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Richmond News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!VCU Arts Mergers: Faculty, Students ReactVCUarts Faces Mergers Despite Promises: Faculty, Students React
Virginia Commonwealth Universitys school of the arts is undergoing significant changes, with dance and choreography merging with theatre, and craft, painting, and sculpture combining into one department. These moves are part of the universitys academic repositioning plan, but faculty members feel blindsided by poor communication and mixed signals. The VCUarts faculty advisory committee has frozen changes until a new governance document is approved, leaving tensions high between faculty and leaders. Some students see potential benefits, but the mergers continue amid ongoing debates about transparency and faculty input. Checkout https://solipillow.com/discount...
2026-02-0501 min
VCUarts UnchartedPam TurnerPam Turner discusses the animus in animation, the power of place, and her extraordinary journey from tenant farm to university.This episode also features Hope Ginsburg, professor of Kinetic Imaging at VCUarts. ---About Pam TurnerPamela Taylor Turner is an artist, writer and educator working at the intersection of animation and emerging media. Her practice—both in the studio and on the page—explores animation as an inventive, interdisciplinary art form, a medium for expressing inner states and for deepening our sense of place and connection to the natural world...
2026-01-2820 min
VCUarts UnchartedMatt WallinVisual effects artist Matt Wallin discusses working at Industrial Light and Magic and Weta Digital, and shares lessons about demystifying the meaning of life through the church of the movies.---About Matt WallinMatt Wallin grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs in the 70s and 80s skateboarding and going to the movies. In 1992 he earned his degree in Cinema from San Francisco State University.That same year, Wallin began his career at George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic where he worked for nearly a de...
2025-11-1723 min
VCUarts UnchartedJeannine DiegoFashion designer Jeannine Diego discusses the intersection of community, punk rock and the self-making performance of fashion that we all do every day. This episode also features guest Kristin Stewart, a doctoral student whose research investigates the historical influence of men's clothing on masculinity.---About Jeannine DiegoWith more than 25 years of fashion industry experience in various contexts and regions traversing a broad range of competencies, Jeannine Diego’s creative practice informs her research and focus on sustainable design. Her areas of interest lie at the intersections of fashion and...
2025-10-2719 min
Type Speaks02.12 // The Process Is the Point // Mitch GoldsteinIn this episode of Type Speaks, host Rae sits down with designer, artist, educator, and author Mitch Goldstein to talk about the mess, magic, and meaning of the creative process. From failing out of architecture school to finding his voice through design and teaching, Mitch shares how experimentation, risk, and reflection have shaped his multifaceted practice. He and Rae dive into what it means to learn by doing (and sometimes crashing and burning), why process matters more than perfection, and how creative work can stay playful, curious, and alive.Mitch Goldstein is a designer, artist, and educator...
2025-10-1649 min
VCUarts UnchartedKendall BusterKendall Buster shares her fascinating journey from microbiology to sculpture, the realization that all life is architecture, and the unexpected lessons of getting professional praise. This episode also features guest Christiana Lafazani, associate dean for faculty affairs and research at VCUarts. ---About Kendall BusterKendall Buster is a professor of Sculpture + Extended Media at VCUarts. Equally inspired by the monumental and the microscopic, her large-scale sculptures operate as scale models for imaginary places and converse with the particulars of existing built spaces. Her work, informed at once by the bu...
2025-10-1323 min
VCUarts UnchartedJustin AlexanderPercussionist Justin Alexander, D.M., shares his passion for “singing” rhythm and discusses the extraordinary potential of veering from your original plan and letting your interests guide you.This episode also features guest Karen Cubides, a musician, coach and entrepreneur who specializes in helping musicians connect with the calling of their work.---About Justin AlexanderJustin Alexander is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. A dynamic percussionist, he has performed across the U.S. and internationally in Belgium, Australia, Sweden, Costa Rica and...
2025-09-2922 min
G-Culture NoticiasG-Culture Noticias - Miércoles septiembre 17, 2025.G-Culture Noticias, un viaje por las noticias más relevantes del arte y la cultura del mundo hacia tus oídos.Conducido por Edgar Ramírez, es parte del proyecto multi-canal de G-Culture.Título: Nueva temporada del Museo Reina Sofía pone el foco en el arte latinoamericano con retrospectivas clave.Título: RIKA25: Generations & Memories arranca como festival de creatividad africana en Nairobi.Título: Almaty inaugura su Museo de Artes contemporáneo con exposición de Almagul Menlibayeva.Título: Día del Teatro Negro se celebra globalmente en honor a legados a...
2025-09-1704 min
VCUarts UnchartedAmir BerbićAmir Berbić reflects on his refugee experience and the power of design to shape identity, foster resilience, and build community, and discusses his work as a designer, educator and dean of VCUarts Qatar.This episode also features guest Christiana Lafazani, associate dean for faculty affairs and research at VCUarts.--- About Amir BerbićAmir Berbić is a graphic designer who works on questions surrounding identities of place. He collaborates on projects with cultural organizations, arts institutions, and publishers, with commissions that range from print design to three-dimensional typography to environmental grap...
