Virginia Screenwriters Forum Fourth Annual Short Film Showcase

Virginia’s largest and most highly awarded screenwriting organization, the Virginia Screenwriters Forum, presents its fourth annual Short Film Showcase in the ICA auditorium, featuring original shorts written, directed, and produced by its talented members. Admission is......More

Virginia’s largest and most highly awarded screenwriting organization, the Virginia Screenwriters Forum, presents its fourth annual Short Film Showcase in the ICA auditorium, featuring original shorts written, directed, and produced by its talented members. Admission is free. For thirty-five years, the Virginia Screenwriters Forum has brought together aspiring and successful writers for film and television to engage in the art of creating award-winning, commercially attractive scripts in a variety of genres, including comedy, drama, sci-fi, thriller, and horror. More recently, VSF has reached out to the greater Richmond film community to partner with filmmakers, producers, directors, and a wide range of creatives who share a love of movies. More information is available at virginiascreenwritersforum.com

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The Beach

The Beach at The Anderson welcomes students back to campus for the Fall 2025 Semester with a space to gather and not quite let go of that summertime feeling of relaxation. Gallery visitors are invited to sit in the adirondack chairs and take in a selection of video work......More

The Beach at The Anderson welcomes students back to campus for the Fall 2025 Semester with a space to gather and not quite let go of that summertime feeling of relaxation. Gallery visitors are invited to sit in the adirondack chairs and take in a selection of video work by VCUarts Faculty.  The Beach is part of a series of interventions in public spaces by Photo+Film Faculty John D. Freyer and his Fifty/Fifty project. Freyer’s projects transform forgotten and underutilized spaces with scraps of astroturf, salvaged lawn furniture and thrift store bicycles to create substance free spaces for community and conversation. Featuring work byJohn D. FreyerSasha WatersHope GinsburgPaul RuckerLily Cox-RichardsStephanie ThulinOn View at The Anderson: August 19 – 30Reception: August 21, 5-8 pm

George Ferrandi | Big Top Energy: Schemes & Souvenirs

The Anderson is pleased to announce Big Top Energy: Schemes & Souvenirs, a solo exhibition of work by VCUarts alumna, George Ferrandi. The exhibition traces highlights of the artist’s trajectory from her time in the program to the ongoing Jump!Star initiative. Ferrandi’......More

The Anderson is pleased to announce Big Top Energy: Schemes & Souvenirs, a solo exhibition of work by VCUarts alumna, George Ferrandi. The exhibition traces highlights of the artist’s trajectory from her time in the program to the ongoing Jump!Star initiative. Ferrandi’s work is “art all the way down,” where process-as-practice defines her approach to community engagement. Alongside documents and artifacts from several of her past projects, including student work and an early collaborative circus project, the exhibition features sketches, proposals, studies, prototypes and in-progress works that give insight into her creative production and the social engagement it brings about. Big Top Energy: Schemes & Souvenirs is a call to action to the community, a call to join Ferrandi in the creation of the tools that future generations will use to usher in the unknown. Ferrandi’s work is full of hope and humor without losing sight of the need to acknowledge and commemorate more painful aspects of our personal and collective stories. The large-scale illuminated sculpture in this exhibition, Iota Cephei, is a new Jump!Star sculpture created by Ferrandi and a team of interns at 1708 Gallery and The Anderson during the summer of 2025. In October, the piece will be featured in 1708 Gallery’s InLight 2025: Super!Giant!Jump!Star at Abner Clay Park on October 17th and 18th. On View at The Anderson: August 19 – October 14Reception: August 21, 5-8 pmArtist Talk: August 22, 12 pm 

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Nneoma Njoku | River Monuments

The Anderson and VCUarts are pleased to present River Monuments. A solo exhibition of work by Nneoma Njoku. The work in this exhibition was created through VCU Special Collections and Archives Book Artist in Residency Program. On View at The Anderson: August 19 – Octobe......More

The Anderson and VCUarts are pleased to present River Monuments. A solo exhibition of work by Nneoma Njoku. The work in this exhibition was created through VCU Special Collections and Archives Book Artist in Residency Program. On View at The Anderson: August 19 – October 18Reception: August 21, 5-8 pm 

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George Ferrandi | Gallery Talk at The Anderson

Join us at The Anderson for a gallery talk with VCUarts alumna George Ferrandi underneath her sculpture, Iota Cephei, on view at The Anderson. The talk will take place on the second floor of the gallery, in conjuction with Big Top Energy: Schemes & Souvenirs, a solo exh......More

Join us at The Anderson for a gallery talk with VCUarts alumna George Ferrandi underneath her sculpture, Iota Cephei, on view at The Anderson. The talk will take place on the second floor of the gallery, in conjuction with Big Top Energy: Schemes & Souvenirs, a solo exhibition of Ferrandi’s work. The exhibition traces highlights of the artist’s trajectory from her time in the program to the ongoing Jump!Star initiative. Ferrandi’s work is “art all the way down,” where process-as-practice defines her approach to community engagement. Alongside documents and artifacts from several of her past projects, including student work and an early collaborative circus project, the exhibition features sketches, proposals, studies, prototypes and in-progress works that give insight into her creative production and the social engagement it brings about. On View at The Anderson: August 19 – October 14Reception: August 21, 5-8 pmGallery Talk: August 22, 12 pm

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ICA Full House

Come to the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU’s Markel Center for ICA Full House, a celebration of the Richmond arts community and three new exhibitions in our galleries. From 1 to 4 p.m., check out the newly opened exhibitions, meet representatives from local arts ......More

