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ANDERSON GALLERYDance Alumna, A “Top 25 Dancer,”Visits Departmentarts.vcu.edu/dance/current-seasonTwo Exhibitions in Richmond Celebrate the Career ofJUDITH GODWINarts.vcu.edu/andersongallerywww.vmfa.state.va.usJudith Godwin: Early AbstractionsSept 7 – Dec 9, 2012 Anderson Gallery, VCU School of the ArtsGesture: Judith Godwin and Abstract ExpressionismSept 8, 2012 – Jan 26, 2013 Virginia Museum of Fine ArtsNew York-based painter Judith Godwin, a Virginia native and graduateof Richmond Professional Institute, now VCU, will have concurrentexhibitions at VCUarts Anderson Gallery and VMFA.After graduation from RPI in 1952, Godwin moved to New York Cityduring a period of major growth in post-war American art. She pushed theburgeoning abstraction in her work and, over the next decade, her imageryevolved into powerful nonobjective compositions. She achieved considerablesuccess, exhibiting her works at the Stable Gallery and becoming theyoungest woman ever to show at Betty Parsons. Among her various awards,she received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from VCU in 1989.Leslie Kraus, 2003 Dance alumna, will be visiting thedepartment in October in her professional capacity asdancer with Kate Weare Company. She was recognizedfor outstanding dancing in Dance Magazine’s annuallist of Top 25 Dancers to Watch. Leslie routinely actsas Weare’s assistant director, most recently for acommissioned work on dance students at the NYUTisch School. In 2009, critic Deborah Jowitt of TheVillage Voice wrote, “(Leslie) Kraus is amazing –demon and angel.”Kate Weare Company is a New York-based contemporarydance group creating and performing the work of Weare,characterized by fierce physicality, thoughtfulness andauthenticity. Weare’s dances explore a contemporaryview of intimacy – both stark and tender – by drawing onour most basic urge to move and decode movement.Photo: Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang.Dancers: Luke Murphy and Leslie Kraus.The night prior to her Anderson Gallery opening, Godwin sat down withVCUarts Dean Joe Seipel and curator René Barilleaux, among students,faculty and the public, to discuss her work and career.Judith Godwin, Divisions, 1955 (detail); oil on canvas, 72 x 52 1/4 inches. Image courtesy the McNayMuseum of Art, San Antonio, Texas. On view at VCUarts Anderson Gallery. Image courtesy of the artist.ANDERSON GALLERYRecent ceramic sculptures by artist ArleneShechet, can be seen at the VCUarts AndersonGallery through December 9, 2012. And, ourfortunate Craft/Material Studies students willhave Shechet as a visiting artist this fall.Shechet has favored improvisational methodsand a trial-and-error process over methodical andtechnical facility. At once comically awkwardand elegantly poised, her paradoxical forms teeterand bulge in multiple directions, defying theirown weight.Shechet is the subject of much recent criticalacclaim, including the cover story of Art in Americain January 2012, and New York Magazine’s Top TenArt Shows of 2010 by Jerry Saltz.Left: Who and Who and How and More, 2012. Glazed ceramic,glazed kiln bricks, and wood; 57.5 x 26 x 36 inches, overall.Photo: Alan Wiener. Collection of Ellen and Fred Elsas.Right: Tough Puff, 2008 (detail). Glazed ceramic, Hydrocal plaster,concrete and steel; 65 x 26.5 x 24 inches. Photo: Alan Wiener.Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.ANDERSON GALLERYOur Own Ulrich Examines theAmerican Consumer PsycheFrom mid-January to mid-March, 2013, Photographyand Film Assistant Professor Brian Ulrich willpresent his work at the VCUarts Anderson Gallery.His photographs in Copia – Retail, Thrift, andDark Stores, 2001–11, includes nearly 60 photosthat explore the economic, cultural and politicalimplications of commercialism and Americanconsumer culture.“We are so pleased to feature this powerful bodyof work by Brian, who joined the VCUarts facultylast year and is quickly building an impressiveinternational reputation,” says Anderson GalleryDirector Ashley Kistler.In conjunction with Copia, the Anderson Galleryis organizing a companion installation of artifactsand related materials from the artist’s personalarchive, providing a wider historical context. Bothexhibitions will open with a public reception onFriday evening, January 18, 2013 from 5 to 7 pm.The exhibition was organized by the ClevelandMuseum of Art and made possible by the Fred andLaura Ruth Bidwell Foundation.Left: Untitled, 2005 (0505).