2025-08-2821 min
VCUarts UnchartedTawnya Pettiford-Wates, Ph.D.Director, actor and educator Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, Ph.D., examines the need for authenticity, the power of African poetic drama and how a single play changed her entire life.This episode also features guest Desirée Dabney, guest musical theatre artist, actor and CEO of Theatre Diva Productions. ---About Tawnya Pettiford-WatesTawnya Pettiford-Wates, Ph.D., is professor of graduate pedagogy in acting and directing at VCUarts and the artistic director of The Conciliation Project, a non-profit social justice theatre company.Dr. T is a playwright, director, actor, poet, wr...
2025-08-2820 min
VCUarts UnchartedCarmenita Higginbotham, Ph.D.Art historian and dean of VCU’s School of the Arts Carmenita Higginbotham, Ph.D., discusses her unexpected journey to becoming the go-to expert for everything from Edward Hopper to Mickey Mouse.This episode also features guest Christiana Lafazani, associate dean for faculty affairs and research at VCUarts. ---About Carmenita HigginbothamCarmenita Higginbotham is an art historian whose research and scholarship examine 20th century American art, urban art, race and representation, and American popular culture. She has lectured extensively on the history of American art, popular visual culture and art...
2025-08-2821 min
Bad AttitudeLiving in a Cartoon WorldIn the 17th episode of season 3, we start a discussion with Alexa, a junior at VCUarts, majoring in painting and printmaking. Listen in to hear about the ways they wind down, their perspective coming from a fine arts grade school, and what this summer brings for them!
2025-05-0210 min
Bad AttitudeSince I Could Pick up a PencilIn the 15th episode of season 3, we begin our conversation with Gray, a junior at VCUarts, majoring in painting and printmaking. Tune in to listen to them talk about the vastness of their major, how lyricism works itself into their pieces, and the types of conversations their art leads.
2025-04-1810 min
Bad AttitudeVCU's Hidden SecretIn the 12th episode of season 3, we start talking to Zach Montgomery, a junior at VCUarts majoring in graphic design. Tune in to hear what he notices about Mississippi versus Richmond, where his love for graphic design came from, and his upcoming collaborative book launch!
2025-04-0410 min
Bad AttitudeInspiration is EverywhereIn the 10th episode of season 3, we start our conversation with Logan Hillier (grump.dump), a VCUarts Communication Arts student in her junior year. Listen in to hear her beginnings with Warrior Cats, her experience with tabling, and Queer Arts Collective!
2025-03-2810 min
POW! - Ein Comic-PodcastEp. 163: Panini Vorschau 117 (April/Mai/Juni)Drei Monate sind rum, was heißt, dass bereits eine neue Panini Vorschau in der Pipeline steht, was wiederum heißt, dass Andreas und Emu sich genau diese besorgt haben, um sie mit euch durchzusprechen.
Passend dazu gibt es einige News der Woche und auch die ein oder andere Empfehlung.
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:26 Begrüßung
00:06:32 Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown
00:10:47 Die Vier von der Baker Street: Das schwarze Museum (Bd.10)
00:13:25 News
00:30:30 Panini Vorschau: Marvel
00:47:46 Panini Vorschau: DC Comics
01:06:41 Panini Vorschau: Simpsons
01:07:05 Panini Vorschau: Star Wars...
2025-03-171h 20
SifterShe plays a NYC copKrystal Lowe graduated from VCUarts Theatre and has gone on to act on stage and in films. Her latest is Out of Spite, where she plays a New York Police Department Commander leading the search for a killer. We discuss:
– How her experience at VCU helped her
– How she fits acting into her full time job as an assistant principal
– Dinner at Sylvia’s in Harlem
– Working with Juney Smith
– The upcoming one-woman show about Pam Grier
LINKS
Out of Spite website with all viewing options
Krystal’s IMDB page
Murder i...
2024-12-0418 min
Bad AttitudeHow Many Degrees of Separation?In our last episode, we’re back with VCUarts student and Richmond muralist, Sirena Pearl, to wrap up our conversation about the complexities in the art world. Danny and Sirena discuss how far one can take inspiration from other sources, the many forms of her guilty pleasures, and more Tune into our series finale and learn why this Gen-Z artist stays off social media.
2024-09-2110 min
Bad AttitudeHow am I not Myself?In our second-to-last episode, we sit down with VCUarts student and Richmond muralist, Sirena Pearl to learn how she got to where she is today. Danny and Sirena dive into her first experiences as an artist, the complexities of communication, and the places she finds inspiration. Join us to hear how this multi-award-winning artist evolved over time!
2024-09-2110 min
Bad AttitudeFlow StateIn this episode, we chat with VCUarts sophomore Victor Romanko and learn how his upbringing, along with the past few years, shaped his major and projects. Our host Danny learns about Victor’s work-life balance, thoughts on AI in his field, and the multi-dimensionality of his art. Tune in to get a glimpse into the mind of a digital artist who does a lot more than you’d think.
2024-09-2110 min
Bad AttitudeI'm About to Say a BangerIn this episode, we are back with VCUarts sophomore Victor Romanko and tackle some hard-hitting questions about originality in our world today. Danny and Victor go into the consequences of nostalgia and the process of creating, hosting, and curating an art show. Listen in to hear the media that gave Victor the inspiration to create in this world full of sequels and remakes.
2024-09-2110 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 88 - Mitch GoldsteinGet in touch!Mitch Goldstein is a #designer, #artist, #educator, and #author based in upstate New York. He is an Associate #Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he teaches in the College of Art and Design. He has written about design education for years, with articles published in Communication Arts, Adobe 99U, and AIGA. He received his BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design #RiISDI, an MFA in Design/Visual Communications from #VCUArts, and an MFA in Furniture Design from Rochester Institute of Technology.http://mitchgoldstein.comhttps://www.instagram...
