On Monday, November 24th and Tuesday the 25th from 11am-7pm the Contemporary Craft Society presents the Holiday Craft Sale, featuring works by students in the VCUarts Crafts/ Material Studies department. The event will be held on the VCU Monroe Park Campus in lobby of Fine Arts Building 1000 West Broad St. Various works of art will be available for purchase with sales benefiting the artists and the Contemporary Craft Society. Contemporary Craft Society Holiday Craft Sale

Lab 307 studio
307 N. 26th Street
November 14, 6–10pm

Lab 307 a studio collective of Craft/Material Studies alumni & faculty : Amy Chan, Tom Condon, Katie Hudnall, Peyton Hurt, Elizabeth Perkins, Debbie Quick, Sayaka Suzuki, Nathan Tersteeg, Jessica Waters

November 25, 2008 5–6:30pm (public invited)
The Fishbowl Gallery  3rd Floor Fine Arts Building
1000 West Broad Street

Nineteen graduating seniors from the Painting and Printmaking Department will be exhibiting works on paper.

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:
Dexter L. Booth
Jacqueline N. Cantwell
Jenn Erwin
Jonathan Greene
Robert W. Guyker, Jr.
Atalante Hain-Kaparakis
Jess Henry
Myra R. Jones
Maggie Noe
Tyler Payne
Paul Peterson
Heather E. Port
Joey Schoenwetter
Edward M. Shenk
Wijati Soemantoro
Tatum Sumners
Anna Deepa Swanson
W. Kenny Waide
Henry Winfiele

1708 Gallery invites artists to submit work for the first 1708 Gallery Feed Biennial. This national juried exhibit is open to any professional or graduate student artist working in any medium. This exhibition will feature mulitple works by the top 5 entrants as selected by the jurors, Ashley Kistler, Director of the Anderson Gallery, and Mark Sloan, Curator and Director of the Halsey Institute of Contemporay Art at the College of Charleston. Each of the selected finalists will receive a $1000 honorarium.

For more information go to www.1708feed.org
or ENTER NOW , DEADLINE JANUARY 30, 2009

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Opening this Friday November 7 2008
Ada Gallery on Broad Street
Bruce Wilhelm(alumnus) returns from Philadelphia with some great new paintings , drawings (constructions) by Japanese born / Brooklyn resident Motomichi Nakamura exhibits animations & drawings.

Friday Nov. 7 . 7–10pm
228 w. broad
through the month of November 2008

Same Night: Different Location
Re-Reverie: Rachel Hayes
Nov. 7 6–8pm
Project Space: 1829 West Main Street
(Across from the Visual Art Center,  aka OLD HANDWORKSHOP)
other than Friday night , work is available for viewing by appointment only.
email us info@adagallery.com

A Group Exhibition of Work by VCUarts Faculty and Staff

Matt Brandon
Derek Coté
Michael Lease
Dawn Waters
Jack Wax

Exhibition November 1–30, 2008
Reception Tuesday, November 11, 4:30–5:30pm

VCUarts Locker 50b Project
VCU Fine Arts Building, 3rd Floor
1000 West Broad Street
 www.vcu.edu/arts/locker50b

Donations for Creations is an event organized by a group of students in VCU’s Graphic Design department. The project is inspired by the socially conscious design attitudes and practices taught by Noah Scalin in his course Design Rebels.

Help us help Richmond! We need donated artwork, any medium and size accepted. These works will be traded at our event for food, clothes, and goods to go to the Daily Planet homeless shelter. Everyone benefits—artists and art students can get their work out to a wider audience, the public has a chance to collect art affordably, and the Daily Planet gets the supplies they desperately need this time of year.

Drop-off dates for art will be Friday November 14th, Saturday the 15th, and Sunday the 16th, from 2:00pm-8:00pm at 1005 Grove Ave. To arrange another time or for pick-up, please email us at donatecreate@gmail.com.

Thank you so much, hope to see you at our event on November 22nd @ 1509 W Main.

The Department of Sculpture + Extended Media is pleased to present a show of new works from six students at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore:

November 9 – December 1, 2008

Jamilah Abdul-Sabur
Paul Crump
Lee Freeman
Jong Sun Lee
Shane Morrissey
Claire Taylor

Closing Reception: Monday, December 1 , 4:00 pm- 7:00 pm

VCU School of the Arts Gallery
1000 W. Broad St., 1st floor
Richmond, Virginia

Jamilah Abdul-Sabur’s kinetic sculpture uses a modified electric drill to wear away blocks of vaguely aggressive text high up on the wall, while the concept of ‘rising’ is investigated with wood and rawhide constructions by Shane Morrissey that are, ironically, quite close to the ground. Claire Taylor occupies a sliver of the gallery with a cottonball embroidered with thousands of decorative high-key-colored knots, Lee Freeman’s work jumps back and forth across the perceptual line with a simple light and mirror piece, Jong Sun Lee’s installation economically blends figurative drawing and projected shadows, and Paul Crump is working out his own anti-social tendencies with a personal space generator and a sense of humor.

Drawings and Prints and Works on Paper by Tanja Softic and Holly Morrison (Faculty Painting and Printmaking)

November 5 — December 8
Opening reception Friday, November 7, 2008 from 7 to 9 PM

The Page Bond Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of drawings and prints by Tanja Softic and, works on paper by Holly Morrison. Tanja Softic’s work addresses the factors of cultural hybridity that shape the identity and world view of an immigrant: exile, longing, translation, and memory. Her contrapuntal, layered compositions function as visual signifiers of displaced existence. Holly Morrison utilizes camera and lens as a means of heightening awareness of the recognized world. She explores the territory of perception and metaphysics—using drawing as a means of seeking the invisible and making it seen.  These works by Tanja Softic and Holly Morrison will be on view at the Page Bond Gallery, 1625 West Main Street, with an opening reception honoring the artists, Friday, November 7, 2008 from 7 to 9 PM. The exhibition will be on view at the gallery from Wednesday November 5 through Tuesday December 8.

Page Bond Gallery
1625 West Main Street
Richmond, VA
www.pagebondgallery.com

Shadow Play, a world premiere theatrical production!
Running November 6-8, 13-15, and 20-22 at 7:30 and November 9, 16, and 23 at 3 pm. All performances are the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts, 922 Park Avenue, Richmond. Tickets are $8- 20, available at the Box Office at the theatre, by email at theatretix@vcu.edu, or by phone at (804) 828-6026.

Shadow Play in Style Weekly