VCUarts Around the GlobeCross-Disciplinary Collaborationin FlorenceSummer 2012 initiates the Florence Design Program,an academic collaboration between the Departments ofFashion, Interior, and Graphic Design in coordinationwith VCU Study Abroad. This opportunity replaces theprevious Architectural Study tour and now providesa more feasible opportunity for students to studyinternationally. The program provides a home base andprivate studio in Florence, Italy, for students to have amore consistent design study program. Additionally, itprovides an interdisciplinary design experience withfashion, interior and graphic design students.Jazz Exchange Brings Greater Cultural UnderstandingVCU Jazz received an International Partnerships Major Initiatives Awardgrant to bring American and African citizens together in musical andpersonal understanding. The project brings together students and facultyof VCU Jazz Studies and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, SouthAfrica over the course of this academic year.Multimedia Artist Zerbe Tackles Body Issueszerbetron.comErin Zerbe, another interesting and successful Kinetic Imaging graduate,is a multimedia artist working in new media, video, photography andperformance. Her work focuses on human interactions and relationshipswith the body, tackling issues of body image and fatness. She teaches at SienaHeights University in Michigan and recently had her work included in thefirst international Dublin Biennial. See a wonderful video interview withZerbe on zerbetron.com. She is pictured here with the Lord Mayor of Dublin.Tony Garcia, director of VCU Jazz Studies says, “Researching theparallels in racial/cultural divides in our respective cities, Richmond (theformer Confederate capital) and Durban (only recently having outlawedapartheid) is a must. I firmly believe that since all music comes from people,and all people come from a culture, understanding music requires a betterunderstanding of people and their culture.”The trip made an important impact on student Justin Esposito. “Thiscultural exchange taught me how to communicate to others my views ofcultural representation and values that I had obtained in the United States.At the same time, I learned how to not push my values upon others who differ.”Brass Quintet Performs & Teaches in ColombiaStudent Film in Salento Film FestivalAward Winning Animation Making World Tourarts.vcu.edu/yshenThe White Snake, Ying-Fang Shen’s animation, that tells of a tragic romanceof human male and female snakes, was shown at multiple internationalvenues. The Communication Arts assistant professor’s animation, basedon ancient Chinese folklore, has been screened at the Annecy InternationalFilm Festival, Annecy, France; Festival of Film Animation, Olomouc,Czech Republic; and the Urban Nomad Film Festival, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.Recognition includes a merit award at the 32nd Golden Harvest Film Festivalin Taipei, Taiwan as well as an exhibition at FLUXUS 2010 International FilmFestival at the Museum of Image and Sound in São Paulo, Brazil.Buddhist Art Research in NepalKerry Brown, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Art History, studiesNewar Buddhist art in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley. Her research in Nepal hasbeen supported by a Fulbright IIE Fellowship and a P.E.O Scholar Award.VCU’s student brass quintet, the Park Avenue Brass, and their facultymentor Ross Walter, D.M.A., traveled to Cartagena, Colombia in May for aweek of concerts and teaching in the city’s youth orchestra programs.The group was invited to Colombia by the Fundacion Tocando Puertas ParaAbrir Futuros, a foundation dedicated to bettering the lives of childrenthrough music and education. The president of the foundation becameinvolved with the VCUarts Department of Music when the group began itsyearly sponsorship of Colombian high-school students participating in theVCU/Richmond Symphony Orchestra Project summer camp.To support the mission of the foundation, VCU’s Park Avenue Brasscollected musical instruments for the music programs in Colombia thatserve impoverished children, with hopes of providing enough instrumentsto support a brass quintet in the Cartagena program.arts.vcu.edu/cinemaDuring the 2011 Cinema Program’s Summer Intensive in which the juniorsand seniors participate, five films were shot in 35mm. Laila, written byYossera Bouchtia (living and working in NYC), produced by Alex Denisonand Jasce Burrow (both studying in Spain), and Duy Nguyen (workingin Richmond), was accepted into the Salento Film Festival in Italy, whichtakes place as this publication goes to print. Laila tells of the struggles of aMoroccan immigrant mother trapped in a polygamous marriage.