2024-08-0128 min
What We Know, What We Don't(4/4) A More Equitable TheatreDesirée Dabney, Head of Musical Theatre at VCU, joined us for a lightning-quick hour on performing, directing, teaching, musical theatre, and the effect she and those disciplines have had on her personally and on others. The arts move us all, and therefore, the arts belong to us all and should include everyone! Her journey and the ripple effect it's had on so many is an inspiration, and it was an honor to have her on. To learn more about Desirée Dabney, check out these links:https://arts.vcu.edu/community/vcuarts-faculty-and-staff/directory/desiree-dabney/ht...
2024-02-0658 min
Doha Debates PodcastOrientalism Demystified: Eastern insights on Western mythsHow much influence can a 19th century European art movement really have on the modern Arab world? Orientalism, an aesthetic movement depicting the East by Western artists, was for some the only exposure to Middle Eastern and Asian cultures. Some, like Palestinian American scholar Edward Said, said that Orientalism pervades Western art, pop culture and journalism even today, revealing the same stereotypes of Arab cultures that were popularized some 200 years ago. Others argue that its influence—and even those stereotypes—requires a more nuanced interpretation.From the roots of Orientalism to the role of muse...
2023-11-281h 23
The afikra PodcastBASMA HAMDY | Ethics, AI & Art in the Arab World | ConversationsWhat does the post-AI era hold? And what do these kinds of conversations look like in the context of the Arab world? In this captivating conversation, Basma Hamdy sheds light on everything AI and the Arab world, from ethics to art. What are ownership, originality and intellectual ownership? How will AI impact the visual arts? How are ethics going to be re-defined? Why is Arabic-language processing lagging behind? And what does algorithmic bias have to do with it? Basma delineates between the pre and post-AI worlds, pressing for an adaptation of our principles and ethical frameworks that t...
2023-10-0457 min
New Books in Women's HistoryCatherine Grant, "A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art" (Duke UP, 2022)In A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art (Duke UP, 2022) Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of feminism ranging from political organizing and artworks from the 1970s to queer art and activism in the 1990s. Exploring artworks from 2002 to 2017 by artists including Sharon Hayes, Mary Kelly, Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue, Lubaina Himid, Pauline Boudry, and Renate Lorenz, Grant maps a revival of feminism that takes up the creative and political implications of forging feminist communities across time and space. Grant characterizes these artists’ engagement with feminism as a fannish, auto...
2023-04-2257 min
New Books in Performing ArtsCatherine Grant, "A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art" (Duke UP, 2022)In A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art (Duke UP, 2022) Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of feminism ranging from political organizing and artworks from the 1970s to queer art and activism in the 1990s. Exploring artworks from 2002 to 2017 by artists including Sharon Hayes, Mary Kelly, Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue, Lubaina Himid, Pauline Boudry, and Renate Lorenz, Grant maps a revival of feminism that takes up the creative and political implications of forging feminist communities across time and space. Grant characterizes these artists’ engagement with feminism as a fannish, auto...
2023-04-2257 min
New Books in ArtCatherine Grant, "A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art" (Duke UP, 2022)In A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art (Duke UP, 2022) Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of feminism ranging from political organizing and artworks from the 1970s to queer art and activism in the 1990s. Exploring artworks from 2002 to 2017 by artists including Sharon Hayes, Mary Kelly, Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue, Lubaina Himid, Pauline Boudry, and Renate Lorenz, Grant maps a revival of feminism that takes up the creative and political implications of forging feminist communities across time and space. Grant characterizes these artists’ engagement with feminism as a fannish, auto...
2023-04-2257 min
New Books in GenderCatherine Grant, "A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art" (Duke UP, 2022)In A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art (Duke UP, 2022) Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of feminism ranging from political organizing and artworks from the 1970s to queer art and activism in the 1990s. Exploring artworks from 2002 to 2017 by artists including Sharon Hayes, Mary Kelly, Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue, Lubaina Himid, Pauline Boudry, and Renate Lorenz, Grant maps a revival of feminism that takes up the creative and political implications of forging feminist communities across time and space. Grant characterizes these artists’ engagement with feminism as a fannish, auto...
2023-04-2257 minNew Books in ArtNatilee Harren, "Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network" (U Chicago Press, 2020)In Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network (U Chicago Press, 2020), Natilee Harren captures the magnetic energy of Fluxus activities and collaborations that emerged at the intersections of art, music, performance, and literature. Reacting against an elitist art world enthralled by modernist aesthetics, Fluxus encouraged playfulness, chance, irreverence, and viewer participation. The diverse collective—including George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, and Robert Watts—embraced humble objects and everyday gestures as critical means of finding freedom and excitement beyond traditional forms of art...
2023-04-0555 minNew Books in Performing ArtsNatilee Harren, "Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network" (U Chicago Press, 2020)In Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network (U Chicago Press, 2020), Natilee Harren captures the magnetic energy of Fluxus activities and collaborations that emerged at the intersections of art, music, performance, and literature. Reacting against an elitist art world enthralled by modernist aesthetics, Fluxus encouraged playfulness, chance, irreverence, and viewer participation. The diverse collective—including George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, and Robert Watts—embraced humble objects and everyday gestures as critical means of finding freedom and excitement beyond traditional forms of art...
