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The Department of Fine Arts is pleased to announce an upcoming visiting artist lecture with artist Nancy Lupo!đŸ—“ïž October...
09/30/2026

The Department of Fine Arts is pleased to announce an upcoming visiting artist lecture with artist Nancy Lupo!

đŸ—“ïž October 12th, 2026
⏰ 12:30 PM
📍 Grace Street Theater (934 W. Grace St.)

Nancy Lupo is an artist currently based in Berlin. Her sculptures engage with material culture and language, exploring how collective fantasies and emotions become embedded in form. She tests ambiguity and confusion as conditions that are both unsettling and full of potential. Lupo holds degrees from The Cooper Union and Yale University. Since 2024, she has been a professor at Kunsthochschule Mainz.

To learn more about this lecture and our visiting artist, follow the link in our bio! 🔗

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09/25/2026

Sculpture and Extended Media junior, Nathan Varney, invited us behind the scenes to learn more about him, his practice, and to see the installation of his latest solo exhibition, “Logjam”! đŸȘ”

Inspired by the skills and techniques he learned during his time as a weightlifter, Nathan’s work focuses on a performance surrounding logs sourced and relocated from the James River. He describes the process of going down to the river and personally lifting each log to bring back for his work, with this exhibition being a continuation of exploration started in Professor Corin Hewitt’s Sophomore Seminar class.

“Logjam” opens tonight at The Anderson Gallery (907 1/2 W Franklin St.) at 5 PM with a performance coinciding with the opening reception! This exhibition will be on view until October 17th!

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Scratch, a collaborative exhibition created by VCUarts Graduate Students in Sculpture and Extended Media, is on view in ...
09/11/2026

Scratch, a collaborative exhibition created by VCUarts Graduate Students in Sculpture and Extended Media, is on view in the Seipel Gallery in the Murry N. DePillars Building (1000 West Broad Street) from now until September 19!

We invite you to join us for the closing reception on Friday, September 18, 5–7 PM!

Scratch is an exercise in collective making under durational and material constraints. Over the span of one and a half hours, participants used a set of volunteer materials and tools to perform a series of sculptural actions in silence. Every two minutes, a timer went off, prompting the participants to stop what they were doing and do something else – returning to observation or performing a different action. A practice in gestural improvisation, in attention, in relinquishing attachment to a fixed outcome, in the compromise and surprise of collaboration.

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The Department of Fine Arts is pleased to share our schedule for our 2026 fall semester Visiting Artist Lectures!Each of...
09/10/2026

The Department of Fine Arts is pleased to share our schedule for our 2026 fall semester Visiting Artist Lectures!

Each of these talks are free to the public and open to all VCU students and alumni to attend. Swipe through the carousel to find out more information about our artists and scholars! We hope to see you there! đŸâ˜€ïž

Each lecture will have plenty of reminders leading up to the date, so keep an eye out for more information regarding our wonderful visiting artists. To learn more about this semester’s lecture series, follow the link in our bio for an extended schedule! 🔗

Erin Jane Nelson
đŸ—“ïž September 14th
⏰ 12:30 PM
📍 Grace St. Theater

Nancy Lupo
đŸ—“ïž October 12th
⏰ 12:30 PM
📍 Grace St. Theater

Khaled Jarrar
đŸ—“ïž October 21st
⏰📍 TBA

Matt King
đŸ—“ïžNovember 18th
⏰12:30 PM
📍The Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU

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In addition to our visiting artist lectures, there are also upcoming visiting scholar lectures hosted by both the Department of Art History and VCUarts for the Fall 2026 semester!

Jessica S. Hong, Capital Prize Curatorial Talk
đŸ—“ïž September 24th
⏰ 12:30 PM
📍Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU

Maura Reilly
đŸ—“ïž November 4th
⏰ 5:30 PM
📍 Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU

To learn more about these visiting scholars and their lectures, follow the link in our bio! 🔗

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08/27/2026

Sculpture and Extended Media program junior, Halima Bachir-Bouiadjra, invited us to learn more about herself, her work, and the process behind her latest solo exhibition, “A System of Exceptions”!

Halima describes her interest in the concept of paradoxes, citing that she enjoys creating work that is “trying to figure itself out”. Through collage, found objects, and humorous illogical space, Halima investigates scientific and philosophical representations with large, interactive installations.

“A System of Exceptions” opens at The Anderson Gallery tomorrow, Friday, August 28th! The opening reception will begin at 5 PM and will be on view until September 12th.

Congratulations, Halima, on your latest exhibition, and thank you for chatting with us!

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Congratulations to our Sculpture + Extended Media Class of 2026! 🐏💛To celebrate our recent graduates, let’s look back at...
05/08/2026

Congratulations to our Sculpture + Extended Media Class of 2026! 🐏💛

To celebrate our recent graduates, let’s look back at some of the works from the 2026 BFA Senior Capstone exhibition hosted this semester at The Anderson! As part of Round Two, “Critically Endangered” featured the works of 18 Sculpture + Extended Media seniors as a culmination of their years of study with us.