Virginia Commonwealth University in QatarVirginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, our sister campus in theMiddle East, began in 1999 with 33 female students and offered GraphicDesign, Interior Design and Fashion Design. Today, there are 244 maleand female students, 55 faculty members and 367 alumni. VCUQatarnow offers a Painting and Printmaking BFA, a BA in Art History with anIslamic focus, as well as a MFA in Design Studies.qatar.vcu.eduVCUQatar has made significant contributions to the state of Qatarand the region by providing outstanding design education, producinginnovative research, advancing the design profession and participatingin the community.Complicated Pleasures at VCUQatarwww.mrjoneswatches.comAs part of the Crossing Boundaries Lecture Series, VCUQatar presenteda lecture by renowned interaction designer Crispin Jones entitledComplicated Pleasures in February. Jones spoke about the projects he hasworked on over the past decade, focusing particularly on how he moved frommaking one-off experimental works into producing his own product ranges.Crispin Jones is a London-based designer who works at the intersection ofArt and Design – broadly Critical Design. His work uses the language andtools of product design to articulate a critical perspective.Jones currently designs and produces his own range of products under theTengu and Mr Jones Watches brands.VCUQatar Design Entrepreneurship NetworkAspiring design entrepreneurs in Qatar were in luck this past May, asVCUQatar launched the Design Entrepreneurship Network in the presenceof VCUQatar students, alumni and partners from the industry.VCUQatar aims to support design-led innovation and startup businessambitions delivering high value to partner organizations, communitiesand the region. This Design Entrepreneurship Network helps aspiringentrepreneurs at a crucial time as they move from the identification andplanning stage through to launch and implementation of their business.Above: VCUQatar Dean Allyson VanstoneStudents & Faculty Exhibit Work at Dubai’s Design DaysVCUQatar’s Master of Fine Arts in Design Studies (MFA.DESIGN.) facultyand students presented a curated exhibition of their new work titled Eastmodernismat Design Days Dubai in March. “East-modernism overlays the richartistic heritage of the Middle East over the foundations of modern design as itutilizes traditions of local crafts, revived and reused in a new unusual context,”says Constantin Boym, former director of MFA.DESIGN. and curator of theexhibition. “East-modernism is a wink at Postmodernism, characterized bymultiplicity of meaning, irony, and cultural criticism,” he adds.The exhibition included East-modern furniture by Constantin and LaureneBoym; Sadu Thread Cabinet by VCUQ Assistant Professor Thomas Modeen;Middlefield, a foosball table by Assistant Professor Paolo Cardini; and VesselRevisions by VCUarts Sculpture alumnus Benjamin Jurgensen.