2023-04-0556 min
The University of Chicago Press PodcastNatilee Harren, "Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network" (U Chicago Press, 2020)In Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network (U Chicago Press, 2020), Natilee Harren captures the magnetic energy of Fluxus activities and collaborations that emerged at the intersections of art, music, performance, and literature. Reacting against an elitist art world enthralled by modernist aesthetics, Fluxus encouraged playfulness, chance, irreverence, and viewer participation. The diverse collective—including George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, and Robert Watts—embraced humble objects and everyday gestures as critical means of finding freedom and excitement beyond traditional forms of art...
2023-04-0555 min
The Hollywood ChaiMENASA Artists Breaking Hollywood with Walid ChayaWe are back with Season 3! A new look, new sound, new style! All in the name of Independent Artists Breaking Hollywood in their own right! Today's special guest is WALID CHAYA, a Middle Eastern actor, director and writer based in Los Angeles. He is known for his breakout film “Driving Ms. Saudi” for
which he won “Best Comedy Short” from Dubai’s prestigious WOW Middle East Film Fair and numerous festivals worldwide, incuding a special presentation at the World Expo in 2022. He can also be seen on television in various shows like "Madame Secretary" on CBS, NBC’s "Blacklist: Redemption"...
2023-04-021h 14
Shockoe Artspeak143. Presión: A Conversation with Dicho
This week Ryan, Garreth and Cody sit down with photographer, filmmaker and hip hop artist Tito Henríquez. Rapping under the name Dicho, Henríquez is the son of El Salvadoran parents who were displaced during the Civil War that lasted from the late 1970s until the early 1990s. Through family, his extensive travels to El Salvador, and his time learning Photo/Film at VCUarts, Henríquez carries an artist’s eye–and ear–through all he does.
You can follow Dicho’s work on Instagram, and his music can be heard on all major streaming platforms including Ap...
2022-10-311h 53
Spoken LabelChristina Stoddard (Spoken Label, October 2022)Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist / Spoken Word Podcast) is the amazing, multi talented Christine Stoddard.
Christine Stoddard is a Salvadoran-American writer, actor, director, and artist creating books, films, plays, murals, etc. She founded Quail Bell Magazine and Quail Bell Press & Productions. Her books include Heaven is a Photograph, Hello, New York: The Living And Dead, Naomi & The Reckoning, Desert Fox by the Sea, Belladonna Magic, and Water for the Cactus Woman, among others. In its review of Stoddard's work, Glassworks wrote that "[Stoddard] tells stories in magical and hauntingly beautiful ways." In a Poetry Foundation...
2022-10-1843 min
New Books in AnthropologyClémentine Deliss, "The Metabolic Museum" (Hatje Cantz, 2020)In The Metabolic Museum (Hatje Cantz, 2020), Clémentine Deliss, a curator, researcher, and former director of the Frankfurt Weltkulturen Museum, explores possible functions for anthropological museums in a postcolonial culture. Anthropological museums in Europe, as products of imperialism, have been compelled to legitimate themselves because the very basis of their exhibitions, the history of their collections, came about all too often through colonial appropriation and outright theft.In this book, Deliss addresses this reality for enthographic or world culture museums in Europe, exploring the possible futures for these institutions. Connecting to reflections on her own work as the...
2022-10-041h 14New Books in ArtClémentine Deliss, "The Metabolic Museum" (Hatje Cantz, 2020)In The Metabolic Museum (Hatje Cantz, 2020), Clémentine Deliss, a curator, researcher, and former director of the Frankfurt Weltkulturen Museum, explores possible functions for anthropological museums in a postcolonial culture. Anthropological museums in Europe, as products of imperialism, have been compelled to legitimate themselves because the very basis of their exhibitions, the history of their collections, came about all too often through colonial appropriation and outright theft.In this book, Deliss addresses this reality for enthographic or world culture museums in Europe, exploring the possible futures for these institutions. Connecting to reflections on her own work as the...
2022-10-041h 13
New Books in German StudiesClémentine Deliss, "The Metabolic Museum" (Hatje Cantz, 2020)In The Metabolic Museum (Hatje Cantz, 2020), Clémentine Deliss, a curator, researcher, and former director of the Frankfurt Weltkulturen Museum, explores possible functions for anthropological museums in a postcolonial culture. Anthropological museums in Europe, as products of imperialism, have been compelled to legitimate themselves because the very basis of their exhibitions, the history of their collections, came about all too often through colonial appropriation and outright theft.In this book, Deliss addresses this reality for enthographic or world culture museums in Europe, exploring the possible futures for these institutions. Connecting to reflections on her own work as the...
2022-10-041h 13
New Books in Museum StudiesClémentine Deliss, "The Metabolic Museum" (Hatje Cantz, 2020)In The Metabolic Museum (Hatje Cantz, 2020), Clémentine Deliss, a curator, researcher, and former director of the Frankfurt Weltkulturen Museum, explores possible functions for anthropological museums in a postcolonial culture. Anthropological museums in Europe, as products of imperialism, have been compelled to legitimate themselves because the very basis of their exhibitions, the history of their collections, came about all too often through colonial appropriation and outright theft.In this book, Deliss addresses this reality for enthographic or world culture museums in Europe, exploring the possible futures for these institutions. Connecting to reflections on her own work as the...
