Lecture presented by Communication Arts
Thursday, April 3rd 2008
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Student Commons Theater

Duc Nguyen is a working medical illustrator and animator in Richmond, Va and currently a professional member of the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI). He was the recipient of both an AMI Award of Excellence for his graduate artwork and Vesalius Trust Research Grant in 2007.

He fulfilled his undergraduate education at the College of William and Mary and the Department of Communication Arts, in the School of the Arts at  Commonwealth University. He attended Johns Hopkins for graduate study. His graduate thesis was completed on the applications and technical challenges of radiology-based visualization programs for three-dimensional modeling of the neck.

Erin Arnold – Artist lecture – Wednesday, April 2nd at 3 pm, in the “Fishbowl” rm 301 of the Fine Arts Building, 1000 W. Broad Street.

Erin is the current recipient of the VCU/Plant Zero fellowship in painting and printmaking. Erin Arnold’s exhibition record includes shows at CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA and Greenstone Gallery, Lincoln UK. For more information please visit: http://ctrlgallery.com/cms/artists/erin-arnold/

The Fishbowl / 3rd Floor / Fine Arts Building / 1000 West Broad Street presents INTERACTION 32.  Nineteen graduating seniors from the Painting and Printmaking and Sculpture Departments at Virginia Commonwealth University will be exhibiting works on paper.  The public is invited to the reception, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 5 to 6:30 p.m.

The exhibition consists of work representing many diverse ideas ranging from social commentary to personal iconography.  The works are created in a wide variety of media; including lithography, etching, silkscreen, oil, charcoal, and digital based imagery.

This exhibition highlights the unique talents of:
Shirin L. Aranee
Minna Cho
Douglas Colie
Susan Elder
Beth Eshleman
Frankie Gollub
Alex Griffin
Renée Kaelber
Samantha Lee
Whitney Lynch
Michael McKinley
Michelle O. McKinney
William A. Old, III
Benjamin David Perry
Geoff Smith
Marie Sudduth
Paul Taylor
Annie Turner
Jaime R. Woodall

Image: Big Lebowski Pattern, Samantha Lee, December 2007.

A collection of art-o-mat® art from the permanent archives of artist in cellophane.

Opening reception: Thursday, April 3rd, 5–6pm
Exhibition runs April 3rd–30, 2008

Curated by Clark Whittington

Locker 50b Project
www.vcu.edu/arts/locker50b
VCU Fine Arts Building, 3rd Floor
1000 West Broad St
Richmond, VA 23284

& Serial Witness at art6" />
art6, a Command Print venue, welcomes the 2008 Southern Graphics Council Conference.

These exhibitions feature the work of many with connections to VCUarts.

Reception, March 28 6-10pm

“Serial Witness: Sequential Prints of Mitzi Humphrey”

“Books, Broadsides, et alia”
Print invitational featuring works by Kerri Cushman, David Freed, Walter Garde, Stephanie Brody Lederman, Jamie Mahoney, Kelly Nelson, Jacob Urbanski, Sandra Wheeler and others. Curated by Mitzi Humphrey.

“International Prints from Virginia Collections”
Featuring works by Norman Ackroyd, Margot Blank, Janet Gilmore Bryan, Sister Mary Corita Kent, Nicholas Cossitt, David Freed, Jack Glover, Mary Holland, Sheryl Humphrey, Francisco Londono, Aristide Maillol, Gail McKennis, Julyen Norman, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Laura Pharis, Eleanor Rufty, Tanja Softic, Jack Solomon, Crispin Vayadares, Carlisle Vicenti and others. Co-curated by Henrietta Near and Mitzi Humphrey.

art6, 6 E. Broad Street, Richmond
 804-343-1406

Image: detail from “To the Kiva” by Mitzi Humphrey

Performatica, Chalula Mexico, was founded a year ago by VCU alumnus Ray Schwartz, professor of Dance. It is a forum to bring together artists for artistic, intellectual and cultural exchange March 24 - April 4.

Kat Legault, dancer and Department of Theatre faculty member, will be teaching workshops in integrating voice, emotion and movement in dance, in partnering, and will perform her choreography Poor Edward and Epoch with co-choreographers Rob Petres and Damion Bond (both alumni of VCU). Lea Marshall, of Dance, will perform Bond’s solo Rio Abaja Rio and Scott Putman, also of Dance, will perform and teach workshops in Elemental Body Alignment Systems and present a paper.

Quirk Gallery
311 West Broad Street
Opening March 28th, 6–10pm
Showing from March 28–April 26
This exhibit features 23 posters from designers around the world who interpret the concept of “shrinkage.” This project, initiated by the Shahneshin Foundation, calls upon communities to reassess their daily thoughts, attitudes, and decisions that contribute to ideas of social responsibility and sustainability. Presented in Conjunction with Commandprint, hosted by VCU Arts, Department of Painting and Printmaking. Organized by Design Center and sponsored by VCU Arts, Department of Graphic Design.
 Shahneshinfoundation.org

March 7-29, 2008
Command Print Reception
Friday, March 28, 2008 6–10pm
3D Multiples: The Object of Production
In conjunction with Command Print:  The  Southern Graphics Council
Conference hosted by the VCU Department of Painting  and Printmaking

1708 Gallery collaborates with the VCU Painting  and Printmaking Department
in an exciting new exhibition that investigates the  association of the
artist’s multiple to the commodity-based products that influx  our daily
lives.  By expounding on the processes of printmaking, 3D  Multiples: The
Object of Production compares and contrasts the relationship  of current
art practices to the manufacturing of mass-produced objects.

Presented by Craft/Material Studies
March 27th 11:00am
Fine Arts Building Room 238
1000 West Broad Street

Heath Matysek-Snyder received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2000 and his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. Following graduate school Matysek-Snyder was a Resident Artist at San Diego Sate University, in the Furniture Design program from 2005-2007, Currently he is Tom Loeser’s sabbatical replacement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Matysek-Snyder has been included in both national and international exhibitions.

INSIDE/OUT, the feature film directed and shot by Rob Tregenza, director of the VCUarts Cinema program, and screened in the Cannes, Toronto, Sundance and Rotterdam International Film Festivals, will make its Virginia premiere on March 27th at 7:00pm at the Byrd Theatre as part of the James River Film Festival.