Virginia Commonwealth University in QatarMcKean Collaborates With Bemis Centerarts.vcu.edu/rbprojectThis summer, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Artspresented our own Michael Jones McKean’s The Rainbow:Certain Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms. Theproject was a simple, but phenomenal visual event — arainbow in the sky, which produced temporary rainbowsabove the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha,Nebraska using the most elemental materials: sunlightand rainwater.Beaded Prayers Impress Many at VCUQatarThe Beaded Prayers Project was launched in 1998 as an international,collaborative project to celebrate diversity and unity through aparticipatory art form. Since then, over 5000 people, from 35 countries,have participated in the project by creating and contributing the beadedpackets exhibited at VCUQatar this past Spring. There are four parts to theproject: lecture, workshop, traveling exhibition, and reflective publication.The exhibition at VCUQatar represents the culmination of this project,concluding a tour that has taken it to more than 25 venues. The BeadedPrayers Project is curated and directed by Sonya Clark, chair of Craft/Material Studies, VCU Richmond. Collaborator in this project is SaraWilson McKay, chair of the Department of Art Education, VCU Richmond.This commissioned artwork and exhibition by VCUartsSculpture + Extended Media Assistant Professor McKean,represents extensive cross-disciplinary collaboration.Irrigation and rainwater harvesting experts, structuraland mechanical engineers, atmospheric scientists,plumbing and electrical experts and Bemis Center staffjoined McKean in creating a wholly integrated system forthis site-specific, temporary work.McKean is a former artist-in-residence of the Bemis Centerand, since 2002, he has conducted ongoing experimentsleading to the production of this work.International Design Conference Coming in Marchtasmeemdoha.comTasmeem Doha is a leading biennial international design and artconference held at VCUQatar in Doha, Qatar. For the past seven years,Tasmeem has gathered and engaged scholars, students, communitymembers and practitioners to discuss and scrutinize critical issuesin design and art. The 2013 Tasmeem conference will take placeMarch 10–17 under the theme “hybrid making.”God is the Light of theHeavens and the Earth:Light in Islamic Artand CultureIslamic Art Symposium to be held in Palermo, Sicilyislamicartdoha.orgThe fifth biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art, God isthe Light of the Heavens and the Earth: Light in Islamic Art and Culture,will be held November 9–11, 2013 in Palermo, Sicily. We are delighted thatour keynote speaker will be the acclaimed visual artist, Iranian-born ShirinNeshat, whose photographic and videographic work is literally createdwith light.Student Documents Womens’ StoriesZoë Dehmer, a junior earning her BFA in Photography,is collaborating with a Social and Behavioral Healthstudent on a service learning project in Richmond'sWhitcomb public housing community collectingpersonal stories about poor women’s health and lifeexperiences. They interviewed women, buildingrelationships and familiarity within the community,and have created a video documentary and a photocollection. Zoë, her partner and professors fromSocial and Behavioral Health, have also earneda $50,000 international travel grant for servicelearning. In the spring they, along with peoplefrom the Richmond Redevelopment and HousingAuthority, will fly to Durban, South Africa. Zoë willbe teaching "photo voice" to children in a publichousing community there.

Two New Department Chairs. One Now. One Soon.David Shields joins us as Chair of the Department of Graphic Design. He waspreviously an associate professor in the Design Division of the Department ofArt and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin from 2004–2012 andserved as the design custodian, a position he created, for the Rob Roy KellyAmerican Wood Type Collection from 2008–2012. Shields taught at a numberof institutions in the New York region, and received his MFA from CranbrookAcademy of Art. His research focuses on 19th century typographic form andvisual culture arising from investigations of Rob Roy Kelly’s American WoodType Collection (www.woodtyperesearch.com).Sasha Waters Freyer will join the Department of Photography and Filmin January, 2013 as chair. She is a filmmaker, mother, teacher and amateurdressmaker. Her films have featured dominatrixes, coal miners, artists,children and activists – inhabitants of the margins of