2022-10-041h 13New Books in Performing ArtsPamela N. Corey, "The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia" (U Washington Press, 2021)In The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia (U Washington Press, 2021), Pamela N. Corey provides new ways of understanding contemporary artistic practices in a region that continues to linger in international perceptions as perpetually “postwar.” Focusing on art from the last two decades, Corey connects artistic developments with social transformations as reflected through the urban landscapes of Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh. As she argues, artists’ engagements with urban space and form reveal ways of grasping multiple and layered senses and concepts of time, whether aligned with colonialism, postcolonial modernity, communism, or postsoc...
2022-09-1358 minNew Books in ArtPamela N. Corey, "The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia" (U Washington Press, 2021)In The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia (U Washington Press, 2021), Pamela N. Corey provides new ways of understanding contemporary artistic practices in a region that continues to linger in international perceptions as perpetually “postwar.” Focusing on art from the last two decades, Corey connects artistic developments with social transformations as reflected through the urban landscapes of Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh. As she argues, artists’ engagements with urban space and form reveal ways of grasping multiple and layered senses and concepts of time, whether aligned with colonialism, postcolonial modernity, communism, or postsoc...
2022-09-1357 min
New Books in Southeast Asian StudiesPamela N. Corey, "The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia" (U Washington Press, 2021)In The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia (U Washington Press, 2021), Pamela N. Corey provides new ways of understanding contemporary artistic practices in a region that continues to linger in international perceptions as perpetually “postwar.” Focusing on art from the last two decades, Corey connects artistic developments with social transformations as reflected through the urban landscapes of Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh. As she argues, artists’ engagements with urban space and form reveal ways of grasping multiple and layered senses and concepts of time, whether aligned with colonialism, postcolonial modernity, communism, or postsoc...
2022-09-1357 min
New Books in Urban StudiesPamela N. Corey, "The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia" (U Washington Press, 2021)In The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia (U Washington Press, 2021), Pamela N. Corey provides new ways of understanding contemporary artistic practices in a region that continues to linger in international perceptions as perpetually “postwar.” Focusing on art from the last two decades, Corey connects artistic developments with social transformations as reflected through the urban landscapes of Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh. As she argues, artists’ engagements with urban space and form reveal ways of grasping multiple and layered senses and concepts of time, whether aligned with colonialism, postcolonial modernity, communism, or postsoc...
2022-09-1357 min
The Cultured MindThe Cultured Mind: Interview with Composer Joshua NicholsJames Harrigan is a guest host on the "The Cultured Mind" podcast this week talking to Joshua Nichols about his music and how he became a composer. James is co-host of the popular podcast "Words & Numbers" which can be found at wordsandnumbers.org. More of Joshua's music can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLURdjiljIuudGIa3yE9vx3RjxMzdQxMJ The man, myth, the legend James Wiznerowicz: https://arts.vcu.edu/community/vcuarts-faculty-and-staff/directory/james-wiznerowicz/ The Center for American Culture and Ideas: https://thecaci.org/ Corrections:
2022-09-1256 minNew Books in ArtSelene Wendt, "Beyond the Door of No Return: Confronting Hidden Colonial Histories Through Contemporary Art" (The Africa Institute and Skira, 2021)In Beyond the Door of No Return: Confronting Hidden Colonial Histories through Contemporary Art (The Africa Institute and Skira, 2021), art historian and curator Selene Wendt presents lesser-known tales of anticolonial defiance in artworks and marginal histories worldwide. The artists featured in this book create compelling narratives that shed light on the entangled colonial histories that connect Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas. Collectively, these artists provide crucial insight into some of the lesser-known aspects of colonial history, such as Norwegian involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. They describe the lives of freedom fighters such as Venus Johannes, Mary Tho...
2022-08-191h 04SifterCasting for movies, TV & commercialsAnne Chapman has been a Casting Director for film, TV and commercials for more than 30 years. Recent projects include Lincoln, Loving and Harriet, plus more than 100 student films. We cover so much in this interview, including:
– The difference between a Casting Director and an Agent
– Her first gig, which was a popular thriller
– Audition suggestions for actors
– What to expect as an extra
– Her London connections
– Considering an Oscar for Casting Directors
– Her involvement with VCUarts Cinema, including working on Macbeth Unhinged with Angus Macfadyen
LINKS:
Anne Chapman Casting
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2022-06-0828 min
New Books in FilmDelinda Collier, "Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa" (Duke UP, 2020)In Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa (Duke University Press, 2020) Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these preoccupations by exploring African artworks that challenge these narratives. From one of the first works of electronic music, Halim El-Dabh’s Ta’abir Al-Zaar (1944), and Souleymane Cissé's 1987 film, Yeelen, to contemporary digital art, Collier argues that African media must be understood in relation to other modes of transfer and transmutation that have significant colonial and postcolonial histories, such as extract...
2022-04-2055 min
New Books in MusicDelinda Collier, "Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa" (Duke UP, 2020)In Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa (Duke University Press, 2020) Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these preoccupations by exploring African artworks that challenge these narratives. From one of the first works of electronic music, Halim El-Dabh’s Ta’abir Al-Zaar (1944), and Souleymane Cissé's 1987 film, Yeelen, to contemporary digital art, Collier argues that African media must be understood in relation to other modes of transfer and transmutation that have significant colonial and postcolonial histories, such as extract...
