The Comm Arts Senior Expo is the annual year-end tabling event for the graduating class. Seniors build booths to promote their art, sell prints + merch, and connect with the VCU community.
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