Come to the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU’s Markel Center for ICA Full House, a celebration of the Richmond arts community and three new exhibitions in our galleries. From 1 to 4 p.m., check out the newly opened exhibitions, meet representatives from local arts organizations, attend panel discussions on artist-run spaces and production models enjoy mini-food-hall offerings in the ICA’s Abby Moore Cafe participate in make-and-take crafts and free short recording sessions in the VPM + ICA Community Media Center bring blank T-shirts and totes for free screen printing hear music from WRIR DJs, and more. From 4 to 6:30 p.m., we’ll host a reception to celebrate the openings of three shows: Julien Creuzet: Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon, Lily Cox-Richard: Disquiet in the Sand, and Ayida. Enjoy refreshments, a cash bar, and remarks by VCUarts Dean Carmenita Higginbotham, ICA Executive Director Jessica Bell Brown, ICA curators Amber Esseiva and Egbert Vongmalaithong, and guest curator Serubiri Moses. Panel Discussions 1–3 p.m. “Artist-Run Spaces in the Year 2025.” Learn how artist-run and autonomous spaces are responding to shifts in public funding for the arts. Featuring panelists Silly Genius (Mending Walls), Mauricio Vargas (Envelope), Ashley Hawkins and KB Brown (Studio Two Three), Sam Taylor (Ours), and Isa Dray ( Mycelium Works).“Feeding Yourself / Feeding the Algorithm.” We’ll explore different views on how algorithms and AI impact creative labor and how artists can respond and survive. Featuring panelists Herdimas Anggara (VCUarts), Max Alper, a.k.a. La Meme Young, Will Mullany (Molasses Industries) Liza Pittard, Rob Snyder, and Carlos Chafin (Shockoe Records).Participating Organizations:1708 GalleryThe AndersonART 180Black History Museum and Cultural Center of VirginiaThe Branch MuseumCandela Books + GalleryCircle ThriftCreative Mornings RichmondDowntown Neighborhood AssociationEnvelopeExposure CinemaFirehouse TheatreGood for Her FilmsHand/ThrownHard Light CinemaMain ProjectsMilk River ArtsMycelium Works CollectiveOakwood ArtsOursRichmond Public LibraryRichmond Urban Dance / The HouseShockoe RecordsStudio Two ThreeSultry GalleryThe ValentineVCUartsVMFAWRIR

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Mary Anne Rennolds Chamber Music Concert Series: Bax & Chung Piano Duo

As part of VCU Music’s Mary Anne Rennolds Chamber Concert Series, the Bax & Chung Piano Duo will perform on Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 3:00pm in the Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall in the Singleton Center for Performing Arts. The real-life marriage of concert pianists A......More

As part of VCU Music’s Mary Anne Rennolds Chamber Concert Series, the Bax & Chung Piano Duo will perform on Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 3:00pm in the Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall in the Singleton Center for Performing Arts. The real-life marriage of concert pianists Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung, with their abundant artistic chemistry, passion, and stunning virtuosity, has led to one of the most appealing and impressive piano duos of our time. In the words of the UK magazine Music and Arts, “Theirs is a marriage of wondrous colours and dextrous aplomb, subtly balanced to make a musical performance sound as one.” They are also co-artistic directors of the Joaquín Achúcarro Foundation in Dallas, Texas, created to cultivate the legacy of the Basque pianist and to support young pianists’ careers. Read more about the Bax & Chung Piano Duo. Season subscriptions are currently on sale for $100.00 featuring the Bax & Chung Piano Duo, plus four additional concerts that can be viewed here. Single concert tickets are available for $35.00.

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Dance On Camera

VCUarts department of Dance + Choreography is proud to announce their annual Dance On Camera screening will take place Friday, September 26th at 7:30 p.m. More information regarding what materials will be screened will be available closer to the date of the screening. T......More

VCUarts department of Dance + Choreography is proud to announce their annual Dance On Camera screening will take place Friday, September 26th at 7:30 p.m. More information regarding what materials will be screened will be available closer to the date of the screening. This event is free and open to the public.

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National Portfolio Day 2025

There will be a National Portfolio Day event on our campus in Richmond, Virginia on Saturday, October 4, 2025. This is an excellent opportunity to explore our campus and meet with representatives from VCUarts as well as representatives from other accredited art or desig......More

There will be a National Portfolio Day event on our campus in Richmond, Virginia on Saturday, October 4, 2025. This is an excellent opportunity to explore our campus and meet with representatives from VCUarts as well as representatives from other accredited art or design universities and colleges nationwide. All National Portfolio Days are free and open to the public. All students must register to attend with the National Portfolio Day Association. You can register in advance or on the day of the event. For more information about this event visit arts.vcu.edu/npd Participating Schools: Art Academy of CincinnatiCincinnatiOhioCalifornia College of the ArtsSan FranciscoCaliforniaCleveland Institute of ArtClevelandOhioCollege for Creative StudiesDetroitMichiganColumbus College of Art & DesignColumbusOhioDrexel University, Westphal College of Media Arts & DesignPhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaJames Madison UniversityHarrisonburgVirginiaKansas City Art InstituteKansas CityMissouriMaine College of Art & DesignPortlandMaineMaryland Institute College of ArtBaltimoreMarylandMassachusetts College of Art and DesignBostonMassachusettsMilwaukee Institute of Art & DesignMilwaukeeWisconsinMinneapolis College of Art and DesignMinneapolisMinnesotaMontserrat College of ArtBeverlyMassachusettsMoore College of Art and DesignPhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaPennsylvania College of Art & DesignLancasterPennsylvaniaRingling College of Art & DesignSarasotaFloridaSchool of the Art Institute of ChicagoChicagoIllinoisSchool of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts UniversityBostonMassachusettsSchool of Visual ArtsNew YorkNew YorkThe Cooper UnionNew YorkNew YorkVCUartsRichmondVirginia

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