2022-04-2055 min
New Books in TechnologyDelinda Collier, "Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa" (Duke UP, 2020)In Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa (Duke University Press, 2020) Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these preoccupations by exploring African artworks that challenge these narratives. From one of the first works of electronic music, Halim El-Dabh’s Ta’abir Al-Zaar (1944), and Souleymane Cissé's 1987 film, Yeelen, to contemporary digital art, Collier argues that African media must be understood in relation to other modes of transfer and transmutation that have significant colonial and postcolonial histories, such as extract...
2022-04-2057 minNew Books in ArtDelinda Collier, "Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa" (Duke UP, 2020)In Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa (Duke University Press, 2020) Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these preoccupations by exploring African artworks that challenge these narratives. From one of the first works of electronic music, Halim El-Dabh’s Ta’abir Al-Zaar (1944), and Souleymane Cissé's 1987 film, Yeelen, to contemporary digital art, Collier argues that African media must be understood in relation to other modes of transfer and transmutation that have significant colonial and postcolonial histories, such as extract...
2022-04-2055 min
New Books in African StudiesDelinda Collier, "Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa" (Duke UP, 2020)In Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa (Duke University Press, 2020) Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these preoccupations by exploring African artworks that challenge these narratives. From one of the first works of electronic music, Halim El-Dabh’s Ta’abir Al-Zaar (1944), and Souleymane Cissé's 1987 film, Yeelen, to contemporary digital art, Collier argues that African media must be understood in relation to other modes of transfer and transmutation that have significant colonial and postcolonial histories, such as extract...
2022-04-2055 min
The afikra PodcastBASMA, DIANE, DENIELLE & MAYSAA | Radical Futures | TasmeemBasma Hamdy, Diane C. Derr, Maysaa Al-Mumin & Denielle Emans talked about the directing processes of Radical Futures.Tasmeem Doha 2022 is an international, biennial art and design conference hosted and organized by VCUarts Qatar since 2004. Tasmeem Doha 2022: Radical Futures is an inclusive and multi-faceted view of the future, one that not only speculates on technological advancements—but on future threats and changes whether environmental, geographical, cultural, or social. Now more than ever, we must ask pertinent questions, raise critical dialogues, and respond with clarity.Created & Hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra Edited by: Ramzi Ramman
2022-03-2132 min
New Books in Middle Eastern StudiesAnneka Lenssen, "Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria" (U California Press, 2020)Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria (University of California Press, 2020), by Anneka Lenssen, focuses on modern art practice in Syria from 1900 to 1965 and the ways that artists sought to link their painting to life forces and agitated energies. Examining the works of artists Kahlil Gibran, Adham Ismail, and Fateh al-Moudarres, Beautiful Agitation explores how painters in Syria activated the mutability of form to rethink relationships of figure to ground, outward appearance to inner presence, and self to world. Drawing on archival materials in Syria and beyond, Lenssen reveals new trajectories of painterly practice in a twentieth century def...
2022-02-281h 05
Beyond the Margins: The University of California Press PodcastAnneka Lenssen, "Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria" (U California Press, 2020)Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria (University of California Press, 2020), by Anneka Lenssen, focuses on modern art practice in Syria from 1900 to 1965 and the ways that artists sought to link their painting to life forces and agitated energies. Examining the works of artists Kahlil Gibran, Adham Ismail, and Fateh al-Moudarres, Beautiful Agitation explores how painters in Syria activated the mutability of form to rethink relationships of figure to ground, outward appearance to inner presence, and self to world. Drawing on archival materials in Syria and beyond, Lenssen reveals new trajectories of painterly practice in a twentieth century def...
2022-02-281h 03New Books in ArtAnneka Lenssen, "Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria" (U California Press, 2020)Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria (University of California Press, 2020), by Anneka Lenssen, focuses on modern art practice in Syria from 1900 to 1965 and the ways that artists sought to link their painting to life forces and agitated energies. Examining the works of artists Kahlil Gibran, Adham Ismail, and Fateh al-Moudarres, Beautiful Agitation explores how painters in Syria activated the mutability of form to rethink relationships of figure to ground, outward appearance to inner presence, and self to world. Drawing on archival materials in Syria and beyond, Lenssen reveals new trajectories of painterly practice in a twentieth century def...
2022-02-281h 03
The MIT Press PodcastMichelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick, "Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births" (MIT Press, 2021)In Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births (MIT Press, 2021), Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick along with more than fifty contributors consider over a hundred designs that have defined the arc of human reproduction. The designed objects that surround people during menstruation, birth control, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood vary as oddly, messily, and dramatically as the stereotypes suggest. This volume considers a breadth of designs that have defined the relationships between people and babies during the past century.It is organized around four sections (Reproduction, Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum) and includes designs su...
2022-02-151h 05
New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex WorkMichelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick, "Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births" (MIT Press, 2021)In Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births (MIT Press, 2021), Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick along with more than fifty contributors consider over a hundred designs that have defined the arc of human reproduction. The designed objects that surround people during menstruation, birth control, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood vary as oddly, messily, and dramatically as the stereotypes suggest. This volume considers a breadth of designs that have defined the relationships between people and babies during the past century.It is organized around four sections (Reproduction, Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum) and includes designs su...
2022-02-151h 05New Books in ArtMichelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick, "Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births" (MIT Press, 2021)In Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births (MIT Press, 2021), Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick along with more than fifty contributors consider over a hundred designs that have defined the arc of human reproduction. The designed objects that surround people during menstruation, birth control, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood vary as oddly, messily, and dramatically as the stereotypes suggest. This volume considers a breadth of designs that have defined the relationships between people and babies during the past century.It is organized around four sections (Reproduction, Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum) and includes designs su...
