The Department of Photography and Film presents Anthony Goicolea
Feb. 7th 2–3:30 pm
Bowe Street Building room 535

Anthony Goicolea obtained a BA in Art History and a BFA in Painting from the University of Georgia and received his MFA from Pratt. He was accepted into the “AIM” program at the Bronx Museum of Art and has been awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, the 2005 BMW Photo Paris Award and the 2006 CINTAS Fellowship.

Goicolea lives and works in New York and exhibits in the US and overseas. Goicolea’s work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, MOMA, The Guggenheim, The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography, The ASU Museum of Art, The Helmond and the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, The Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, El Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla in Leon, Spain, The Yale University Collection and 21C Museum in Kentucky.

Twin Palms press has published two books of Goicolea’s work & a collection of videos.

On February 14, Flashpoint Gallery in DC opens “Anima Mundi” a three-person show featuring work by Department of Photography and Film 2007 MFA alumnae Nellie Appleby, Amanda Sauer, and current MFA student Vita Litvak. The opening is from 6 - 8PM and the show runs through March 29.

Anima Mundi (soul of the world from Latin), a playful dramatization of the admittedly broad but nevertheless eternally fascinating subject matter of nature and being, features the work of Amanda Sauer, Nellie Appleby and Vita Litvak. Working in varied mediums of photography, installation and video, the artists share a desire to experience and portray the awe-inspiring. Their distinct visions intertwine to at once revere, complicate and question the human relationship to the natural world.

On February 5th at 12:00 pm In Craft/ Material Studies Room 238, Liz MurenBerg-a representative from Ox-Bow school of art and artists’ residency, will present a slide show on the program’s offerings and opportunities.

Ox-Bow offers one and two-week intensives for credit and non-credit in six main studio areas. Bringing together faculty, students, and visiting artists from around the nation, Ox-Bow is both a school and a community,  focused on experimentation, discourse, and the process of artmaking.

Ox-Bow is designed to offer degree-seeking students the opportunity to concentrate on their studio practice completely. It also gives them a chance to explore studio areas that they might not necessarily have access to during their undergraduate and graduate careers. Sometimes this access is in specific studio areas like glass or papermaking, or in specific processes like wood-firing in ceramics or collograph prints. More and more, however, it also means a new take on current issues in artmaking, and confronting and responding to our environment (natural and unnatural). By not being specifically associated with a formal curriculum designed to train artists, Ox-Bow has the luxury of offering courses that push the boundaries of traditional academia, and can provide the opportunity for students to feel free from worries that might bind them in how they create and the types of work that result.

Ox-Bow offers a number of scholarships to attend classes and 15-week paid fellowships for students. To learn more about Ox-Bow courses and financial aid, visit www.ox-bow.org.

VCU Theatre is excited to have Mark Ramont as a guest director this spring, He will be directing Cabaret from Feb 5th – April 13th.

Mark Ramont is in his fourth season as the Associate Producer/Artistic for
Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC.  Other professional positions have
included associate artistic director for New York’s Circle Repertory
Company, Artistic Director for Capitol City Playhouse (Austin, Texas) and
Artistic Director for the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York.  As a
director, he has directed the world premieres of Walking the Dead ,
Dalton’s Back , The Colorado Catechism  (all at Circle Rep) and Mad River
Rising  (Vermont Stage Company, winner of Moss Hart Award for Outstanding
Production, New England), among others.  He has won awards for his
productions of Jeffrey , Amadeus, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning,
Juliet) , Lips Together, Teeth Apart , Mass Appeal   and Agnes of God .  He
has directed for numerous theatre companies, including the Alley Theatre
and Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, the Round House Theatre in
Bethesda, Dorset Theatre Festival (18 seasons), and Cortland Repertory
Theatre.  As a theatre educator, he was the Director of Theatre at Rice
University and was an adjunct at Sam Houston State University.  Some of his
students have gone on to receive graduate degrees from Yale School of
Drama, New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts, California
Institute of the Arts, and the University of California at San Diego.  He
has guest directed at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, Sam Houston
State University, and North Carolina School of the Arts.  He is the
recipient of the Prince Grace Foundation’s Statuette Award for Sustained
Excellence and holds a BA in Theatre (Directing) from California State
University, Fullerton, an MFA in Directing from the University of Texas at
Austin, and completed an internship with the Asolo State Theatre in
Sarasota, Florida.  He is a member of SSDC, a site reporter for the
National Endowment for the Arts, and a judge for the Helen Hayes Awards in
Washington, DC.

Dancing/Writing/Directing Assistant Professor at VCU Dance Lea Marshall never seems to stop. Recently she can be credited with giving Richmond its report card, at least with respect to dance. Lea is passionate about dance and committed to providing Richmond with opportunities to both see and read about it. Her latest contribution can be read in Style Weekly.

Locker50b presents Hand Pattern with works by:
Nicole Andreoni
Vanessa Vobis
Aaron Samsel
Lauren Vincelli

February 4–29
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 7 from 5–6pm

VCU Fine Arts Building, 3rd Floor
1000 West Broad St
Richmond, VA

Ground Zero Dance Company at The Camel Excerpts of choreography by Damion Bond, Pam England, Victoria Fink, Kat Legault & Rob Petres

Saturday, February 16, 2008
The Camel: 1621 West Broad Street, Richmond
7:00-9:00 pm. Doors open 6:30 pm.
Benefit admission $15 at the door.
Your ticket gets you discounted admission to the late music show.

Performances, refreshments throughout the evening.
Silent auction with charming, (silent) auctioneers.
Secrets of the Bainbridge Gymnasium revealed!

Silent auction items include custom jewelry by The Bead Poet; a guided duck hunt with Jason Flippo; Thai Massage, Rolfing and Pilates sessions; tickets to the James River Singers; original artwork; and much more!

All proceeds benefit Ground Zero Dance Co., a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. If you can’t make it, you can still donate online at www.groundzerodance.org.

For more information, call 804-353-9774 or www.groundzerodance.org.

1708 Gallery Presents Jillian McDonald
Video, Performance, and Installation
February 1–March 1
Opening Reception: Friday, February 1 from 7–10pm
Artist Talk: Friday, February 1, at 4pm

Jillian McDonald is fanatical about the human obsession with film genres and celebrities, turning intimate and horrifying moments in film into satirical drama.  McDonald’s video series Me and Billy Bob bridges the gap between celebrity obsession and infatuation with a girlish crush.  Jillian takes one extra step with obsession by handing out temporary Billy Bob tattoo replicas made by the artist on opening night.

1708 Gallery
319 W. Broad St.
Richmond, VA

Student Art Space presents: Sculpture by Timothy Rusterholz Monday, January 28, and runs through February 8.  A reception will be held on Friday, February 1st at 5pm.

2004 MFA alumnus, from the Department of Sculpture + Extended Media, Fernando Mastrangelo will be exhibiting  a new installment of “kumite” at part of group exhibiting in the RHYS gallery in Boston on February 1–29. The Opening is Friday, February 1 from 5–8pm.

 RHYS Gallery
401 Harrison Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts