Graphic Design Visiting Lecturer Series
Department of Graphic Design
Virginia Commonwealth University

October 1, James Victore
Grace Street Theater, 930 West Grace Street, 4:30 pm

James Victore is a self-taught, independent artist and designer. His work ranges from publishing, posters and advertising to illustration and animation. His design clients including Moet & Chandon, Aveda, Apple, Yohji Yamamoto, Yamaha, The New York Times, and The School of Visual Arts. Awards include an Emmy for television animation, a Broadcast Designers Association Gold Medal, the Grand Prix from the Brno Biennale (Czech Republic), and Gold and Silver Medals from the New York Art Director’s Club. Victore’s designs are in the permanent collections of the Palais du Louvre, Paris, the Library of Congress, Washington, DC and the Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich among others. His work is regularly featured in magazines around the world, and recently a book of his design work was published in China. He teaches graphic design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He lives, loves and works in Brooklyn, NY.
 www.jamesvictore.com

Look Forward to Seeing It: The Discipline of Anticipation
San Francisco art gallery The LAB presents its second annual juried exhibition.

Juried by Susanne Cockrell and Reynold Pritikin

Featuring VCU sculpture MFA David Grainger, among 14 others.

Exhibition runs: September 26–October 20, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, September 28, 6–9 PM
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays – Saturdays, 1–6 PM
Juror & Artists talk: Saturday, October 20, 4 PM
Free admission

The Lab
2948 16th Street @ Capp
San Francisco

Several VCU alumni are participating in Lab 307’s open house Friday, October 12th from 6 to 10pm. The studio spaces, located at 307 N 26th Street, are home to Danielle Riede, Thomas Condon, Sarah Mizer, Jeff Vick, Sayaka Suzuki, Erica, Dyen, Kiara Pleissier, and Debbie Quick.

Nine young female graduates from VCU School of the Arts in Qatar teamed up to form the ambitious multi-disciplinary design company Folio House. The team’s strategy was to initially launch their own fashion line YD09, the first ever fashion brand from Qatar, before expanding into interior and graphic design.

Recently, an idea exchange, called a charette, took place between Richmond and Qatar faculty and students. Five design faculty members from VCU School of the Arts in Qatar visited Richmond and three design and one Kinetic Imaging faculty members from Richmond went to Qatar. Additionally, approximately 100 students from Graphic Design, Interior Design, Fashion Design and Merchandising, and Kinetic Imaging in Richmond and 45 from Doha, Qatar took part.

Students were given a project for which they had four days to research and develop a solution.

The purpose of the charette was to explore and experience the process of collaboration and interaction, and to bring faculty and students from both campuses closer together.

Theatre VCU presents “Volume of Smoke” at the Singleton Center for the Performing Arts Sept. 28-29 and Oct. 4-6 at 7:30 p.m.; and Sept. 30 and Oct. 7 at 3 p.m. Based on eyewitness accounts of a historic tragedy that inspired a nationwide religious revival, “Volume of Smoke” is a beautiful, moving and surprisingly funny journey into the heart of disaster.

The Singleton Center for the Performing Arts is located at 922 Park Avenue. Click here for more information.

Kimberly Frost
Photo By: Joe Mahoney

A recent Richmond-Times Dispatch article entitled “Creative Survival” explores the struggles that can be involved with making art your livelihood. Featuring profiles of several VCU graduates, as well as the sage words of Dean Toscan, the article provides an intriguing look at Richmond’s thriving art community and what it takes to balance creativity and career.

James Hyde: Artist lecture
Thursday, September 27, 11am “Fishbowl” Rm 301 Fine Arts Building, 1000 W. Broad Street

The School of the Arts presents guest artist James Hyde as part of the Painting & Printmaking Fall 2007 Lecture Series. James Hyde’s exhibition record includes solo exhibitions at Brent Sikkema Gallery, NYC, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris France, Elizabeth Kaufmann Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, Solvent Space, and Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA, ( He also has an upcoming exhibition at The Reynolds Gallery, January 2008.) Group exhibitions include “Working in Brooklyn,” Brooklyn Museum of Art and “Material Pleasures,” Green on Red Gallery, Dublin Ireland. James Hyde is the visiting artist for the Painting and Printmaking Dept. Fall 2007. For more information please visit: http://www.brentsikkema.com/exhibition_jameshyde.htm

Documenta+Münster Sculpture+Venice Biennale
A symposium and visual tour: Though not technically an art show, Art, Attitudes & Trends presents a discussion regarding the 2007 editions of these three giants in the world of contemporary art exhibition. For the first time in a decade, they coincide, providing an unusually comprehensive assessment of contemporary art at the beginning of the 21st century. Presented by VCUarts faculty. October 8, 5-7pm. For more information call 828-2787. Free admission. RSVP and orange shirts are not necessary.

Location: Grace Street Theater, 934 Grace St.

Richard Toscan, Dean, School of the Arts will moderate

Presenters:
Amy Hauft, Chair, Department of Sculpture + Extended Media
Richard Roth, Chair, Department of Painting and Printmaking
Gregory Volk, Critic and Joint Professor of Painting and Printmaking & Sculpture + Extended Media

Jordan Bruner, a graduate of the Kinetic Imaging department, has been hard at work with Asterisk, an animation studio in New York City. The work spans the gamut of 2-D, 3-D and mixed media animation for a wide array of corporate and entertainment industry clients.