Amy Chan
Brooke Inman
Andy Kozlowski
Debora Oden
Jenny Schmid
Jill Zevenbergen

Receptions: Wednesday, March 26th, 5–6pm
Friday, March 28th, 6–7pm

Exhibition runs March 10th–31st

Locker50b Project
VCU Find Arts Building, 3rd Floor
1000 West Broad St
Richmond, VA

Saturday March 1, 2008
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Singleton Center for the Performing Arts - Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall Monroe Park Campus
sponsored by VCU Music

Since the beginning of his career, Pascal Rogé and French music have become synonymous; this is reflected in both his recital repertoire and discography. His performances of Poulenc, Satie, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, and especially Ravel, are characterized by their elegance, beauty and stylistically perfect phrasing. Born in Paris, he became an exclusive Decca artist at the age of seventeen. Since then he has won many prestigious awards, including two Grammy Awards. He has performed in almost every major concert hall in the world and is the artistic director of the chamber music festival, La Foce, in Tuscany.

Tickets are $10-$32 and may be purchased by calling the VCU Music Box Office at 804.828.6776.

Sheila Blair (Department of Art History) was awarded the “World Prize for the Book of the Year”. This award was given by the Ministry of Culture of the Islamic Republic of Iran for “Islamic Calligraphy” (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006). This was the 15th Round (started in 1993) and was held in conjunction with the 25th round of the “Book of the Year” prize.

Wagner, a senior Sculpture + Extended Media, will be exhibiting her latest works at the Student Art Space from February 25–March 7, 2008.
Opening Reception Friday, February 29 5–7pm. The Student Art Space is located in the VCU Student Commons 907 Floyd Ave Richmond, VA.

Communiction Arts presents Albert Epshteyn
February 28,2008
Thursday at 3:30pm
Student Commons Theater
907 Floyd Avenue
Richmond, VA

Craft/Material present Graham Campbell
Thursday, March 6, 11a.m.
Fine Arts Building room 238

Graham Campbell grew up in South Africa. For a dozen years he mixed formal studies in architecture, work in residential construction and technical theater, and running a woodworking workshop. In 1983 he spent a year traveling through Europe and the USA before moving to upstate NY to study at the Wendell Castle School. He subsequently completed an MFA degree at Virginia Commonwealth University. After teaching at both schools he was hired to head the wood program at the Appalachian Center for Craft at Tennessee Technological University.

He has continued in this role for the last 18 years, but also stays active as a juror and workshop instructor. He served two terms on the board of the Tennessee Association of Craft Artists and in 1999 he hosted the annual conference of the Furniture Society, which met at the Appalachian Center for Craft.

His studio work is now produced in a recently built woodshop at his house in the woods of Tennessee. He works back and forth between several families of objects with different characters and histories. Sometimes there is intermarriage.

Interior Design welcomes Susan Szenasy, the editor of Metropolis. Ms. Szenasy will meet with Interior Design students in studio and give a public lecture on healthcare design Monday, March 3 at 5:30 pm in
VCU Commonwealth Ballroom B in the Student Commons. Reception to follow at Peter Fraser Design Associates, 1623 W. Broad Street

In 1986 Susan Szenasy was named chief editor of Metropolis, the New York City-based magazine of architecture, culture, and design. During her 17 years as Editor-in Chief, the magazine has gained International recognition and has won numerous awards. Susan’s training in design journalism was on the job. Beginning with Interiors magazine, she rose from a junior position of editorial assistant to senior editor; then she was named chief editor of Residential Interiors, the short-lived offspring of Interiors. Susan is the author of several books on design, including The Home and Light. She holds an MA degree in Modern European History from Rutgers University and teaches design history and design ethics at New York’s Parsons School of Design. She is a frequent lecturer and panel moderator on broad-ranging design topics, and the guiding light behind Metropolis’s Conferences (which she also facilitates), including Wonderbrands, Wonderbrands West, Net@work, Business UnUsual, Teaching Green and Design Entrepreneurs. She is the cofounder of R.Dot (Rebuild Downtown Our Town), a coalition of New Yorkers who came together after the 9/11 tragedies to contribute their expertise to building the 21st century metropolis at the site of the former World Trade Center.

Department of
Photography and Film
Visiting Artist Lecture:
Todd Hido
March 4 2-3:30 pm
Bowe Street 535

Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Eyemazing, Metropolis, The Face, I-D, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as in many other public and private collections.
In 2001 an award winning monograph of his work titled, House Hunting, was published by Nazraeli Press and a companion monograph, Outskirts, was published in 2002. His third book, Roaming, was published in 2004.
His latest book—Between the Two—this one focusing on portraits and nudes—was published in 2007.

Please join us this Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 2 p.m. at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart for an enjoyable afternoon of music performed by the students of VCU Music.  This annual concert is a highlight of the VCU Music season as performers and audience members alike enjoy the artful surroundings and resounding acoustics of the Cathedral.

This year, music will be performed by the Guitar Ensemble, Trombone Choir, Women’s Chorus, Commonwealth Singers, Brass Choir and String Ensemble. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to hear such beautiful music in this grand setting.

Admission to the concert is free and donations are appreciated.  All donations received at the concert will benefit the Friends of VCU Music Scholarship Fund.  This fund is the sole source for departmental undergraduate scholarships and allows the department to recruit and reward the talented and driven students that are the heart of the VCU Music program.  Your attendance at our concerts and your generous donation give inspiration to the faculty, staff and students at VCU Music and are deeply appreciated.  If you are interested in joining Friends of VCU Music, please contact Bryan Hooten at 804.828.1169.

For more information on VCU Music events, view our online calendar

Craft/Material Studies Visiting Artist Lecture:
February 28th @ 11:00 AM in the Fine Arts Building, Room 238

Travis Townsend (MFA 2000, VCU Crafts) has had solo exhibitions at the Weston Gallery (Cincinnati) and the New Arts Program (Kutztown, PA) and has been included in group exhibitions at Rosenfeld Gallery (Philadelphia); Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati); Kendall College (Grand Rapids, MI); Spaces Gallery (Cleveland); Lehigh University (PA); and Zone: Chelsea (New York). He is a recipient of an American Craft Council Emerging Artist Grant, a Kentucky Arts Council Fellowship, a Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, and a Young Sculptors Award from Miami University. Townsend lives in Lexington, KY and teaches drawing and design at Eastern Kentucky University.