2022-02-151h 05New Books in TechnologyMichelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick, "Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births" (MIT Press, 2021)In Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births (MIT Press, 2021), Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick along with more than fifty contributors consider over a hundred designs that have defined the arc of human reproduction. The designed objects that surround people during menstruation, birth control, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood vary as oddly, messily, and dramatically as the stereotypes suggest. This volume considers a breadth of designs that have defined the relationships between people and babies during the past century.It is organized around four sections (Reproduction, Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum) and includes designs su...
2022-02-151h 06New Books in ArtSanjukta Sunderason, "Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization" (Stanford UP, 2020)In Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization (Stanford UP, 2020), Sanjukta Sunderason explores art's entanglements with histories of war, famine, mass politics and displacements that marked late-colonial and postcolonial India. Introducing "partisan aesthetics" as a conceptual grid, the book identifies ways in which art became political through interactions with left-wing activism during the 1940s, and the afterlives of such interactions in post-independence India. Using an archive of artists and artist collectives working in Calcutta from these decades, she argues that artists became political not only as reporters, organizers and cadre of India's Communist Party, or socialist fellow travelers, but...
2022-01-181h 04
New Books in South Asian StudiesSanjukta Sunderason, "Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization" (Stanford UP, 2020)In Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization (Stanford UP, 2020), Sanjukta Sunderason explores art's entanglements with histories of war, famine, mass politics and displacements that marked late-colonial and postcolonial India. Introducing "partisan aesthetics" as a conceptual grid, the book identifies ways in which art became political through interactions with left-wing activism during the 1940s, and the afterlives of such interactions in post-independence India. Using an archive of artists and artist collectives working in Calcutta from these decades, she argues that artists became political not only as reporters, organizers and cadre of India's Communist Party, or socialist fellow travelers, but...
2022-01-181h 06New Books in ArtBahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar, "A History of Arab Graphic Design" (AU of Cairo Press, 2020)Arab graphic design emerged in the early twentieth century out of a need to influence, and give expression to, the far-reaching economic, social, and political changes that were taking place in the Arab world at the time. But graphic design as a formally recognized genre of visual art only came into its own in the region in the twenty-first century and, to date, there has been no published study on the subject to speak of. A History of Arab Graphic Design (AU of Cairo Press, 2020) traces the people and events that were integral to the shaping of a field of...
2021-11-2643 minNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesBahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar, "A History of Arab Graphic Design" (AU of Cairo Press, 2020)Arab graphic design emerged in the early twentieth century out of a need to influence, and give expression to, the far-reaching economic, social, and political changes that were taking place in the Arab world at the time. But graphic design as a formally recognized genre of visual art only came into its own in the region in the twenty-first century and, to date, there has been no published study on the subject to speak of. A History of Arab Graphic Design (AU of Cairo Press, 2020) traces the people and events that were integral to the shaping of a field of...
2021-11-2645 min
Young, Gifted and AbroadEp. 88 │ From Richmond to Reclamancipation (QATAR)In the final episode of 2021, Nia Alexander (Virginia Commonwealth University/VCUarts Qatar alum) shares about studying art in multiple countries, including earning her MFA in Qatar. See y'all in January 2022!
Nia's art: niaalexanderart.com
Nia's blog: blkgirlsabroad.com
Nia's IG: @blkgirlsabroad
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www.younggiftedandabroad.com
Background music:
"Ella Fitzgerald - Basin Street Blues (ProleteR tribute)" by ProleteR
(https://soundcloud.com/proleter-beatmaker/ella-fitzgerald-basin-street-blues-proleter-tribute)
"Ella FitzGerald & Count Basie - On The Sunny Side Of The Street(ProleteR Tribute)" by ProleteR
(https://soundcloud.com/proleter-beatmaker/ella-fitzgerald-count-basie-on-the-sunny-side-of-the-street-proleter-tribute)
2021-11-091h 43
black theatre history podcastDr. Tawnya Pettiford-Wates: Ritual Poetic Drama in the African ContinuumDr. Tawnya Pettiford-Wates (“Dr. T”) shares the origins, discovery, and application of Ritual Poetic Drama in the African Continuum.check out the ConciliationLAB’s mission, productions, and community-based work at theconciliationlab.org.for more information about the work of the Conciliation Project, click here. to watch Dr. T’s TED talk, click here. (she also has a pretty great lecture that she did for VCUArts, “from shakespeare to shange” - you can watch it here.)the text, Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches can be purchased...
2021-10-0500 min
CalArts PodcastsBeyond the Blue Wall: Experimental Animation MFA Student, Yara ElfoulyIn this premier episode of Beyond the Blue Wall, the podcast of the Office of Advancement at CalArts, we talk with Yara Elfouly, an MFA2 in Experimental Animation and the beneficiary of two scholarships from the Institute. Yara is Egyptian and grew up in Qatar, receiving her undergraduate degree in Painting and Printmaking from VCUArts Qatar. She talked to us about her experiences as an artist as well as her transition into animation and filmmaking at CalArts. She also discussed finding her own identity and her desire to see more women from her cultural background represented in t...
