VCUarts Fashion students are featured in August 27th’s issue of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Garments created by Allison Kanka, Katherine Lee, Jackie Lee and Sarah Kelley are a main focus in the article by Penelope Carrington. The article explains how fabrics of hemp, soy and exotic plants are being incorporated into today’s fashions.

Student Art Space Presents:
Jordi Williams
August 27-September 7
Opening Reception: August 28th at 7 p.m.

VCU’s Student Art Space
University Student Commons
907 Floyd Ave., Main St. entrance

Department of Dance and Choreography’s Lea Marshall, production specialist, is featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Department of Craft/Material Studies
Graham Caldwell Lecture
Monday, August 27th
@ 5:15 pm in Fine Arts Building, Room 238

Caldwell will be lecturing on his work and his use of glass as a primary material. He will address some of its attendant prejudices, impracticalities and advantages. Some of the preoccupations he hopes to expound on include: lenses, eyes, anatomy, surveillance, natural history, and the microscopic world.

Mike Wierigno, a 1990 graduate of Communication Arts and Design, who became well known in the comic book industry, passed away on August 12th.

VCUarts graduates Sto and Kelie Bowman run Cinders Gallery in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Their upcoming show features the work of Allyson Mellberg and Jeremy Taylor.

Cinder Gallery’s show Handplant, runs September 7 – October 7 with the opening reception on Friday, September 7 from 7-10pm. Cinders Gallery is located at 103 Havemeyer (between Hope & Grand) in Brooklyn. 718-388-2311.

An evening of dance films created by international artists represents an intriguing range of approaches to the hybrid art form of videodance.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Grace Street Theater, 934 W. Grace Street, 8:00 pm $5

After completing a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Communication Design, Allyson began a sixteen year commitment to design and education. She was on the faculty of York University and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, where she advanced to dean. Allyson later headed the Communication Technology Program at Dubai’s Woman’s College. She replaces former dean Christine Lindholm at VCU School of the Arts in Qatar.

VCU Dance welcomes national and international dance professional Heidi Weiss (Berlin, Germany), who will be teaching a community Master’s Class in addition to her work with VCU dance majors, in fall 2007.

Hot Box features the work of VCUarts Summer Studio Program participants. Fine Arts Building, 1000 W. Broad Street, 3rd floor. Runs through August 31.

The VCUarts Locker 50B Project, which started by then student Virginia Samsel in March of 2002, exhibits the work of undergraduate and graduate students, VCU faculty and alumni, and regionally, nationally and internationally known professional artists. The space houses group shows and installations, and is unique enough that its artists can easily experiment with ideas that would be more difficult on a larger scale.