We wish our recent alumni the best in all of their future endeavors, we are so proud! 🎓



With Round 2 of the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition on the horizon, let’s take a closer look at works by one of our participa...
04/28/2026

With Round 2 of the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition on the horizon, let’s take a closer look at works by one of our participating graduates!

MFA Candidate alexis torres marroquĂ­n đŸȘĄ

alexis torres marroquĂ­n [b. 1999, Flushing, New York] is a sculptor, architectural designer, and poet working at the threshold where structure begins to ache, where the built environment reveals itself as a site of craving, control, and indulgence. Their practice leans into eroticism not as ornament but as method, pressing into the dirty negotiations and quiet violences that shape how bodies move, gather, and are held in space. Through fiber, garment construction, and mold-making, marroquĂ­n produces architectures that feel worn, stretched, and touched, at once seductive and abject, as if the building itself could bruise.

alexis will be featured in Round Two of the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition, opening this Friday, May 1st, at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU (601 W. Broad St)!

To learn more about this upcoming exhibition, follow the link in our bio! 🔗



Meet the MFA Candidate: Hannah Berger 🍇Hannah Berger works in sculpture and writing to call attention to the tenuous bou...
04/17/2026

Meet the MFA Candidate: Hannah Berger 🍇

Hannah Berger works in sculpture and writing to call attention to the tenuous boundaries between the real and fictional, authentic and replica. Her work is interested in denaturalizing the construction of individual and collective subjectivity as it intersects with commodification, alienation, and extraction.

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Hannah will be participating in the upcoming 2026 MFA Candidacy Exhibition, “Late Breaking”, opening at The Anderson gallery tonight at 5 PM! On view until April 25th, “Late Breaking” will feature the work of 21 first-year graduates across VCUarts!

To learn more about this upcoming exhibition, follow the link in our bio! 🔗



Meet the MFA Candidate: Omer Shach đŸ«ŽIn sculpture, painting, and installation, Shach synthesizes and transforms various e...
04/17/2026

Meet the MFA Candidate: Omer Shach đŸ«Ž

In sculpture, painting, and installation, Shach synthesizes and transforms various elements, exploring the internal tension that exists between them—between the material and the visionary. His work emphasizes how seemingly non-events, when treated with sensitivity, can reveal a fantastic potential.

The viewer’s initial point of contact with the work is often through its bodily proportions and the tactile experience it evokes. Through intense polishing, ambiguous functionality, and the use of unconventional materials, Shach aims to provoke a physical response and tempt the viewer into touching the piece.

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Omer will be participating in the upcoming 2026 MFA Candidacy Exhibition, “Late Breaking”, opening at The Anderson gallery tonight at 5 PM! On view until April 25th, “Late Breaking” will feature the work of 21 first-year graduates across VCUarts!

To learn more about this upcoming exhibition, follow the link in our bio! 🔗



Meet the MFA Candidate: Sara Willa 🧊Sara Willa is a sculptor, performer, and experimental dancemaker. Through work with ...
04/14/2026

Meet the MFA Candidate: Sara Willa 🧊

Sara Willa is a sculptor, performer, and experimental dancemaker. Through work with found objects, biomaterials, and performance practices, she explores embodiment, affect, material politics, and their entanglements. For her candidacy work, she will be presenting fluid mechanics: exhaust system, a durational performance and installation in the Hidden galleries at The Anderson. Performances will take place on April 17th, 5-6pm, and April 24th, 12-1pm, approx.

Willa has been supported by residencies at La Caldera (Barcelona), PLUTO (Valencia), Théùtre de Vanves (Paris), Centro Huarte (Pamplona), and The Liminal Gallery (Valencia), among others, and was a participant in the 2025 edition of the Postnatural Independent Program at the Institute for Postnatural Studies in Madrid. She has recently performed and/or exhibited at NEUFNEUF Festival (Toulouse), Chaíz Estudio (Madrid), PLUTO (Valencia), and Centro del Carmen de Cultura Contemporånea (Valencia). She graduated with honors in Studio Art and Dance at Pomona College (CA) and completed significant coursework in Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography at the Valencia Superior Dance Conservatory prior to pursuing her MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media at VCU.

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Sara will be participating in the upcoming 2026 MFA Candidacy Exhibition, “Late Breaking”, opening at The Anderson gallery on April 17th at 5 PM! On view until April 25th, “Late Breaking” will feature the work of 21 first-year graduates across VCUarts!

To learn more about this upcoming exhibition, follow the link in our bio! 🔗



Headshot photo credit: Nacho Errando for PLUTO
Video footage: Will Barker

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