our mediatedlandscapes. Her work has screened widely, including on the SundanceChannel, the Tribeca, Woodstock and Ann Arbor Film Festivals, andthe National Museum for Women in the Arts. Her award-winning 2003documentary, Razing Appalachia, about a community fight against stripmining in Blair, WV, was broadcast on PBS and in more than 30 countries.We are happy to welcome David and Sasha to the VCUarts family.VCU Music sponsors and hosts over200 concerts and events on campusand around Richmond each year.Keep up to date:arts.vcu.edu/music_eventsAbove: TheatreVCU’s April production of The 25th Annual Putnam CountySpelling Bee. Conceived by Rebecca Feldman with music and lyrics by WilliamFinn, directed by Gary C. Hopper. A hilarious tale of six geeky adolescentoverachievers vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime.Upcoming TheatreVCU Productionsarts.vcu.edu/theatreSeptember/October 2012: Noises OffWritten by Michael Frayn • Directed by Anita Maynard-LoshCalled “the funniest farce ever written,” Tony Award nominated Noises Offfollows an acting company’s struggles to prepare and perform a British sexcomedy called “Nothing On.” Everything that can go wrong does, as actorsdesperately try to hang on to their lines, their performances and the furniture.September 28–29 & October 4–6, 7:30 pmSeptember 30 & October 7, 3:00 pmNovember/December 2012: Avenue Q, The MusicalMusic and Lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, Book by Jeff Whitty •Directed by Patti D’BeckAvenue Q is Broadway’s smash hit – winner of the 2004 Tony Awards for BestMusical. Featuring a cast of people and puppets who tell the story of adult lifein NYC in a smart funny and downright raunchy way.November 9–10, 15–17 & November 29–Dec 1, 7:30 pmNovember 11, 18 & December 2, 3:00 pmFebruary 2013: The Colored MuseumWritten by George C. Wolfe • Directed by Tawnya Pettiford-WatesThe Colored Museum’s sharp wit takes aim at stereotypes, self-loathingand assimilation within the African-American community. Created asa vaudevillian mosaic of exhibits, each one fearlessly spans the historyof African American experience and culture, while mocking stereotypes.Twenty-six years later, Wolfe’s funny and shocking themes still resonate withthe hope that these are exhibits of the past, and not living moments or modelsfor our future.February 15 & 16 & 21-23, 7:30 pmFebruary 17 & 24, 3:00 pmApril 2013: Sweeney Todd: The PlayWritten by Christopher Bond • Directed by Barry BellDark, nightmarish and thrilling, Bond’s play, that Sondheim’s musical is basedon, follows the barber Sweeney Todd as he plots his bloody revenge againstthe judge who betrayed and deported him on false charges. A tale of obsession,and a man driven to madness by injustice.April 4 & 6, 11–13 & 18–20, 7:30pmApril 7, 14 & 21, 3:00 pmDates subject to change.First-Year Students Show Video ShortsIn Fall 2011, the VCUarts Art Foundation Program hosted its first 60×60×60film festival. It consisted of 60 short video pieces made by first year ArtFoundation Students. The Grace Street Theater was packed with an excitedcrowd of students, faculty and friends. Our guest judges, faculty from otherVCUarts departments, chose 5 winners: Theresa Ramirez, Jessica Kusuma,Alvalia Pemberton, Michael Opecker and Perrin Turner.In the spring, those same Art Foundation students went on to representVCUarts via an electronic billboard campaign (shown here). Alsosignificant, Theresa Ramirez’s video was later shown, amongst VCUartsfaculty, graduate students and alumni, at the New Waves exhibition inMarch at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art.Pictured: feet and red hat of Hope Ginsburg, Assistant Professor, Art Foundation Program &Department of Painting + Printmaking; Matt King, Assistant Professor, Art Foundation Program &Department of Sculpture + Extended Media; Art Foundation students Dylan Halpern, JenniferWalls, Theresa Ramirez, Jessica Kusuma, Alvalia Pemberton, Michael Opecker and Perrin Turner.Sculpture Alumna ReceivesPrestigious Dedalus Fellowshipalinatenser.comAlina Tenser, a recent MFA Sculpture graduate,was chosen as a 2012 recipient of the DedalusFoundation MFA Fellowship. The DedalusFoundation was founded by artist RobertMotherwell to foster the public understanding ofmodern art and modernism and each year awardstwo MFA Fellowships nationally, each with astipend of $20,000.The Foundation awards only two fellowshipsannually, chosen by a committee of distinguishedartists and critics. Congratulations to Alina on thisimpressive accomplishment.Left: wiff of black ice, Alina Tenser.