2021-09-2315 min
Eco-Fashion Podcast at VCUEpisode #8: VCUArts Fashion Professor Kimberly GuthrieWelcome back returning listeners and everyone new to the Eco Fashion Podcast at VCU. In today’s episode, our host Natalie B. talks with one of the Eco-Fashion advisors and VCU Fashion Design and Merchandising professors, Kimberly Guthrie! Natalie and Professor Guthrie talk about a number of topics, including how Eco-Fashion was formed. Professor Guthrie talks about the journey that lead her to study fashion in college, working in New York and coming back to teach at VCU. Natalie was inspired to hear from Professor Guthrie and all she’s done for the fashion program and for our organization. Prof...
2021-04-1731 min
Design Education TalksDesign Education Talks Ep. 6 - Pivoting to Online, with Meaghan Dee & Meena KhaliliGet in touch!It is our pleasure to share with you a podcast that was recorded by our partner in the United States, Peter Bella, designer, lecturer and host of the Design Dedux podcast.Meaghan Dee is both a practicing graphic designer and a design educator. Currently, Meaghan serves as Chair for the Graphic Design program at Virginia Tech and as Co-Chair of the AIGA Design Educators Community (AIGA DEC) Executive Board. Meaghan received her Bachelors at University of Illinois, with a focus in Graphic Design, and a Masters of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth...
2020-03-3058 min013. Informed by the Things Around Us: with Meena Khalili (S1E5)
MEENA KHALILI is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Visual Art + Design, Meena holds a BFA in Illustration and an MFA in Visual Communication + Graphic Design from VCUarts and currently serves on the AIGA Design Educators Community National Steering Committee.
Meena is the recipient of the 2019 National Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement in Graphic Design by the Southeastern College Art Conference. Her work has shown at the Type Director’s Club of New York, Chicago Design Museum, and galleries throughout North America, Canada, China, Indonesia, Croatia, Australia and Moscow, with illustrations and bo...
2019-11-241h 08Shockoe Artspeak014. A Conversation with Ron Johnson
In today’s episode, we sit down with contemporary painter and VCUarts professor Ron Johnson to discuss fighting Joe Rogan, music, creativity and sports. From his background as a college athlete and later as a member of the band 50 Watt Alarm Clock, Ron leads us through the experiences in his life that brought him to painting, receiving a Pollack Grant Award and teaching. His most recent project, The Abstract Athlete, explores the collision of art, sport, and science through a unique “sports culture” approach to art training and breaks down the stigma of being an athlete and artist to inspir...
2019-08-2600 minShockoe Artspeak008. A Conversation with Wesley Taylor
Wesley Taylor is a print maker, graphic designer, musician, animator, educator, mentor, and curator. He roots his practice in performance and social justice. His work combines, oscillates between, and blurs these different disciplines. His work is multi-disciplinary as well as anti-disciplinary. Taylor’s individual practice is inextricably linked to his collective practice, yet his collective practice is not just one collective: it is a constellation of collectives he has helped form for over 20 years. His work is inspired by elder knowledge, complex science, 90s underground hip hop, punk aesthetics, and science fiction. He creates work in partnership with social ju...
2019-05-272h 42Shockoe Artspeak007. A Conversation with Ryan Lauterio
On this week’s episode, we speak with Ryan Lauterio, Shockoe Artspace’s Director and Curator. Ryan is currently on faculty at VCUarts in Richmond, Virginia. Ryan received his B.A and M.A in Studio Art at CSU, Sacramento and his M.F.A in Painting and Printmaking from VCU.
Ryan has been a part of VCUarts’ Art Foundation program since Fall 2007. Involved in many aspects of AFO life, Ryan currently serves as a full-time drawing instructor, runs open drawing studios and is part of the admissions team along with his many other art related activities in bot...
2019-05-132h 04Shockoe Artspeak006. A Conversation with Garreth Blackwell
On this episode, we speak with Shockoe Artspace’s Design and Communications Director, Dr. Garreth Blackwell. Blackwell teaches in the Virginia Commonwealth School of the Arts Center for the Creative Economy (CCE) where his courses focus on professional practice and entrepreneurship. The CCE is an interdisciplinary unit within VCUarts that focuses on modes of thinking, innovation, and the intersection of art and business. Blackwell holds a B.A. (’05) and M.A. (’07) from the University of Mississippi and a Ph.D. in Media, Art and Text from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has also studied at the School of Visual Arts and wa...
2019-04-291h 55
JOYFull: A Raw Journal of the Mindful RevolutionPaul Rucker - His TED Talks. Cello, Art, Race. Does The Negative Bring You Down?Paul Rucker enrages some, engages others. His tremendous art and performances are provocative and one-of-a-kind. His recent TED Talks can be found online, he performs his ever changing shows around the world. He is also a professor at VCUArts at Virginia Commonwealth University. Hear this conversation with the talented musician and visual artist. Follow Ethan Sharrett to send direct message questions..
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2018-07-311h 15
Art 101: The Secret Life of ArtistsMatt Woolman Is Turning Art Students Into EntrepreneursMatt Woolman is a radical. Not only is he the director of Creative Entrepreneurship in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University—the former designer is teaching art students how to be entrepreneurs.
Crazy talk? Not according to Woolman, who knows that to making a living as an artist means running your own business.
“Entrepreneurship translates to skills, a mindset, and a confidence to go out and if you want to sell your paintings around the world, the ability to do just that at VCUarts,” he explains.
Although there was pushback at fir...
2013-08-0623 min