VCUarts Cinémathéquearts.vcu.edu/cinemathequeIndependent 35 mm Art Films shown at the GraceStreet Theatre on the following Tuesdays:SEPTEMBER 25Silent Souls by Aleksei FedorchenkoOCTOBER 16Punishment Park by Peter WatkinsOCTOBER 23Tropical Malady by Apichatpong WeerasethakulNOVEMBER 20The Arc by Rob TregenzaNOVEMBER 27Oslo, August 31 by Joachim TrierDECEMBER 4Revanche by Götz SpielmannFree and open to the public on a first-come basis.Films begin at 7pm.934 W. Grace StreetBrought to you by VCUarts Cinema Program.VCUarts Fashion Show Wows Againarts.vcu.edu/fashionIt was another sold-out show at the VirginiaMuseum of Fine Arts, for the highly anticipated VCUDepartment of Fashion Design and Merchandising'sannual juried show. On May 6th, the show RAWfloored the crowd as volunteer models paraded 128garments from 61 fashion design students, exploring“the DNA of fashion” and “the raw materials and theelements of construction.”The garments were chosen in April by a panel offashion designers, manufacturers, retailers andsponsors. The advanced show-production FashionMerchandising class directed lighting, music,model selection, ticket sales and promotion. VCUfashion alumna Patricia Honeycutt-Cantor, whohas Harper’s Bazaar magazine and Lacoste on herresume, returned as commentator.Prints and PossibilitiesThe Art of NursingArt Education graduate students and faculty worked with the School ofNursing to develop a program that explores the usefulness of art criticism –the ability to observe, interpret, and evaluate works of art – as a way toenhance nurses’ clinical reasoning and perceptual skills. The project, a VCUPresidential Research Incentive Program, led by Art Education Chair SaraWilson-McKay and Jeanne M Walter from Nursing, focuses on enhancementof clinical reasoning skills to improve patient outcomes. Results suggest thatstudents’ clinical reasoning skills benefit from the museum-based experience,particularly in the arenas of precise and thoughtful communication,consideration of diverse points of view, awareness of contextual details, andcollaborative critical thinking, among others.Above: Art Ed students facilitate discussions among nursing students about art installationsat the VMFA.Tanner’s Portrait Graces Cover of American Artistdavidtannerfineart.comVCUarts Painting and Printmaking alumni, David Tanner, paints representationaloil paintings. His self-portrait won 1st prize in American Artist magazine’s annualcompetition, and is featured on the September 2012 cover of this respectedpublication. He says his piece was “created over the course of maybe 6 hours withno preparatory drawings and little regard to the outcome”.Fashion’s Kim Guthrie initiated an exceptionally beneficial collaborationfor participating Fashion and Communication Arts students in springsemester. Faculty and students worked with the Diane von Furstenberglabel to create an artistic and design incubator. Students worked in teamsto design prints inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s heroines, color palettes ofwintry seascapes, imagery of Richard Serra’s drawings, and the energy ofKeith Haring. This collaboration presented a working environment thatcrossed the line between high fashion and applied art – the very modelthat both industries are reliant upon.The effect on the students was profound. “The project was invaluableto me in discovering how two different kinds of visual communicationscan blend with such success using teamwork,” said Al Lukehart, recentCommunication Arts graduate.“I thought this project was one of the most successful of my time at VCUbecause being able to utilize another major’s skills in my designingopened up more possibilities and made the whole project more completeand professional,” remarked Anna Covington, Fashion student.

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VCUarts CONGRATULATES THE 2011–2012UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH GRANT WINNERSEach year, students submit their collaborative proposals and the most innovativeare awarded with a grant to get their project off the ground. Selected proposals arefeatured here. Photos by Naoko Wowsugi.For the full list of recipients, as well as previous year’s projects, please visitarts.vcu.edu/ugrgYour Support Goes a Long Waysupport.vcu.edu/artsThe Leigh Street Armory Project —Uncovery and RevitalizationThe Disney Effect: Modern Heroinesin Children’s MediaMythicopsWith out-of-state tuition under $23,000 ($10,000 in state), VCUartsoffers the best value when compared with other top art schools.Tuition at Yale and RISD is $40,000 with UCLA’s out-of-state tuition at$35,000, for example. VCU’s low tuition means your gift is essential.Support from VCUarts donors helps fund opportunities for studentsincluding scholarships, visiting artist lectures, study abroad, andother priorities to strengthen teaching, research and service.Locally, The Pollak Society is a group of VCUarts patrons in theRichmond community who are granted insider access to VCUartswith unrestricted gifts of $1,000 and up. We welcome you to joinThe Pollak Society, or make a gift to VCUarts. Let's help ensurethat we stay on top.Make checks payable to:Richmond’s Leigh Street Armory is one of only threesuch armories ever built in the U.S. for AfricanAmericans. The students will provide scholarlydocumentation outlining the historical importance ofthis building and the African American militias anddocument the style of armories and their importantplace in the architectural record.Dennis Williams, Art History; Robert Gibson,Communication Arts and Painting & Printmaking;Shawn Saharko, Communication Arts and Painting& Printmaking; Chris Raintree, Theatre; CodyRichardson, Theatre; Brittney Weiss, Interior Design;Isoke Ethel-Miller, Interior Design; Monina Ingle,Interior Design; Remi Jeffrey-Coker, Interior Design;Bayly Ogden, History; Corey Johnson, History;Joshua Blount, HistoryAward: $5,000This proposal will explore the ways in which popularchildren’s films by Walt Disney can affect children’sviews on gender roles. The students will study popularDisney films to find patterns of visual and thematicelements that promote antifeminism and misogyny.Melody Milleker, Art Education; Grace Huddleston,Painting & Printmaking; Addison Martz, Sculpture +Extended Media; Hunter Brumfield, Photography &Film; Victoria Shampine, Psychology; Rachel Ludwig,Sculpture + Extended MediaAward: $4,900Faculty mentor: Dr. Melanie BuffingtonA video will be produced to showcase the world fromthe perspective of a child’s imagination. The storychronicles a duo of crime fighting scientists’ journey todevelop a respectable privatized security agency—TheMythicops. The project is intended to test students’skills in multi-media collaboration, practice and displaytheir skills in animation and film direction/production.Ryan Coleman, Cinema; Lauren Stutzriem, KineticImaging; Graham Ohmer, Photography & Film; MelKobran, Photography & Film. Not pictured: WarrenJones, Painting & PrintmakingAward: $2,500VCUartsAttn: Julia Carr325 N. Harrison St.Richmond, VA 23284Or give via credit card at support.vcu.edu/give/artsThank you for your support of VCUartsTuition Comparison Among Top-Ranked Art SchoolsFaculty mentors: Dr. Charles Brownell and RobertoVentura as well as five faculty and communityconsultantsLife of the SmallFaculty mentor: Mary Beth ReedRVA Parkletarts.vcu.edu/national-rankings#1Yale University – School of Art $42,300Sew Educated:Keeping African Girls in School#2#2 (tie)#4Rhode Island School of Design $41,332School of the Art Institute of Chicago $37,560Virginia Commonwealth University – School of the Arts $23,300#4 (tie)#6#7University of California, Los Angeles – Department of Art $35,564California Institute of the Arts $39,014Carnegie Mellon University – College of Fine Arts $45,760#7 (tie)Cranbrook Academy of ArtGraduate onlyThis project focuses on the hygienic health risks ofyoung Sudanese females entering puberty. The girlsof Sudan describe this experience as frightening andresearch shows the acceleration of school drop-out rates.Meghan Hill, Fashion Design; Keli Eschenbach,Homeland Security; Sherkinna Hammond, InformationSystems; Cirstain Myles, NursingIn the series “Secrets of The Small,” students will mergetheir knowledge of art and science. They will composea series of videos and live installation projectionperformances through the use of a video microscope.This project will display microscopic life to a largeaudience, and will be entered into film festivals tostimulate dialogue between art and science.Rachael Glasgow, Kinetic Imaging; Rachel Walstead,BioinformaticsAward: $2,900Faculty mentor: Robert KaputofAfter researching feasible sustainable trends aroundmajor U.S. cities, this team encountered an initiativethat promotes wellness, sustainability, design, andinteraction: temporary recreational areas known asParklets. They seek to reclaim some unused swathes andquickly and inexpensively turn them into new publicplazas and parks.Ricardo Hernandez-Perez, Interior Design; LaurenVersino, Sculpture + Extended MediaAward: $5,000Alumni, Where Are You Now?esterknows.com/where-are-you-now#7 (tie) Maryland Institute College of Art $39,340#10Columbia University – School of the Arts $47,246Above chart compares out-of-state tuition. VCU tuition for Virginia residents is $9,517.Award: $3,000Faculty mentor: Linda LeeFaculty mentor: Rab McClureWe want to know about your successes, and so do your fellow alumni. Pleaseupload your bio and image to the website listed above, and let us know howwe can keep in touch with you.